
- Museum
- Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
- Date
- Early 1900s
- Object Number
- COTSL-1991-36-2
- Title
Carfin building brick
- Object Category
- Industrial History
- Object Name
- Brick
- Description
Known as a common brick in the trade. This brick was produced in Carfin, a small village of the outskirts on Motherwell. Many workers were from Lithuania; forced to flee their homeland they were attracted by the employment opportunities in the coal, iron, brick and steelworks of North Lanarkshire.
- Method
- Gift
- Location
- In storage at Summerlee Museum