Category Archives: Bricks

While I’m concentrating my efforts on Scottish bricks and brickmarks, I sometimes come across bricks from England and Wales and, also a few from further away such as the United States. This page lists all the non-Scottish brickmarks I’ve found. … Continue reading →

This page lists of all the Scottish brickmarks I’ve discovered while brick spotting in the field. The brickworks addresses are from the so-called “Scottish Brick Spotters Bible”, a booklet by Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey (S.I.A.S) publications, “A Survey of Scottish … Continue reading →

Dalhousie Business Park is located on the outskirts of Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, and one of the businesses operating from there is a waste recycling company and they are not the most tidy of operators and rubble overspill can be found all … Continue reading →

Again, while returning home from a brick spotting visit to a demolition site off Morris Road, Newtongrange, I detoured along a short path from Newtongrange railway station to the Lady Victoria Mining Museum and found another two areas where illegal … Continue reading →

Returning home from a brick spotting trip to Morris Road, Newtongrange, I noticed some fly-tipped rubble on the opposite side of the road, at the entrance to Cockpen Farm, now being redeveloped into a housing estate. A quick inspection revealed … Continue reading →

I’d been out on my Swifty Zero kick scooter when I noticed this demolition site just off Morris Road, Newtongrange. The location was unusual in that there was easy access to the site where normally it would have been fenced … Continue reading →

You can find bricks just about anywhere you travel. I’ve stumbled across bricks with interesting brickmarks just walking to work in the morning, on one occasion holding down the tarpaulin on a rubbish skip, on another, lying beside the pavement … Continue reading →