Found at the old Mossend Iron and Steel Works, Glasgow.
Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire.
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Below – Found at the Buccleuch Brickworks, Sanquhar.
NCB Buccleuch – The NCB is very faint and almost looks like it was added and then an attempt was made to smooth it over but it definitely does show NCB.
Below – The same stamp on a bullnose brick photographed by Nick Basden at the disused Big Water of Fleet Viaduct. Note the inverted and reversed stamp which appears to be in a slightly different font. (About halfway between Gatehouse of Fleet and Creetown on the B96 lies a hidden gem – The Big Water of Fleet Viaduct. The viaduct lies within the Cairnsmore of Fleet National Natural Nature Reserve which includes one of the three “Cairnsmores” in South West Scotland – Cairnsmore of Fleet.)
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. (N.B – stands for North Britain – postal abbreviation of the day). This is believed to be an electric cable cover or a land surface gulley for directing water flow. , , . . .
Found in the Dumfries area. Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. The lettering is raised on this stamp. . . .
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. It would appear to have been manufactured at an unknown National Coal Board Brickworks. The letters are raised on the stamp. R – Right. See also NCB – L (left). .
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. It would appear to have been manufactured at an unknown National Coal Board Brickworks. The letters are raised on the stamp. L – Left See also NCB – R (right). . .
Found in the Sanquhar area. Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. Note the ‘G’ is a different size and style from the other letters. Note the 2nd ‘R’ in ‘Terra’ is a different shape from the first ‘R’. Note the ‘CO’ has a raised ‘O’. This brick appears to be a reshaped standard brick as…
(Note – SBH – There is some confusion regarding bricks stamped AFTON with regards their exact origins. There was the Afton Brick and Tile Works at New Cumnock, the owners of which opened a brickworks at Sanquhar in 1852 and then much later there was the Afton Brick Company Limited which operated the brickworks at…
This stamp is on a salt-glazed saddle back wall cope. It was photographed in the Kilmarnock area by Martin Sneddon. Buccleuch Terra Cotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. (N.B – stands for North Britain – postal abbreviation of the day). . . Below – The same stamp on a chimney as photographed by Robert Reid in the…
Found in Bathville, West Lothian. Barbauchlaw Brick Works, Armadale, West Lothian. . . . .
Buccleuch Terracotta Works, Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire aka Buccleuch Brick and Tile Works. (Note – SBH – This page should be read in conjunction with the pages dedicated to the Sanquhar Brick and Tile Works and the Fauldhead Collieries Brick Works) 1962 – The Upper Nithsdale Coalworks from Pictish Times to 1925. Compiled by J C L…
Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area. Gateside Brickworks, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire . . . . .
