Frederick J Nash was manufacturing bricks at Halesowen in the 1890s and early 1900s, but this brick is from 20-30 years earlier. My theory is that this was manufactured by his father John Nash who was involved in a range of manufacturing businesses. He established a cement works canalside at Whimsey Bridge on Portway Road in Oldbury. Portway Brickworks lay adjacent to the cement works and within the same boundaries, so it is quite possible that this is the source of the brick. Found at the Oldfield reclamation yard in the West Midlands and photographed by Angel Rose.
Parkfield & National Brick Co. Bordesley Green & Keeley
Street, Watery Lane, Birmingham Kelly's 1908. Photo by courtesy of
the Harold Hands collection. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
See also the entry for Parkfield.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell, See entry for Neal, Heather for Company history.
Naylor Brothers are listed in Kelly's West Riding Directories of 1897 and 1908 under Firebrick Manufacturers and was principally a maker of salt glazed earthenware pipes. The works was situated by the station at Denby Dale, West Yorkshire. The stone viaduct in Denby Dale was officially opened in 1880 and was built by Naylor Bros. Naylor Bros stayed in Denby Dale and began the manufacture of clay pipes utilising deposits at the nearby village Bromleys clay pits. The firm operated in Denby Dale until 1993 when production was transferred to Cawthorne. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.
John French Neal, Heather, Ashby De-La-Zouch is recorded as brickmaker in Kelly's 1899 & 1900 editions. Neal & Co. Ltd were producing bricks at Heather, Leics. in 1901, by 1903 they had changed the company name to the National Brick Co. At a date unknown they amalgamated with the Star Brick & Tile Co. Ltd of South Wales. In 1971 the National Star Co. including the works at Heather was acquired by Butterley Brick / Hanson Plc. Closing fairly recently (2012), the site is being sold for redevelopment. Also see entries for National Brick Co.(England) & Star Brick & Tile Co.(Wales). Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Charles Neaverson is listed as brickmaking at Peakirk, Peterborough in Kelly's 1898 edition & then at nearby Werrington in Kelly's 1906 & 1910 editions, both near Peterborough. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photos by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Archibald Neill (1825-1874) was born in Musselburgh and came to Bradford as a young man to work with his brother Robert, a contractor of Manchester. Neill remained in Bradford and rose to become the head of the most important building firm in the mid-19th century City. He employed 1000 men and had his own quarries (Oak Bank, Wrose Hill ashlar quarry) and sawmills. He finally concentrated most of his efforts at Field Head, Listershills, Bradford which was a very large site indeed. The only brick-mark I know of is [A.NEILL]. It is possible that Neill's brickworks was not at Field Head since a press report describes the death by burning of an employee at 'Neill' s brickworks' at Batley Carr (between Batley and Dewsbury). Neill was was universally respected but died young of a chronic stomach ailment and was buried at Bradford's famous Undercliffe Cemetery. Thanks to Derek Barker for the photo and information.
Photo by David Whipp.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Barbara Sutcliffe.
Photo by courtesy of Colin Driver.
Photo by Richard Matthews.
Hibson Road Brickworks Nelson and Barkerhouse Road Brickworks, Nelson were absorbed by the Altham Brick Co. to form the Nelson & Altham Brick Co.in 1893. Info from Colin Driver. PRBCO says that The Nelson Brick Company is listed in Kelly, Lancashire 1908.
Photo by Mark Cranston.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Netham Brick & Tile Works, Bristol. Operated from 1895 - 1906. Photo & info by Eric Taylor.
Photo by Ian Hunter.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Jon Gluyas. History of the
colliery.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photos by Jason Stott.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The business was established in 1879 and is listed as New Ferry Brick & Tile Works, New Chester Road, New Ferry, Birkenhead in Kelly's Directory for 1892. By 1896 it had become New Ferry Brick & Iron Works Ltd. Photo by Danny Rylands.
In 1936 the Weymouth Brick & Tile Company opened Downton Brickworks, south of Salisbury. Charles Mitchell & Sons Ltd. bought the brickworks in 1955. In 1975 some 40,000 bricks were made weekly. The works closed in 1991 but was reopened as the New Forest Brick Company in 1998 which became bankrupt in March 2000. Photo by Steve Ridgewell.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. New Haden Colliery was acquired by John Slater in 1917 and became part of his Berry Hill group in 1922. A brickworks was opened at New Haden to use clay worked from measures adjacent to the Little Dilhorne seam at the colliery. It was still operating in 1947 although the colliery had closed in 1943 although looks as if in later the works was using pit shale from the tips as a raw material. Info by David Kitching.
