23/08/2026
A wee piece of Airdrie’s history uncovered on the job! 🧱
While renovating a local property, we came across these old bricks hidden within the original building — and noticed they were stamped “AIRDRIE.”
After doing a bit of digging, it turns out these weren’t just bricks used locally — they were actually made here in Airdrie.
The AIRDRIE brickmark is recorded as coming from Airdrie Brickworks at Petersburn, which operated from around 1938 until 1978. The old brickworks stood on land which was later built over and is now part of the Broomhill Park area. (Brocross)
Airdrie and the surrounding Monklands area once had a huge industrial heritage, with coal mining, ironworks, fireclay works and brickmaking all playing their part in building the towns and communities we know today.
It’s quite something to think that these bricks were made just a few miles away, used to build an Airdrie property decades ago, and have now turned up again while we’re renovating that same property.
One of the best parts of working on older buildings is finding things like this — little pieces of local history that have been sitting hidden away for generations.
Needless to say, these ones aren’t going in the skip! 😄🧱
