Below – 1893 – Wellshot Colliery.
10/08/1895 – Dundee Advertiser – New joint-stock companies – Dunn & Glen to carry on the business of David Gardner Dunn and Hugh Glen, coal masters, Wellshot, Cambuslang and to carry on the trade of coal masters, brick and tile makers, quarry masters etc. Capital £10,000 in £10 shares.
10/08/1895 – Glasgow Herald – The following joint-stock companies were registered in Scotland during the present week … Dunn & Glen, established with a capital of £10,000 divided into £10 shares to acquire and carry on the business at Wellshot, Cambuslang of coal masters, brick and tile makers and quarry masters. The registered office of the company is at Wellshot Colliery, Cambuslang. The first subscribers were D. G. Dunn, Hugh Glen, Jessie R. Dunn, Kate M. C. Dunn, Mrs Elzabeth Glen, all of Cambuslang; J. T. T. Brown writer, Glasgow and Nicol F. Cameron, writer, Glasgow …
09/03/1898 – The Dundee Courier – The subscription list will open today (Wednesday) 09/03/1898 and close on or before Friday 11/03/1898. The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited and the National Bank of Scotland Limited, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and branches are authorised to receive subscriptions for the undermentioned capital.
The United Collieries Limited – Share capital £200,000.
100,000 5% cumulative preference shares of £ each and 100,000 ordinary shares of £1 each.
The following are the names of the collieries and brickworks acquired …
Wellshot Brickwork at Cambuslang.
Ellismuir Brickwork at Ballieston.
… It should be explained that the profit on bricks for the same period is at the rate of 6s 8d per 1000 being equal to £1741 6s 8d per annum. Future profits are projected at this same amount.
Mr Hugh Glen who has been so long successfully connected with Wellshot Colliery will be associated with the management of that concern and will take charge of the sales of brick made by the company.
06/05/1899 – Dundee Advertiser – The first meeting of the shareholders of the United Collieries Company Limited was held at the Merchants Hall, Glasgow yesterday … The directors had found that the manufacture of the bricks at Wellshot was very remunerative and they resolved early in the year on the erection of an additional kiln, which had practically doubled the output which was now about 30,000 bricks daily.
1899 – 1900 – Wellshot Brickworks office, 109 Hope Street. Wellshot Collieries; office, 109 Hope St.
1901 – Directory of Clayworkers – Dunn and Glenn Limited, Wellshot Colliery and Brick Works, Cambuslang, Glasgow.
1903 – 1904 – Wellshot Brickworks Office, 109 Hope Street. Wellshot Collieries Office, 109 Hope St.
15/03/1905 – Hamilton Herald – Homeless labourers. Robert Fraser and James Ryan, two homeless labourers, were at Hamilton J.P. Court on Monday each fined 10s or 14 days, for sleeping at Wellfield Brickwork.
28/12/1907 – Hamilton Herald – Death of Hugh Glen, Wellshot House, Buchan Drive, Cambuslang – Miner to Coalmaster … Now safely embarked upon a commercial career he transferred his services to a brickmaking firm in the Parkhead district (Note – SBH – possibly the Westmuir Colliery Brickworks, Parkhead) and it was the knowledge of the industry which he acquired there that enabled him to start a brickwork in Cambuslang at a later period in his life.
Below – 1910 – Site of the old Wellshot Colliery. (Note – SBH – A small set of buildings still stand – disused brickwork perhaps?).
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…
Found by Eddie McLean near Dalbeath, Glasgow. Westmuir Colliery and Brickworks, Parkhead, Glasgow. I am not in possession of this example. (Note – SBH – I am unable to find any references to James Shaw, brickmaker, Westmuir but I assume Westmuir relates to the Westmuir Colliery and Brickworks, Parkhead, Glasgow. There is also a James…
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…
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…
Westmuir Colliery and Brickworks, Parkhead, Glasgow. (Note – SBH – There is a brick stamped ‘James Shaw Patent Westmuir‘). 21/08/1854 – Glasgow Herald – Ground near Parkhead to be feued and ground for brickfields to be let. To be feued, those parts of the Estate of Carntyne, lying in the immediate vicinity of Messrs Napiers…