Newhey Brick & Terra Cotta Co. Ltd., Huddersfield Road, Newhey, Rochdale. The works opened in 1899 and was, in its later life, taken over by Pope & Pearson of Normanton, West Yorks. prior to its eventual closure in the 1930s.
Photo by David Fox.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photos by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Tom Jones.
New Monckton Collieries Ltd., Royston, Barnsley owned collieries at Havercroft, South Hiendley and New Monckton Colliery, Royston to the north east of Barnsley. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
In White's Directories Charles Keyworth seems to mentioned for the first time in 1898 as the proprietor of the New Patent Plastic Brick Company in Wadsley Bridge. The last time he is mentioned is in 1913 when the address is given as Halifax Road. In 1916 The New Patent Plastic Brick Company in Halifax Road is listed wiith Mrs. Elizabeth Brindley as proprietress. Thereafter neither Company nor proprietress seem to occur any more but it seems that the site may have been taken over by The Sheffield Brick Co. Photo and info by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Tom Langton. Brickmakers of Farcet and Fletton. Formed in 1896 as the Peterborough Brick Co. Ltd. but reformed after acquiring new sites in 1897 as the New Peterborough Brick Co. Ltd. Sold to the London Brick Co. Ltd. in 1924.
Spotted in the main yard at Claymills Pumping Station by Alan
Murray-Rust. Alan writes: Old maps show that the brickworks
site was formerly a colliery, but with an associated ceramics
industry. It first appears on the 1903 1:2500 as Staunton Colliery
and Brickworks, the marked buildings being more prominently the
latter than the former (? was the colliery still being sunk and
the spoil used for brickmaking?). By 1923 it has become
Worthington Colliery and Pipeworks. Although a couple of shafts
are marked, there are no tramways shown, but there appear to be 8
round kilns. By the 1955 1:10560 edition it is simply Worthington
Pipe Works, and there is a new colliery site (New Lount) to the
south of Newbold village, possibly working the same deposits as
the old pit. This shows some later structures at the pipeworks
north of the original which when seen on the 1962 1:2500 include
what I assume to be a rectangular Hoffmann-style kiln a bit to the
north of the original site. This is where the still-existing
chimney stands.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Thomas Newbon is recorded in 1871 a sa brickmaker living at Dilhorne north of Blythe Bridge, North Staffordshire. The brickworks is probably the smaller of the two shown on Caverswall Road north of Blythe Bridge Station on the OS map surveyed in 1878. Found by Karen Proctor, photo by Ken Perkins.
The The 1881 census lists Roger Newbould as the manager of a brick yard and publican, living at 33 Doctor's Piece, Willenhall. Roger's son William is listed in the 1901 census as a brick maker (worker) at Willenhall. However the LOndon Gazette in 1902 notes the death of James Carman, retired beer house keeper, formerly of Heanor, who had been in partnership with William Newbould at Noose Lane brick works in Willenhall and trading as Newbould and Carman. Found in Streetly by Angel Rose, photo by Ray Martin.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Newburn is a small town on the river Tyne to the west of Newcastle. The brickworks was part of the North Wallbottle and Blucher Colliery Company and had its own tram/railway system from the pit to the brickworks and on to the staiths at Lemmington-on-Tyne. The brickworks was in existence from the 1850s to 1965. The buildings were demolished in 1979 and the site is currently a council recycling plant. The sister plant, Throckley Brick Works (originally owned by the same company and on the same tramway) is still in existence and is owned by IBSTOCK although it has been modernised. Newburn bricks were mainly used for industrial building work including sewers, tunnels and arches. Thanks to Mick Lynch for the information. Photos by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Saltburn Countryside Volunteers.
This brick only measures 12cms x 5cms x 3.5cms and is likely to be a salesman's sample or a small brick used in the construction of fireplaces. It was found in Derbyshire. Newby Bros, Broad Street and King Street, Ramsgate - The 1901 Directory of Clayworkers. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Found on the Tyne. Photo by Mike Graham.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Made in the brickworks at Newdigate Colliery in Warwickshire, The initials are for landowner Francis Alexander Newdigate. Photo by Steve Chaplin
Newfield was just outside Bishop Auckland in County Durham and was the site of Bolckow and Vaughan's brickworks. Photo by Chris Tilney.
William Newsome, Hunslet Hall Road, Leeds - White's Directory for Leeds, 1866. In 1870 he is listed at Stapleton Street, New Wortley. Photo by David Fox who found the brick in the Leeds area.
Found by Chris Tilney near Hexham.
