The Barracks, Stirling aka Armament Depot aka Railway Company Stores.
A rectangular stone-built two-storey building, slated roof. End and central bays advanced, central bay with topped with ball finials. Loading doors in the upper storey. Referred to locally as the French Barracks.
Forthside estate was sold to the British Army in 1864, upon the death of Mrs Wallace of Forthside House, for use by the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The French Barracks formed part of a complex of stores buildings bounded by the railway station to the West and the River Forth to the East.
Below – Aerial view of the Barracks, Stirling.
On 07/12/2017, while visiting the Engine Shed, Stirling it was noted that there was major building works taking place at The Barracks, Stirling. A large pile of bricks had been dumped next to the works. On speaking to a workman he stated that the bricks had formed internal walls within the barracks. These had been removed. He thereafter obtained the following 2 bricks from the pile. There may have been other variations but due to Health and Safety, I was not allowed in to look.
The bricks are marked Omoa and Pressed. Both are of a very similar fabric and size. Both are 2 3/4″ thick ( give or take an 1/8″).
Up till now, Pressed marked bricks have been unidentified but there is a distinct chance that this particular marked brick was also made at Omoa.
Below – Both bricks had been whitewashed/painted to once side/end.
1897 – Annual report of the School Committee of the City of Boston – … New Primary Schoolhouse, Vernon street, Roxbury, additional, §14,000. — It will be noted that the next few weeks will witness the completion of several school-houses begun during the previous year, including this new Primary School-house containing ten rooms, and replacing…
Messrs Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd, Main Street, Coatbridge. Clyde Tube Works, Main Street, Coatbridge. Canmore – This building now appears to be a courthouse. Information. 22/09/1906 – Coatbridge Leader – Messrs Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd. Description of new offices. Messrs Stewart and Lloyds Limited have just completed the erection of new offices at the corner…
Many thanks to Mike Allan for the following information and photographs. Mike states – These two octagonal chimney ‘cans’ were salvaged by me from our family house at Osborne Place, Dundee (built 1869). Methven, Kirkcaldy, was in the business of both homewares and utilities. Garnkirk, Lanark, made utilitarian wares. Ours was one of 4 houses,…
Ian Suddaby states – Carrick Academy in Maybole, Ayrshire is soon to replaced with a modern community hub, school and leisure centre. The existing school was built from red brick and red sandstone in 1925 and extra accommodation was added in the 1970s. Digging work in the grounds suggests that the 1925 building was made…
Found by Chris Graham in NW England. This example is not in my possession. A salt glazed trough. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. . . .
Yoker Railway Station, Yoker, Glasgow aka Yoker Ferry Station. The bricks below were recovered by Michael Fallone and his grandson Max Borland at the site of the Yoker Ferry Station, Yoker, Glasgow. The outward appearance of the bricks with regards colour and texture is exactly the same but the bricks were manufactured by two completely…
Found by Drew Mitchell in the Fife area. This brick came from an internal, original wall of Drews house and is therefore dated 1892 as per the house build. Appin Brickworks, Townhill, Dunfermline. . . . .
Found by Robert Stewart in High Blantyre. Omoa Fire Clay Works, Cleland, Motherwell. This example has a chamfer to one corner. . . . Below – Note the similar shaped kiss mark on underside brick where similar bricks were stacked during firing in the kiln.
Found at the old Coltness Ironworks site at Coatbridge. Unknown manufacturer. Find location would suggest Scottish origins …No non Scottish bricks were found on site so I believe these bricks will be manufactured in Scotland and most likely at the Jenny Lind Composition Brickworks for reasons below. These were found among building demolition and in…
Canmore – Exploratory excavations near the edge of the Merse have revealed an area that was either the off-loading area for the 18th-century jetty or the site of a brickworks known to be functioning in the 1750s. An unroofed structure annotated ‘Old Brick Kiln’ is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map *******************************…
