Berryhill Fireclay and Coal Company appear to have originally been predominantly a coal-producing company but then they also started mining fireclay which supplied fire clay to James Towers at the Towers or Grahamston Fireclay Works, Falkirk.
02/01/1937 – Aberdeen Press and Journal – Berryhill Fireclay and Coal Co. (Ltd.), 126 High Street, Falkirk. A private company, to carry on the business of colliery proprietors, coalmasters, coke, brick, and briquette makers, engineers, iron founders, metallurgists, and smelters. Capital. £3000 in £1 shares.
c. 1939 – Closed?
Below – 22/05/1943 – The Scotsman – Sale of the Berryhill Fireclay and Coal Company due to the abandonment of the mine.
Berryhill Fireclay and Coal Company appears to have originally been predominantly a coal-producing company but then they also started mining fireclay which supplied fire clay to James Towers at the Towers or Grahamston Fireclay Works, Falkirk. c. 1939 – Closed? 07/08/1940 – Daily Record – HM Inspectorate of Mines has given notice of the abandonment…
20/02/1886 – Falkirk Herald – Field young grass, about 6 acres. Hay or grazing. Apply Thomas Burns, The Firs Brick and Tile Work. 29/01/1887 – Alloa Advertiser – For sale. Quantity of drain pipes, various sizes, house tiles and flower pots, all superior quality. Load C.R or N.B Rail. James Potter, Firs Brick and Tile…
Raewell Firebrick Works, Meadow Bank, Polmont – The brickworks was started in 1947 by John Rae, who had worked for J & A Towers of Falkirk. The works were then managed by his son, Alan Rae, who made baby bricks, firebricks and general-purpose blaes bricks amounting to about 50 tons a week. One of the…
26/12/1839 – Perthshire Advertiser – The extensive works at Grahamston, Falkirk, well known to local farmers, can immediately supply and quantity of very superior drain tiles and bricks. Being situated within 100 yards of the Forth and Clyde Canal and 1 1/2 miles from the Port of Grangemouth, conveyance to the coast of Fife, Montrose,…
Found Dundee. This is a baby firebrick. Grahamston Firebrick Works, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. . . . Below – the same stamp found on a bullnose baby firebrick found in Granton, Edinburgh.