Found by Chris Tilney near Newburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. James Newton seems to have been a brick and tile merchant in London and he probably had these made in the north-east with his name on. Chris suspects that the bricks were manufactured at a brickworks in the vicinity of where found, probably Heddon.
Photos by Steven Tait.
Edward Newton, Melbourne Road, Leicester is listed in Wright’s 1878 & Kelly’s 1881 editions. The 1885 OS maps shows two old clay pits on Melbourne Road. Photographed in a garden in Hucknall by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
David Oliver writes: A firebrick works was set up here in the 1880's by Henry Stobart and Partners. It continued to operate into the 1980's when it was owned by the Hepworth Iron Company. Newton Cap Colliery and Brickworks were situated north of Bishop Auckland near Toronto, with a siding onto the Bishop Auckland to Durham railway line. Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photos by Neville Akers.
Newton Chambers Co.Ltd., Thorncliffe, Chapeltown, Sheffield. Newton Chambers owned coal, chemical, steel and brick works at Chapeltown to the north of Sheffield. They also produced the famous "Izal" products and "Churchill" tanks during WW2. Photo and info by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. See also Thorncliffe.
Newton may have been the predecessor of Higson at the Daubhill works in Bolton on the site of which this brick was found. Photo by Henry Lisowski.
Photo by David Kitching.
There is a brickmaking business named Nicholson & Hunter listed in the 1858 at Medomsley, Gateshead. However, I think that this brick is a product of the partnership of J Nicholson and J Hunter as brickmakers at Bradley, Durham, which was dissolved in November 1858. Photo by Steven Martin.
Nightingale and Bushell were builders and contractors in the Dover area from the 1850s to 1870s. They seem to have had their own brickworks near the Canterbury Road as there were complaints about smoke pollution in 1869. Photo by Michael Young.
The Noble families operated brickworks at both Penshaw, south of the
Wear and at Washington to the north. This standard sized firebrick
could therefore have been produced at either location, the
simplified lettering giving no clues as to its age. Without an
initial, directories quote both 'T' and 'T.R.', tying it down is
almost impossible, unless of course you can offer some further
information? Photo and info by Arthur Brickman.
Thomas Noble began manufacturing bricks at South Hylton on Wearside in 1826.In 1835 he moved his production to Whitefield Pit, Penshaw where it remained until 1876. During this time his two sons Robert and Thomas Robinson Noble joined the business. The 1851 census indicates that they were employing 17 men.By 1876 Thomas and his two sons had died both in their 30's and both leaving young families with no one to carry the business forward. Info from John Noble.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Both found at Ard Neackie Limekilns, Loch Eriboll, Sutherland.
The kilns were made in the 1870's so these bricks could well be that
old.
Started by William Nock (born Birmingham around 1855, died 1894) in
the 1870's with large pit located at Holly Lane, Erdington,
Birmingham. After closure, the pit was used for waste disposal,
including industrial waste. It was later capped and became an open
space although there are outline plans to build 250 homes on the
area. Photo and info by Ray Martin.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
This one has an added 'Star of David'. Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the John Baylis Collection.
The Nock business was run by Executors for at least 25 years after William's death, before it became a Limited company. Info from Martyn Fretwell, photo by Alex Cartwright.
Joseph Noden started his brickworks which was located just off Leek
New Road, Sneyd Green in 1874 & he is listed in Kelly's 1880 to
1900 editions at Sneyd Green, Cobridge, Burslem, SOT. Noden & Co also
produced bricks for the Potteries Brick Company. Info by Martyn Fretwell & Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
The
Nonporous Tile Co, High Carr Tileries, near Chatterley in North
Staffordshire.
The works was close to the High Carr Colliery of Ralph Sneyd to
which he built a railway branch in 1860. The pit was mainly
supplying ironstone to the Goldendale Ironworks. By 1872 the works
was in the possession of J.H. Williamson who was running the
ironworks with his brother E.W. Williamson.
The first reference to the Non-Porous Tile Co is in 1894 and then in
1897 the trade directories list J.H. Williamson & Co, High Carr
Tileries. They opened a new brickyard in 1897 and in 1898 it had
five beehive kilns. It appears that this was a replacement for the
works at the old High Carr Colliery as by this time a new pit had
opened a short distance to the south of the original one which had
been abandoned. In 1920 the works is stil listed as J.H. &
E.W.Williamson Co, Non-Porous Tile Works, but in 1924 it is under
the Nonporous Tile Co.
Shortly after the High Carr Tileries were acquired by J.F.E. Rowley
Ltd and they subsequently ran the business in their own name until
it closed in 1956. Photo & info by David Kitching.
Photo by Chris Jamson.
