Found in Glasgow by Eddie McLean.
There are many references to Port Dundas on my website – click me – but this product is most likely to be a manufactured by
Port-Dundas Fire Brick & Clay Co., firebrick, &c, makers, 44 Bishop street, Port Dundas, Glasgow.
or
Port-Dundas Pottery Co., manufacturers of stoneware and Rockingham ware, 66 Bishop street, Port-Dundas.
or
Port Dundas Brick Co Ltd, 202 Hope Street, Glasgow.
although the James Murray and Co works, which I think are different to the above (but not sure) are a possibility also.
Below – Found by Ian Suddaby at Port Dundas, Glasgow. This appears to have a different frog from the one aboveand there is no hyphen between Port and Dundas.
This is not in my possession.
Found by Geoff Hancock in the Glasgow area. Note the reversed ‘N’ and ‘S’. There are many references to Port Dundas on my website – click me – but this product is most likely to be manufactured by Port-Dundas Fire Brick & Clay Co., firebrick, &c, makers, 44 Bishop street, Port Dundas, Glasgow. or Port-Dundas Pottery…
(Note – SBH – Please read this in conjunction with the Port Dundas Fire Brick Works as they appear to have been situated very close and indeed they may actually be the same site with Malcolm Paterson operating it prior to Murray’s and Co – for clarification if possible!). 1820 – M Paterson & Co,…
This product is in the possession of Ian Suddaby. Ian states – “Gustav Bischof was Professor of Technical Chemistry at the Andersonian University in Glasgow and in 1863 he invented and patented the process of filtering water through spongy iron and sand to purify it. It won a number of international medals from 1872 on….
J & M Craig, Dean, Hillhead and Perceton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock and Longpark Pottery, Kilmarnock. (Note – SBH – I have created separate pages for Perceton, Dean, Hillhead and Longpark. Where information does not relate to a particular works, such as Craig family history, I have added it to the Perceton page.) Below –…
23/05/1860 – Glasgow Herald – Sudden death – 22/05/1860 – About half-past 6 o’clock, as John McLachlan, labourer, was working at Pottery Brick Work – wheeling clay from the mill to the man who was moulding bricks. He suddenly staggered and would have fallen to the ground but was caught by the moulder, in whose…
c. 1775 – Brickworks started? 07/03/1829 – Edinburgh Evening Courant – Houses at Rosebank, Westend of Portobello to let … To be seen by applying to the superintendent of the brickwork there … 01/06/1829 – Edinburgh Evening Courant – Several newly painted houses to let, with good gardens at Rosebank, Westend, Portobello. For particulars apply…
Blackfriars Pottery, Melville Street, Blackfriars, Perth. (Note – SBH – I am uncertain whether this pottery was manufacturing the goods listed below or just stocking them) Below – 01/05/1817 – Perth Courier – Blackfriars Pottery, Melville Street, Blackfriars, Perth. On sale wholesale and retail at low prices, Brown and black glazed ware of all kinds…
The company was formed and held mineral leases, including fireclay at Stand and Raebog, New Monkland and at Shotts, Lanarkshire and Fauldhouse, West Lothian. It was owned by Shanks of Barrhead. 10/04/1937 – The Scotsman – The Stand Fireclay Company ( Ltd . ), Victorian Pottery, Barrhead. Private company to carry on the business of…
1840 – 1841 – William Lyon, brick and tile works, Mountainblue, Glasgow. 1841 – 1842 – William Lyon Sen, Yet Street, Camlachie Brick and Tile Works, Mountainblue, Glasgow. 1849 – 1850 – Lyon, Lawson and Co, millwrights, engineers and brick and tile makers, Mountainbleau, Camlachie. 1852 – Lyon, Lawson and Co, brick and tile makers,…
The Cumnock Pottery – James Taylor on his arrival at the pottery was put to task in carrying out a geological survey of the minerals available on the estate of the Earl Patrick of Dumfries. In 1792, Mr Taylor was the manager of all operations in extracting lime, coal, black lead (wadd), ironstone, clay and…
