Woodhall Brickworks aka Woodhall Brickmaking Company, Woodhall, Newarthill, Motherwell.
Below – 14/05/1832 – The Glasgow Herald – Fire clay to let Woodhall Estate, Bothwell
26/11/1853 – The Scotsman – Land and minerals on the Estate of Woodhall, Parish of Bothwell for sale … There are extensive and valuable freestone quarries on the estate and an abundance of clay, well suited for the manufacture of brick and tiles, both of which are in great demand in the neighbourhood …
Below – 1896 – Woodhall Brickworks. (Not shown on the 1859 map).
Below – 1896 – Woodhall Brickworks
22/03/1899 – Glasgow Herald – The subscriber Thomas Muir, baker, Newarthill retired from business carried on by the whole subscribers under the name of the Woodhall Brickmaking Company, Woodhall Brickworks, Newarthill, as at 31st December 1898 and ceased to have any interest in the said company as from that date. The business will be carried on under the name and style by the remaining partners, the subscribers James Stewart, Tuphall, Hamilton and William Ballantyne residing at Newarthill who will receive all monies due to and discharge all debts and obligations due by the said company. Thomas Muir. James Stewart and William Ballantyne …
22/07/1899 – Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser – Damages claimed for the loss of a finger. The first division ordered issued in an action by John Weir, brickworker, Newarthill against the Woodhall Brickmaking Company, Newarthill for £150 damages for personal injuries. The pursuer is sixteen years of age, and on 16th March last while working with the defenders at a revolving machine furnished with revolving knives his left hand was caught by one of the knives and the forefinger taken off at the middle joint. The pursuers deny fault or defect in the machinery and plead contributory negligence.
17/05/1901 – Hamilton Herald – A young lad named Marshall McCulloch, a pony driver, residing at Co-operative Buildings, Newarthill met with an accident on Tuesday while at work in teh stable at Woodhall Brickworks, Newarthill belonging to United Collieries Co Ltd, by being kicked by a pony he was dressing. The injured lad was attended to by Dr Lithgow, Cleland, who found him suffering from a compound fracture of the lower jaw-bone and ordered his removal to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
1903 – Woodhall Brickmaking Company, Woodhall, Newarthill, Motherwell
1910 – Woodhall Brickworks – disused
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…
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 Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. United Collieries, Bathville and thereafter United Fire Clay, Bathville. . . . .
Brownhill Brickworks, Newarthill, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Canmore 06/10/1937 – The Scotsman – New Lanarkshire Brickwork. A new brickworks now in course of erection by the United Collieries Ltd at Cleland, Lanarkshire, is expected to be in operation before the end of the year. The work is being built alongside Brownhill Mine, belonging to the same Company,…
