Found Firth of Clyde, Port Glasgow
Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and Yoker Brick Works, Glasgow.
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Blairdardie Brickworks is situated on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal about 1 1/2 miles West of Canniesburn Toll. (Note – SBH – So is this on the same site as the works later called the Garscadden Brick and Tile Works or the Blairdardie Brickworks that were erected just East of Garscadden Brickworks…
Blairdardie Brick and Tile Works, Yoker, Glasgow. These appear to have been erected after c. 1916 when the Garscadden Brick and Tile Works closed. They were situated just East of the old Garscadden Works). 18/11/1924 – Edinburgh Gazette … then west-wards along the north side of Canal for 20 lineal yards or thereby, thence southerly,…
Cowdenhill Brickworks, Cowdenhill, Glasgow … That extensive brickfield known as the Cowdenhill Brickfield is situated on the North Bank of the Forth and Clyde Canal about 4 miles West of Glasgow … (See below). Below – 1859 – A map showing the relationship between Cowdenhill on the right and the Blairdardie/Garscadden Brickworks on the left….
Found Note the 2 x reversed ‘N’s. Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and Yoker Brick Works, Glasgow. . . .
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Bell, Hornsby & Co. 197 Pollokshaws Rd; brickfields, Polmadie, Glasgow, Langlands, Govan, Blairdardie, Duntocher. . . . .
Found by Andrew Gemmell in the Milngavie, Glasgow area. Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and Yoker Brick Works, Glasgow . . . . The lettering is slightly ‘thicker’ than this other version I have.
(Note – SBH – I am currently working on this page to try and confirm which posts refer to which brickworks as I think several are mixed up here!). Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Yoker, Glasgow aka Blairdardie Brick and Tile Works. (Note – SBH – were these works also known as the Duntocher Works…
Found by Andrew Gemmell in the Milngavie area, Glasgow. (Note – SBH – the N of Horn looks like it was never stamped). Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and Yoker Brickworks, Glasgow. . . .
Chapter Five – Brick and Field drain Works – Written by Eric Flack and reproduced by kind permission. It is a fascinating read. Another local industry was the manufacture of bricks. Three of the local brickwork’s produced terracotta type bricks and field tiles or drains in updraught kilns from locally dug red clay. These were…
Found Helensburgh. McLuckie & Horn, Anniesland, Glasgow. Horn is certainly a recognised Glasgow maker. I believe McLuckie will be a reference to a Mr A Mcluckie who was the manager at the Jordanhill and Anniesland (Skaterigg) coal mines c. 1860. . . .
