Morningside bricks found in Australia
— 14/05/2022Found by Julian Phillips at Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. . . . .
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.
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Found by Julian Phillips at Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. Morningside Fireclay Works, Newmains, North Lanarkshire. . . . .
Found by Rachel Brown on an old gold mine crushing plant in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Note the thumbprint to the bottom left. Garnkirk Fireclay Works, Garnkirk, Lanarkshire. . . .
The following Scottish bricks were found by Tim Westley in and around Sydney Harbour, Australia. . . . . Below – Ferguslie Patent – Robert Brown & Son, Ferguslie Fire Clay Works, Paisley. Below – Gartcraig – Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. Below – Hurll – Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks…
13/11/1840 – John O’ Groat Journal – A very interesting letter from Sydney, under date 6th June last, reached a few days ago. Its writer is a gentleman belonging to Caithness-shire, for some time settled in Sydney. As the information it contains can be relied on, we present our readers with the following extract –…
The Woolgar Goldfields Industrial Archaeology of Capitalism 1879-1939 by Victor Jean Taylor. Chillagoe, Queensland, Australia. The forerunner to the later established Chillagoe smelter was a piecemeal smelter project by Moffat in 1894 to handle the copper from the nearby Boomerang mine. The Calcifer was the only treatment plant erected by Moffat that was without a…
11/06/1899 – The night of the 11th June 1899 marked one of the greatest maritime tragedies off the port of Fremantle since the beginning of the Swan River Colony. A fierce gale blew from the northwest through the night wrecking two ships simultaneously with a horrendous loss of life. On the north coast of Rottnest…
This brick was recovered from the Queens Warf West archaeological site in Parramatta in 1992. Parramatta is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . .
Found by Allan Mitchell and recovered from an old copper mine chimney about 250km from Darwin, Australia. Allan states:- The site is known as the Daly River Copper Mine Massacre, where, in 1884, about 5 white miners were murdered by Aboriginals. The reprisals or punitive expeditions probably resulted in the death of around 100 Aboriginals….
This was found by Craig Powell. Craig states – This was found out in the bush at Statham, Perth, Western Australia. It was found around a campfire halfway between Yellowdine and Mount Palmer, both gold-mining ghost towns so could have been from either location as I’ve found broken piles of Gartcraig bricks at both sites….
The following bricks were found by John Gibson and to Mark Courneyea. John states – We are researching the history of a munitions factory in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, which was built in 1941, and we have almost finished a book on the factory. On a site visit a few days ago we came upon two…