Author Archives: Gary

The end of October is not the best time to be looking for bricks in Autumn woodland, the carpet of thick leaves makes spotting bricks almost impossible, however, today I was revisiting a location to re-photography a find that didn’t … Continue reading →

Brick spotting is one of the least expensive, needs minimal equipment and enjoyable pastimes you can have. Other than recommending a pair of gloves and some form of tool to help you turn bricks over – I use a slater’s … Continue reading →

Having been thwarted from my original plan to visit the stretch of coastline between Seafield Treatment Works and Leith Docks in Edinburgh – a great place to spot bricks due to years of tipping rubble as coastal defences – by … Continue reading →

Today’s outing to the area around Rosslynlee Hospital was for a couple of reasons. The first was to look for bricks. I’d seen what looked like piles of demolition rubble, the remains of housing, on Google maps, and wanted to … Continue reading →

Few people will have heard the term “brick spotting”, some may have encountered the term ” brick collecting” which is fair enough. However, brick spotting is not a phrase that is widely known probably because it’s one I made up … Continue reading →

First some background. Following nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) inherited a number of brickworks. Around 1969, early rationalisation saw the NCB selling off its brickworks with the Scottish Brick Corporation (SBC) taking over … Continue reading →

A brick spotting trip to the coast at Prestongrange, East Lothian, would not be complete without a visit to Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum, where once upon a time, many of the PRESTON GRANGE bricks, along with other variations on the … Continue reading →

Sometimes you will come across a brick that is not so easy to identify, even when complete and legible and when you only have a half-brick even more so. In this section, I’ve pulled toagther all the photographs of brickmarks … Continue reading →