This short post was prompted by the discovery of an old advert from 1861 listed on the Scottish Brick History website, above. It describes the offer for sale of a plot of land at “Muirhouses”.
The land didn’t sell, and was advertised again in May 1862, with the additional option to use as a brickfield, or at least for extracting its clay.
Advert in Glasgow Herald 6 May 1862, now advertising use as a brickfield. Source: Scottish Brick History
The Scottish Brick History site presumed it to be land used by William Wilson for a brickworks in Muirhouses, near Eglinton Toll , but it didn’t ring true. So where was it?
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