Found Newcastle upon Tyne.
Produced at the Adams-Pict Firebrick Works at Swalwell, (the site of the earlier Ramsay works on the River Derwent, a tributary of the Tyne and some three miles west of Gateshead), these (INSO) insulating bricks were produced from a mixture of clay, sawdust and diatomite, (a soft, siliceous, sedimentary rock, easily crumbled to form a fine powder), and intended to form a secondary, heat-retaining layer behind the actual firebrick.
Info – … In 1923, Adamsez of Scotswood bought the yard and traded under the name Adams-Pict firebrick Company. Fireclay was brought here from Scotswood and Scotland, to produce PICT a, PICT H, Adams-Pict, and Pict-Inso bricks …
(Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, much of the clay was mined in Scotland)
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Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay – An allochthonous deposit? – S.K. Monro, F.C.Loughnan and M.C. Walker. 1944 – 1967 – Bauxite Clay, Dubbs Quarry, Saltcoats. (Note – SBH – I believe this was operated by the Ayrshire Bauxitic Clay Company Ltd. Did they also possibly supply Adams-Pict Fire Brick Works, Scotswood, Newcastle?)
(Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland.) During the First World War, (c1916) Adamsez Ltd, sanitary ware manufacturers, of Scotswood, Newcastle, diversified into the manufacture of firebricks under the name, Scotswood Furnace Company. It was operated…
(Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland). Found Inverkeithing, Firth of Forth. Pict IOX18 ? During the First World War, (c.1916) Adamsez Ltd, sanitary ware manufacturers, of Scotswood, Newcastle, diversified into the manufacture of firebricks under…
Found Newcastle upon Tyne (Note – SBH – I have added the Scottish tag here as although the bricks themselves were manufactured in Northumbria, the clay was mined in Scotland*) Adams Pict fireclay company, Scotswood, Newcastle. . . .
