Portland Colliery Brickworks, Crookedholm, Hurlford, Kilmarnock. Portland Ironworks owned the brickworks which lay on the other side of the Irvine River, on the site of Portland Colliery No 4 pit. The Ironworks started in 1846 and worked intermittently until taken over by the Eglinton Iron Company in 1864. Five blast furnaces worked until 1890. The Brickworks continued to make bricks until after 1900. Source Kenneth W Sanderson.
1856 – Map details a ‘coal pit’ at the location of the future Portland Brickworks.
Below – 1895 – Portland Brickworks.
1901 – Directory of Clayworkers – Portland Colliery Company Limited, Portland Colliery and Brickworks, Kilmarnock. Compositions and fire bricks. T. Address “Portland, Hurlford”. Tel:50 Kilmarnock exchange.
Below – 1908 – Portland Colliery Brickworks.
1938 – Map detailing the Portland Colliery but the brickworks are no longer marked.
Below – Portland Colliery toll token – source
The brickworks were situated on the south-east side of the ironworks. They supplied fireclay bricks for the blast furnace linings and taphole clay. Once the railways arrived higher grade firebricks were brought in and firebrick manufacture at Muirkirk ceased. (Date unknown). 1788 – Muirkirk Ironworks were erected at Muirkirk, Ayrshire. 1789 – Canal basin constructed…
Canmore 1796 – Glenbuck Ironworks was founded about 1795 by English entrepreneurs who went bankrupt in 1813. 1858 – Hunts mineral statistics state that Glenbuck Fireclay Works were producing 500 tons of tap hole clay per year for blast furnaces. 1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 –…
Found by Tucker Kennedy at Ardeer, Ayrshire. Eglinton Fire Clay Works, Eglinton. or The Eglinton Silica Brick Company Limited, Dundyvan, Coatbridge. or Eglinton Iron Fireclay Works, Eglinton.
Eglinton Iron Fire Clay Works, Kilwinning. The Ironworks was started by William Baird & Co, in 1846, and the brickworks was on the western side of the ironworks. The ironworks prospered and had eight blast-furnaces working by 1859. the brickworks shown on the map of 1911 is a very small one and could not have…
Gargieston Tileworks were situated a mile southwest of Kilmarnock on the Troon branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, it was making fire brick products in 1889 when managed by Thomas Smillie. The OS map of 1911 shows a medium sized brickworks and an open quarry to the south and another to the east…
Found in Fife by TS. Portland Colliery Brickworks, Crookedholm, Hurlford, Kilmarnock. . . . .
Found by Robert Guthrie in the Barrhead, Glasgow area Eglinton Fire Clay Works, Eglinton. or The Eglinton Silica Brick Company Limited, Dundyvan, Coatbridge. or Eglinton Iron Fireclay Works, Eglinton.
Found in the Kilwinning area. Eglinton Fire Clay Works, Eglinton. or The Eglinton Silica Brick Company Limited, Dundyvan, Coatbridge. or Eglinton Iron Fireclay Works, Eglinton. Below – These are building bricks. . Below – The same stamp on an animal feed trough. The trough is obviously broken but there is still enough left give you…
