Below – 15/12/1892 – Dundee Courier – A labourer James Clark was charged with having on 9th December at the colliery office at Muiredge, belonging to Messrs Bowman produced to James Dryburgh, Cashier a ticket or order stating “Brickwork pit, Dec 12 1892, Please pay Wm Mackay 3 days 4 hours at 3s per day – W. Earl Manager” and having pretended that the order was a bona fide one, he himself having written it and induced the cashier to pay him 10s 4d which he appropriated to his own uses. Found guilty and sentenced to 21 days to jail.
01/12/1906 – Dundee Courier – Women loading waggons with bricks. On the 17th of October Elizabeth Innes, brickfield worker, Twelfth Street, was run over by two empty waggons at the No.4 siding of the Bowhill Coal Company’s Brickwork, and died in the Kirkcaldy Cottage Hospital on the 3rd November. It was explained in the evidence that a train of loaded coal had been shunted into the siding, and came into contact with other waggons, causing her to fall. Answering His Majesty’s Inspector Factories, Jane Murray, another worker, stated it was an old practice for women to load the waggons with bricks, an operation at which the deceased was engaged. A railway guard said he thought there was nobody in danger. There was no protection for the colliery people working at the siding. Formal verdicts was returned.
23/10/1909 – The Scotsman – Mixer wanted, one experienced with Fawcett’s brick machine will be preferred. Apply Bowhill Brickworks, Cardenden, Fife.
1922 – The Fife Coal Company Limited owned the brickworks at Hill of Beath, Blairadam and Bowhill.
01/09/1933 – Dundee Courier – Angus and Fife Estate – Archibald Bowman, Percival Cottage, Muiredge, Buckhaven – £6,122 19s 2d.
06/09/1934 – Dundee Courier – The Fife Coal Company displayed Fife manufactured bricks at an exhibition at British Industries House, Oxford Street, London. (Notes SBH – There is no reference to which exact brickworks were featured).
1848 – 1851 – ScotlandsPlaces – Kirkchrist Brick and Tile Works. A brick and tile manufactory having a kiln for burning, a large wooden shed for drying and a small piece of ground attached. The whole surrounded chiefly by a wooden paling. The works take their name from the farm of Kirkchrist on which they…
Found at Torryburn. Bowhill Colliery Brickworks, Cardenden, Fife. . . . .
(Note – SBH – On the Scottish OS maps, there are 2 brickworks detailed – Garscube Brick and Tile Works and Garscube Brickworks. Both are depicted on the bottom of the 1896 map. The Garscube Brickworks which is the further east of the two is close to Dawsholm. I believe this was also known as…
15/04/1871 – Glasgow Herald – Assault. George Dickson, a tramp, was accused of attacking Mr James McAllister, manager and John McAllister, engine keeper, Dalmacoulter Brickworks on Thursday last. He pleaded guilty and the Sheriff sentenced him to pay a fine of 2os or suffer 14 days imprisonment. 1878 – Thomas Jackson, brick and tile maker,…
J & M Craig, Dean, Hillhead and Perceton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock and Longpark Pottery, Kilmarnock. (Note – SBH – I have created separate pages for Perceton, Dean, Hillhead and Longpark. Where information does not relate to a particular works, such as Craig family history, I have added it to the Perceton page.) Below –…
(Note – SBH – The brickworks situated in the Nethercommon area of Paisley are often difficult to separate when trying to ascertain which piece of researched information should be allocated to which brickworks. The same goes for conclusively determining which location on the old OS maps refers to which brickworks. If anyone notices any error…
(Note – SBH – The brickworks and brick manufacturing companies in the Larkhall area is very confusing to sort out. There were many company name changes, changes of ownership and several sites involved. If anyone sees an issue with the information I have detailed then please let me know). 20/02/1891 – Hamilton Herald – Serious…
Banknock Brickworks, Banknock, Bonnybridge, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. (Note – SBH – This page should be read in conjunction with the Cannerton Brick Company page). 19/08/1899 – Falkirk Herald – Discovery of minerals near Kilsyth – Mr Street, who recently acquired Coneypark and Tomsyne Estates, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, has been conducting operations to ascertain what minerals underlie these…
Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Gartliston (opened 1889) and Garnqueen (opened 1895) which was closer to Glenboig village, being about 1 mile south-east of the village. Canmore – Gartliston. Canmore – Garnqueen. P & M Hurll Ltd owned Birkhill Clay Mine in Bo’ness. Birkhill Clay Mine had high-quality fireclay deposits which…
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…
