Canmore – The Brickworks were situated adjacent to central washery of A Kenneth & Son, which served a number of collieries in the area.
Montgomeryfield Colliery and Brickworks, Dreghorn, Ayrshire aka Montgomerie Field.
1907 – Slaters – Montgomeryfield Brickworks – Archibald Kenneth & Sons Ltd.
Below – 1908 – Montgomeryfield Colliery and Brickworks, Dreghorn. The colliery is depicted on the 1895 map but not the brickworks.
Below – 1938 – Montgomeryfield Colliery and Brickworks, Dreghorn.
05/12/1941 – Kilmarnock Herald – Irvine JP Court. Robert Gibson, Foreman at Montgomery Brickworks and Robert Jeffrey, Manager at Montgomery Brickworks were charged with disturbing the peace after they swore at two female employees who refused or could not work on one of the heavy machines at the brickworks when instructed to do so. Both were found not guilty …
20/2/1942 – Kilmarnock Herald – Fatal accident enquiry into the death of Alexander McEwan King, 30 Montgomery Terrace, Kilwinning. Alexander was 14 years of age and was a brickworker employed by A. Kenneth and Sons Ltd, Coal Masters, Montgomeryfield Colliery, Dreghorn … he may have been accidentally struck by a lorry while stooping down to pick up coal …
22/02/1952 – Kilmarnock Herald – Brickworkers caught with coal. Three brickworkers were each fined £1 at Irvine J.P. Court on Monday when they admitted stealing coal from Montgomeryfield Brickworks, Dreghorn, early on Friday 1st February. The men were James Stewart, 1 Seaton Terrace, Irvine, James Wales, 12 Dirrans Terrace, Kilwinning, and James Hammill, Avils Cottage, Kilbirnie. The Fiscal, Mr J. Murray, said that the police received complaints from the firm of A. Kenneth & Sons, Ltd., about the theft of coal from Montgomeryfield Brickworks. It was suspected that the coal was being taken by men coming off the night shift at 6.30 in the morning. Two policemen went to the brickworks at six o’clock on the morning of 1st February, and after some time discovered the men carrying bags containing quantities of coal. While they were interviewing one man, Stewart came towards them with a bag on his shoulders. He had his head down and did not notice the police. He was stopped and questioned about the bag. When Wales was stopped it was found that he had 28 lbs. of coal in a bag. A similar amount was inside a canvas bag carried by Hammill. Wales said in court that he took the coal because he wanted to have a fire on cold mornings for his two sons going to school. Stewart and Hammill had nothing to say in court. They were all allowed seven days in which to pay the fines.
1964 – Bradley and Craven records – heavy brick making machinery sold to Montgomeryfield Brickworks.
1973 – Bradley and Craven records – heavy brick making machinery sold to Montgomeryfield Brickworks.
C.1975 – Graham Douglas, 1979 – These works closed mid-1970’s and were demolished in 1978. These were large works, possibly the largest common brickworks in Scotland. By the 1970’s they ha 5 continuous kilns.
Ian Suddaby states – Carrick Academy in Maybole, Ayrshire is soon to replaced with a modern community hub, school and leisure centre. The existing school was built from red brick and red sandstone in 1925 and extra accommodation was added in the 1970s. Digging work in the grounds suggests that the 1925 building was made…
Photographed by Martin Sneddon in the Ayrshire area. I am not in possession of this example. There may also be another word stamped above Warrix but it is unclear. Warrix Fire Clay Works, Irvine, North Ayrshire. . . .
WIKI information – The British and Tasmanian Charcoal Iron Company (BTCIC) was an iron mining and smelting company that operated from 1874 to 1878 in Northern Tasmania, Australia. It was formed by floating the operations of a private company, the Tasmanian Charcoal Iron Company which operated between 1871 and 1874. This venture was the largest…
(Note – SBH – I believe these works were operated for some time by Archibald Kenneth and Sons) Canmore Below – 1908 – Canmore indicates the Works were situated as per the ‘red cross’. I am unable to find a map were the brickworks are noted at such.
Pitcon Brickworks, Dalry, Ayrshire. Canmore – This was one of three common-brick works in the vicinity of Dalry which were built to make pressed-clay bricks from the coal-measure clays – blaes – deposited as waste during coal and ironstone mining in the 19th century. As these works were built in 1939 it seems likely that…
Broadlie Brickworks, Dalry, Ayrshire. Canmore Broadlie Brickworks, Dalry, Ayrshire This was the first of three common-brick works in the vicinity of Dalry which were built to make pressed-clay bricks from the coal-measure clays – blaes – deposited as waste during coal and ironstone mining in the 19th century. These works were built at a time…
17/08/1894 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – … A new coal-pit is being sunk at Warrix, near Irvine, by the Bourtreehill Coal and Fire Clay Coy., and the sinkers have reached the coal. Miners were employed to take it out from the bottom of the shank. This was done, and it is said the coal…
(Note – SBH – There appear to be possibly two sites named Annandale Brickworks – Annandale Brickworks, Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire and Annandale Colliery and Brickworks, Mauchline, East Ayrshire – hopefully, clarification will follow!) Canmore Below – 1929 – Kilmarnock Standard 10/03/1989 – The men of Annandale Brickworks, January 1929. 06/07/1929 – Belfast Telegraph –…
Commondyke Brickworks, Common, near Auchinleck, East Ayrshire. ‘C’ is attributed to this brickworks by the Scottish brick survey 1985. Canmore Commondyke Brickworks, Common, East Ayrshire – Alexandra Transport Ltd started Commondyke Brickworks after World War II and operated the business until 1977 when the works closed. The Scottish Brick Corporation took over Alexandra’s business in…
Found at Kilwinning. Eglinton Fire Clay Works, Kilwinning. . . . .
