Polton Coal Company Limited – Brick and Fire Clay Manufacturer, Bonnyrigg, Lasswade, Edinburgh.
06/09/1876 – Edinburgh Evening News – At the Edinburgh Sheriff Summary Court today, a man named Robert Paterson pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Michael Chrystal, manager of Polton Brickwork, Cockpen on the 28th of April last. He was sentenced to 40 days imprisonment.
1878 – Hugh Rigg, Manager.
22/03/1879 – Peeblesshire Advertiser – Reference to the Polton Brickworks in an article about a local demonstration re supporting the candidature of Mr Gladstone for Midlothian.
1881 – 1882 – Polton Coal Co. (Limited), Polton Colliery and Fireclay Works and Robertson, Love, & Co., firebrick and pipe manufacturers, Polton Hall.
Below – 19/03/1881 – The Scotsman – The Polton Colliery and Brickwork for sale.
Below – 07/02/1883 – Glasgow Herald – The Polton Colliery and Brickwork for sale. £5000.
28/02/1883 – Glasgow Herald – Midlothian colliery and brickworks for sale – The Polton Colliery and Brickwork with the tenants part of the lease and the whole machinery, plant and miners dwelling houses connected therewith … The pits have won 5 workable seams of coal, 4 of which rest on good clays which are cheaply got and well suited for the manufacture of all kinds of fire clay goods and the other is worked in connection with excellent oil shale. The machinery and plant are in good order and there has been recently erected a new pumping engine made in the most improved system. The brickwork is extensive and capable of turning out all kinds of fire clay goods. Reduced upset price £4500. Mr Gilchrist will be at the Company’s office close to Bonnyrigg Railway Station for the purpose of showing the works to intending purchasers … For further particulars, an application may be made to … Hugh Rigg, Edmonstone Colliery, Millerhill.
Below – 27/10/1883 – Glasgow Herald – Polton and Colliery Brickwork for sale … The brickwork is extensive and capable of turning out all kinds of fire clay goods …
13/11/1883 – Edinburgh Evening News – Polton Coal Company Limited, including the brick and fireclay works in liquidation. Meeting held.
Below – 07/12/1883 – Haddingtonshire Advertiser – Polton Colliery and brickworks for same.
Below – 1893 – Polton Colliery – The possible location of the brickworks although they are not marked as such.
06/08/1925 – Dalkeith Advertiser – At a meeting of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Board of Management on Monday, intimation was made of receipt of £104 as the quarterly contribution from the employees of the Lothian Coal Co., Ltd., at Whitehill and Polton Collieries and Brickworks.
01/11/1929 – The Scotsman – In presence of a large and representative attendance, the funeral of Mr James Hamilton, a director of the Lothian Coal Co. ( Ltd . ), and general manager of the Whitehill and Polton Collieries and Brickworks took place yesterday from his residence, Rosedale, to Hawthorndcn Churchyard.
1940 – 1941 – Lothian Coal Co Ltd, The Whitehill and Polton Collieries, Brick and Fireclay Works, Roswell. Telephone 36 Roslin.
Found on the shore at Maryport, Cumbria. Calsil – possibly an abbreviation for ‘Calcium Silicate’ Unknown manufacturer. . . . The following are references to brick manufacturers using calcium silicate. Below – 12/03/1931 – West Sussex Gazette – Midhurst Brick Company, Midhurst, Sussex. 37s 6d per 1000. 1966 – Construction News – Related news to…
This brick was found by Anastasiya Proshicheva at the site of an abandoned village at Svir River near the settlement called Lodeynoye Pole, District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Her great-grandfather had lived there and she took it with her as a memory of her ancestor. The village was burnt by the Nazis. Polton Coal Company…
Found to the South West of St Petersburg, Russia. (Near the Estonian border). Many thanks to Vladimir Smirnov for sending the photograph. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . Below – This similar stamp was also found in St Petersburg, Russia and in an old stove lining. It is in the possession of Vladimir…
Found by Ian Suddaby at the site of the old Roslin Gunpowder Works, Roslin. This example is not in my possession. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area. Note the 3 ‘pimples’ above ‘hill’. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby at Portobello. This example is not in my possession. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . .
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Edinburgh area. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a similar brick found by Ian Suddaby at the same location.
Dougie Somerville, Bonnyrigg worked at the Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian from 1957 to 1979. By the time he started work Whitehill had stopped making salt glazed water and sewage pipe. The sheds that had been used for this purpose were still in situ and full of moulds and tools as well as assorted products….
Found at Bonnyrigg Pit ‘Kiln’, Mid Lothian and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Whitehill Brickworks, Rosewell, Edinburgh, Midlothian. . . . .
Found in St Petersburg, Russia by Vladimir Smirnov and most generously repatriated back to Scotland. A wonderful donation. Bonnyrigg Fire Clay Works, Bonnyrigg, Mid Lothian – Robertson, Love & Co. . . . .
