Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. James Goldie & Son Brick works, Shawfield Toll, Glasgow. Note the large pebble in the clay mix. . . .

Found by Ian Suddaby in Whitehaven, Cumbria Centurion Brickworks, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire owned by the Scottish Brick Company. The bricks formed a demolished wall. Only a proportion of the bricks were stamped and none had both the name and the batch manufacturing date stamped on the same brick. . . . .

Found by Ian Suddaby at the old Calder Iron Works site, Coatbridge. This example is not in my possession. Could the 1909 represent a date? Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd, Bonnybridge. alt Calder Firebrick Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. alt Chapelhall Works, Lanarkshire. Hepworth Ceramic Holdings plc (GR-Stein Refractories Ltd. parent co) bought the Bonnybridge Silica…

Canmore Denbeath Brick Works, Denbeath, Fife AKA Wemyss Brick Works. Denbeath Brickworks were built to use the Wellesley Colliery spoil heaps and this was owned by thet were owned by the Wemyss family. April 1885  – A brickworks was established by Mr Wemyss on the shore at Denbeath.  Initially, clay from the dock excavation was used,…

Found near Inverkeithing, Fifeshire by Ian Suddaby. Two Wemyss stamped bricks and made in Methil, Fifeshire between 1906 and 1981. These bricks have been painted white to one end. One has been stenciled in red with th e no.’9′ and the other with ’23’. Another was found stencilled ’21’ These bricks ended up in a…

Found at unknown location in England and kindly donated by John (Ian) Jones, Ayrshire. 1837 – 1897 Diamond Jubilee – Queen Victiora. More than likely made in the Staffordshire or Warwickshire counties of England. Possibly by Stanley Bros Fire Clay Works or Haunchwood Brick and Tile Works, both of Nuneaton. . .  

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Gilchrist & Goldie Crow Road Partick Glasgow 1868. . . . .

Canmore 11/02/1875 – Dundee Courier – Brickmaking by machinery at Muiredge is very busy, throwing off 960 per hour and even at that rate they are not able to supply the demand. Below – 21/04/1875 – Dundee Courier – Strike – wage reduction threat. 15/06/1876 – Dundee Courier – The extensive brick work at Muirdege…

Found Seafield, Edinburgh. Wemyss Brick Co. Works, Methill, Fife. WBC – Wemyss Brick Company – there is a suggestion from TM that the marks following the WBC represent the year and week no of that year, in which the brick was manufactured. The company would work its way through the Alphabet and then possibly start…

Found by Andrew Gemmell in the Cadder area of Glasgow. Errol Brick and Tile Works, Inchcoonans, Dundee 16/03/2015 – Graham Douglas, co author of Survey of Scottish brickmarks 1985 relates the following: –  When carrying out a visit to the Inchcoonan / Errol works in c.1985 I was told an anecdote regarding Inchcoonan drainage tiles….