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Rosslynlee Hospital
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
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About Brick Spotting
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
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SBC Brickmark Collection
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
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Prestongrange Museum
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
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Mystery Brickmarks
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
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Prestongrange Coast
My brick spotting foray today was to a stretch of coastline between Musselburgh and Prestonpans, in East Lothian. I know this coast well, having walked, cycled and kick scooting here on numerous occasions and knew it would be good for … Continue reading
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NCB Brickmark Collection
Around 1947 when the coal industry was nationalised, the National Coal Board also inherited a number of brickworks. Many of these were sold off but a few remained working, producing new bricks using the NCB brickmark together with the original … Continue reading
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