Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry

(Note – SBH – I find the information on the brickworks at Aberhill, Denbeath, Methil and Wemyss very confusing with regards names and locations that seem to swap and move! If anyone can clarify the situation for me or point out information that is perhaps listed wrongly against a particular brickworks then please get in…

Barbauchlaw Brickworks, East Main Street, Armadale, West Lothian. (Note – SBH – The 1896 entries below refer to a new brickworks in East Main Street, Armadale. I suspect but I am not certain that these were built on the site of the old brickworks or if the pre-1896 brickworks were not on the same site…

Found by Jim Gill in the Fife area. Aberhill Brickworks aka Methil Brickworks, Aberhill, Fife . . . .

01/01/1824 – The Scots Magazine – Glasgow – There have been a great many additions built to the old cotton mills in Glasgow this summer besides the new ones erected in various parts of the city. One of the mills is calculated to cost £40,000. This has been altogether an unprecedented year of building. Masons,…

Found in Dundee by Ann Reid Aberhill Brickworks aka Methil Brickworks, Aberhill, Fife . . . .  

(Note – SBH – I find the information on the brickworks at Aberhill, Denbeath, Methil and Wemyss very confusing with regards names and locations that seem to swap and move! If anyone can clarify the situation for me or point out information that is perhaps listed wrongly against a particular brickworks then please get in…

Found by Tam Moffet in Fife. Aberhill Brickworks aka Methil Brickworks, Aberhill, Fife. . . . .      

Found East Wemyss Aberhill Brickworks aka Methil Brickworks, Aberhill, Fife . . . .