Found on Tyneside. I suspect that the W H & Co is William Harriman and the H A may be one of the Allen/Allan family who seem to have had a connection with Harriman's business. Photo by Steven Tait.
Hadcroft Brick Works, Pedmore Road, Lye, Stourbridge,
Worcestershire. 1845-1974, by Michael Raybould.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
In 1901 Joseph Holroyd Hadfield was a brick manufacturer at Birstall, West Yorkshire. Previous to this he was a greengrocer and by 1911 he had retired. Photo by David Fox.
Bricks were made from a carbonaceous shale from mining waste, so
no marl holes, only surface workings. In June 1967 they were
making 25 bricks per minute, 50,000 per day. Bricks were fired in
two 18 chamber Hoffman kilns with continuous firing, one built in
1935, the second in 1958. It was a private limited company
established in 1935 and employing 55 people. Photo and info
by Ray Martin.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Angel Rose.
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Hadleys started making bricks in 1876, in 1950 they were making 150,000 bricks per week. Morris seems to have left the business sometime between 1932 and 1936. In 1949 there were three works involved. Hadley Bros & Taylor Ltd., Great Bridge, Hadleys (Wednesbury) Ltd and Hadley’s Metallic Bricks Ltd, Willenhall. The business closed about 1960. Photos and info by Ray Martin.
Photo by Angel Rose. Martyn Fretwell suggests the following explanation to the manufacturer.
Ezra Hadley (senior) whose main job was a Draper & Clothier was first in partnership with Richard Mason at the Globe Brickworks, Rounds Green, Oldbury in Kellys 1876 & 84 editions before being listed as sole owner in Kellys 1888 edition. Ezra Hadley also owned two collieries in the late 1800’s. Richard Mason is also listed on his own at Alston colliery & brickworks in Oldbury in Kelly’s 1884 edition. Ezra Hadley seems to have died before 1901 and in that year his son Ezra junior was only 18 years of age although he is listed as a brick manufacturer in teh census of that year. Thomas Rathbone was married into the Hadley family and both he and his son Joseph are in the census as labourers at a brick yard in Oldbury in the 1901 census. The 1911 census gives Thomas Rathbone aged 61 as a bricklayer at a brick yard. It is possible that Thomas Rathbone was assisting in the running of the brickyard until Ezra junior was of age and experience to run it himself.
Photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.
George & John Haigh, New Lodge Colliery, Ossett, W.Yorks - found in Wakefield. Photos by Frank Lawson.
G and J Haigh had a colliery, and a works for making fire bricks and sanitary pipes at Ravens Lodge in Dewsbury - there was also a second brick works there too . Ravens Lodge is more commonly known nowadays as Scout Hill. The brick works was sold to Mr Ingham in the very early 20th century. Photos and info from Chris Shaw.
A slight mis-spelling on this brick found close to the Morton works at Cinderhills, Halifax. Photo by Chris Shaw.
Photo by Darrell Prest
Found near Rotherham by Bob Gellatly.
John Hall & Sons Ltd., The Fireclay Works, Wharf Street, Dukinfield, Cheshire. Manufacturers of Red Terra-Cotta Ridge Tiles, Air Grids, Chimney Pots, etc., Sanitary Pipes, Gullies, Fire Bricks and All Fittings. Established 1792 and closed 1967. Photo and info by David Kitching.
Photo by Alan Wheal.
Photo by Andrea Jones.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Alan Davies.
Photo by Richard Thorpe.
Joseph & Samuel Hall - Cateaton Street & Foundry Street,
Bury. Kelly's Building Trades Directory 1886. Info
by Colin Driver.
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James Hall made firebricks at Bakestonedale, Pott Shrigley,
possibly having taken over the works from George Lambert who is
listed there in 1857. The fireclay was obtained from the many coal
mines under Bakestonedale Moor. Hall appears in the trade
directories for 1878 and 1883, but is absent in that for 1896 as
the business had by then been absorbed by neighbouring brickmaker
William Hammond. Photos and info by David Kitching.
