Costain Concrete Co Ltd, Newarthill, North Lanarkshire
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Read more20/12/1955 – Aberdeen Evening Express – Two ‘decent men’ fined for theft and
Read moreGraces Guide information. Graces Guide information. Below – 1881 – Advert David Colville
Read moreBelow – 18/03/1863 – Glasgow Morning Journal – Houses for the working classes –
Read moreFound by Nick Shaw in the Dingwall area. These appear to have been manufactured from a concrete /cement
Read moreSpringbank Tile Company Ltd, Cairnhill Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. Manufacturers of concrete roof
Read moreFound in Carluke. I did not take possession of this example. Cement based roofing tile. Scotcem Roof
Read moreThis company appears to have been a subsidiary of Redland Tiles Limited, Cowie and may well have operated
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby in Aberdeenshire. Redland Tiles. Ltd., Cowie, Stirlingshire. It is a cement based
Read moreFound on the site of the Cultshill Brick Works, Fife. Cultshill Brickworks, Nr Cupar. . . . .
Read more16/11/1950 – Dundee Courier – Concrete Worker wanted to take charge of brick plant at Dufftown.
Read moreFound by Ian Suddaby. Torlundy Brick and Tile works, Tomacharich, Fort William. Ian states –
Read moreFound by Gordon Allan in Ecclesmachan, Browxburn, West Lothian. Kirkforthar Brick Co Ltd, Drumshoreland
Read moreMany thanks to Donald Harrison for this brick example and for bringing it to my attention. Bonawe Quarry
Read moreBelow – January 1842 – Farmers Magazine – Lord James Hay visits Baldovan House, Dundee
Read moreCanmore Below – 1938 – This map details a sandpit which would be the future site of the Kirkforthar
Read moreBelow – 1944 – 1969 – It is possible that the building marked ‘Precast Concrete
Read moreReferenced as part of a Highland Council planning application in 2000. 4.2.1 LO/2000/34 Erection of House
Read moreBallachulish Slate Quarry and Brickworks, Ballachulish, Lochaber, Highland. Below – 1870 –
Read more1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 – Clyde
Read moreSlockavullin Brick Works, Slockavullin, Argyll. Canmore Kilmartin Glen – After the last Ice Age
Read moreFound in the vicinity of Dockra Brick Works, Old Mill Quarry, Beith. Dockra and subsequent take over
Read moreDockra or Dokra Brickworks, Old Mill Quarry, Beith. Canmore 1893 – 1896 – Dockra Limeworks,
Read moreMany thanks to Stan Wilson, Dornoch for most of the information detailed here and for the permissions
Read moreCanmore Cultshill Brickworks, Nr Cupar. Cults bricks are concrete based with a mixture of cement, sand,
Read more(Note – SBH – I have added this small article to my site as although this is not a Scottish
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