Below – 22/02/1936 – The Scotsman – Fire at Rosebank Ironworks, Cambuslang – James Mitchell & Co.
Below – 02/09/1953 – Dundee Courier – Brick machine manufactured by James Mitchell & Co was assembled at Bannockburn and despatched to England.
1968 – Herbertshire Brick Works, Denny – The site had a Mitchell plastic brick making machine. 1 Hoffman circular kiln which was converted to a Belgian kiln with a firing temp of 1300c. It had 18 chambers. It also at one stage had a tunnel kiln with 90 cars and a firing temp of 1350c.
Below – Unknown date – The brick making machine at the Furness Brick & Tile Co Ltd, Askam was manufactured by James Mitchell & Son of Cambuslang. It is seen here hard at work producing traditional frogged bricks at a rate of several thousand per hour.
Below – Unknown date – Bargeddie Brickworks, Glasgow. Part of the downdraft kiln at Dewar & Finlays Works. Also depicted a plastic – clay brick making machines at Bargeddie. The one on the right was made by James Mitchell and Son Cambuslang.
Carr and Urwin, manufacturers, Glasgow – (Note – SBH – I have created this page as the 1880 advert below suggests that Car and Urwin manufactured brick making machines in the Glasgow area however I can find no other evidence to suggest this and all references to this company are from the Newcastle, England area….
1845 – John Young from Newton on Ayr, in collaboration with Robert Boyle produced a machine called the ‘Ayrshire Double Acting Patent Tile Machine’. This was adapted from an earlier machine patented by the Marquis of Tweeddale. The device was capable of producing 20,000 drain tiles per day. – Unknown source. 08/10/1845 – Dumfries and Galloway Standard…
Canmore Below – Source Falkirk Museum and Archives – Callendar Brick and Fireclay Works, Glen Village, Falkirk. Callendar Brickworks. Callendar Firebrick and Tileworks. Glen Brickworks. The Brickworks appear to have been constructed after 1820 as a set of plans of this date give no evidence for such a site. In 1868 John Wilson held a…
An open cast fireclay mine worked by the Millstone Grit Fireclay Ltd, Denny.
08/07/1899 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – On Wednesday morning, Thos Duffis, labourer, employed at the Stripeside Brickworks was badly crushed by an iron wheel falling upon him. He was removed to the Cottage Hospital, where his injuries were attended to. One of Duffis’ legs was badly fractured at the ankle. 23/09/1905 – Airdrie and…
Found by Jeannie Cooper in the Dundee area. Herbertshire Brickworks, Denny, Stirlingshire. . . . .
Below – 02/02/1855 – Kelso Chronicle – To brick and tile makers – For sale – A double-ended tile and brick machine with X dies of different dimensions all got up in the newest style and best system for making and jointing drain pipes and tiles, also common and hollow bricks. The above machine is…
Drumpark Brickworks, Bargeddie, Glasgow, Lanarkshire aka Bargeddie Brickworks. Canmore British Brick Society Information Sheet No 31 (Nov 83) Dewar and Findlay Ltd, Drumpark Brickworks, Bargeddie, Glasgow. (NR 705641). Operated from 1895 to 1977, producing high-quality pressed red facings, either red or blue. 1895 – The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish brickmarks’ suggests the works…
Dunaskin Brick Works, Dalmellington aka Waterside Works. Info Canmore – Original brickworks built for the manufacture of firebricks in the mid-19th century and superseded (probably about 1930) by a new brickworks of the same name, which incorporated the blowing-engine house and two chimneys of the former Dalmellington Ironworks Dunaskin Fire Clay Works –Dalmellington – Dunaskin…
I have added this post for interest’s sake. I do not know if Mr Arthur was Scottish but he invented an early brick making machine that made bricks by pressure only. 08/08/1857 – Paisley Herald and Renfrew Advertiser – Highland Agricultural Society Show – Among the new machines is one for the novel purpose of…