W.W. Hall is listed in Kelly’s 1914 edition at Broadway Buildings, Station Road, yard & stores; Central Wharf, Brook Street, Reading. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Hall & Rogers Smithy Bridge Littleborough. Located at the
bottom of Smithy Bridge Road close to the Rochdale Canal and
Smithy Bridge railway station. I think it was still there into the
1950's but had stopped making bricks prior to then, concentrating
on sanitary pipes. There were quite a few firebrick/pipeworks in
this area in the 19th century. It's a white glazed brick.
Info by Colin Driver, photos by Jason Stott.
Hall & Rogers, Stott's Pit, Westhoughton, Lancs. Hall & Rogers also operated the brickworks at Smithy Bridge (above). Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photo by David Kitching.
Tony Mugridge writes: J. T. Hall Refractories, Stourbridge. Works moved to Corngreaves Industrial Estate, Cradeley Heath in 1967 and closed about 2008. They speciallised in making firebricks for the Stourbridge Glass Industry but their main trade was making firebricks for the fireboxes of Steam Railway Locomotives in the mid to late 19th century. Their moulds for these (some 1,000) were destroyed the week before I visited the works and was still smouldering. They said that the moulds were of no value as steam locomotives weren't used now. The MD was not too pleased when I suggested that every steam railway preservation society in the country would need those bricks! The last owner of the Company was Mr John Edwards who was somewhat of a local celebrity as he was a highly decorated Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain! Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
William Hallatt, West Melton, S.Yorks. listed in Kellys 1897 edition, then the entry is Henry Hallatt, West Melton, S.Yorks. in Kellys 1901 & 1912 editions. Photo & info by Frank Lawson.
James William Halliwell, Waverley Brickworks, Sandal Magna, Wakefield - Kelly's Directory for the West Riding, 1881. Found at Wintersett near Wakefield, this particular example is a sill brick. Photo by Zoe Elizabeth Hunter.
Halmer Tileries was owned by F. Warwood & E.M. Heald. The works was located at Hayes Wood to the south-west of Halmer
End. This brickyard was erected c1935 using second-hand machinery.
It made only bricks and lasted until the 1970s. Photos and
info by David Kitching.
T H Halsall Ltd., Walmersley Brickworks, Lowes Road, Bury, Lancs. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by David Kitching.
T H Halsall & Sons, Summit Brickworks, Calderbrook, Littleborough, Lancs. T H Halsall & Sons of Bury took over the Summit Brickworks sometime between 1939 & 1945 and continued to produce bricks there until closure in 1973. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Found in Southampton, the rope and anchor was one trademark used by Joseph Hamblet. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Joseph Hamblet, Piercy Brickworks, Oak Road, West Bromwich, listed in Kelly's directory 1860 - 1896. From 1900 onwards the company is listed as Hamblet's Blue Brick Co Ltd. The largest of the brickworks in the West Bromwich area was started in 1851 after Joseph Hamblet had acquired part of J. E. Piercy's estate. The Piercy Brickworks was run by Hamblet in partnership with a Mr Parkes until at least the early 1860s. Later, however, Hamblet became sole proprietor as well as manager and in the 1870s and 1880s Hamblet was making blue and red bricks, flooring and roofing tiles, pavings, copings, kerbings, channel and sough bricks, and machine-made brindled bricks. Blue bricks, however, were the firm's speciality. In 1898, four years after Hamblet's death, the business became a limited company and traded as the Hamblet Blue Brick Co. Ltd. The company was trading as recently as 1961 as HAMBLET'S BLUE BRICK CO. at the Atlas brickworks, Walsall. Photos & info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Emma Robinson.
Photo by Nigel Furniss.
A blue/black Hamblet pavior (c.2" thick) which came to light during maintenance work at Claymills Pumping Station. Photo by Alan Murray-Rust.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Spotted by Geoff Spink on a bridge over a disused railway in
Northamptonshire.
Photo by William Whitehead, who writes: The Hamblet marl
hole was near to where the Hamblets lived - at the Oak House in
West Bromwich. The marl hole (clay pit) became a park
when the pit was filled in. I recovered many of the
blue bricks from a garden near my allotment close
to the parish church (All Saints).
