Found in a house demolition in Waterloo near Oldham.
Photo by Andy Mcauley.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
George Hodges is listed in Kelly's 1884 edition to it's 1912 edition
with his works on Shobnall Road, Burton, then with one entry in 1904
for a second works at Winshill. Info & Photographed at Derby
Silk Mill Museum by Martyn Fretwell.
G Hodgson & Son, East Boldon is listed in 1897. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Thomas and Edward Hodkinson first appear in the trade directory for 1867 at Parkfield Works, Park St, Stoke-on-Trent. The next year only Edward is named as proprietor. The last entry is in 1879 when the brickworks is being run by his executors. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Photo by Mark Cranston. Arthur Brickman adds: John Hogarth of
Scotland Gate, between Guide Post and Choppington in South East
Northumberland, just to the west of Bedlington and probably dating
to the 1870's.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Tristan Sturgeon
Reverse side of brick has the location stamped.
Matthew Hogarth & Sons, Choppington, Northumberland. Kelly's Northumberland Directory 1894.
London Gazette - December 14th 1886 NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership lately subsisting between us the undersigned, William Hogarth and Matthew Hogarth, carrying on the business of Brick and Tile Manufacturers and Builders, at Choppington and Pegswood, both in the county of Northumberland, under the style or firm of W. and M. Hogarth, has, as from the 2nd day of December, 1886 been dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to or owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Matthew Hogarth, who will continue the said business under the style or firm of Matthew Hogarth and Sons.—Witness our hands this 9th day of December, 1886. William Hogarth. Matthew Hogarth.
Photos and info by Frank Lawson.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
John Hogg, Butterknowle, Durham. Around 1860 he was in partnership with John Hymer and Joseph Teasdale as firebrick manufacturers. Info from Mark Cranston and photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by David Fox.
Holbeck Brick Fireclay Works, Holbeck, Leeds is listed in the 1939 telephone directory, though this example is a good 40 years older. Holbeck lies 1.5km south of Leeds City centre. Photos by Frank Lawson.
The Holbrook Creek Brickworks is listed in Kellys 1896 through
to it's 1916 edition at Holbrook near Ipswich. Info by
Martyn Fretwell, photos by Frank Lawson.
For more on Ipswich brickworks see this website.
Derek Barker sent this photo and writes: I have only ever seen a single example of the [WH] brick which was found in north Bradford. If the initials stand for an individual then William Holdsworth is most likely. His father Squire Holdsworth (1825-1877) was a builder & contractor of Wyke. For 7 years (until 1863) Henry Birkby was his foreman. In 1869 Henry Birkby opened his own, very successful, Storr Hill brickworks at Wyke. William was Squire's eldest son, and by 1871 (at the age of 24) was associated with his father's business. He seems to have been manager (I assume for his father) of a brick-works at Haycliffe Road, Great Horton, Bradford and was sole proprietor of the whole contracting business after 1877. He was able to undertake substantial projects including: Kirkgate Market, Bradford, Wakefield Town Hall and the Nutter Orphanage, Bradford. William Holdsworth is listed as a brick manufacturer in Bradford trade directories for 1883 and 1891.
Found in Eckington N E Derbyshire. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Darrell Prest.
Robert Holloway, Yardley, Birmingham is listed in Billing's 1855 & Casey's 1860 edition then Kelly's 1867 & 68 editions. In the census he is listed as a farmer. This will almost certainly have been made at Red Hill brickworks in Yardley. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
A brickworks existed here in the mid 1800s, probably known simply as Chester Park Brickworks. It became Hollybrook Brickworks around 1900, and then Hollychrome. The works ceased in the 1950s, and the pit was filled in. There are still traces of the original buildings, now part of a builders merchants. Photos & info by Eric Taylor.
The Holly Bush Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. is listed in Kelly's 1900 & 1904 editions at Snareshill, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall. Situated on Brick Kiln Lane the brickworks is named as the Holly Bush Works on the 1900 OS map. The 1915 map records the Holly Bush Works as disused, but the buildings are still shown. It appears the works was named after nearby Holly Bush Hall. Photos & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Maurice Stokes found this one in part of an old wall which has been knocked down in Kingswinford, West Midlands.
The Holmer Brick Works was part of the Hereford Brick and Tile Company. Image PRBCO. Richard Paterson writes: Image PRBCO. Edwin Davey and Rebecca Roseff, in 'Herefordshire Bricks & Brickmakers' (Logaston Press, 2007) state that, in 1858, there were two brickworks listed at Holmer. One was the Albert Brick & Tile Works (see RPD) and this, the Holmer Works, was the other. Also nearby was the important Victoria Tile Works.
