27/07/1849 – Glasgow Herald – Farm to let – Darngaber containing about 73 acres or thereby is four miles from Hamilton, to which there is an excellent road and a ready market for all description of farm produce. There is a going tilework on the farm and coal and lime close by.
1851 – Glasgow Herald – Farm to let – Darngaber as now occupied by John Hamiton, containing 72 acres Scotch or thereby, lying about 4 miles from Hamilton and close to coal, lime and drain tiles
Below – 1858 – Darngaber Brick and Tile Works. They are disused by the 1896 map.
1858 – 1861 – ScotlandsPlaces – Darngaber Brick and Tile Works. A few large wooden sheds & some brick kilns used for making building bricks & drain tiles, [wrought] by the Proprietor – the Duke of Hamilton. This manuf. [manufacture?] has been 13 years in use & is expected to last for about two years longer. It is named from being on the lands of Darngaber. Matthew Reid, foreman.
Below – 16/02/1867 – Hamilton Advertiser – Public sale of a steam engine and circular saw bench, brick and tile machinery and plant at Darngaber Tileworks near Quarter Ironworks …. Contact Mr Matthew Walker at Quarter …
Below – 1859 – Bog Colliery and nearby clay pit. 1886 – Hamilton McCulloch & Co, coal masters and fire clay goods manufacturers, Home Farm and Bog Collieries & Works (On the estates of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton), near Hamilton. Head Office 88 Great Clyde Street. Branches 111 West Nile Street, Glasgow, 34…
Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks, Swinehill, South Lanarkshire aka Swinhill. (SBH – Note – I am uncertain where exactly the brickworks with regards Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks were located. Can anyone clarify this please?) 1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 Dalserf, clay of coal measures….
(Note – SBH – The references below indicate the continued occupation of the Hamiltonhill Brickworks by the Allan family for some considerable time. There are a couple of grey areas with regards to the 2 newspaper articles dated 1873 and 1891 in that they are for the sale of Hamiltonhill Brickworks. I am assuming these…
There is little doubt that James Young made bricks to construct his employee’s houses etc and also exploited the fireclay seams to make refractory bricks for his numerous enterprises – but did he mark them. See Young’s and Young which appears to be a different Company. (Note – SBH – Young and Young’s have both been found on-site…
