Wishaw Collieries & Brickworks and Broxburn Shale Oil, Coal & Brickworks.
Below – 29/11/1844 – Glasgow Herald – Tile and brick works to let, Wishaw Estate.
Below – 24/12/1849 – Glasgow Herald – James Ferguson acting as an agent for the Wishaw Tile and Brick Works plus details on some products being manufactured.
Below – 23/04/1855 – Glasgow Herald – Wishaw coal and fire brick – Robert Bell. James Smith salesman.
Below – 10/12/1858 – Robert Bell, Wishaw Colliery Fire Brick Works.
1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 – Wishaw, clay of coal measures. Name of freeholder – Robert Bell. Manufacturer – Robert Bell. Manufacture – Estimated annual production, 130,341 bricks, 562,017 composition bricks, 211,390 fire bricks, 78,144 other manufactures.
1858 – 59 – Robert Bell, Fire brickmaker. Works, Wishaw. Office, 13 Dixon Street. House – Wishaw. (Page 50).
02/01/1863 – Glasgow Herald – Glasgow Royal Infirmary receive a donation from Archibald Russell, Wishaw Collieries and Brick Works – £13 5s 9d.
1866 – 1867 – Robert Bell – Coalmaster and brickmaker. Broxburn Shale Oil Works and Brickworks. Depot Gushetfaulds. Office 6 Dixon Street. Works, Wishaw and Broxburn. Residence Broxburn Lodge, Broxburn.
28/11/1868 – Hamilton Advertiser – Sudden death. On Monday 23rd, a man whose name is supposed to be John Russell, a labourer, belonging to Gloucestershire, but having no fixed residence, died very suddenly in Bell’s Brickwork, near Wishaw. The deceased has frequented the brickwork for the last three weeks, and on Sunday complained of being unwell. Mr Quinten, the manager, gave the poor man some bread and tea which he ate greedily; and again on Monday, on partaking of more food given him, he grew suddenly worse and expired about midday. The body of the deceased was removed to the old Orphan House and will be interred by the parochial authorities.
Below – 24/07/1877 – Wishaw Collieries & Brickworks and Broxburn Shale Oil, Coal & Brickworks headed paper. Robert Bell.
1878 – Robert Bell – Brickmaker (Composite) Broxburn and Wishaw. Office 97 Buchannan Street, Glasgow.
24/03/1886 – Glasgow Herald – Deaths. At 40 Kenmuir Street, Pollockshields on 23rd inst, aged 60 years, Robert Bell, brickmaker and builder.
(Note – SBH – If there are any John Paterson references that I cannot attribute to a particular brickworks then I will detail them here). John Paterson, brickmakers and building contractors was founded around 1865, by John Paterson, the son of a stonemason. The business became John Paterson & Son in the mid-1880s when John…
Wishaw Collieries & Brick Works and Broxburn Shale Oil, Coal & Brick Works. 13/07/1864 – Daily Review – Bricks, composition bricks. Robert Bell, Broxburn Brickworks. Offices 134 Fountain Bridge (Canal Bank) and 66 Lothian Road, Edinburgh. John Gilray, agent. 1866 – 1867 – Robert Bell – Coalmaster and brickmaker. Broxburn Shale Oil Works and Brickworks….
Below – 1858 – Flaxmill Firebrick Works. 1858 – 1861 – Scotlandsplaces – Flaxmill Firebrick Works. An extensive firebrick establishment the property of Lord Belhaven now occupied by Robert Bell. Mr James Miller, factor.
Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks, Swinehill, South Lanarkshire aka Swinhill. (SBH – Note – I am uncertain where exactly the brickworks with regards Dalserf Coke, Coal and Brickworks were located. Can anyone clarify this please?) 1858 – Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1858 Dalserf, clay of coal measures….
Messrs Barclay, Craig & Co, Kilmarnock were involved in the building of the Lonsdale Hematite Ironworks near Whitehaven, England and also an on-site brickworks. Craig & Co appear to be J & M Craig, Fire Clay Manufacturers, Hillhead, Perceton and Dean Works, Kilmarnock and Barclay appears to be James Wilson Barclay, engineer, Kilmarnock. (See reference…
1845 – 1849 – ScotlandsPlaces – 3/4 mile North West by West of Garliestown. A small irregular portion of land upon the farm of Millisle, with clay tempering machine, tile kiln & drying sheds. (Believed to be owned by the Earl of Galloway). Below – 1848 – 1849 – Millisle Tileworks. A quarry is shown…
Bathville Brick and Fire Clay Works, Armadale, West Lothian. Canmore 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…
Bonnyton Fire Clay Works, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. See also Southhook Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. See also Shawsrigg Fireclay and Enamelling Company, Larkhall, North Lanarkshire. Southhook Fireclay Works – Dreghorn – The works was on the site of Southhook Colliery No. 1 Pit, which provided the fireclay. Slater’s Directory states that John McKnight &…
Found at Muirhead, Lanarkshire. Tannochside Brickworks, Uddingston, Lanarkshire A R – Archibald Russell . . .
(Note – SBH – Mr Jas Goldie’s and William Gilchrist’s bricks are marked Shawfield Toll and I assume these are the same works as Shawfield Brickworks). 1849 – 1850 – James Goldie, brick builder, 78 Rutherglen Loan and 16 Cleland Street, Glasgow. (Note – SBH – This appears to be a reference to Goldies pre…
