Found by Eddie McLean in the Glasgow area.
This brick is salt-glazed to all sides. Note the channel running from the frog to the left end margin.
Shawsrigg Fireclay and Enamelling Company, Larkhall, Glasgow.
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Below – The Shawsrigg Glasgow brick was found on the same site as a number of Speirs Gibb and Co Paisley, Caledonia bricks. All are the same size, all are remarkably similar in frog shape frog and back, all are salt-glazed to all sides and all have the channel running from the frog to the left end margin. (Note – SBH – These bricks look like they were made by the same company but I can find no connection between Shawsrigg and Speirs Gibb and Co. So did the customer put in such a large order that neither Shawsrigg nor Speirs could make the bricks in time so the works was split between them both and both were given direct specifications that the bricks should look the same in nearly every detail?).
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The following bricks are in the collection of Allan Hackett, Sydney, Australia. The bricks were all found in Australia. Below – ‘Glenboig’ and ‘Starworks Glenboig’ bricks – Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire Below – Shawsrigg Fire Clay &…
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Caledonia Fireclay Works, Paisley, Renfrewshire. . . . .
Found by Bob Banks in the Dunfermline area. Southhook and Shawsrigg Fire clay Co Ltd, Bonnyton Works, Kilmarnock. This brick is stamped ‘Southhook and Shawsrigg’ to one side and ‘Kilmarnock Scotland NB’ to the other. . . . . Below – A similar stamp on a brick found by Ian Suddaby at Dalleagles, East Ayrshire…
Shawrigg Fire Clay and Enamelling Co., Ltd – The company was incorporated in 1895 to continue the business carried on by William Hunter at Jamaica Street, Glasgow and at Larkhall. Hunter had taken over an earlier business, the West of Scotland Fireclay and Sanitary Enamelling Company Limited. He took a lease from Henry Hamilton of…
02/05/1873 – Glasgow Herald – Serious accident in clay pit – Yesterday afternoon a, young lad named John Burns, residing at 10 Old Sneddon Street, was severely injured by the falling of a large piece of rock from the roof of the clay pit belonging to Speir, Gibb & Young, on the Greenock Road. The…
Found at Larkhall, Lanarkshire. Shawsrigg Fireclay and Enamelling Company, Larkhall, Glasgow I think this is a slight variation with regards to my other very similar bricks. The middle line appears to be stamped ‘ENL’ for Enamelling and the alignment of the middle line letters is different. The ‘G’ are of a different style to my…
Found in Paisley. Speirs Gibb & Co, Caledonia Fireclay Works, Paisley. Caledonia stamped to rear. The lettering on the Speirs and Gibb side is raised and the lettering on the Caledonia side is the more normal pressed style. . . . Below – The same stamp as on both sides of the above brick…
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Southhook and Shawsrigg Fire clay Co Ltd, Bonnyton Works, Kilmarnock. Also note the unusual use of the word ‘and’ as opposed to the normal ‘&’ Side 1 – Southhook and Shawsrigg. Side 2 – Southhook Crosshouses Kilmarnock. . . .
Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Speirs Gibb & Young, Caledonia Fireclay Works, Paisley. . . . . Below – The same stamp on a bullnose example found in the Glasgow area by Michael Fallone.
Shawsrigg Fireclay and Enamelling Company, Larkhall, North Lanarkshire. See also Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. See also Bonnyton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. Shawsrigg or Shawrigg. Shawrigg Fire Clay and Enamelling Co., Ltd – The company was incorporated in 1895 to continue the business carried on by William Hunter at Jamaica Street,…
