Foundry Open Brickworks, Gallowgate, Glasgow aka Whitevale Brickfield.
1825 – 1826 – George Johnston, brick and tile maker and builder, 42 Sydney Street, Glasgow.
1828 – 1829 – George Johnston, brickmaker, 6 Sydney Street Works, College Park, Glasgow.
Below – 29/05/1829 – Glasgow Herald – Property for sale in Sydney Street. The owner is George Johnston, brickmaker.
1835 – 1836 – Robert Barr, brickmaker and builder, 6 Sydney Street. Works – College Park, Glasgow.
1836 – 1837 – Robert Barr, brickmaker and builder, 6 Sydney Street. Works – College Park, Glasgow.
1837 – Robert Barr, brickmaker, 6 Sydney Street (Page 542).
12/07/1845 – Glasgow citizen – The City Theatre is built from original plans by William Spence Esq, an architect of this city. The brickwork by Mr Robert Barr of Bellgrove Place.
The City Theatre was built in 1845 by John Henry Anderson, known as “The Wizard of the North” during his earlier career as a travelling conjurer. The theatre had a capacity of 5,000 and occupied a plot on Jail Square at the edge of Glasgow Green, opposite the Justiciary Buildings at the foot of the Saltmarket. The theatre burned down on 18 November 1845, five months after opening.
1852 – James McCaslan, brickmaker, Foundry Open, Gallowgate Street, Glasgow. (Note SBH – Was McCaslan in partnership with Barr. See entries below dated 1852 – McCaslen and 14/01/1863 – McCasland).
1852 – James McCaslen, brickmaker, Mile-end, Glasgow.
Below – 15/12/1855 – Paisley Herald – Court Action – Robert Barr, Brickmaker, Glasgow against William Findlay, Wright and Builder, Glasgow.
10/09/1856 – Glasgow Herald – The Whitevale Brickfield, entering from Foundry Open and East Neilson Street, Gallowgate. Apply to the proprietor on the ground.
1857 – 1858 – Robert Barr, brickmaker and builder; brickworks, Whitevale; House, 87 Great Hamilton Street.
1858 – 1859 – Robert Barr, brickmaker, Brickworks – head of Foundry Open, Camlachie. Ho 87 Gt Hamilton Street, Glasgow. (Page 48).
1861 – Robert Barr, brickmaker, Foundry Open, Gallowgate. House – 87 Great Hamilton Street, Glasgow.
Below – 14/01/1863 – Glasgow Herald- Brickfield to let. The brickfield in Foundry Open, Gallowgate, within a mile of the cross, as at present occupied by Mr Robert Barr. Apply to Mr McCasland, Gartcraig by Shettleston or to Mr Peter Shannon, Builder, 105 Stockwell Street.
1870 – 1871 – Robert Barr, Brickmaker and builder, 504 Gallowgate, Glasgow.
1873 – 1874 – Robert Barr, Brickmaker and builder, 504 Gallowgate, Glasgow.
1876 – 1877 – Robert Barr, Brickmaker and builder, 504 Gallowgate, Glasgow.
1880 – 1881 – Robert Barr, Brickmaker and builder, 504 Gallowgate, Glasgow.
