Gartcraig and Darnley bricks found in Western Australia.
— 11/03/2017Photographs forwarded by Peter Simmonds. Peter works for Parks and Wildlife in the Margaret River Western Australia….
01/06/2023 - All appears well.
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Photographs forwarded by Peter Simmonds. Peter works for Parks and Wildlife in the Margaret River Western Australia….
Found by Peter Brook in the garden of a house in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The house was…
Found in Riverton, New Zealand. The photograph and information were forwarded by Cedric Trounson. Cedric states –…
Found during an archaeology dig, Ravenswood, North Queensland, Australia. Photograph by kind permission of Dave Parkhill. Ravenswood is…
Scotia brick found in the Province of Quebec, Canada by Hydro-Quebec in Trois-Rivières. Photo forwarded by Carl Castonguay….
Many thanks to Pablo Marzilio for sending the following information. Pablo states he found this brick in…
Found by Hock Keong in Singapore. Hock found the bricks in a pile of rubble at a …
Many thanks to Rick Weber for the following photographs and information. Rick states – We live in…
Found by Andy and Pip McKeown on a beach near Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Castlecary Fireclay &…
Found by Jurijs Perevoščikovs in Riga Latvia. Jurijs states – The brick was found on Duntes Street at…
This brick was found by Richard Shaw in Belize, Central America. It is stamped ‘Klinit R’. (It…
11/06/1899 – The night of the 11th June 1899 marked one of the greatest maritime tragedies off…
This brick is in the possession of Vladimir Smirnov, St Petersburg, Russia. It was found 200km south-west…
Found by Stephen Cann on the shores of the Bay of Fundy in Saint John NB Canada….
Diego Maciel from Argentina found these bricks in an Argentinian bakehouse. Unidentified maker but possibly of Scottish…
John Shepherd Street, born 8/12/1859, son of Richard Street, brick manufacturer, Dunfermline, and Euphemia West, grandson of…
William Baird and Co Iron founders of Scotland; at one time the largest makers of pig-iron in…
Blochairn Sand and Fire Clay Co, Blochairn, Glasgow. “Blochairn Sand and Fire-Clay Co started in 1877 on…
Canmore At Portobello, close to the mouth of the Braid Burn (Figgate Burn), brick clay has been…
Canmore 11/09/1848 – Glasgow Herald – Sale of lands in Avondale Parish … all and whole the…
Woodside Brickworks, Langloan, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire. 1886 – Jas Allan, Woodside Brickworks, Langloan, Coatbridge. 11/02/1891 – Coatbridge…
Gartverrie Brickworks, Glenboig, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire aka Gartverie. Canmore 12/01/1855 – Glasgow Herald – Royal Patriotic Fund,…
09/12/1884 – Banffshire Journal -King Edward. New industry. The Seatown (Seaton)Brick Company, Limited, Aberdeen, who have for…
Tods Mill, Avonbank, Polmont. Established: Prior to 1854 – Ceased: Unknown. Company History: The waterfall was originally…
1855 – 1857 – Ordnance Survey Names Book – Blair Tileworks. John Alexander, occupier. A shed about 3…
1837 – Robert Boyle of the Drongan Pottery also established a brickwork at Joppa sometime about 1837…
Jordanhill Brickworks were in operation until the raw materials were exhausted in 1928. From them were drawn…
Airdrie House Brickworks, Airdrie, Lanarkshire AKA Mosside Brickworks or was this a separate site? Airdrie House (now…
Canmore – Newstead Roman Fort … This season’s work has given no confirmation at all to Richmond’s…
(Note – SBH – If the following anecdote is true then there may have been temporary brickworks…
Source – Whitehill Colliery was a deep mine colliery and was serviced by rail running between Dykes…
1881 – 1882 – Gilbert Alexander – Brickmaker, 7 Ratho Street, Greenock. p3
1807 – 1809 – John Bell, fire brick maker, Barrack Street, Gallowgate, Glasgow and Robert Bell, brickmaker…
1855 – 1857 – ScotlandsPlaces – Caprington Tileworks. These works are in the possession of the proprietor…
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Found by Ian Suddaby on Shetland. This example is not in my possession. Errol Brick and Tile…
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Fife area. This example is not in my possession. Errol Brick…
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. (N.B – stands…
The following spigot and socket clay water pipes were kindly donated by Dave Walsh. These clay pipes…
Found in the Broughty Ferry area and in the possession of Brian White. This example is not…
Found by Ian Suddaby in Ayrshire, This example is not in my possession. A section of salt-glazed…
Russell Roof Tiles 11/06/1987 – Galloway News – The Annandale Tile Co (1986) Ltd manufacturers of quality…
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These are in the possession of Ian Suddaby and were found in the Alloa area. Unidentified manufacturer…
Found by John Philip at Drybridge, Buckie. I am not in possession of this example. Errol Brick…
Found in a reclamation yard in Blackburn, Aberdeenshire by Ian Suddaby. It was left in situ as…
Found by Stephen Young in the Edinburgh area. This example is not in my possession. Ridge tiles….
