Test castables found at the Manuel Works, Whitecross
— 24/09/2024The following refractory castable test samples were found during ground works at the Manuel Brickworks,
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John Clerk, Bonnybridge – fire brick ‘inventor’.
— 23/07/2024“Bonnybridge is now an important centre for this class of claywork. Messrs. Stein are among the
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Scottish sample fire bricks found in Tasmania.
— 12/12/2023Many thanks to Charlie Terry for the following photographs and information. Charlie states – My
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Brick mould found at the Manuel Works, Whitecross, Linlithgow, Stilringshire.
— 25/11/2023The following wooden brick moulds were found at the Manuel Works, Whitecross during excavations there.
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National Salt Glazed Pipe Manufacturers Association
— 26/11/2022Below – 13/07/1962 – Leicester Chronicle – National Salt Glazed Pipe Manufacturers
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Laboratory test samples – Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire
— 28/07/2022The following items were found in spoil heaps associated with the Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge.
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Hilton waster
— 16/06/2022Found on the site of the old Hilton Fire Clay Works, Alloa. This was most likely manufactured on-site.
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Dalzell Iron & Steel Works, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire
— 08/06/2022A substantial collection of silica fire bricks from steel-making furnaces have now been recovered from
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John G Stein adverts from the Refractories Journal
— 30/05/2022Below – 10/1960 – The Refractories Journal. Below – 11/1960 – The Refractories
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The clay pits of old Glasgow
— 04/04/202214/07/1923 – Glasgow Herald – Man was not long on the world’s stage when he commenced
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Drainage tiles fired inside one another.
— 09/03/2022It appears that as a space-saving mechanism inside kilns, drainage tiles were stacked inside each other
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BCM – British Commercial Monomarks
— 10/02/2022Many thanks to Martyn Fretwell and David Cufley for their assistance with creating this page. Many fire
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George Hislop, gas manager, Paisley, Renfrewshire.
— 26/01/2022George Hislop, gas manager, Paisley, Renfrewshire. Mr Hislop was well respected and renowned in his field.
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Suggestion to build a tileworks at Carmyllie, Arbroath, Angus
— 05/01/2022Were these works ever built – from research they were probably not. 21/01/1860 – Arbroath
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Reed or raffia impression on brick
— 30/12/2021The following broken brick was found by Niall McKelvie on the banks of the River Kelvin, Glasgow. When
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The basics of making clay bricks
— 18/12/2021Brick making in The United Kingdom – c. 1850 There are 5 steps needed to make bricks. The first
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Brick found in a ‘fat ball’ on Wester Ross, Scotland
— 17/11/2021Many thanks to Jacky Brookes from Wester Ross for the following information. Jacky states – I found
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Making bricks from slag
— 09/11/202122/10/1898 – St Andrews Citizens – The utilisation of slag – A German brick making
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The Mayfield brickheads
— 27/09/2021The following head sculptures are believed to have been made from clay by an employee of the Mayfield
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Seger cones
— 16/09/2021This wonderful example of a set of Seger cones was found by Ian Suddaby on the site of the old Bonnyside
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The Scottish silicosis scheme
— 18/08/202104/04/1919 – Kilsyth Chronicle – The Workmen’s Compensation (Silicosis) Act, 1918, created
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George Beattie
— 06/07/202115/06/1872 – North Briton – The late Mr George Beattie. This gentleman, a well-known citizen
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Stanislaw Sulich – Patented hollow brick
— 08/06/2021In ‘The British Clay Worker’ magazine dated 15/12/1952 there is an article entitled ‘Recent
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17th century brick manufacturing in Edinburgh.
— 01/02/2021Source – Sourcing Scottish Redwares by George Haggarty, Derek Hall and Simon Chenery – In
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Alexander and John Faill, 52 Robertson Street, Glasgow
— 21/12/20201881 – A & J Faill, contractors, causewayers and quarrymen. Office, Craigpark, Glasgow. Macadamised
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Prince Albert
— 22/10/202004/06/1851 – North British Agriculturist – Hollow bricks. In the model cottages erected by
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Articles on hollow bricks
— 17/10/2020(Note – SBH – Some of the sentence construction and grammar makes reading the following a
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Vesuvius Crucible Works, Brown Road, Newmilns, East Ayrshire
— 28/09/2020Vesuvius Crucible Works, Brown Road, Newmilns, East Ayrshire. Canmore Below – 1949 – 1969
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Newbattle break-up?
— 18/07/2020Interesting theory regarding the variations of the same ‘Newbattle 1862’ stamp found on a
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Early references to fire brick manufacture in the UK
— 16/07/20201776 – 1847 – William Weston Young (1776–1847) Quaker Entrepreneur of Bristol and Glamorganshire;
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