Gartcraig brick found in Queensland, Australia
— 15/09/2020Found by Lindsay Elmore at an old gold mine outside Ravenswood, Queensland, Australia. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
The Mallina Gold Mine, Western Australia
Below – 01/12/1893 – Glasgow Herald – The Mallina Gold Mine, Western Australia. Shares for sale. Two of the directors are Henry Cadell, JP of Grange, Bo’ness and James Dunnachie, Glasgow – Managing Director of the Glenboig Fireclay Union Company Limited.
.
Similar articles
-
-
Gartcraig brick found in New South Wales, Australia.
— 13/09/2020Found by Scotty Dee in an old diamond mine at Copeton Dam, NSW Australia. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
-
Gartcraig brick found near Perth, Australia
— 14/08/2020Found by Andrew Williams near the site of the Mundaring Weir in Western Australia. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
-
Swinley Brothers brickmakers in Australia?
— 03/07/2020(Note – SBH – From the details below, Andrew Swinley left Scotland in 1946 for Australia to start a brick making business with his brother James. This was possibly in the Melbourne area but not necessarily so. Does anyone know if they actually managed to establish a brick manufacturing business in Australia?) 01/12/1946 – Sunday…
-
J & M Craig Ltd bricks found in New South Wales, Australia
— 11/04/2020These bricks were found by Noni Ambrus in an old Gold mining area of the bush in Southern NSW, Australia. J & M Craig, Perceton Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . .
-
Garnkirk Patent brick found in Victoria, Australia.
— 08/04/2020Found by Peter Brook in the garden of a house in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The house was built in 1905. Garnkirk Fireclay Works, Garnkirk, Lanarkshire. . . . .
-
Gartcraig bricks found Rockingham, Western Australia
— 10/02/2020The following photographs were kindly forwarded by Carol Durant, Vice President of the Rockingham District Historical Society in Western Australia. These Gartcraig stamped bricks are exhibited within the Rockingham Museum. The bricks were found locally and it is believed they would have been unloaded at the Port of Rockingham c. 1875 – 1908. Gartcraig Fire…
-
Stein brick found in Yilgarn, Western Australia.
— 29/01/2020Found by Craig Powell at Mount Palmer, Yilgarn, Western Australia. Craig states:- There was an entire town at Mount Palmer but the hotel ruins are all that’s left. The brick was from a house site across from the hotel with several broken ones looking like a fireplace. Houses were mostly tin miners shacks around the…
-
Cardowan Patent and Gartcraig bricks found in Victoria, Australia
— 21/01/2020These bricks were found by Garry Bell in NE Victoria, Australia. Cardowan Fire Clay Works, Stepps, Glasgow. . . . . Below – Gartcraig brick found in an old farmhouse, Beechworth, Victoria. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow.
-
Scottish bricks found in Victoria, Australia
— 20/01/2020The following bricks were found in and around the Melbourne area of Victoria, Australia. They were found by Mark Fleming and they are in the possession of Philip Lehocz, an Australian brick collector. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. and Blochairn Sand and Fire Clay Co, Blochairn, Glasgow. and Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig,…
