Monklands Memories - Airdrie & Coatbridge areas

Fire Bricks and Fireclay.

The area to the North of Coatbridge was noted for the manufacture and supply of Fire Clay products especially Furnace lining bricks and pipework for the iron and steel industry which was flourishing in the nearby industrial towns.  These products were also exported all over the industrial world.

Here we provide links to our own pages on bricks as well as links to web sites with similar interests.

• Garnkirk Bricks

• Mining & Manufacturing Methods

• Clay & Bricks - Story of Glenboig Union Fireclay Co

• Notes on other works - Heathfield, Heatheryknowe etc

• Gartliston Brickworks - P& M Hurll - Bob McMillan

• Summerlee Heritage Park - Brick Collection  - Just a small part of the Summerlee Collection

• The International Brick Collectors Association California  If you're a brick collector, you may be interested in this organization:

• Bricks, Brickyards & Brick Collecting in Texas

• Brick Making by US Army (ordinary bricks)

• Nothing's too humble to collect - even bricks Ohio man's array tells of industrial past

• Henry Holt Brick Collection  ... In 1964 he found another marked E.Holt &Co. Rossendale; and he was a convert to brick collecting! By the end of 1977 he, and his wife Mary, had a collection of just over nine hundred bricks ...
  http://www.aboutlancs.com/holts.htm

• The Gold Rush - Brick Stories from Alaska

• Brick Mysteries
   

• Old Bricks - history at your feet