It appears that as a space-saving mechanism inside kilns, drainage tiles were stacked inside each other during…
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Midlothian area. This example is not in my possession. Gartcraig Fire…
This urn was photographed by Ian Suddaby at an Edinburgh salvage yard. This example is not in…
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If anyone knows the whereabouts of a Drongan marked brick, I would love to hear from them.
I believe they were manufactured at the Drongan Castle Colliery, Drongan, Ayrshire.
Please get in touch if you can assist with an example for this Scottish brick collection
Information is requested on the Blackpots Brick and Tile works, Whitehills, Banff.
I have a roof tile marked Blackpots but as yet a similarly marked brick evades me. Any information on to the whereabouts of such a brick will be gratefully received. Finding such a brick would be a fantastic boost to my Scottish brick collection.
I would also love to hear from anyone that has information on the Blackpots works. Did your relatives work there? Do you have any photographs or headed notepaper bearing the Blackpots name?
Information of any description is requested with regards the Terregles brick and tile works, Terregles near Dumfries. In particular, I would be interested in knowing if anyone has a marked brick or tile from the works.
From an entry on Scotlandplaces and an old OS map, the works were certainly in operation between 1848 and 1850 when they were owned by M.C Maxwell Esq of Terregles.
I am currently researching these works but the information is scant.
Please click on the following link to see the article with the information gleaned so far.
I am seeking an example of a "John McKnight & Son PLAN Kilmarnock" brick.
Anyone with any information on these brickworks or indeed with knowledge where I may pick an intact brick up for the collection, can contact me via the contact form on this site or directly by email to brickmarks@gmail.com
Any information on these works would be greatly appreciated.
I believe these Greenhill bricks were manufactured at the Greenhill Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge.
The works appear to have started c. 1860 when Alexander and John Scott owned the farm and brickworks at Clayknowes, Bonnybridge.
The bricks were all found in the vicinity of the Greenhill Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge, Scotland. Letters are missing, reversed, upside down and angled. The one thing to note is that the letters are in the correct order as such albeit some are missing. They are all fire bricks. The 'Greenhills' bottom left appear to be a later version and the 'G' appears out of character from the other letters but at least it says, Greenhill! There are other stamps available from the same works with either a smaller font or later machine stamped versions but the names are complete on those.
My own thoughts are that this was a brickworks on its last legs prior to being taken over by the Clayknowes brickworks. As such the moulds appear to have been falling to bits especially the stamp in the bottom. They probably could not afford a mould maker or joiner so the moulder probably had to repair the stamp every morning and try to get the letters to stay in place. Perhaps they were split and could not take a nail to secure them. He appears to know how Greenhill is spelt as no letters are out of order. Basically, I think the moulds were in such a bad state that the moulder was happy if he managed to rig the stamp to say resemble anything that looked like Greenhill.
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Aberdonian assistance sought!
Any information as to where to find any bricks manufactured in the Aberdeen area would be gratefully appreciated. I have several bricks marked 'Seaton' and 'Torry' but there will be many more out there, even if they are variations on a theme eg Seaton 5, Seaton 20
In particular, I would love to hear from anyone that has a brick or drainage tile marked Clayhills, Aberdeen.
I would love to hear from anyone who may have a spare Crail brick from Crail in Fife.
An example is currently AWOL from this Scottish National brick collection. Any information on this brick will be gratefully received.
If anyone has found a Scottish brick, anywhere in the world, then please get in touch. If it is abroad I would love to post a small article on my site with regards the overseas find location and any background information you may have
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If you have found it in Scotland then please drop me an email with the brickmark details and I will check to see if we are aware of its existence. If we are not then I will add it to this National database of Scottish brickmarks. All donations of a currently unknown Scottish brickmark will, of course, be gratefully received. I will arrange a pick-up.
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Please also send me details of where you think I should look for Scottish bricks, old brickwork sites, foundry sites, river and shore dumps, fly-tipping areas etc. All will be considered for a future visit.
Please click on the link below and see if you can assist with any of the queries or unidentified bricks - research takes a long time so any help in this area would be gratefully accepted.
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Can I take this opportunity to thank everyone who contacts me with information as to where I might find bricks lying around or indeed those that actually find and put aside a few examples for me to uplift later.
This assistance is greatly appreciated and undoubtedly helps me in trying to rescue as many Scottish bricks as possible. Thank ye kindly.
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