J Holmes, Melbourne Junction near Derby. Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Martyn Fretwell writes: Benjamin Holmes was born in Selston, Notts. in 1835 & in 1871 after being a brickyard - labourer he moved to Kirkby in Ashfield to become a brick maker. By 1895 he had his own business on Portland Street, collecting the clay from a field on Lowmoor Road. His two sons, James & John took over the business (date unknown) & in 1902 they moved the Brickyard to Lowmoor Road. The site covered a very large area from what is now Tesco Express to the Lowmoor Inn & backs up onto Marlborough Road. After John died in 1915, James carried on until his son, William took over the business. The company ceased work when William & his workers were called up for war in 1939. After the war due to the deterioration of machinery & shortage of coal, William did not re-open the yard. The company was well known for producing top quality house bricks & so called " Fancy Bricks" which can be seen on the houses in the streets around the works. Many Thanks to Betty & Joan, Benjamin's Great-Granddaughters for providing me this information.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
E H & Co. - E.Holt, Hall Carr, Rawtenstall. Rossendale, Lancs. In operation from 1860-1903, (James Ashworth 1860-79, E.Holt from 1880-1903). Now covered by the Hall Carr housing estate. It was one of these bricks that set famous collector Henry Holt on his way to acquiring over 5000 bricks from all over the world. He lived in Waterfoot. Info by Colin Driver, photos by David Kitching.
Holyport is 2 miles south of Maidenhead, Berkshire. Photographed at Bursledon Brick Museum by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Brim Brooks.
Frederick Charles Hopkins is listed in White's 1885 edition as owning the Bradfield St Clare brickworks, Suffolk. Hopkins was also a timber & general merchant, builder & contractor in Sicklesmere. Photo & Info by David Addy.
Probably Hopkinson & Reed, Birtle, Bury. Brick found when the Bury Coporation tram shed was demolished. The business is listed in trade directories in 1871 and 1876, and the works was situated on the north side of Rochdale Old Road just east of the current Fairfield Hospital. By 1880 it was listed as run by John Berry & Sons.
Horden Collieries, Shotton, County Durham. Photos by Anthony E Gray.
Found on the seashore in Crosby, Merseyside. The Ravenhead Sanitary Pipe and Brick Co. was located alongside Burtonhead Road in between Ravenhead Colliery's nos. 7 and 8 pits and nos. 9, 10 and 11 pits. It had been established around 1850 by W. Edwards, David Horn and John William Kelly, trading as Lavender and Co. with premises at Ravenhead Pottery and in Liverpool. In May 1857 Edwards left the partnership and the firm became Horn and Kelly and later the Ravenhead Sanitary Brick Company. In May 1874 the duo's partnership was dissolved and David Horn appears to have taken over the business and in 1875 it was registered as the Ravenhead Sanitary Pipe and Brick Co. Info by David Kitching.
Horsforth brickworks was situated off Butcher Hill, Hawksworth, Leeds, adjacent to the Leeds - Harrogate railway line. It was worked by Benjamin Whitaker & Sons in Kelly 1908 and last listed as operating in the telephone directory of 1939. Site landfilled during the 1950s. Image PRBCO.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Leeds Mercury 20 May 1878.
The Horsforth Patent Brick Co beg to intimate that their Works are now in full operation, and respectfully solicit a share of public patronage. They have just added additional machinery, on the most modern principles, which enables them to supply a superior brick without extra charge. Sample forwarded on application. Please address all communications to Horsforth Patent Brick Co, Horsforth Woodside, Horsforth.
In 1881 a dispute arose between the partners in the business which seems to have then closed down with the machinery sold off.
Photo by Charles Hindmarsh who found this brick in Horsforth, Leeds.
Photographed on the seashore at Crosby, Merseyside.
Photo by David Stephenson.
Although adjacent to Backworth Collieries 'C' Pit the yard was not commercially connected, its origins dating back to the 1870's when the original 'Foster' firebricks were first produced, and despite changes of ownership the brand continued to be used over a 90 year period, becoming one of the North of England's major producers. As and aside, during the 1930's the firm diversified into the production of red-facing bricks which used the 'Hotspur' name and although this business prospered during the period of WW2, at the cessation of hostilities it was decided to concentrate on fireclay products. Ironically, the works having to finally close in 1967 due to subsidence of the nearby mining activities. Photo by Chris Tilney, info by Arthur Brickman.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Ray Martin.
Owned by John Hough, Hough & Co are listed in Kelly's 1899 to
1915 editions at Priory Estate Brick Works, Kings Road, Kings
Heath, Birmingham. I have a gap in trade directories until 1940
& in this edition Hough & Co. are still listed. The works
closed in 1960. John also owned the Kings Norton Brick Co. on
Wharf Road, Kings Norton & a brick from this works can be seen
on the K page. Info & Photographed at Oldfield Reclamation
Yard, Old Hill, Cradley Heath by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Steve Pinder.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Situated by the confluence of the North and South Tyne rivers
near Acomb, Hexham. P J Davison in Brick & Tile Works Sites
in N E England, unpublished, c1970, lists the works as operating
1884 - 1906 as the Howford Brick Co. The brick was found at
Featherstone Park in the South Tyne valley. Image PRBCO.
Photo by Andrew Brown.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Nick Cutts.
Photo by Simon Patterson.
Photo by Jim Stevens.
