Photographed in situ by Stefan Grahn at the “Lögdö Bruk” an old ironworks in Sweden – started around 1685 and was in production until 1878.
This gives a most useful date for the Klinit BL Supra brick.
Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire
Alternative brickworks include:
Klinit is a trade name for M & P Hurll.
Below – 3 photographs showing this amazing structure. Also shown are 2 other firebricks – Staffordshire from England and Hoganas from Sweden.
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(Note – SBH -The following is a google translation – I hope it makes a little sense!) –Lögdö Mill – The Mill was built in 1685 by Erich Theet, district governor of Medelpad and a resident of Orsilgården in Timrå. Together with Petter Westerberg, Isack Machej and Martin Malsi, he applied for a permit to erect a blast furnace and a bar iron hammer in Songdo.
The ore was shipped to Værdö from Central Sweden, among others. from Utö mines in Stockholm’s southern archipelago. Transporting the ore by sea was, although long distances, considerably cheaper than land and horse transport. When Songdö Mill was built, Ljustorpsån was still navigable and the Lake of Lakedö stretched almost as far as the manor house.
The blast furnace was built at the small Snägdån, the current blast furnace. The two-iron bar hammer was placed at Aspån, which, like Masungbäcken, has its outlet in Ljustorpsån. Aspen and Masugnsbäcken were small streams, but the hammers did not require much water for operation and several hollow dams were built above both blast furnace and hammer in order to regulate the water flow.
The community that grew up around the mill was largely self-sufficient, with significant agriculture and own agricultural trade. In the centre was the manor together with the church, the school, farm buildings and official housing. Scattered along the Mill Street, towards the blast furnace and the hammers, low mills for cabin – hammers and day labourers.
At the end of the 19th century, the profitability of the agricultural movement decreased, while it became increasingly economical to use the forest for the sawmill industry. The mill operation ceased in Sulå in 1869, in Lagfors in 1877 and 1878, it blew for the last time in the Lawdog blast furnace and thus the iron production ceased on a larger scale.
Julkia Rizzi states this Thistle brick was photographed as part of a coal-burning fireplace in a house in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor Brickworks, Denny, Stirlingshire. Milnquarter Fireclay & Gannister Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire . .
Found by Sævar Gardarsson in an old house in Reykjavik, Iceland that was built in 1920. Prestongrange Brick and Tile Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian. . . .
Brian Tarbuck states this brick was found in Augusta, Maine, USA while replacing a water pipe. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow. ,
Found by John Barnard at Fitzroy, Falkland Islands. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor Brickworks, Denny, Stirlingshire. Milnquarter Fireclay & Gannister Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire .
Many thanks to Vladimir Smirnov for highlighting this brick to me which was found in the vicinity of the St. Petersburg Region, Gatchina Region, Russia by a brick collector, Alexander Korolev. It was discovered the stove of a private house. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein &…
Found by Glyn Harrison at an unknown location in New Zealand. This example is not in my possession. Douglas Fireclay Works, Dalry, Ayrshire. The reference to Bigelow on this special undoubtedly refers to the Bigelow Arch Company of Detroit, USA. Bigelow-Liptak Corporation was originally incorporated in 1927 with the merger of the Bigelow Arch Company of…
Found by Ken Sousa in Massachusetts, USA. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found in the Bo’ness area. I am not in possession of this example. Although this is broken there is little doubt it was stamped 60 – 69 and was a circle brick. Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel.
Found by Claudio Ernesto Rios. Claudio states – The bricks were found in the City of Zárate, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In a fridge (almost totally destroyed today) the fridge’s name was Smithfield Refrigerator of English capital, built in 1903, so I would believe those bricks were manufactured in the last decade of the 19th century….
Found by Patricio Peralta in an old bakery, Lincoln, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. “Calder British Made”. Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd, Bonnybridge. alt Calder Firebrick Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. alt Chapelhall Works, Lanarkshire. Hepworth Ceramic Holdings plc (GR-Stein Refractories Ltd. parent co) bought the Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co. Ltd in 1972, closed Bonnybridge…
