It’s just another brick in the wall for Mark
Mark Cranston is a connoisseur of bricks – and is in line for award for his dedication to Scottish history. Scottish brickworks were an integlobe. But there is only one brickgral part of Scotland’s industrial, works left in the country – there agricultural and social heritage.” used to be hundreds.
He added: “Brickmaking is a “I’ve been contacted by six difmuch forgotten part of Scotland’s ferent underwater archaeologists industrial and social history and all who have found Scottish bricks on efforts should be made to preserve shipwrecks off the coast of what we can of what is left. Australia, Russia and South
“Scottish bricks turn up all over America. the world . . . Scotland helped build “I’ll try to put an age on the date the industrial revolution across the of the bricks, which, in turn, will
Shelp identify the shipwrecks.”
Mark is one of more than 50 nominees to go through to the finals, funded by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation.
They’ll be held at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, next month.
John Pelan, director of the Scottish Civic Trust, said it’s “fantastic to see the enthusiasm” of people like Mark.
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