J Brodie, Sanquhar

In 1852 by Mr Geo. Cleunel opened a brick and tile work in Sanquhar, soon building a large and prosperous trade in drainage tiles but by the 1880s was suffering from a lack of capital and modernisation. In 1889 by another tenant, Mr James Brodie, took over and soon improved and extended the works, which by 1891 comprised five Newcastle Kilns and a Staffordshire Oven. The improved plant included a machine for the production of pressed bricks for outside building. Messrs Isherwood Brothers ran the works at a later stage, and then a Mr Scott eventually they were taken over by the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Collieries Company.