1796 – Glenbuck Ironworks was founded about 1795 by English entrepreneurs who went bankrupt in 1813.
1858 – Hunts mineral statistics state that Glenbuck Fireclay Works were producing 500 tons of tap hole clay per year for blast furnaces.
1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 – Glenbuck, clay of coal measures. Name of freeholder – Duke of Portland. Manufacturer – Eglinton Iron Co. Manufacture – Stopping clay for blast furnaces. Estimated 500 tons annually.
J & M Craig, Dean, Hillhead and Perceton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock and Longpark Pottery, Kilmarnock. (Note – SBH – I have created separate pages for Perceton, Dean, Hillhead and Longpark. Where information does not relate to a particular works, such as Craig family history, I have added it to the Perceton page.) Below –…
J & M Craig, Dean, Hillhead and Perceton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock and Longpark Pottery, Kilmarnock. (Note – SBH – I have created separate pages for Perceton, Dean, Hillhead and Longpark. Where information does not relate to a particular works, such as Craig family history, I have added it to the Perceton page.) Below –…
Found at Glenbuck, East Ayrshire. The manufacturer of this firebrick is unknown. An ‘X’ has been manually inscribed to one face. It was found at the site of the old Glenbuck Ironworks and Collieries in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The following 4 photographs of this brick reveal a total of at least 13 fingerprint impressions and…
The brickworks were situated on the south-east side of the ironworks. They supplied fireclay bricks for the blast furnace linings and taphole clay. Once the railways arrived higher grade firebricks were brought in and firebrick manufacture at Muirkirk ceased. (Date unknown). 1788 – Muirkirk Ironworks were erected at Muirkirk, Ayrshire. 1789 – Canal basin constructed…
1825 – Agricultural improvements carried out by Henry Richmond at the farm of East Montgarswood – draining. When Henry took over the farm in 1816 he set about making improvements. The first job was to clear the land of stones and boulders. In his diary, there are 27 references to clearing and carting stones. He…
1823 – The Duke of Portland is credited as being the first agricultural improver to introduce tile draining to the West of Scotland in 1823. These being manufactured at the tilework at Cessnock. Source – Matthew Yuill. 1867 – James Smith Taylor, Galston Tile Works, Gargieston. Residence – Moorfield, Kilmarnock. (Note – SBH – I…
Found by Tucker Kennedy at Ardeer, Ayrshire. Eglinton Fire Clay Works, Eglinton. or The Eglinton Silica Brick Company Limited, Dundyvan, Coatbridge. or Eglinton Iron Fireclay Works, Eglinton.
Eglinton Iron Fire Clay Works, Kilwinning. The Ironworks was started by William Baird & Co, in 1846, and the brickworks was on the western side of the ironworks. The ironworks prospered and had eight blast-furnaces working by 1859. the brickworks shown on the map of 1911 is a very small one and could not have…
Barneight Tileworks, Mauchline, East Ayrshire aka Barnaight. 1851 – 1852 – Alexander Woodburn, Tilemaker, Barneight, Mauchline, Ayrshire. 1855 – 1857 – ScotlandsPlaces – Barneight Tileworks. These tileworks, where drain tiles only are made, will in a year or so be destroyed and turned into tillage and the clay pits also filled up. Alexander Woodburn Tenant….
Portland Colliery Brickworks, Crookedholm, Hurlford, Kilmarnock. Portland Ironworks owned the brickworks which lay on the other side of the Irvine River, on the site of Portland Colliery No 4 pit. The Ironworks started in 1846 and worked intermittently until taken over by the Eglinton Iron Company in 1864. Five blast furnaces worked until 1890. The…