A brick used as a paver at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. Photos by David Kitching.
Kerb brick on Grove Road, Beccles. Photo by Martin Dutch.
Two faces of the same brick. Photos by Andrew Morley.
Hambrook Brickworks, Winterbourne, Gloucestershire. This works had a short working life 1928-37. Photos & info by Eric Taylor.
Photos by David Kitching.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Hanson Hamilton, Hamilton Street, Bury. Barrett's Bury Directory 1880 lists Hanson Hamilton as a Brickmaker & Contractor. Info by Frank Lawson, photo by David Kitching.
John Grover, Hammer Brickworks, Wey Hill, Haslemere, Surrey - Kelly's Surrey Directory 1918. John Grover was a London builder who had retired to the Hindhead area around 1895 at the age of 60yrs . He opened a clay pit at Clay Hill (now Wey Hill) to provide the necessary bricks for the many new houses springing up in Hindhead and Beacon Hill. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by John Morley. Also see the entry for Grover.
Hammill brickworks is on thesite of the former Woodnesborough Colliery, Sandwich, Kent. Works at the site started in 1910 but the colliery operation never progressed beyond the sinking of two test shafts and the construction of surface buildings including an engine house, workshops and a chimney. In 1923, after the First World War, the mine was sold to Pearson & Dorman Long, owners of Betteshanger Colliery. In due course the site was sold on to the Hammill Brick Co. who built a brickworks on the site using some of the old colliery buildings and working clay extracted from a nearby clay seam within the Thanet Beds geology The brickworks opened in June 1927 and continued in operation until 2006. When the brickworks opened a two foot gauge line was built parallel to the standard gauge line and ran between the brickworks and a clay pit c. 500m to the north-east of the brickworks (another clay pit is indicated c. 800m to the north-west). Despite attempts to keep the site working the brickworks finally shut in 2008. Info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by John Morley. Jon Driver writes: They stopped
making this type of pressed brick sometime before they closed,
changing to simulated handmades.
Photo by Frank Lawson courtesy of the Bill Richardson
Collection at Southwick Hall.
Photo by Richard Paterson.
Photo by Phil Jenkins.
Photo by Gareth Thomas.
Photo by Scochki Kolasinac.
Enoch Hampton was making bricks at Eastwood Vale in 1851 and E Hampton & Sons are listed in 1896 as operating Eastwood and Mousecroft Fire-brick and Marl Works, Hanley. The company was still operating in 1924 but had disappeared by 1940. Photo and information by David Kitching.
A brickworks site of the Hereford Brick and Tile Company. Richard Paterson writes: The Hampton Park Brick & Tile Works is described in 'Herefordshire Bricks & Brickmakers' by Edwin Davey & Rebecca Roseff (Logaston Press, 2007). It was 'a large brick and tile works 2km from Hereford city centre. There were adjacent clay pits, up to 5 drying sheds and 4 kilns which were extant in 1886'. The book contains an interesting description of the works and operations by a Mr Eckley, who worked there in 1936 and 1937, shortly before the works closed prior to the outbreak of war. From 1939 to D-Day the site was used by the US military and it is now a recreation ground and nature reserve. Photo by Phillip Rothery.
Photo by Dan Barrett.
Hamsteels Colliery, Esh
Winning, about 5 miles west of Durham, was opened in 1867 by Johnson, Reay & Johnson and traded as the 'The owners of Hamsteels Collieries'. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Found at Sunderland. I believe this to be a Hamsteels variation. Photo by Tony Gray.
Hamsterley Brickworks, Hamsterley Colliery Village, Co. Durham.
Photo and info by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
J Hancock & Son operated the formerly Corporation owned Workhouse brickworks at Clifton Hill, Exeter from 1860 to 1939. Photo by Ian Williams.
Mis-spelled example. Photo by Simon Fogg.
Photo by Ray Martin.
Photo by Angel Rose.
