Found Barrhead, Glasgow.
Unidentified maker.
The find location suggests Scottish origins but …
This was recovered on the Shanks Armitage site along with MAC Brand bricks, Scotia bricks and a Glascot BCM / Sankey brick.
All these bricks were built together to raise part of an internal road on the site. They are all very similar in appearance with regard to colour and size. They are all very narrow bricks.
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McCarthy’s brickworks was at the end of Thames Street in Bulwell, on the opposite side of the then Midland Railway line to Sankey’s Brickworks, but now the path of the railway line is Sellers Wood Drive. These internal bricks were stamped either McCarthy’s or MAC and were very absorbent. A bricklayer friend has told me, that he had to soak them overnight before he layed them the next day. If not the bricks would draw the moisture out of the mortar and the wall would fall down. A picture of the works which closed around 1977 can be seen on picturethepast.org.uk. Photo & info by Martyn Fretwell.
Many thanks to Bruce MacDonald for the following photographs which were taken at The Sunbury Plantation House, St Philip Parish Barbados. All the bricks present were fire bricks and included English manufacturers such as Ruffors of Stourbridge, Cowen of Newcastle and Duddell of Fenton. 90% of the bricks present appear to have been stamped ‘Glenboig’….
Many thanks to Aysen Demirkurt for the following information. The bricks in the photograph below form a step in the “The Women’s Library and Information Centre” in Istanbul, Turkey. The photograph has been turned on its side so the brick names can be read more easily. They read from top to bottom Scotia – The…
Many thanks to Vladimir Smirnov for the following information. This Sankey BM Scotch brick was found as part of a furnace structure in St Petersburg, Russia. It was found alongside a mystery brick stamped ‘Shire‘. J H Sankey & Son, Essex Wharf, Canning Town, London. This may be a Scottish product. A collaboration between Castlecary…
Found by Ken Wallace in a house in Clifton Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The house was situated on Clifton Street and built in 1890. I believe this to be a Scottish product. A collaboration between Weir Castlecary and Sankey. Please see this link for my reasons – click me Castlecary Fireclay & Lime Works,…
Many thanks to Martyn Fretwell and David Cufley for their assistance with creating this page. Many fire bricks are stamped BCM alongside the manufacturer’s name. BCM – British Commercial Monomarks. Below – 10/07/1925 – The Times – Indexing humanity. Men may soon be like motorcars. Lost property solution. Latest in classification. Modern life is to…
Found in the Philippines. The finder states – We found some Scotia bricks beside and under the old well. The area is an old camp of Japanese soldiers during WW2. (Exact location not given). . . . Below – Scotia bricks – Although the manufacturer of this brick is unknown it is strongly suspected that…
These bricks were found by Joe Gofton, washed up on the Dartmouth side of Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada. Castlecary Fireclay & Lime Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. . . . . Below – A broken ‘BCM Castlecary’ brick. BCM = British Commercial Monomarks.
This brick was found by Omar Pérez near Villa María, in Córdoba, Argentina. Omar states – I am a philatelist and scholar of the Argentine railways and their traveling postal brands. I am about to edit the first whole of a book. More than 40 years ago we found with a friend, now deceased, some…
The following bricks were found by Vladimir Smirnov near Perm, Russian. 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 . Below – BCM/Thistle. BCM = British Commercial Monomarks. Below – Thistle.
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. The manufacturer of this brick is unknown. The find location would suggest Scottish origins. Other Sankey Aluma stamped bricks are thought to have been manufactured by Craigend Refractories Ltd, Falkirk. Click me. .
