Found in Parkhead area, Glasgow by Eddie McLean.
Stanrigg Brickworks, Airdrie
Note the unusual ‘eyelid’ to the left-hand side of the frog.
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Robertson, Love & Co were liquidated in 1916 but continued to make firebricks as part of United Collieries Ltd. When coal was nationalised in 1947, the brickworks were reorganised as United Fireclay Products Ltd. and comprised the Etna and Atlas Firebrick Works, the Bathville Pipe Works, the UNICOL Tile Works, all at Armadale and the…
Robertson, Love & Co were liquidated in 1916 but continued to make firebricks as part of United Collieries Ltd. When coal was nationalised in 1947, the brickworks were reorganised as United Fireclay Products Ltd. and comprised the Etna and Atlas Firebrick Works, the Bathville Pipe Works, the UNICOL Tileworks, all at Armadale and the Brownhill…
John Watson of Glasgow bought the Bathville site in June 1859 for £10, 000 and shortly after built a brickworks to use the fireclay being mined with the coal. John Watson & Co were to become one of the biggest coalmasters in Lanarkshire, but in 1874 they ran into financial trouble and the Bathville works…
Carfin Colliery Brickworks, Carfin, North Lanarkshire. (Note – SBH – When researching these works it is often very confusing whether information gleaned should be recorded on this page or the page for the Carfin Brickworks. If anyone believes information is wrongly recorded then please let me know). Canmore – This brickworks is not named on the…
Found on the old site previously occupied by the Etna Brick Works, Bathville. United Collieries, Bathville and thereafter United Fire Clay Products, Bathville. . . . .
Below – 1897 – Ellismuir Brickworks. The Brickworks are gone by 1910. Below – 11/03/1898 – Dundee Courier – The United Collieries Limited incorporated. Share capital £200,000 … The following brickworks were acquired – Ellismuir Brickwork, Ballieston and Wellshot Brickwork, Cambuslang. See link for the full prospectus. 1899 – 1900 – Ellismuir Brickworks, Glasgow. Office 109…
28/05/1898 – West Lothian Courier – With the transfer of the Southrigg Colliery to the firm of John Nimmo & Sons, Limited, which took place on the Whitsunday term day (16th inst.), an important step has been taken in the development of the extensive coalfield which extends from West Craigs southwards through the eastmost part…
Whiterig Tileworks, Near Rawyards, Lanarkshire. (Note – SBH – I believe these works were aka Whiterigg Brickworks) 1858 – 1861 – ScotlandsPlaces – Whiterig Brick and Tile Works. These works are the property of Ex Provost Rankin (Andrew Rankin?) now in the occupation of Mr William Black there is a coal pit adjoining connected with…
Alternative brickworks include: West Works, Armadale, West Lothian. Canmore – The works are situated between Bathville Pipe Works and Atlas Brickworks (NS96NW 38). The Ordnance Survey Map (OS 25-inch, Linlithgowshire, sheet ?NX.I) showed two 10 chamber Hoffman Kilns which were also shown on the map of 1897 … The westernmost kiln was still standing in 1978…
Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Note the angled ‘S’ and the stylised ‘G’s Stanrigg Brickworks, Airdrie. . . .