Edward Handley was managing the Patent Brickworks, Burton Road, Lincoln in 1876. He was owner of his own business by 1900 and also amanager of the Willesden & Acton Brick Company in Middlesex. Edward Handley & Sons, Albion Brickworks, Long Leys Road, Lincoln. Kelly's Lincolnshire Directory 1900 - 1905. He died in February 1906. His sons Willaim and Edward junior seem to have carried on the business until it passed into the ownership of the Lincoln Brick Co. Ltd. Handleys also owned a brickworks at Woodside, Croydon, Surrey. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.
Found at Fledborough. Photo by Ian Armstrong.
Photo by Jim Stevens.
Hanford Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent. This business was run by the Glover family from the 1830s until c1870 when it passed to William Adams Peake through his marriage to Emily Glover. This example is likely to be a Glover product. Photo by David KItching.
Hange Blue Brick Works, Tividale, Staffs. Martyn Fretwell writes :- The Hange Blue Brick Works at Tividale, Tipton was owned by Septimus John Sadler & this works is recorded in Kelly's 1904 edition. This is the only listing for the Hange Brick Works. Septimus John Sadler b.1849 together with his son Septimus James Sadler b.1872 also ran another brickworks on Portway Road, Oldbury which Septimus John operated under his own name & he is recorded in Kelly's 1876 to Kelly's 1924 editions. Going back to Kelly's 1860 edition through to Kelly's 1870 edition we find that brothers Samuel Sadler b.1807 & James Sadler b.1817 had owned this Portway Road works & another brickworks at Langley Green, Langley, before James’ son Septimus John Sadler took over the Portway Road works. Photo by Ian Round.
Hangingwater Brick Co., Hangingwater Road, Sheffield, Kelly's Sheffield Directory 1905. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Pocklington is a village near York. Hanks were making bricks & tiles there in the 1880's. Thanks to Andrew Boyce and the Pocklington History website for the photos and information.
Found in a now demolished building in Pocklington. Photo by Leslie Waby.
Unknown maker from the Potteries. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Manufactured and found at Swalwell, near the junction of the river Derwent and the river Tyne. Hannington's were owners of the Axwell Park Colliery, in the vicinity of Swalwell, between the 1880's and 1903. Photos and info by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Juan Valdivia.
Photos by Chris Graham.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Made in Hanwood near Shrewsbury.
Hapton Brick Co. Ltd., Hapton, Accrington, Lancs
1897-8 - Hapton Brick Company Limited built a brick works near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, south of Castle Clough.
1902 - Hapton Brick Company ceased trading. Info by Brian Hartley.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by David Fox.
Charles Harding, Moorfields Brick & Tile Works, Bath. Photo by Johnny Branston.
The Leamington and Lillington Brick Yard Company was advertised in a prospectus of 1883. This stated Messrs Harding and Nicks had for many years successfully carried on one of the three yards to be incorporated into the new company. This will have either been the Victoria Brick & Tile Works or the Leamington Brick Yards. Info by Mark Cranston, photo by Nigel Furniss.
Made in Holmewood, Derbyshire. It is probable that these were made at the colliery, see next entry.
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo
Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Stuart Goodliffe.
Both found at an old brickworks site in Stoke Bruerne near
Towcester, Northants by Nigel Furniss. Harper &
Moores, Lower Delph Brickworks and Colliery, appear in the
1860 directory as Coal Masters, manufacturers of firebricks of all
description, fire clay retorts and other refractory products. They
were in business until 1927.
Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection.
Martyn Fretwell adds :- The closing date of 1927 refers
to the Lower Delph Works & the Company is recorded in Kelly's
at another works at Netherend, Cradley from 1896 until the last
available edition in 1940. In the 1900 edition Joseph Moore is
recorded as Managing Director, followed by Howard J. Moore as M.D.
in 1908. From 1921 to 1940 editions only the company's name &
address are listed. I have a reference from an article by John
Cooksey, who owned this brick, that may relate to Harper &
Moores being still in operation until the 1970's in Cradley.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
HARPER & MOORES FIREBRICK CO. LTD., STOURBRIDGE. T.A.,
"Moores, Lye". T.N., Lye 23 and 3. Established 1834.
High alumina refractories; regenerator packings; fire clay
refractories; ground fireclays.
Trade Names: Alite; Lermer; Plumb.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Mike Graham.
