Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Found Firth of Forth Bo’ness. Unidentified maker. Glascot?  – A combination of Glasgow and Scotland? Glascot(e) is a town in Tamworth, Warwickshire. It is also a surname. The find location and the stamp suggests Scottish origins but … Any ideas? Below – 02/11/1850 – Birmingham Journal – Glascote Colliery and Clay Works, Tamworth. (Note –…

Found in Barrhead, Glasgow. Unidentified maker. The find location would suggest Scottish origins but … Could Glascot be short for Glasgow Scotland and infer that there may be a Scottish tie-up whereby J.H Sankey & Son, Canning Town, London are outsourcing the manufacture of their fire bricks. BCM = British Commercial Monomarks. Courtesy of GB –…

Found in Barrhead, Paisley. Unidentified maker. The find location suggests Scottish origins but … This was recovered on the Shanks Armitage site along with MAC Brand bricks, a MAC Made in GT Britain variation,  Scotia bricks and a Glascot BCM / Sankey brick. All these bricks were built together to raise part of an internal…

Found Barrhead, Glasgow. Unidentified maker. The find location suggests Scottish origins but … This was recovered on the Shanks Armitage site along with MAC Brand bricks, Scotia bricks and a Glascot BCM / Sankey brick. All these bricks were built together to raise part of an internal road on the site. They are all very…

Found Old Niddrie brickworks, Cleikimin, Edinburgh Unidentified  maker. Find location suggests Scottish origins but … . . . Below – The same stamp on a darker brick found at the Armitage Shanks site, Barrhead, Glasgow Below  – The same stamp on a much wider and slightly longer brick found at Carberry Colliery, East Lothian and kindly donated…