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Coaltown Brick and Tyle Works, Dunfermline, Fife

Coaltown Brick and Tile Works, Dunfermline.

Below – 04/09/1773 – Caledonian Mercury – Tyle and brick work on the lands of Coaltown and Mosshall for sale. To be sold by Adam Morison, trustee for the creditors of William Swan of Coaltown …

11/09/1775 – Caledonian Mercury – To be sold by public roup within the Tolbooth of Dunfermline, on Tuesday the 17th day of October next at two o’clock afternoon. The lands of Coaltown, with the tyle and brickworks thereon, belonging to William Swan, lying in the parish, and within a mile of the town of Dunfermline, in the shire of Fife.  The lands are to be let as offers incline, altogether, or in two lots, as divided by the public road, running from south to north, commonly called the Muirland Road and the tyle and brickworks are to be included in the easter lot. The number of acres in every lot, and articles of roup, to be seen in the hands of Adam Morrison merchant in Dunfermline, to whom any person chusing make a private bargain may apply …

09/02/1793 – Caledonian Mercury – To be sold … All and whole of the Lands of Coaltown and Mosshall with their pertinents, lying within the Parish of Dunfermline and County of Fife …There was formerly a brick and style work at Coaltown and as there is an inexhaustible field of fine clay and a going colliery within 100 yards of the premises, this work or a pottery could be again set a going to great advantage as there is no such work within 20 miles of it to the north …

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