W. Harriman & Co Ld - Blaydon & Eltringham glazed brick, Blaydon, Gateshead. Front & rear frogs
Photos by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Rosie Brock.
Photo by Jonathan Light.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The Harrington Brick Works in West Cumbria was founded in 1859 by John Graham. Photo by Graham Brooks.
Kelly’s 1860 edition lists T. Harrington, exors of, Madresfield, Malvern & at Worcester. A snippet of web information indicates that the Dripsill Works may have been near Callow End Green, Worcester. Info & Photographed at Cawarden Reclamation Yard by Martyn Fretwell.
Francis George Harris, Crockerton, Warminster, Wiltshire appears in Kellys trade directory from 1895 to 1915 as Brick & Tile Maker. Photo and info by Nigel Furniss.
George Harris, Ramsey Heights, Huntingdon, (now Cambridgeshire). Post Office Huntingdonshire Directory 1854. See Ramsey Heights brickworks. Info and photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Stephen Haynes.
Later known as E J & J Pearson (separate entry)
Phot by Colin Woodridge. The history of the company can be read here.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo taken at Ewenny by Richard Paterson.
Recovered by Glamorgan - Gwent Archaeological Trust from the
Cyfarthfa Ironworks Coke Yard site at Merthyr Tydfil - apparently
Stourbridge bricks were favoured by the ironmasters because of
their excellent heat-resistant qualities and because they could be
purchased in special 'sets' for constructing curved structures
such as ovens and culverts - that may explain the protuberances on
the back of the Harris & Pearson Brick. Photo and info
by Richard Paterson.
Photo by Collin Wooldridge.
Photo by Alan Murray-Rust.
Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection.
Photo by Rosie.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
HARRIS & PEARSON LTD., STOURBRIDGE. T.A., "Fireclay,
Stourbridge". T.N., Brierley Hill 7281/2. Established 1852.
Refractories, including high alumina qualities; insulating
refractories; plastic refractory cements.
Trade Names: Harris & Pearson, Stourbridge; Lumen.
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Anslow is a small village 3 miles northwest of Burton upon Trent. Martyn Fretwell writes; Kelly’s Staffs. 1896 to 1908 editions list William Harrison brickmaking at Anslow, Burton. Then it’s Herbert Harrison, Anslow, Burton in Kelly’s 1912 edition. This is followed by Harrison & Co. Anslow, Burton in Kelly’s 1916, same as this brick. There are no more entries after this date. The brickworks is shown on maps dating from 1881 to 1920, but is not on 1938 map. Found at Cawarden Reclamation. Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Ian Castledine.
George King Harrison Ltd., Nagersfield Brickworks and Colliery, Brierley Hill.
George King Harrison was born around 1826. When he left school his father arranged employment with the Stourbridge and Kidderminster Bank, so that he could learn about finance and business. He later went into partnership with his cousin William King Perrins in a fire brick manufacturers previously owned by Joseph & William King at Lye. This became Perrins & Harrison. They built up similar works at Cradley and Wilnecote in Warwickshire as well as collieries. The partners later purchased a small firebrick works at Brettell Lane owned by John Wheeley. When Wheeley later went out of business they acquired his Hawbush estate and very soon the Nagersfield colliery and site. The Hawbush estate supplied a fine quality of clay and the Nagersfield pits soon joined it in providing clay. William Perrins retired in 1875 to leave the business in the sole hands of George King Harrison. The company became George King Harrison Ltd and it is listed at
Brettell Lane, Stourbridge in Kelly's 1888 & 92 editions, and Nagersfield works is added in Kelly's 1896 to 1924
editions.He built an electric railway from the Nagersfield pits to the Brettell Lane works to transport the clay. He died in 1906 but the businesss continued until at least 1960. Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Jason Stott.
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Chris Hall writes from Scarborough: So far
I cannot trace a brick manufacturer in Scarborough with
these initials. I have two theories:
1. The last letter is damaged and it is actually H & H which would be Harrison & Haigh who were listed as brickmakers on Seamer Road Scarborough in 1879, thought to be the same site as that used by William Peacock and later occupied by Scarborough Brick and Tile Company.
