Found in Edinburgh.
West Bank Brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh.
My other very similar example has a hyphen in West Bank and the word lengths differ slightly.
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Below – This is the same stamp but on an oversized brick with no apparent frog. The brick measures approximately 11 1/2″ x 6″ x 3 1/4″. (The bottom right corner is actually broken off although it looks like a chamfered corner).
Found by Steve Cogle in the Edinburgh area.
Found by Paul Notman as part of a window surround in a building being demolished near Easter Road, Edinburgh. This example is not in my possession. West Bank Brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh. The brick is stamped to the header. (Note – SBH – It is not known what the 1907 date represents. It…
Found by Ian Suddaby in Leith, Edinburgh. This example is not in my possession. Ian states – This might well be a second as it’s not well made. On the first photo, the frog is malformed and looks like it’s been repositioned in the press. The whole brick is misshaped too and the letters aren’t clear,…
West Bank Old brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh and Esperston, Midlothian aka Valleyfield Brickworks? 1765 – Cassell’s Old and New Edinburgh – In 1765, Mr William Jamieson, the feuar under Baron Muir, discovered near the Figgate Burn a valuable bed of clay, and on the banks of the stream he erected first a brick…
Found by Ian Suddaby in Annandale Street, Edinburgh. West Bank Brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a brick found by Jim Crockett in the Portobello area. Note the frog on this example has square corners. This example is not in my possession.
Annals of Duddingston and Portobello – 1898 – The trade of Portobello has for the past hundred years been of a varied character. As we have already indicated in these pages, its principal and earliest products were derived from the excellent bed of clay found in the estuary of the Figgate Burn. Bricks and tiles, and…
. . . . . Below – The Village of Figget (Portobello) 1783. 1898 – William Baird’s Annals of Duddingston & Portobello – … About the year 1763, a new settlement began to be formed in the parish at the mouth of the Figgate Burn, consequent upon the finding of a valuable bed of clay,…
Found in the Fife area. West Bank Brick and Tile Works, Portobello, Edinburgh. . . . . .
