Found at Firth of Forth, Inverkeithing.
Unidentified maker but find location may suggest it has Scottish origins.
Cruicks Pottery and Terra- cotta Works were situated on the same bay as the find location of this CP marked brick.
I am sure this is a firebrick so is it possible that Cruicks Pottery Works made firebricks. I am going to run with this theory meantime.
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Below – 1895 – OS Map showing the relationship between Cruicks Pottery, Inverkeithing and the find location also at Inverkeithing ( marked by a black cross). Cruicks Pottery is not marked on the 1913 OS Map.
Below – Ian Suddaby collected 18 of these bricks and formed them into a circle. The exterior diameter is 4 foot.
Kingseat Hill Brickworks, Kingseat, Dunfermline, Fife. (Note – SBH – Were these brickworks one of the same with the Townhill Brickworks or were they situated nearby. Please read this page in conjunction with the Townhill Brickworks). 21/02/1829 – Edinburgh Evening Courant – For sale, the following properties belonging to the town of Dunfermline … the…
Photographed in a garden in Edinburgh by Ian Suddaby. Street Brothers, Appin Coal and Fire Clay Works, Townhill, Dunfermline – Fire clay – J.S. Street, Manager This product was probably manufactured at their Cruicks Pottery and Terracotta Works, Inverkeithing, Fife. . . . .
Found by Mike Chapman in Woodborough, Nottinghamshire. The brick was found in a pile of hardcore and rubble used to fill holes in a golf course road so its provenance is unknown. This example is not in my possession. Appin Brickworks, Townhill, Dunfermline. . . . .
Cruicks Pottery and Terracotta Works, Inverkeithing, Fife – This should be read in conjunction with the entry of the Naval Base, Rosyth. John Shepherd Street, Born 8/12/1859, son of Richard Street, brick manufacturer, Dunfermline, and Euphemia West, grandson of William Streets and Anna Shepherd, married 02/02/1800 Glasgow. John S Street resident Dunfermline 1871-1891. 01/11/1892 – Edinburgh…
Found in the Aberdeenshire area by Ian Suddaby. This is a roof ridge. Appin Fire Clay Works, Townhill, Dunfermline. . . . .
Naval Base, Rosyth, Fife – This should be read in conjunction with Cruicks Pottery and Terracotta Works, Inverkeithing. Bricks to be manufactured on-site? 24/11/1906 – It is understood that the Tilbury Dock Company have acquired the Cruicks Quarry at Inverkeithing, which was carried on by Messrs Street Brothers. The Tilbury Coy. also acquired a large tract of…
Forth Rail Bridge Brickworks, Southside of Inverkeithing Bay. The Inverkeithing Brickworks that were built for use in providing bricks for the Forth Rail Bridge. They were never used and it is likely these are the same works that were later used by Cruicks Pottery and Terracotta Works. They were erected because the original Forth Rail…
Townhill Brickworks, Dunfermline, Fife aka Townhill Fireclay Works. John Shepherd Street, Born 8/12/1859, son of Richard Street, brick manufacturer, Dunfermline, and Euphemia West, grandson of William Streets and Anna Shepherd, married 02/02/1800 Glasgow. John S Street resident Dunfermline 1871-1891. (Note – SBH – Were these brickworks one of the same with the Kingseat Hill Brickworks or…
John Shepherd Street, born 8/12/1859, son of Richard Street, brick manufacturer, Dunfermline, and Euphemia West, grandson of William Streets and Anna Shepherd, married 02/02/1800 Glasgow. John S Street resident Dunfermline 1871-1891. (Note – SBH – I have included here, any references to the Street family, that I cannot connect to a particular brickworks). 13/09/1884 –…
John Shepherd Street, Born 8/12/1859, son of Richard Street, brick manufacturer, Dunfermline, and Euphemia West, grandson of William Streets and Anna Shepherd, married 02/02/1800 Glasgow. John S Street resident Dunfermline 1871-1891. Inverkeithing Brickworks later renamed The Inverkeithing Fire Clay Works and The Fire Clay and Brick Co, Inverkeithing. 1825 – William Stephens in his ‘The story…
