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Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Coal Company brickworks in Dumfriesshire, closed by the NCB in 1958.

Fauldhead Colliery at Kirkconnel was easily the largest pit in Dumfriesshire. A brickworks was opened here in 1912 by Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Limited. The National Coal Board took over in 1947 and the works remained in production until a few years after the closure of the colliery in 1969.

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.

Fauldhead Colliery at Kirkconnel was easily the largest pit in Dumfriesshire. A brickworks was opened here in 1912 by Sanquhar & Kirkconnel Collieries Limited. The National Coal Board took over in 1947 and the works remained in production until a few years after the closure of the colliery in 1969.

The Buccleuch Terracotta Brick Works at Sanquhar was initially operated from at least 1867 at one time by James Irving McConnell, then in 1903 by the Sanquhar and Kirkconnel Coal Company. From 1925 until it was part of William Baird & Co Ltd, Bairds and Dalmellington Ltd from 1931 to 1947, and was closed by the National Coal Board in 1958.