Photo by Alan Davies.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Steve Reynolds.
Coalfield Brickyards Ltd., Clayfield Road, Mexborough, South Yorks. Liquidated 1971. The Yorkshire Brick Company 'Coalfield' Brickworks at Mexborough ceased firing towards the end of 1982. It was the last Pressed Brick Kiln in South Yorkshire to operate.
All the above were used to build a house in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is likely that the H A brick is also a Coalmoor product. Photos by Jade Ling.
Photo by David Kitching.
Coalmoor is near Telford in Shropshire.
The Allenite was a tough refractory brick used for lining kilns, etc.
Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection
Made in Coalmoor, Telford on the same site as Allenite bricks.
The Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd was formed in 1901 & in 1908
became the New Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd. making pipes &
fire bricks at it's works located near to Woodlands Farm now Myford
House Nursing Home on Woodlands Lane, Horsehay near Coalmoor, Telford
between 1908 & 1948. In 1948 the company was purchased by
Coalmoor Refactories Ltd who produced refractory bricks for the
steel industry. In 1951 the company purchased the nearby Lightmoor
brickworks and in doing so transferred all production to the new
site. By 1980 the company employed around 150 staff at both the
quarry & works. The Lightmoor Works on Brick Kiln Bank,
Lightmoor was owned by Ibstock when it closed in 1992 and the site
now has houses built upon it. Allenite and Mossite are both trade names used by the company. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
The Coalville Brick Co. was formed in 1927 by eight local business men & was built on land just off Ashby Road, Coalville owned by one of these business men, Dan Sitdown. This works only manufactured hand made bricks right up to it's closure in November 1975. Photo and info by Martyn Fretwell.
Cobridge Brick and Marl Co Ltd., was based on Leek Road produced common bricks
with a "Cobridge" logo moulded into the frog. They also produced
fire bricks to line kilns used in the pottery industry and
engineering bricks used in foundation works. They produced a large
range of hand made bricks to order. Marl was extract from the
adjoining marl hole and a second one behind the works in Sneyd
Street. They had a second production site on Scotia Road in Burslem
where they had a modern continuous oil fired kiln main common brick
production was based here with overflow production of commons in
Cobridge. Information by John Roberts.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
In 1874 Tellwright & Watkin were running Cobridge Colliery near Hanley in North Staffordshire. They also operated the Sandbach Colliery brickworks nearby. By 1892 - 1896 the Cobridge site was operated by the Cobridge Colliery & Brickworks Colliery Co Ltd which also had a works at Bycars in Burslem. By 1900 the business had become the Cobridge Brick & Sanitary Pipe Co Ltd. Photo by John Tougher.
Cochrane & Co Ltd operated the New Brancepeth Colliery in County Durham in the 1890s and probably for some years after that. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
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Front and back of a Cocking brick, Clayton is the name of the
manufacturer of the brick making machinery.
Photographed near Newark by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Malcolm Holt.
Martyn Fretwell writes :- Thomas Cocking started his Walkeringham, Notts. brickworks around 1876, producing red & white bricks & red floor quarry tiles. Thomas was followed at this yard by
his sons and son-in-law, George Cooper. This works was sold sometime in the 1940's and continued under new owners until it closed in 1956. After the sale of the Walkeringham works, the Cockings family then opened a new works at Balby, Doncaster & bricks stamped Balby are also believed to be made by them. The Balby works then became part of Yorkshire Amalgamated Brick Co. in the 1960's. Photographed at Bassetlaw Museum, Retford by Martyn Fretwell.
