Found by Michael Kilner at Barr Wood Farm, Twechar, North Lanarkshire. This is situated near to the Gartshore Brickworks. Michael has found 3 similar bricks around this location.
B & SS possibly stands for Bairds & Scottish Steel’ viz – William Baird and Co Ltd owned the Gartshore Brickworks. In around 1938, the company underwent reorganisation and entered voluntary liquidation. William Baird & Co Ltd was reconstituted, and the company’s Lanarkshire interests were merged with the Scottish Iron & Steel Company Ltd, of Glasgow, to form Bairds & Scottish Steel Ltd, pig iron and steel manufacturers … Bairds & Scottish Steel – B & SS?
(Note – SBH – I am fairly happy that this is a Bairds and Scottish Steel stamp but I have left the original musings above in case it turns out to be otherwise).
Note the upside-down ‘&’ and possibly the ‘S’s.
Below – A similar stamp from the Gartshore Works.
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Note the reversed ‘F’. Unidentified maker Find location suggests Scottish origins but….. . . Below – The frog on the above brick is very similar in shape and design to the B & SS and NCB Gartshore bricks on this page. The fabric of the bricks are…
Found by J Stephen Burns in the Kilsyth area. I am not in possession of this example. Gartshore Brickworks, Twechar, Kilsyth. . . .
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Ayrshire area. Annbank Brickworks, Annbank, Ayrshire. . . . .
Buccleuch Terracotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire aka Buccleuch Brick and Tile Works. (Note – SBH – This page should be read in conjunction with the pages dedicated to the Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works and the Fauldhead Collieries Brick Works) 1962 – The Upper Nithsdale Coalworks from Pictish Times to 1925. Compiled by J C L…
Gartsherrie Ironworks Fireclay Works. These works were owned by William Baird and Co Ltd. C. 1840 – Brickworks started in order to supply the Gartsherrie Iron Works with firebricks. 14/10/1851 – Greenock Advertiser – Deaths – At Milton Street, Glasgow on the 12th inst, of consumption of the lungs, Mr Nichol Hillcoate, son of the…
The brickworks were situated on the south-east side of the ironworks. They supplied fireclay bricks for the blast furnace linings and taphole clay. Once the railways arrived higher grade firebricks were brought in and firebrick manufacture at Muirkirk ceased. (Date unknown). 1788 – Muirkirk Ironworks were erected at Muirkirk, Ayrshire. 1789 – Canal basin constructed…
The brickworks were situated on the Lugar Ironworks Site just NE of Cumnock. The Iron Works were established c. 1845 by Sir James Boswell. They were taken over in 1856 by the Eglinton Iron Company which was owned by William Baird and Co. The Lugar Ironworks were then moved 1/2 mile South to the location…
Eglinton Iron Fire Clay Works, Kilwinning. The Ironworks was started by William Baird & Co, in 1846, and the brickworks was on the western side of the ironworks. The ironworks prospered and had eight blast-furnaces working by 1859. the brickworks shown on the map of 1911 is a very small one and could not have…
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Gartshore Brickworks, Twechar, Kilsyth. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a slightly smaller brick found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area.
Faskine Brickworks, Bank Street, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire. 27/08/1885 – Glasgow Evening Citizen – Shocking death at Faskine Brickwork. A lad named John McCormick, 16 years of age, son of John McCormick, Faskine Row, Carnbroe came by his death in a shocking manner yesterday afternoon. He was engaged filling clay into the clay mixer at Mr Robert…
