Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

I get my kicks out of bricks!
  • Brickmarks gallery
  • Brickmarks A – D
  • Brickmarks E – H
  • Brickmarks I – R
  • Brickmarks S – Z
  • Brick and tile works
  • Scottish bricks overseas
  • Shipwrecks
  • Customer branded
  • Uncategorised information
  • Brick articles
    • Scottish brick articles
    • Scottish potteries
    • Scottish clay mines
    • Scottish brickmaker adverts
    • Scottish bricks associated with particular structures
    • Scottish brickmakers abroad
    • Repatriated bricks
    • Scottish trough marks
    • Scottish sanitary ware
  • Unidentified bricks
  • Tool marks
  • Other
    • English, Welsh and Irish bricks etc
    • Foreign bricks found in Scotland
    • Drainage pipes, metal grills, floor tiles, roof ridges, chimneys, air bricks etc
    • Brickworks memorabilia
    • Foreign bricks gifted
    • Electric cable covers
    • Non Scottish brick articles
    • Brick making machines
    • Appreciation
    • Worldwide brick related links
    • Copyright
  • Contact
Menu
  • Home

  • Brickmarks gallery

  • Brickmarks A – D

  • Brickmarks E – H

  • Brickmarks I – R

  • Brickmarks S – Z

  • Brick and tile works

  • Scottish bricks overseas

  • Shipwrecks

  • Customer branded

  • Uncategorised information

  • Brick articles

    +
    • Scottish brick articles
    • Scottish potteries
    • Scottish clay mines
    • Scottish brickmaker adverts
    • Scottish bricks associated with particular structures
    • Scottish brickmakers abroad
    • Repatriated bricks
    • Scottish trough marks
    • Scottish sanitary ware
  • Unidentified bricks

  • Tool marks

  • Other

    +
    • English, Welsh and Irish bricks etc
    • Foreign bricks found in Scotland
    • Drainage pipes, metal grills, floor tiles, roof ridges, chimneys, air bricks etc
    • Brickworks memorabilia
    • Foreign bricks gifted
    • Electric cable covers
    • Non Scottish brick articles
    • Brick making machines
    • Appreciation
    • Worldwide brick related links
    • Copyright
  • Contact

Home / Drainage
  • Articles on hollow bricks
    — 17/10/2020

    (Note – SBH – Some of the sentence construction and grammar makes reading the following a

    Read more
  • Toxsidehill Brick and Tile Works, Toxside, Gorebridge, Midlothian
    — 20/11/2018

    Below – 1852 – 1853 – Toxsidehill Brick and Tile Works, Toxside. 1862 – Toxside

    Read more
  • Moorfield Tileworks, Coalhill, Ellerslie, East Ayrshire
    — 29/10/2018

    08/12/1840 – Liverpool Standard – On an improved method of constructing and stoking the furnaces

    Read more
  • Spigot and socket water pipes.
    — 21/10/2018

    Below – 3 x  spigot and socket water pipes with ‘runic’ type symbols scratched into

    Read more
  • Ayrshire – Tile draining 1841.
    — 21/08/2018

    Below – 25/11/1841 – Fife Herald – Article on tile draining in Ayrshire. Old drainage

    Read more
  • Articles on land draining in South West Scotland
    — 01/06/2018

    Below  – 30/10/1841 – Carlisle Journal – Article on land draining in Ayrshire. Early

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

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

    Read more
  • Spylaw Tileworks, Kelso, Roxburghshire
    — 30/08/2017

    Below – 1845 – Agriculture in Scotland (page 276). 21/02/1852 – Carlisle Patriot –

    Read more
  • Brick Tax 1784 -1850
    — 20/06/2015

    A brick tax was first proposed in 1756 but was rejected and again in 1778. However, at the end of the

    Read more
  • References to Scottish drainage and sanitary improvement
    — 13/03/2015

    References to Scottish drainage and sanitary improvement. 1823 – James Smith – (3 January

    Read more

Copyright 2021 – Kopasoft. All Rights Reserved.