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Home / Shanks
  • Shanks & Co Ltd, Patentees Victorian Pottery Barrhead
    — 30/09/2020

    Many thanks to Debbie Hanson for sending these photographs of an unusual item with a mystery use. This

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  • Stand Fireclay Co Ltd, Victoria Pottery, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire.
    — 09/01/2019

    The company was formed and held mineral leases, including fireclay at Stand and Raebog, New Monkland

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  • John Shanks 1826 – 1895
    — 13/07/2015

    John Shanks –  “The sun never sets on the name Shanks.” Around 1850, a contract to

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  • Shanks and Co. Ltd, Barrhead, Scotland
    — 04/07/2015

    The National Museum, Edinburgh are in possession of this broken sanitary ware bearing the following

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  • Barrhead Sanitary and Fireclay Works, Glasgow
    — 12/06/2015

    Shanks and Co, makers of sanitary ware, of Tubal Works, Barrhead, Glasgow. John Shanks (1825 –

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  • The Clutha Glasgow wash down water closet
    — 12/06/2015

    Found in Partick, Glasgow by Graham Douglas and kindly donated by him. The Clutha Glasgow wash down water

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  • Ferguslie Fireclay Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire
    — 16/10/2014

    1850 – Ferguslie Fireclay Works started. 1851 – 1852 – David Buchannan, Foreman, Ferguslie

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  • Perceton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
    — 02/10/2014

    J & M Craig, Dean, Hillhead and Perceton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock and Longpark Pottery, Kilmarnock.

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  • Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
    — 17/09/2014

    Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, later known as Southhook Potteries Ltd.

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  • Southhook Potteries Ltd
    — 18/08/2014

    Found by Ian Suddaby in the Cumnock area. Southhook Potteries Ltd Southhook Fireclay Works, Kilmarnock,

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