History of the works. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Steve Philpott.
The Norbury Colliery brickworks was operated by Messrs Clayton & Brooke in the nineteenth century. The works was located behind the Robin Hood pub on the north side of the main road from the colliery which was situated between Hazel Grove and High Lane in Cheshire. It appears that brickmaking ended with the closure of the colliery in 1892. Photos and info by David Kitching.
A brickworks located close to Nunthorpe, South of Middlesbrough. Found at South Gare, near Redcar, August 2008 by Alex Betteney.
Photos by Liz Robinson.
Photo by Jon Gluyas.
Found in Longframlington, photo by Alan Murray Rust.
Photo by Nevile Akers.
Photos by Jane Gough.
Photo by Liz Robinson.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Normanton Brick Co., Wakefield Road, Normanton, West Yorks. The company was founded in the 1890s by a Thomas Kirk from Nottingham, who had heard rumours that Normanton was rapidly turning into an important junction on the railways. Both Kirk and his sons used their life savings and formed the Normanton Brick Company which had works in Normanton and at nearby Altofts and which finally closed in 2011. Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by David Kitching.
Image PRBCO.
Photo by Guy Morgan.
Charles H Normanton, Portsmouth Street, Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester - Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory 1895. Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steven Pinder.
Photo by The Brickworks Museum.
Found at Byers Green, Durham. Photo by Liz Robinson.
Found near Chesterfield by Simon Patterson.
North Bitchburn is located 3km south of Crook. County Durham. These firebricks are spread far and wide. Listed in P.J. Davison, Brick and tile works sites in North East England c1970 as Sanitary Pipe and Fireclay Works, North Bitchburn Colliery 1879 - 1969.
Found at Long Marton Station, Cumbria by Antony Meadows.
Photo by David Plumpton.
Photo by Neville Akers.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Ian Wiliams.
North Cornwall Brick & Tile Co Ltd, St Columb Rd SW911595
North Cornwall Brick & Tile Co Ltd, Tolcarne SW818614.
Found at St Austell by Ian Williams.
Photos by David Kitching, part of the collection at Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum.
The North Derbyshire Fire Brick Works was at Mill Brow, Ludworth, near Marple, was founded in 1873. The North Derbyshire Brick And Tile Manufacturing Company Limited was established to run the business and seems to have traded until at least 1878. Photo by Frank Pleszak.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Mark Cranston.
Found in the Blaydon area. Photo by Steven Tait.
North Hetton Coal Co.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steve Smith.
Photos by Steven Tait.
Photo by Steven Pinder.
In 1896 G Williams & Son are listed at North Walsall and Birchills Brickworks. This was at the end of Northcote Street and south of North Walsall station. I suspect that they traded as the North Walsall Brick Company. See also the Birchills & North Walsall entry. Photo by Ray Martin.
Benjamin North was in partnership with Raywood by 1890 until by 1898 the partnership changed to North & Pflaum at Wortley Moor Road, Leeds. Photo by Eric Toft.
Photo by David Kitching.
Benjamin North, Wortley Firebrick Works, Upper Wortley Road,
Leeds. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Chris Worrell.
Found on the site of the factory at Eye Green, near Peterborough. One of many small manufacturers around Peterborough. Subsumed by the London Brick Co. in the 1920s. Photo and info by Chris Dixon. Link to history of the works.
Northcot Brickworks , Blockley, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucs. The Northcot brickworks was started by Captain Spencer Churchill, a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, back in 1927 to provide employment for people in the area, particularly those on his estate, and to him it was as much a hobby as a business. Following Captain Churchill's death in 1964 E.H. Smith purchased the site and still continue brick production. Info by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Conn Crawford.
The Northern Brick Ltd, Head Office appears to have been at Mitford House, Ponteland, Newcastle Upon Tyne. In April 1968 the National Coal Board broke their brick manufacturing works down into three companies. Scottish Brick, Midland brick and Northern brick. The Northern Brick Company consisted of 15 brickworks. On 12/02/1969 a newspaper advert states that the Northern Brick Company consisted of 14 brick works making 25 varieties of facing, engineering and common brick. The largest of these works appears to have been the Throckley Brickworks at Newcastle. They also consisted of the The Holmside plant at Annfield Plain and the Bearpark works near Durham City which were closed c.1974? There was also a brickworks near Wardley Colliery.
In November 1973, Gibbons Duddley Limited bought out the Northern Brick Company from the National Coal Board and the company was renamed Gibbons Northern Brick Company Limited. The Northern Brick Company consisted of 11 brickworks in the Durham and Northumberland area. Ten of these works were producing building bricks and high quality facing bricks while the 11th works produced fireclay refractories. In May 1978 Gibbons Duddley spent £5 million on a new brick manufacturing plant at Throckley and it was described as the largest in Europe. In c.1979 Gibbons Northern Brick Company Limited became part of the Steetley Brick Company.