2. Haighs brickworks are listed on Seamer Road Scarborough in 1892 (you have a Haigh brick) and may have combined with W C Malton ' see separate entry ' hence H & M before becoming Scarborough Brick & Tile Co. What makes me think this is that between 1913 and 1931 John Malton, one of W C Malton's Sons is listed as the Secretary & manager of Scarborough Brick & tile Co.
At least four locations of brickworks can be gleaned from the trade directories in Harrogate. The Harrogate Red Brick Company is possibly the maker of this brick. Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Image PRBCO.
The 1931 edition of the Directory of Clayworkers records "Harrotex" as a trade name owned and used by the Harrogate Red Brick Co. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Simon Patterson photographed this one at Avoncroft Museum
Photo by Simon Patterson.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Shaw.
Photo by David Kitching.
Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.
Hartley & Co., Red Hill Brickworks, Cemetery Road, Castleford, West Yorks. Founded in 1875 by Joshua Hartley, son of a Wakefield brickmaker. Brick production came to an end in 1969 due to a lack of suitable clay.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Phillip Rothery writes: Trade directories would suggest Hartley Brothers, Outwood, Wakefield listed from 1893 to 1901.
Richard Hartley is listed in Kelly’s 1881 edition as brickmaking in Outwood, Wakefield. This works later operated as Hartley Brothers with Richard’s brother Joshua joining him at the works. Photo by John Fisher & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Hartley Main Colliery Company, New Hartley, Blyth, Northumberland, photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Greg Julian.
BCM stands for British Commercial Monomarks, a company formed in 1925 to provide manufacturers with a London address and mail forwarding service.
Photos by Phil Burgoyne.
Martyn Fretwell writes; I have Found two separate entries for the
Hartshill Brick & Tile Co. which was just off Shelton New
Road, Hartshill. The first listing in Kelly's 1880 to 1916
editions is Hartshill B&T. Co. J & T. Birks, proprietors,
Hartshill, Stoke & the second is Hartshill Brick & Tile
Co. Stoke Old Road, Stoke in Kelly's 1932 to 1940 editions. This
works is still shown on a map dated 1947. Info by Martyn Fretwell. Photos by David Kitching.
Link to
Ken Perkins page on Potteries website showing advert of hand
same as on the brick. It denoted hand made.
Made by William Locke who had kilns at Hartwell near Aylesbury, Stone and Doddershall. William Locke & Son appears in trade directories from 1850 as coal merchants and brick & tile manufacturers. Seen at Aylesbury Museum. Photos and info by Nigel Furniss
Henry Harvey, Wedmore, Somerset. In 1883 Henry Harvey was a coal merchant, corn dealer and contractor at Wedmore and Cheddar. The brick and tile works at that time was run by Charles Savage. OS maps show a brick and tile works to the north-east of the vilage in 1886 and 1904. Henry Harvey is listed as a brick manufacturer at Wedmore, Weston-super-Mare and Cheddar in Kelly's Directory for 1894 and 1897. The site is now shown as Brickyard Farm. Photo by Neil Bannell.
This may be from Norfolk. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
John Haslam, Narrowgate Brow Brickworks, Royton, Oldham - Duncan's Directory 1889. The works was later taken over by Smethursts. Info by Colin Driver, photo by David KItching.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by David Kitching.
Haslingden Brick & Tile Co Ltd., Slate Brickworks, Haslingden, Lancs. The works opened in May 1896 but in October 1898 the business was wound up. A new company was formed in the same year called the New Haslingden Plastic Brick Co. This was wound up on 19th September 1900. Read the history of the works on Bryan Yorke's blog.
Lord Hastings owned Melton Constable Hall in Norfolk &
his estate brickworks is shown on maps dated 1885 through to 1950.
Situated next to the B1110 just south of Swanton Novers the
brickworks was about a mile from the Hall. Photo & Info by
Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Andy Hind.
