Found at the old Netherfield Chemical Works site, Glasgow.
1940 -1941 – Scottish Oils Ltd, 23 Bothwell Street, Glasgow. SOL bricks made from spent shale for ordinary building purposes. Selling agents Rankin Industries ltd. 175 West George Street, Blasgow. Telegram – Bricks, Glasgow.
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Found by Ian Suddaby on the waste bings at the old Albyn Shale Oil Works, Broxburn. This example is not in my possession. Dourie – Garnqueen Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire Alternative brickworks include: Gartliston Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Building bricks at Garscadden Works, Drumchapel. Dourie is a trademark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig….
Scottish Oils Limited Brick and Tile Works, Pumpherston, West Lothian and Dalmeny Brickworks. (Note – SBH – I cannot find the Dalmeny Brickworks on any map. Any ideas where exactly they were situated at Dalmeny?). Below – 13/11/1937 – The Scotsman – Brickworks to be established at Dalmeny. 29/01/1938 – The Scotsman – Huge shale…
01/01/1824 – The Scots Magazine – Glasgow – There have been a great many additions built to the old cotton mills in Glasgow this summer besides the new ones erected in various parts of the city. One of the mills is calculated to cost £40,000. This has been altogether an unprecedented year of building. Masons,…
Scottish Oils Limited Brick and Tile Works, Pumpherston, West Lothian and Dalmeny Brickworks. (Note – SBH – I cannot find the Dalmeny Brickworks on any map. Any ideas where exactly they were situated at Dalmeny?). (Note – SBH – The Pumpherston Brickworks were situated on Drumshoreland Road. Did they operate the same site as Kirkforthar…
Found at Crianlarich by IS 1940 -1941 – Scottish Oils Ltd, 23 Bothwell Street, Glasgow. SOL bricks made from spent shale for ordinary building purposes. Selling agents Rankin Industries ltd. 175 West George Street, Blasgow. Telegram – Bricks, Glasgow . . . .