Photo and info by Mark Cranston.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
The Northern Brick and Terra Cotta Company Limited built a brickworks on the site of the former Springfield Railway Wagon Works between Walmersley and Summerseat at some point after October 1895. By 1900 the business was placed into voluntary liquidation and it is believed that the works continued under the management of Tomlinson, Summerseat. Info by Martyn Fretwell. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Part of a large batch found at a recycling centre. Photos by Nigel Furniss.
The North Staffordshire Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. had an
extensive works at Chesterton,
Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. VITROS seems to have been a trade
brand which the
company used for a number of its products. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
This example is a VITROS smooth red 1' inch thick paviour/ coping
brick.
Thanks to Tim Lawton for the above information.
Martyn Fretwell writes :- There is the possibility that the N.S. on
this Hartshill brick could stand for North Staffordshire. There is a
North Staffordshire Brick & Tile Co. at Chesterton (Vitros
Brand) but the two companies may be unrelated. With the help of Tim
Lawton who has found one of these bricks on Garner Street, Stoke,
Tim has established that a brickworks that he has found on a map
dated 1879 located between todays North Street & the old Market
Drayton railway branch line is a good contender for where this brick
was made. This Hartshill works may have closed by 1890 as it is no
longer shown on a map dated 1899 & I have found no trade
directory entries for a N.S. Brick Co at Hartshill. If anyone can
confirm the company name of this brick, please let me know.
Photo taken at Bursledon Brick Museum by Martyn Fretwell.
Nostell Brick & Tile Co Ltd., Swine Lane, Nostell, Wakefield. The works is still
open today as part of Ibstock Brick. It contains a very old building from the
early 1900's that continues to be used for making special bricks. Photos by
courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Reversed letters on this example photographed by Martyn Fretwell.
John Nottingham was running the Burnby Lane Brickworks at Pocklington in 1879. Info from the Pocklington History website and photos by Carla van Beveran.
The Nottingham Builders Brick Co. is first recorded in Kelly's 1876 at Sneinton Hill. In the 1885 edition the works is then recorded as Carlton Road, which may be the same site and this works continues to be listed in Kelly's until it's final available edition in 1941. The works closed in the late 1950's / early 1960's.
It is thought that this blue brick was either made in the West Midlands for the Company or clay was brought to Nottingham from the West Midlands to manufacture these bricks at their Carlton Road works, as the type of clay needed for blue bricks is not found in Nottingham. Info & Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
The Nottingham Patent Brick Co. was formed by two Nottingham
brickmakers Edward Gripper & William Burgass in 1867 & they
were later joined by Robert Mellors in 1881. This company is record
in Kelly's from 1876 with works at Carlton & Mapperley with
entries for Thorneywood Lane, Woodborough Road, Mapperley Hill,
Burgass Road & Arnold all being listed in later editions. In
1969 production at Mapperley & Carlton Hill ceased only leaving
Dorket Head at Arnold. The brick inscribed made at middle yard
Mapperley 2nd May 1969 was the last brick to be made there. In 1976
the company dropped Patent from it's name & then in 1987 the
Dorket Head Works was acquired by the Marley Brick Co. The works
changed hands again in 1993 becoming part of the Tarmac Group. 1996
sees the change to the present day owners of the works Ibstock. The
Company is most famously known for producing the millions of bricks
required in the building of St. Pancras Railway Station & Hotel
in the 1860's. Info & Photos by Martyn Fretwell, Courtesy of
Nottingham City Museums & Galleries.
Commemorative last brick from Mapperley works. Photo by Martyn
Fretwell, Courtesy of Nottingham City Museums & Galleries.
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Photo by Jeff Sheard, Courtesy of Nottingham City Museums &
Galleries.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Found at the old Workington steelworks site. Manufactured by G R Stein this high alumina firebrick may have been made in the Sheffield area but could also be of Scottish origin. Photo by Richard Cornish.
George Harvey Nunn ran the Bradfield St. George brickworks, Suffolk from 1885 to when it closed in 1892. Photo by Martyn Fretwell & Info by David Addy.
Nunnery Colliery was sunk in the early 1860's close to the city
centre of Sheffield and a brickworks was established in the early
1900's, producing half a million bricks per month. The colliery
& brickworks were Nationalised in 1947 with the pit closing in
1953. Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell from the David Penney
Collection.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
