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by KonstantinL » Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:54 pm
I remember the brick/cement factory in Carfin. Technically it was in Newarthill because it was on the other side of the railway from Carfin proper!
It's long gone of course. It was demolished and the ground was vacant for a while. Then it was used as a giant car park to store Volkswagen cars.
Then houses were built on it.
I bet the people that bought their £90,000 houses there don't know it was a big industrial complex!
It's long gone of course. It was demolished and the ground was vacant for a while. Then it was used as a giant car park to store Volkswagen cars.
Then houses were built on it.
I bet the people that bought their £90,000 houses there don't know it was a big industrial complex!
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by Pgcc93 » Sun Mar 20, 2005 9:54 pm
duncan wrote:
Is that the alternative to Edinburgh Rock?
Looks distinctly Espanol or did marketing get the colour of the Bull wrong??
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by gap74 » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:15 pm
Been out recording the remnants of Cambuslang's mining industry lately, in the form of photographing the bings and colliery remains, nice wee side effect of which is that I come across many bricks, lots of which were locally produced in the Cambuslang/Blantyre area.
All these bricks were found around the bings still looming over Newton, in the eastern extremities of Cambuslang.
Wellshot - there was a quarry in the Wellshot area of Cambuslang, so am presuming this originates down that way somewhere, at the western edge of the Main Street near Dukes Road. Think you can just make out the quarry in the middle right of this shot, from Ed Boyle's Cambuslang site:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... theair.jpg
Not sure if Newton, at the eastern outskirts of Cambuslang, had it's own brickworks, or if the bricks were just stamped to be used in one of several collieries there.
Slight variation on the above
Gateside - defintiely had both a brickworks and a colliery, pic on Ed Boyle's site here:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/Gateside.JPG
A presumably later example from Gateside
Not 100% sure where Flemington brick works was, think it was just off the main road between Halfway and Blantyre, next to Dechmont Colliery, as seen in this pic, again from Ed Boyle's site:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... lliery.jpg
Blantyre - there was a large brickworks on Blantryeferme Rd (now anglicised to Blantyre Farm Rd!) which was on the right as you travel towards Uddingston from Blantyre, just before the wee arched railway bridge. The site was one of the first industrial sites to be spruced up and landscaped, with trees and walkways, although there's not much else to it - last time I went, a board gave the history of the site, which adjoined Blantyreferme Collieries, part of which are still in industrial (although not mining) use. Anyways, this brick merely says Blantyre, so may have been made elsewhere in the parish. The following two, however, are definitely Blantyreferme bricks!
No idea where in Gilbertfield the brickworks was - again, this is on the eastern edge of Cambuslang.
There is a Kirkhill in Cambuslang, but it's a fairly common place name, so can't be certain this is a local brick.
Moving slightly further afield now:
Adam Rutherglen
Garscube Glasgow
Gartcraig Patent Glasgow
Patent Wilson & Son, Glasgow
Couple from Kilmarnock - very nice white glazed example from Gilmour & Co, and a plainer light coloured one from J & R Howie Ltd.
Dodds Garngad
There were ordinary bricks from this company, but the writing was very shallow, this nice curved example is easier to read but truncates the letters somewhat. Steven.S Of London Road
Finally, an English brick, but a strange one - clearly not made of plastic at all!
Gary
All these bricks were found around the bings still looming over Newton, in the eastern extremities of Cambuslang.
Wellshot - there was a quarry in the Wellshot area of Cambuslang, so am presuming this originates down that way somewhere, at the western edge of the Main Street near Dukes Road. Think you can just make out the quarry in the middle right of this shot, from Ed Boyle's Cambuslang site:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... theair.jpg
Not sure if Newton, at the eastern outskirts of Cambuslang, had it's own brickworks, or if the bricks were just stamped to be used in one of several collieries there.
Slight variation on the above
Gateside - defintiely had both a brickworks and a colliery, pic on Ed Boyle's site here:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/Gateside.JPG
A presumably later example from Gateside
Not 100% sure where Flemington brick works was, think it was just off the main road between Halfway and Blantyre, next to Dechmont Colliery, as seen in this pic, again from Ed Boyle's site:
http://www.boyle.ukpals.com/Cambuslang/ ... lliery.jpg
Blantyre - there was a large brickworks on Blantryeferme Rd (now anglicised to Blantyre Farm Rd!) which was on the right as you travel towards Uddingston from Blantyre, just before the wee arched railway bridge. The site was one of the first industrial sites to be spruced up and landscaped, with trees and walkways, although there's not much else to it - last time I went, a board gave the history of the site, which adjoined Blantyreferme Collieries, part of which are still in industrial (although not mining) use. Anyways, this brick merely says Blantyre, so may have been made elsewhere in the parish. The following two, however, are definitely Blantyreferme bricks!
No idea where in Gilbertfield the brickworks was - again, this is on the eastern edge of Cambuslang.
There is a Kirkhill in Cambuslang, but it's a fairly common place name, so can't be certain this is a local brick.
Moving slightly further afield now:
Adam Rutherglen
Garscube Glasgow
Gartcraig Patent Glasgow
Patent Wilson & Son, Glasgow
Couple from Kilmarnock - very nice white glazed example from Gilmour & Co, and a plainer light coloured one from J & R Howie Ltd.
Dodds Garngad
There were ordinary bricks from this company, but the writing was very shallow, this nice curved example is easier to read but truncates the letters somewhat. Steven.S Of London Road
Finally, an English brick, but a strange one - clearly not made of plastic at all!
Gary
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