Overton Colliery Brickwork, Stewarton, East Ayrshire
11/08/1856 – Glasgow Herald – Wanted, a fire brick maker and burner. To a suitable person constant work will be given during the winter. Wages from 16s. to 18s. per week. Apply to Messrs. James Robertson & Co., Overton Colliery, by Stewarton Station.
20/02/1858 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – Going colliery in Ayrshire to be let. The colliery at Overton, in the Parish of Dreghorn, adjoining the Stewarton Station of the Glasgow and South-Western Railway, to be let, immediately, together with a seam of fire clay of the best quality. An excellent H. P. steam engine and other plant, together with colliers’ houses, clay mill, and Kilns, to be had at a valuation. For further particulars, apply to John Gray, Writer, County Buildings, Ayr; William Robertson, C. and M.E., 116, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow; or to Robert Maxton, Mining Engineer, Saltcoats. 3d Feb 1858.
Below – 12/11/1858 – Glasgow Herald – Sale of colliery plant by auction at Overton Colliery including fire clay mill and rollers.
Below – 23/07/1859 – Kilmarnock Weekly Post – Sale of colliery plant by auction at Overton Colliery, Near Stewarton Station … colliery and brickworks.
