11/05/1932 – Glasgow Herald – Steam Mills – Fire and Common brick manufactory near Falkirk to be let. To be let for such a number of years as may be agreed on with entry immediately.
Castle Laurie Mills – These mills lie on the banks of the Great Canal at Bainsford, 2 miles from Grangemouth and 1 mile from Falkirk and 1/2 mile from Carron Works. They are fitted up for the manufacture of wheat, oats, barley and pease and are propelled by a steam engine of great power, are nearly new and in excellent order.
Adjoining the mills there is a fire brick manufactory, recently erected on the most approved principles. The fireclay which is readily obtained from the coal works in the neighbourhood is ground down by power from the steam engine and the bricks are admitted by all who have seen them to be of the first-rate quality. If wished, arrangements could be made for the manufacture of common brick and tiles in an adjoining field belonging to the same proprietor in which there is an abundance of eater and clay of the best description, cheap coal and water carriage being also close at hand.
The mills and brick manufactory may be let separately and every encouragement will be given to a respectable tenant.
Further particulars will be learned on application to Mr William Leechman, Melville Place, Glasgow or to Mr Alexander Ramsay jun or Russell and Aitken Falkirk
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These could be one of 3 brickworks. Below are the possibilities in order of personal preference. See the map.
Below – 1861 – Bainsford, near Carron.
Found on the edge of the Hilton Brickworks, Alloa. Unidentified firebrick manufacturer. There was an Alexander Cairns who was involved with the Bonnyside Tileworks, Bonnybridge, the Bonnymuir Brick and Tile Works, Bonnybridge and the Gowanbank Brick and Tileworks, Grahamston, Falkirk around 1850 – 1875 so perhaps he also had connections with an Alloa brickworks –…
Canmore Below – Source Falkirk Museum and Archives – Callendar Brick and Fireclay Works, Glen Village, Falkirk. Callendar Brickworks. Callendar Firebrick and Tileworks. Glen Brickworks. The Brickworks appear to have been constructed after 1820 as a set of plans of this date give no evidence for such a site. In 1868 John Wilson held a…
20/02/1886 – Falkirk Herald – Field young grass, about 6 acres. Hay or grazing. Apply Thomas Burns, The Firs Brick and Tile Work. 29/01/1887 – Alloa Advertiser – For sale. Quantity of drain pipes, various sizes, house tiles and flower pots, all superior quality. Load C.R or N.B Rail. James Potter, Firs Brick and Tile…
03/09/1863– Fife Herald – Bankrupts – Robert Geekie Dunn & Company, lately tenants of Glenrig Tileworks, near Falkirk, and now farmers at Collonshields and Gateside Farms, in the parish of Muiravonside and county of Stirling, and Robert Geekie Dunn, farmer at Collonshields aforesaid, and Alexander Dunn, lately tenant of Teemvaily Tileworks, county of Durham, and…
Found on the Firth of Clyde, Old Kilpatrick, Glasgow Glen Works, Glen Village, Falkirk, Stirlingshire . . . .
Found at the Manuel Works, Whitecross. Callendar Brick And Fireclay Works, Glen Works, Glen Village, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a red brick (the above appears more blue but this may simply be down to the firing and its working life). This brick was found at the Annealing…
Found Stoneywood, Bonnybridge. This appears to be an early Callendar firebrick. Callendar Brick And Fireclay Works, Glen Works, Glen Village, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. . . .
Found at James Dougall’s old site, Bonnyside, Bonnybridge. The 1st ‘L’ appears to be missing. Callendar Brick And Fireclay Works, Glen Works, Glen Village, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. . . . .
Callendar Brick and Fireclay Co Ltd, Falkirk – Roll Briquette Fireback Sole manufacturers for Scotland and Northern England. Telephone Falkirk 2082 or 2083 R E Knowles Ltd, Manufacturers of Firebacks and Fireclay Refractories – Furness Vale Near Stockport. Established in 1890. Telephone New Mills 2127 The new roll – briquette fireback. The outstanding features of…
Canmore – Herbertshire Brickworks, Millstone Grit and Fireclay Ltd, Denny. Canmore – Herbertshire Refractories? (Note – SBH – From c. 1900. Robert Addie and Sons Ltd owned the Herberstshire Colliery and mined fireclay as well as the coal. Firebricks were made for a while). Below – Source Falkirk Museum and Archives. – Herbertshire Brickworks, 16…
