Bowman & Co

Bowman & Co were proprietors of the Muiredge Colliery at Buckhaven from the early 1860s and by 1895 had established a brickworks adjacent to the pit. This had gone by 1914. In the 1890s the company sank Denbeath Colliery close to the shore on the other side of Buckhaven. In 1895 the Wemyss Brick Works is shown on the OS map a short distance north-east of the colliery but this had been swallowed up in raiway sidings by 1914. My best guess is that this brick is a product of the works at Muiredge Colliery before Bowman and Co sold their collieries to the Wemyss Coal Co Ltd in 1905.

Image courtesy of Alan Fleming