William Hubbard junior is listed at the Steam Brickworks, Pakefield, Lowestoft, Suffolk in Kellys 1879 & 1888 editions. The entries for this works are then listed as Hubbards Brick Co. in Kellys 1892 to 1900 editions. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
W Hubbard, East Dereham Found near Gressenhall, Norfolk by Chris Dixon. William Hubbard is listed in Kellys 1869 edition at High Street, East Dereham, Norfolk. Information by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Ian Sneyd.
Photos by Jason Stott.
Jon Driver writes: works now owned by Ibstock brick, who still use this frog marking.
Photo by Isabel Robinson.
Nelson and Co. of Carlisle opened a firebrick works at the South
Tyne Colliery in 1848 known as the South Tyne brick works on
either side of Haltwhistle beck. By 1861 Thomas Hudspith was
renting the works from them and they sold the works to William
Hudspith by an agreement dated 16th February 1866. The works
consisted of brick and tile kilns, drying flats, engine house,
clay house and machine house. By 1870 there was little
room for expansion and William Hudspith opened the South Tyne
Sanitary Pipeworks by the railway. The works closed by 1917.
Listed in the 1884 and 1894 Kelly's directories. Not to be
confused with Hudspith of Wishaw, Scotland. Photo and info by Solway Past.
Photo by Ian Suddaby, seen at Bowness-on-Solway.
Photo by David Kitching.
Richard Watson Found at St Helier. Photo by Richard Watson.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Martyn Fretwell writes :- The Hughes Brothers are listed at Station Road, Old Hill, Staffs. in Kelly's 1908 to 1940 editions. Photo by Frank Lawson.
W Hughes, Lillington Road, Leamington only appears in Kellys Directory for
1868. Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by David Kitching
Photo by Nick Osborn.
Hulland & Warner. White's 1851 Directory of Staffordshire at Springfields, Trent Vale, Stoke. In Kelly’s 1860 edition it’s Warner & Hulland, Trent Vale, Stoke, to 1865.
Hulme & Schofield Plastic Brick Co. Horwich. Listed in Kelly 1918 at Victoria Works, Victoria Road, Horwich near Bolton, info by PRBCO, photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Elaine Hill.
Photographed on the seashore at Crosby, Merseyside.
A & T Humble were farmers at Eltringham in the Tyne Valley and also produced firebricks 1850 - 1873. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Atlas Works, Garrison Lane, Birmingham. Alfred Humpage, a builder & property/land speculator persuaded George Savage to sell him the works & this takeover may have taken place in 1875. Humpage then set about producing bricks for the several buildings that he was involved in building in the centre of Birmingham. At some point before selling the works in 1876 he seems to have been in partnership with Thomas Gough who went on to own the Atlas works along with Jacob Sames. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photo by Angel Rose.
Photo by Richard Paterson
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Side view of brick above. Photos by Susan Lomax.
Huncoat Plastic Brick & Terra Cotta Co. Ltd., Yorkshire Street, Huncoat, Accrington, Lancs. It seems that the company was founded in 1884, went into liquidation in 1918, was purchased by Benjamin Whitaker & Co. of Leeds and subsequently became part of the Redland Group prior to eventual closure. Info by Frank Lawson, photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
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Robert (Bob) Hunt, produced bricks between 1891 to 1896 at his small works behind 25 & 27 Ripley Road, Heage, Derbys. These two houses were the last houses to built using his bricks after he went bankrupt in 1896. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
A very crudely made 'HUNTER' brick made by the Charlaw &
Sacriston Collieries Company in the 1870s. The name 'HUNTER'
related to the company owner at the time, later bricks were marked
'CHARLAW', see separate entry. Photo and info by Ian Hunter.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Tony Gray
H & N is believed to represent Hunwick & Newfield, two collieries on opposite sides of the River Wear that were operated by Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. Ltd. in the later 19th century. The brickworks at Newfield is likely to have been where these firebricks were made. Found on the old ironworks slag bank at Ulverston. Photo by Richard Cornish.
Photos by Chris Tilney
Photo by Steven Tait.
Martyn Fretwell photographed this one at Avoncroft Museum
Over the years the Hurdiss family seem to have an interest in a number of brickworks ranging from Hadcroft at Stourbridge to Stonehouse and the Barbourne works near Worcester was just one of these. Photo by Andy Spencer.
This is almost certainly a Lancashire brick as it was found in Oldham. The Greave on the reverse may refer to an area in Oldham, Rochdale or Bacup.
John Hurst & Son, Gilesgate, Durham; & at Sunderland. 1879 Post Office Directory of Durham. Photo by Chris Tilney.
The Hyatt brothers lived in the parish of Wolstanton, Newcastle-under-Lyme. The two brothers, who were farmers, had their brick and tile yard, which was known as Highfield Tileries, behind Morton House in Wolstanton near to the Wolstanton Colliery (coal&clay). It is known that the yard was being worked in the 1860s and the Hyatt brothers are known to have worked the yard until the 1890s. This yard was reopened in the early 1900s by G.H.Downing, it was still making bricks and tiles until the 1920s when it was eventually closed. Photo and description by Ken Perkins.
Made at Patent Hydraulic Saggar, Brick, & Marl Co. Limited, Boundary Street, Hanley. Photos and info by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by courtesy of John Tibbles
Photo by David Kitching.