Glenboig

=Glenboig Union Fireclay Company Limited=

Company Number:SC001150 Date of Incorporation:26 August 1882 Contact Details: Irvinebank Factory, brown Street, Newmilns, Ayrshire, KA16 9AG Operating Details: Listed as dormant, last accounts made up to end of year in 2002 Other names (if known): Function of Company*: Manufacture of bricks etc. in baked clay (2630) Headquarters/Base of Operations Location: Glenboig Area of Operation: North Lanarkshire, see history

=Records=
 * Taken from Standard Industrial Classification 2003, as used by Companies House in 2010

Held By: North Lanarkshire Council Archives, GB 1778, U95

Scope/type: 1883-1963 Register of share transfers; Lists of shareholders; Financial records; Correspondence files; records of subsidiary companies Castlecary Fireclay Co. Ltd, Faskine & Palacerigg Brick & Coal Co Ltd and George Turnball & Co Ltd.

Conditions governing access/use: Open to the public

Related records: JG Stein & Co Ltd Bonnybridge Works wage book (in Lanarkshire archive)

The National Archives of Scotland hold the Coal Commission Files on this company, and the records of several court cases.

=Company History=

The Glenboig Union Fireclay Co. Ltd was founded by James Dunnachie & partners by the amalgamation of the "Old Works" and the "Star Works" in Glenboig. The company specialised in the production of refractory ceramic goods (e.g. furnace lining bricks and pipework) for the iron and steel industry which was flourishing in numerous nearby large industrial towns. By expansion and/or take-overs the company went on to operate several other works, viz.: Cumbernauld Fireclay Works & Mine (c.1882); Gartcosh Works (1890); Castlecary Fireclay Co. Ltd (1919 ?); Faskine & Palacerigg Bricks & Coal Ltd (1919 ?); George Turnbull & Co. Ltd - Bonnymuir and Dykehead Works (1919 ?). The Glenboig Union Fireclay Co. Ltd was purchased by General Refractories Ltd of Sheffield in 1936 which in turn became G.R. Stein Refractories Ltd in 1967. The "Old Works" in Glenboig closed in 1958 and were demolished by 1965. The "Star Works" closed sometime after 1967. The company was subsequently purchased by General Refactories which later became part of GR Stein, and its activities wound down. It was listed as dormant in 2002.

Information supplied by North Lanarkshire Council Archives, used here with thanks and permission