Brick Ruins by Bridgehouse
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Brick Ruins by Bridgehouse
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 3 Apr 2021
These are either the remains of colliery or brickworks buildings. Craigrigg Colliery pit no. 2 and Craigrigg Brickworks were both situated around here once, but the only map on which they are both operating simultaneously is one surveyed in 1938. There are no online records of the years in which either was operational. Maps, though, show that the mine was definitely working between 1913 and 1938, and the brickworks between 1938 and 1961. Interestingly, the bricks that have fallen from the ruin have the Craigrigg stamp on them. So they must either have been additional buildings added to the brickworks once it was producing, or buildings made by the coal mine using bricks from its neighbour when both were working side by side.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.917514
Longitude
-3.708802