Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

This Calder brick was found in San Pedro in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

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It appears to indicate that the brick shown was probably part of the La Estrella distillery at the location that would later be used by the Depietri Railways.

This has been reproduced by the kind permission of Fernando Chiodini – cordial saludo.

Hepworth Ceramic Holdings plc (GR-Stein Refractories Ltd. parent co) bought the Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co. Ltd in 1972, closed Bonnybridge works in 1973 and closed Chapelhall in 1980. Therefore between 1972 and 1980, GR-Stein Refractories probably continued to manufacture bricks with this trademark for a time.

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This the Google translation for the find – it is obviously not accurate as it is sometimes hard to follow but hopefully, you get the idea!

Over a hundred years of history discovered a brick of Scottish manufacturing the ruins of Railways Depietri. The Story of San Pedro has very interesting edges that in many cases waiting to be discovered, disseminated or revalued. In recent days, due to the works Construction of new access to the Port, many speak of Railways sampedrinos Depietri, a work that transcended his time coming to us as a stray noises murmur among the old locomotives. Today progress has eaten part of that effort and cunning story I demolished a section of the old wall that surrounded the old terminal station. Among the men’s movement, land and road machinery loom for the observant eye, the details of a San Pedro different. Fernando Chiodini, passionate about our history if there is a partner of the Paleontological Museum and member of the Centre for Historical Studies, who was discovered in the ruins an object for any of us was just a brick. However, the refractory brick has a mark in relief warns that has been too long since his distant manufacture. The piece has, on one side, the inscription “CALDER” and his condition is excellent. Those letters we have you discovered mortar block was manufactured in Scotland, possibly mid-nineteenth century, the trademark Calder Fire Clay Company. This piece must have been part of a building of the former distillery “La Estrella” distillery that operated in San Pedro on the grounds that then occupy the Depietri Railways, as it could be a fireplace, covering a boiler or cooker with the since it was also found, brick remains molten. Of that old factory today only conocidísima fireplace that stands on the crest of the canyon and some old houses. The claws of excavators working on the site have unearthed this little fragment of a sunk into the mists of history time. The hands of Fernando Chiodini recovered it to expose in the windows of “Fray José María Bottaro” Regional Historical Museum.

This is the original text below – if anyone has a better translation then I would be very pleased to hear from you.

Más de cien años de Historia Descubren un ladrillo de fabricación escocesa entre las ruinas de Ferrocarriles Depietri
La Historia de San Pedro posee aristas muy interesantes que, en muchos casos, aguardan ser descubiertas, difundidas o revaloradas.
En los últimos días, debido a las obras de construcción del nuevo acceso al Puerto, muchos sampedrinos hablamos de Ferrocarriles Depietri, una obra que trascendió su época llegando a nosotros como un murmullo perdido entre los ruidos de viejas locomotoras.
Hoy el progreso se ha comido una parte de esa historia de esfuerzo y astucia demoliendo un tramo del viejo paredón que rodeaba a la antigua terminal de trenes.
Entre ese movimiento de hombres, tierra y maquinarias viales se vislumbran, para el ojo observador, los detalles de un San Pedro diferente.
Fernando Chiodini, apasionado de nuestra historia si los hay, es colaborador del Museo Paleontológico y miembro del Centro de Estudios Históricos, y fue quien descubrió en esas ruinas un objeto que para cualquiera de nosotros sólo era un ladrillo. Sin embargo, ese ladrillo refractario posee una marca en relieve que nos advierte que ha pasado mucho tiempo desde su lejana fabricación.
La pieza presenta, en una de sus caras, la inscripción “CALDER” y su estado de conservación es excelente.
Esas letras nos cuentan que el bloque de argamasa descubierto fue fabricado en Escocia, posiblemente a mediados del Siglo XIX, por la marca comercial Calder Fire Clay Company. Esta pieza debe de haber formado parte de alguna construcción de la antigua destilería “La Estrella”, alcoholera que funcionó en San Pedro en el predio que luego ocuparían los Ferrocarriles Depietri, como podría ser una chimenea, revestimiento de una caldera o el fogón de la misma ya que se ha encontrado también, restos de ladrillo fundidos. De aquella vieja fábrica hoy sólo quedan la conocidísima chimenea que se yergue en la cresta de barranca y unos viejos galpones.
Las garras de las excavadoras que trabajan en el lugar han sacado a la luz a este pequeño fragmento de una historia hundida en las brumas del tiempo. Las manos de Fernando Chiodini lo recuperaron para exponerlo en las vitrinas del Museo Histórico Regional “Fray José María Bottaro”.