Found at Castlehill Iron Works Carluke.
Milton Brick & Tile Works, Carluke, Lanarkshire. – Scottish Clay Hollow-Ware Limited, Carluke, South Lanarkshire.
It is likely the products below were used as internal heating ducts or for building lightweight internal walls.
They were found in a large pile and consisted of 2 or 3 chambered units.
The outside of each was ribbed to aid cement adherence.
They did not bear a brick mark.
03/07/1937 – The Scotsman – New Company – Scottish Clay Hollow-Ware Limited, 146 West Regent Street, Glasgow. Private company to acquire the share capital of Gold and Company (1920) Ltd, T.B. Gibson and Company Ltd and Ochiltree Tile Works Ltd and to carry on the business of makers of drain pipes, bricks and other clay goods &c. Capital £25,000 in £1 shares. Subscribers R.W. Martin, tile manufacturer, Midsands, Racecourse Road, Ayr and T.B. Gibson, tile manufacturer, Milton Bank, Carluke
29/12/1978 The Edinburgh Gazette – Scottish Clay Hollow-Ware Limited (In Receivership) I, John Gourlay Hunter, Chartered Accountant, of 100 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6DJ, hereby give notice that, in terms of Sections 11 and: 12 of The Companies ((Floating Charges and Receivers:) (Scotland) Act 1978, I was appointed Receiver of Scottish day Hollow-Ware Limited) on 13th December 1978. In terms of Section 19 of said) Act, Preferential Creditors should lodge their claims with me within six months of the date of this advertisement. John Gourlay Hunter, Receiver. 100 Wellington Street, Glasgow, G2 6DJ. 15th December 1978
Below – Left to right.
1. – 2 chambered hollow building block/heating duct measuring 12″ long x 12″ high x 7″ wide – Found Castlehill – pic above
2. – 3 chambered hollow building block/heating duct measuring – 9″ high 9″ long and 5″ wide – found Milton Brickworks
3. – 3 chambered hollow building block/heating duct measuring 12 1/2″ long x 12″ high x 7″ wide – Found Castlehill – pic above
4. – 3 chambered hollow building block/heating duct measuring 11 3/4″ long x 11 1/4″ high x 3 3/4″ wide – Found Milton Brickworks
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Below – Slotted block/heating duct measuring 12 1/2″ long (but this is a broken length so would have been longer) x 8 1/2″ high x 3 3/4″ wide. Found at Milton Brickworks.
Below – Slotted brick/heating duct measuring 8 1/2″ x 4″ x 2 3/4″ – Found at Milton Brickworks.
Below – The Carluke Historical Society has single-chambered blocks of the same shape and design as the 3 chambered version above.
Below – 10/01/1856 – Edinburgh Evening Courant – The annual meeting of the Association for the Improvement of Agricultural dwellings … An interesting early article where reference is made to the benefits of hollow blocks for internal walls. (This is not in reference to the Milton Works)
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Milton Brick & Tile Works, Carluke, South Lanarkshire. Scottish Clay Hollow-Ware Limited appears to have operated from Milton Brickworks and were incorporated in 1937 with registered office at the works. Final closure came with the voluntary liquidation of T B Gibson & Co Ltd t/a Milton Tileworks, Carluke on 14th August 1978. Canmore Below –…
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Milton Brick and Tile Works, Carluke, Lanarkshire . . . . Below – Another eaxmple found by Stevie Lamont on the shoreline near Inveraray, Scotland.
1882 – Thomas B Gibson, Whiteshaw Tileworks, Carluke. Below – May 1883 – Invoice. Below – May 1885 – Invoice. Below – November 1886 – Invoice. 1886 – Thomas B Gibson – Whiteshaw Tileworks, Carluke p. 886. 1893 – 1896 – T.B Gibson, Brick and Tile Manufacturer, Whiteshaw Tileworks, Carluke. 1897 – 1898 – R…
Found by George Kennedy at the Milton Brickworks, Carluke. This is a large, salt-glazed air vent. It is unmarked and as such the maker is unidentified. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … Possibly a product of the Milton Works. Measures 11″ x 7 3/4″ x 4 1/2″ .
The article that follows was compiled by a member of the Carluke Parish Historical Society. Introduction In the new statistical account (1845/6) volume 6) it was noted that “clay fit for a variety of purposes such as brick making and pottery manufacture” was abundant in the Parish of Carluke, and that “large deposits of white…
18/05/1850 – Perry’s Bankrupt Gazette – Scotch partnership dissolved. Thomas and William Hamilton of Westwood and Hallcraig, Carluke, tile and brick manufacturers, 1st May. Debts by T. Hamilton. 1853 – Invoice – Thomas Hamilton, tile manufacturer, Overton near Kirknewton. Works – Auchengray by Carnwath and Newbigging by Broxburn and Hallcraig by Carluke and Braidwood by…
Carluke Tileworks, Law Junction, Carluke aka the Waterlands Tileworks. Canmore Below – 21/06/1861 – Invoice – Thomas Hamilton, brick and tile manufacturer. Park House, Carstairs. Works Auchengray by Carnwath. Pool by Carnwath. Glenboe by Pittinain Lanark. Hallcraig, Braidwood and Waterlands by Carluke. 500 4″ pipes – £1 and 5 shilling. 3350 2 inch pipes –…
Canmore Clephanton Brick and Tile Works, Anstruther, Fife. Seafield Brick and Tile Works, St Andrews. Clephanton Brick and Tile Works, Anstruther, Fife – These brickworks were located to the west of the main road out of West Anstruther travelling north. They were described in 1865 as a large manufactory for the making of tiles, bricks,…
Hugh Martin, engineer and millwright, maker of brick and tile machinery, Kirkton Street, Carluke This is possibly the same Hugh Martin or his son – ‘Accident to Colliery Engineer On Wednesday afternoon, Mr Hugh Martin, colliery engineer, Carluke, while engaged at the erection of a new coal-washing plant at Messrs Barr and Thornton’s Fauldhouse Colliery,…
Burnfoot Tileworks, Ochiltree, Ayrshire aka Ochiltree Tileworks Special thanks go to SJ and Will Galbraith, Pant Farm, Mauchline, Ayrshire for their information and goodwill which assisted greatly in the compiling of this post. Canmore – A typical drainage tileworks, still in operation, with an L-plan range of louvred single-storey drying sheds and two kilns, one…
