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  • Costain Concrete Co Ltd, Newarthill, North Lanarkshire
    — 25/01/2021

    (Note – SBH – I have added some mention of Siporex here as a matter of interest only. It

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  • Harehill Brickworks, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen
    — 20/01/2021

    20/12/1955 – Aberdeen Evening Express – Two ‘decent men’ fined for theft and

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  • David Colville and Sons, iron and steel makers, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire
    — 19/01/2021

    Graces Guide information. Graces Guide information. Below – 1881 – Advert David Colville

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  • Clinker bricks
    — 18/06/2020

    Below – 18/03/1863 – Glasgow Morning Journal – Houses for the working classes –

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  • Electric Danger
    — 16/05/2020

    Found by Nick Shaw in the Dingwall area. These appear to have been manufactured from a concrete /cement

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  • Springbank Tile Company Ltd, Cairnhill Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
    — 08/03/2020

    Springbank Tile Company Ltd, Cairnhill Road, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. Manufacturers of concrete roof

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  • Scotcem Forth
    — 01/07/2019

    Found in Carluke. I did not take possession of this example. Cement based roofing tile. Scotcem Roof

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  • Scotcem Roof Tiles Limited, Station Road, Cowie, Stirlingshire
    — 01/07/2019

    This company appears to have been a subsidiary of Redland Tiles Limited, Cowie and may well have operated

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  • Redland Caledonian Made in Scotland Reg Des No 933610 BS 4737550
    — 16/04/2019

    Found by Ian Suddaby in Aberdeenshire. Redland Tiles. Ltd., Cowie, Stirlingshire. It is a cement based

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  • G V
    — 08/10/2018

    Found by Tucker Kennedy at Port Glasgow, Glasgow. I am reliably informed by members of the Glenboig community

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  • Unmarked Cults cement brick
    — 21/08/2018

    Found on the site of the Cultshill Brick Works, Fife. Cultshill Brickworks, Nr Cupar. . . . .  

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  • Parkmore Limes Limited, Dufftown, Banffshire
    — 15/08/2018

    16/11/1950 – Dundee Courier – Concrete Worker wanted to take charge of brick plant at Dufftown.

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  • Unmarked Torlundy cement brick
    — 19/06/2018

    Found by Ian Suddaby. Torlundy Brick and Tile works, Tomacharich, Fort William. Ian states  –

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  • Unmarked Kirkforthar brick.
    — 02/06/2018

    Found by Gordon Allan in Ecclesmachan, Browxburn, West Lothian. Kirkforthar Brick Co Ltd, Drumshoreland

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  • Bonawe Quarry and Brickworks, Nr Oban, Argyll.
    — 26/05/2018

    Many thanks to Donald Harrison for this brick example and for bringing it to my attention. Bonawe Quarry

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  • Lord James Hay, Dundee – Concrete drainage tile
    — 11/04/2018

    Below – January 1842 – Farmers Magazine – Lord James Hay visits Baldovan House, Dundee

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  • Kirkforthar Brickworks, Muirhead, Fife
    — 02/04/2018

    Canmore Below – 1938 – This map details a sandpit which would be the future site of the Kirkforthar

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  • Scottish Dunbrik Ltd, Stannergate, Dundee
    — 04/03/2018

    Below – 1944 – 1969 – It is possible that the building marked ‘Precast Concrete

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  • Torlundy Brick and Tile Works,Tomacharich, Fort William, Highland
    — 08/12/2017

    Referenced as part of a Highland Council planning application in 2000. 4.2.1 LO/2000/34 Erection of House

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  • Ballachulish Slate Quarry and Brickworks, Ballachulish, Lochaber, Highland.
    — 07/12/2017

    Ballachulish Slate Quarry and Brickworks, Ballachulish, Lochaber, Highland. Below – 1870 –

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  • G V
    — 25/11/2017

    Found in Glenboig. I am reliably informed by members of the Glenboig community that this is a Gartverrie

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  • Clyde Iron Works and Fire Brickworks, Tollcross, Glasgow.
    — 11/09/2017

    1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 – Clyde Iron

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  • Slockavullin Brickworks, Slockavullin, Argyll
    — 16/04/2017

    Slockavullin Brick Works, Slockavullin, Argyll. Canmore Kilmartin Glen – After the last Ice Age

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  • Unmarked Dockra cement bricks
    — 30/12/2016

    Found in the vicinity of Dockra Brick Works, Old Mill Quarry, Beith. Dockra and subsequent take over

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  • Dockra Brickworks, Old Mill Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire
    — 29/11/2016

    Dockra or Dokra Brickworks, Old Mill Quarry, Beith. Canmore 1893 – 1896 – Dockra Limeworks,

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  • Lairg
    — 25/07/2016

    Lairg Quarry and Brick Company Ltd, Sutherland, Scotland This brick is unmarked but It is firmly believed

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  • Lairg Quarry and Brick Company Ltd, Lairg, Sutherland.
    — 13/06/2015

    Many thanks to Stan Wilson, Dornoch for most of the information detailed here and for the permissions

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  • Cults Brickworks, Nr Cupar, Fife
    — 25/04/2015

    Canmore Cultshill Brickworks, Nr Cupar Cults bricks are concrete based with a mixture of cement, sand,

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  • Roman cement
    — 24/11/2014

    (Note – SBH – I have added this small article to my site as although this is not a Scottish

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