(Note – SBH – The advert below dated 1928 infers there was a brickworks at the Mount Vernon Collieries Shettleston pits (1 and 2). It is confusing as there is also reference to the Mount Vernon Colliery itself).
Mount Vernon Colliery Brickworks, Shettleston, Glasgow.
Mount Vernon Colliery Company Limited, coal masters, Wellington Street, Glasgow.
12/12/1925 – Coatbridge Leader – The Buchanans of Drumpellier … George Buchanan purchased the Mount Vernon estate in 1757 and died in 1762. The reason he called his new estate Mount Vernon was to commemorate his lifelong friendship with George Washington, the hero of the independence struggle …
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23/03/1912 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Sales by auction. On an early day – At Cranhill, Shettleston Colliery and Brickwork plant etc.
28/07/1917 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – An accident between a motor car and a motorcycle with a sidecar … Reference to Mr Robert Dewar, brick manufacturer, Brisbane, Mount Vernon being involved … (Note – SBH – I am unsure if this is references Mr Dewars home address or a site of brick manufacture. I have recorded the reference here meantime while clarification is sought).
18/11/1922 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Sales by auction. On an early day – At Nos 1 and 2 Shettleston Collieries, Shettleston and Mount Vernon Colliery, Mount Vernon, colliery plant etc.
Below – 03/11/1923 – The Scotsman – Mount Vernon Colliery and Brickworks for sale. Shettleston Colliery.
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21/07/1928 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Mount Vernon Colliery Company Limited, coalmasters, Wellington Street, Glasgow.
Below – 02/03/1931 – The Scotsman – The Mount Vernon Colliery Co Ltd (In liquidation) – For sale. The following pits and brickworks belonging to the Company including Cadder Brickworks, Bishopbriggs and Barrachnie Brickworks, Baillieston and Broomhouse brickworks … (Note – SBH – I have recorded this elsewhere but also here just for information).
Cadder Brickworks, Kirkintilloch Road, Cadder, East Dumbartonshire aka Cadder Moss Brickworks. These Brickworks were initially operated as the Cadder Brickworks and run by a Company that changed its title to the Cadder Brick Company and then they were sold to Keir and Cawder who continued to run it as their Cadder Brickworks. 02/05/1928 – Kirkintilloch…
Broomhouse Brickworks, Broomhouse, North Lanarkshire. (Are Broomhouse Brickworks and Broomhouse Brick Co Limited 2 different companies that at one time operated the same site?) Canmore Info – Opened 1883, closed 1 January 1917, re-opened 2 June 1919, closed 24 September 1927. The station here closed in 1927 but the signal box remained open. The signal…
Barrachnie Colliery and Brickworks, Baillieston, Glasgow aka Garrowhill Brickworks. Gartocher Coal and Brick Company, Barrachnie brick manufacturers, Garrowhill, Glasgow. Canmore Below – 1910 – This map was published in 1947 but the details at the bottom seem to indicate it was surveyed in 1910. 1928 – 1939 – The 1985 publication ‘A survey of Scottish…
Found Fife area. Mount Vernon Colliery Company, Glasgow – There are several known brickworks and it is possible they used the ‘Mount Vernon’ stamp at all of them. Please click on the ‘Mount Vernon’ tag which will take you to relevant pages on this website). . . .
Found Gartliston Works, Glenboig. Mount Vernon Colliery Company, Glasgow – There are several known brickworks and it is possible they used the ‘Mount Vernon’ stamp at all of them. Please click on the ‘Mount Vernon’ tag which will take you to relevant pages on this website). . . .
Found at Bo’ness, Firth of Forth. Mount Vernon Colliery Company, Glasgow – There are several known brickworks and it is possible they used the ‘Mount Vernon’ stamp at all of them. Please click on the ‘Mount Vernon’ tag which will take you to relevant pages on this website). . . .
