Found Bonnyside, Bonnybridge. Refractory special – No brickmark. Unidentified manufacturer. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but…As it was found on the James Dougall site it is quite likely one of their products. . .
Read moreFound Bonnyside, Bonnybridge. 11″ square base. 7″ high at either shoulder and 9″ high in the centre. I believe DRLC possibly stands for Dyson Refractories Limited Company (although Company Limited is the normal arrangement) – Dyson owned the site where the was found (East works) and as such I believe this was made in Bonnybridge. Dyson…
Read moreFound Manuel Works, Whitecross – this special is obviously broken and the mark looks as if it would have contained numbers too – looks like a 2 on the right and it could even be a 12. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor…
Read moreFound Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge. Unidentified manufacturer. Find location would suggest Scottish origins. Considering the find location it is likely this is a product of the Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. I believe this brick was manufactured for the South American Railway network. Click me. .
Read moreFound Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge. James Dougall & Sons Ltd, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire Alternative brickworks include: Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . Harry Wilson states – The ganister brick ceased production in the late 50s when the Ganister seam in the drift mine to the Bonnybridge clay seam ran out. It was a natural clay –…
Read moreFound at the site of the old Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Read moreFound Gartliston Works, Glenboig. Mount Vernon Colliery Company, Glasgow – There are several known brickworks and it is possible they used the ‘Mount Vernon’ stamp at all of them. Please click on the ‘Mount Vernon’ tag which will take you to relevant pages on this website). . . .
Read moreFound in Paisley Robert Gilchrist, brick maker and builder, 9 Macfarlane Street, Glasgow. House 7 Somerville Place, Glasgow . . . .
Read moreFound Paisley. Carfin Brickworks, Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Garturk Brickworks, Calder, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. Govan Brickworks, Glasgow. 1 Dixon Street, Glasgow . Below – A similar stamp with the small circle feature to the top right of the stamp. Found by Gordon Wyle in the Alloa area.
Read moreFound by George Todd, Bonnyrigg Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian.. . . . .
Read moreFound in Paisley. Newton Brickworks, Blantyre, Lanarkshire. . . . . Below – A similar stamp in a round ended frog. Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Below – A similar stamp in a round ended frog with slightly longer letters. Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area.
Read moreFound by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. John Wallace, Brick maker, Drumoyne, Glasgow . . . .
Read moreFound on the site of the old Caledonia Fireclay Works, Paisley. The brick looks visually the same as other products from the Caledonia Brickworks. I believe this is another example of a Scottish manufactured brick being supplied to an overseas client and marked with the customer’s name. I believe the customer was S.S. Narielwala, a…
Read moreFound in Paisley. Walkinshaw Brickworks, Renfrew, Renfrewshire. . . . . Below – A very similar stamp found on a brick found by Colin Mitchell in the Paisley area. Note the reversed ‘N’.
Read moreFound Paisley. D R Adam Paisley – Daniel Rankine Adam – He and Robert Adam had a partnership and had brickworks at Belvidere, Glasgow and Love Street, Paisley and Inkerman, Paisley and Pollok (ck) Corkerhill, Glasgow and Nitshill, Glasgow and Rutherglen, Glasgow. . . .
Read moreFound by Tucker Kennedy in Ayrshire John McIntyre, Brick and tile maker, Lilybank Road, Glasgow . . .
Read moreFound Paisley. Note the tool marks left by a 3 pronged brick lifting tool. Robert Brown & Son, Ferguslie Fireclay Works and Caledonian Brick and Tile Works, Paisley. . . .
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