The Hathern Brick Co. of Loughborough manufactured blue bricks at their Cliff Brickworks near Kingsbury, Tamworth, Staffs. which they took over from Richard Bennett of Derby after his death in late 1885. Kelly's Warks. 1888 edition is the first listing for the Hathern Brick Co. at Cliff. Hathern closed it's Cliff Works in 1969. Today this former Cliff brickworks site is the clay pit to Wienerberger's massive blue brick works which was built on the former Whateley Colliery & Brickworks site. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, found near Thurgarton.
Photo by David Kitching.
The Hathern Station Brick & Terra Cotta Co. was established in 1874 by George & James F. Hodson. I have only found two trade directory entries for the company & they are in Kellys 1876 & 1881 editions as the Hathern Station Brick Co. (pressed white facings) Hathern, Loughborough. Kellys 1881 edition has a half page advert for the company which lists red & white facing bricks, red & white terra cotta, pressed & moulded into 500 patterns & agricultural drain pipes. It became a Limited company in 1902 & then changed its name to Hathernware Ltd. in 1934 with them specialising in terra cotta & faience wares. The works was situated adjacent to the Midland Line Railway Station on Rempstone Road (A6006) and closed in 2004. The site is now an industrial estate. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photos by Frank Lawson.
Hathershaw is a district of Oldham on Ashton Road. Trade directories list William Brooks junior, Hathershaw Brick Works 1875-1880. Image by Jason Stott.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Chas Hattan was one of several brickmakers in the Castleford area. Listed in trade directories at Glasshoughton 1908/ 1912/ 1917 and at Middle Oxford Street 1927 / 1938. Castleford, West Yorkshire. Image PRBCO.
Photo taken by Richard Paterson in Porthcawl. Richard adds: According to the website of Whittleford Park, near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, where the works once stood, the Haunchwood Brick and Tile Works was formed by Mr. James Knox and others in 1870. It is said that 'The business produced a wide variety of ceramic products as well as blue bricks which were renowned for their quality and widely used both throughout Britain and abroad. The clay used for making the bricks was extracted from the Clay Pool area from around 1894, creating a deep pit which later flooded'. Brick and tile manufacture ended in 1970 and the chimneys, kilns and other buildings were demolished the following year.
H. W. is Haunchwood Works. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, found near Thurgarton.
Photo by Jason Stott.
The last image is of a small brick used in fireplace surrounds. Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
This mini brick is known as a brickette and was used for decorative internal brickwork eg. fireplaces etc. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Another miniature brick. Photo by Jason Alsop.
Haunchwood Brick & Tile Co. Ltd., Stockingford, Heath End Road & Griff, Nuneaton. The Haunchwood Brick Company was established at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, in 1875 by a partnership three men and In 1878 it was reorganised into a limited company, the Haunchwood Brick and Tile Company Ltd. The firm had three works in the Nuneaton area: in Haunchwood Road, Stockingford (No. 1 Yard); Heath End Road (No. 2 Yard); and Bermuda Road (No. 3 Yard). Kelly's Warwickshire directory 1876 - 1940. Link to brickworks history on this page
Henry Hawkes was the landowner and took over the works in 1891 and it was known as Henry Hawkes brickworks until its closure in 1957, although it actually lost that title in the 30s. This particular brick came from a fellmongers works where the newest buildings dated from about 1930. Today the pit is filled and leveled and houses built on the kiln area.
Hawkins Colliery was also known as Cannock Old Coppice Colliery
and commenced working c1840. Joseph Hawkins took on the lease in
1869 and the colliery remained under the control of the Hawkins
family until
nationalisation in 1947. The company also opearted a brick and
tile works with adjacent clay pit at Longhouse, adjacent to the
Wyrley and Essington Canal. By the 1920s Henry Hawkins was
advertising a wide range of products from the Longhouse Brick
& Tile Works, Cannock. About 7 million bricks were made
annually using clay mixed with mining spoil. The works continued
in Hawkins' ownership after the colliery was nationalised and
remains in production today under the Eternit name. Photo by Frank Lawson, info
by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Guy Morgan.
Hawkins & Son, Knowle Brickworks, Rowley Regis. This works was certainly being operated by Hawkins in 1878. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
W Hawkyard & Sons Ltd., Victoria Fireclay Works, Elland, West
Yorks. Photos by Jason Stott.
