Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

Canmore Greenfield Brickworks, Shettleston, Glasgow were later known as Frankfield Brickworks The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish brickmarks’ suggests that the works were at one time owned by W & J Whitehead. 27/05/1899 – Dundee Advertiser – New joint-stock companies, Scotland – Greenfield Coal and Brick Company, Greenfield Colliery, Shettleston – To purchase from…

Canmore Frankfield Brickworks, Earnside St, Shettleston, Glasgow were formerly known as Greenfield Brickworks Frankfield Brickworks, Budhill Avenue, Springboig, Glasgow. These works were built in about 1899, probably to make common bricks from colliery waste clays, known as blaes. It had a single coal-fired Hoffmann regenerative kiln, with its tall square-section chimney. On top of the…

Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Greenfield Brickworks, Earnside St, Shettleston, Glasgow. . . . .