Found Old Niddrie brickworks, Cleikimin, Edinburgh.
Scott Turner – Turner’s Limited, Abercorn brick and tile works, Portobello.
Turners Ltd Coal & Quarry Masters & brick manufacturers, 130 George Street, Edinburgh. TA Freestone.
This might read “S Turners” but the initial S could be a mark left by the screws holding the plate / stamp together.
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29/01/1894 – Glasgow Herald – Foreman (Savvy) wanted for clay hole or will be quite willing to contract per 1000. Apply Eastfield Brickworks, Fauldhouse. Below – 1895 – Eastfield Brickworks. Below – 03/02/1898 – Glasgow Herald – Prospectus for Turners Limited, quarry masters, brick manufacturers and coal masters, Edinburgh … The company was formed in…
Found at Eaglecairn, Haddington and donated by Nick Basden. Thomas Thornton & Sons at the Abercorn Brickworks, High Street, Portobello. . . . .
Brickwork to the East of the Figgate Burn, Portobello AKA Figgate, Friggat, Freegate, Figget and Frigate. Annals of Duddingston and Portobello – 1898 1763 – Portobello Advertiser dated 01/05/1896 … About the year 1763, a new settlement began to be formed the parish at the mouth of the Figgate Burn, consequent upon the finding of a valuable bed of clay,…
Canmore The Niddrie Brickworks, near Edinburgh, was a large common brickworks built in 1924 to supply bricks for house building by the Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. It had three large Hoffman continuous kilns, and latterly, a modern shuttle kiln. The works closed in 1991 and were demolished. 04/04/1878 – Falkirk Herald – On Saturday…
Braehead Brickworks, Fauldhouse, West Lothian. (Note – SBH – Can anyone find a map with these specific works detailed?). Canmore 30/03/1895 – Glasgow Herald- New companies. Turner’s Limited established with a capital of £60,000 in 12,000 shares of £5 each to adopt and carry into effect an agreement with William Turner and Sons, brick manufacturers…
Found by Ann Currie in the Cockburnspath, Berwickshire area. This is a hart top. It would have had a metal grating on top. It would be set in the ground and a downpipe would drop into it taking rainwater away from a roof. The bottom would fit into a trap prior to the pipework to…
Canmore At Portobello, close to the mouth of the Braid Burn (Figgate Burn), brick clay has been worked since 1765. The oldest pits have long been abandoned. Not far from their sites others have been opened from time to time, worked for a time and then closed. These pits are all grouped together within an…
Found by Willie Guthrie in the Helensburgh area. This brick could be marker Turner as opposed to Turner’s. Turner‘s Limited, Brick and Tile manufacturer, Fauldhouse. . . . .
West Bank Old brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh and Esperston, Midlothian. 1770 – Westbank pottery was erected for Anthony Hillcoat. 1803 – Hillcoat died. The business was taken over by his son and son in law. Roof and drain tile were the initial products. 1825 – 1826 – D. McEwing, brick and tile manufacturer, West…
Canmore Tochieneal Tileworks, mid 19th century. The decaying ruins of a small tileworks. There is a rectangular brick kiln of normal tile-works type, with lean-to covers for fire-holes. The remains of ancillary buildings and a square-section brick chimney also survive. A light railway carried the clay down to the mill from the pit c100m to the…
