Note

Date 1 November 2013

Event ID 966193

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/966193

This brickworks is first depicted and named on the 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, (published) 1899), sheet XII.SW) as 'Jenny Lind Brick Works' (?making fire bricks for the steel industry locally) and subsequently as 'Jenny Lind Composition Works' (Edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, (published) 1939), sheet XII.SW) by which time it was presumably milling fireclay for the local steel works.

This former brickworks has been demolished.

Presumably named for soprano Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale' who died in 1887. This could suggest that the works opened around this time.

Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 1 November 2013.

See MS/500/53/11.