General Refractories | Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Dykehead Fire Brick Works, Bonnybridge, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
— 27/10/2018

Canmore – Dykehead Fireclay Works. Source Falkirk Museum and Archives – George Turnbull and
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Palacecraig Brickworks, Near Calderbank, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
— 06/07/2018

07/02/1891 – Glasgow Herald – Yesterday a labourer named James Simond of no fixed residence
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GRS Dykehead
— 10/11/2017

Found in Falkirk. Dykehead Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. GR’s Dykehead –
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GR’s B
— 02/10/2017

Found at the old Coltness Iron Works site, Newmains. The brick is stamped to the side. GR’s Dykehead
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Faskine Brickworks, Bank Street, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
— 22/09/2017

Faskine Brickworks, Bank Street, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. 27/08/1885 – Glasgow Evening Citizen
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Spinella
— 10/04/2016

Found at the old site of the Jenny Lind Brickworks, Motherwell adjacent to the old Ravenscraig Steelworks
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GR-Stein 1982 Diary – Product Range
— 05/11/2015

Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works,
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1982 Diary. GR-Stein – Offices home and overseas
— 04/11/2015

Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works,
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General Refractories Limited, Sheffield, England
— 25/07/2015

General Refractories Limited, Sheffield, England and Scottish connections. Below – 1930‘s
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Selfrac
— 27/03/2015

Found Garliston Works, Glenboig. Selfrac is a GR- Stein Refractories Trademark. (Note – SBH –
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Castlecary Fireclay Company Limited, Castlecary, Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire – Weir.
— 07/02/2015

(Note – I am uncertain as to where, over the years, they exactly mined their fireclay. I have
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Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Company Ltd, East Ayrshire
— 22/08/2014

(Note – SBH – I am uncertain from which site the Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Company Ltd operated
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Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, North Lanarkshire – History.
— 03/08/2014

The Glenboig Star Fire Brick Works and the Glenboig Fireclay Works joined to form the Glenboig Union
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GR’s Dykehead
— 20/05/2014

Found Inverkeithing, Firth of Forth Dykehead Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. GR’s
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Manuel Fire Brick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Linlithgow, Stirlingshire
— 28/04/2014

Manuel Works, Whitecross, Linlithgow, Stirlingshire. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire.
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