Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

The Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey published a report in 1985 entitled ” A survey of Scottish brickmarks. During the compilation of this report in which the survey officers visited working and derelict brickworks sites, many items of interest were donated or found. Many of these items were thereafter donated to the National Museum Scotland. The…

Found at Glengarnock Ironworks, Ayrshire Longbar or Langbar Colliery, Beith, Ayrshire . . . . Below – A shaped example found by Tucker Kennedy on the Ayrshire coast. .  

Longbar or Langbar Colliery, Beith, Ayrshire Langbar Brickworks, Glengarnock – The brickwork lies to the east of Glengarnock Ironworks which was founded in 1843 and was the first ironworks in Scotland to change to steel making. Hunt’s Mineral Statistics of 1858 records the brickworks making 1,600 tons a year of taphole clay. In 1882, there…