Gartcosh brick found in Sri Lanka
— 11/02/2025This brick was photographed by Siobhan Ratchford at the The Queens Hotel, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Gartcosh Fireclay Works, Gartcosh, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Alexey Oleksii on the site of an old sugar refinery in Ukraine.
Former Krasnozvezdensky Refinery, former Pavlovsky Refinery. It was built by the famous sugar manufacturer Ivan Kharitonenko in 1869 and named Pavlovsky in honor of his son Pavel.
In Soviet times, it was renamed Krasnozvezdinsky (KRZ) and until the collapse of the Union was the largest (along with Odessa) refinery in the USSR. Krasnozvezdinsky Refinery supplied the USSR Navy and the USSR Ministry of Railways with specially purified refined sugar (sugar in “wagon” mini-packaging). Regular sugar contains from 95 to 98.5 percent sucrose, while refined sugar contains 99.99%. The difference in the cost of regular sugar and refined sugar was only 6 kopecks in Soviet times, but when the plant made 1,000 tons of refined sugar per day, it worked stably due to the volume of production on these kopecks.
Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire.
Alternative brickworks include:
Below – Thistle SP 5125 Detrick
Below – Nettle SP 13 Detrick – hanger brick.
Below – Front and back of 5699 P Thistle 2 – possibly a boiler brick.
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