Found in Sutton-in-Ashfield by Martyn Fretwell who notes ; Thomas Slack of Grange Cottage, Sutton in Ashfield is recorded as brickmaker in Kelly's 1883 to 1899 editions.
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Benjamin Rogers Slape & Sons, Croford, Wiveliscombe - Kelly's Directory, 1889 & 1895. Photos by Ian Williams.
Photos by Adrian Watson.
Martyn Fretwell writes: William Henry Slater and Joseph Slater's works were in operation at Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby between 1860 and 1887, and in Denby between 1874 and 1941. Photo by Ian Castledine.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Found in Scrooby, Notts by Alan Murray-Rust.
Photo by Ken Perkins.
John Slater, Brick & Lime Works, South Elmsall, West Yorks. - Kelly's Directory of West Yorkshire 1893, info by Frank Lawson.
Thomas Henry & George Small, Kilburn - The Brickyard Lane brickworks was associated with Kilbourne Colliery, which had been sunk by & on land owned by John Ray of Heanor Hall between 1828 & 1830. John Ray then leased the colliery & brickworks to Thomas Henry & George Small in 1854. They continued as owners or lessees until 1839. Photos by Frank Lawson, info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Ian Castledine.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
It appears that James Smart Smart took over Flavell’s Halesowen blue brick works at Heywood, so I expect this is where
this blue brick was made as he only made red bricks at his
California Works. James Smart is listed in Kelly's 1867 to 1892
editions at the California Works, Northfield, Birmingham. The 1895 & 97 editions reads James Smart & Sons. The 1899 to 1915 editions now reads Smart's Brickworks Limited, California &
Lappal Tunnel Red Brick & Quarry Works, Northfield via
Quinton. Smart had taken over the Lappal Tunnel Works from John
Garlick who had gone bankrupt. I then have a gap in trade
directories & the 1940 edition reads Smart's Brickworks
Limited, Barnes Hill, Quinton. This Barnes Hill address is the
same works as the California Works & it closed in the 1950's. Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell from the Chris Thornburn
Collection.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the John Baylis Collection.
T & J Smart are first recorded in Kelly's 1900 edition at Ludlow Hill Brick Works, with offices at 21 Radcliffe Road, West Bridgford, Nottm. In the 1904 edition the works are listed as Melton Road & then in the 1916 to 1925 editions the entry is Trent Bridge (Offices) & Ludlow Hill, Melton Road, West Bridgford. From the 1928 edition the Ludlow Hill works address only continues until the last available directory in 1941. Photos and info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Owen Smedley is listed in Kelly’s 1881 edition at Duffield, Derbys. Kelly’s 1891 edition records Owen Smedley had now moved to a brickworks in Loscoe. Kelly’s 1925 edition is the last entry for Smedley at Loscoe. Photos and info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
S & J Smethurst, Lowside Brickworks, Glodwick, Oldham. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Jeremy Nutter.
Photo by John Ogden.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Image by PRBCO.
Photo by David Fox.
Images by Jason Stott.
Photos by John Ogden.
S & J Smethurst, Grimbies Brick Works, Rochdale Road, Oldham. The 1890s OS maps show a works with a Hoffman type oval kiln adjacent to the junction of Booth Hill Lane and Godson Street. In 1869 John Smethurst is listed as owner of Salmon Field Colliery, Royton, Oldham. This was a short distance to the north-east of the brickworks. Info and photo by David Kitching.
London Gazette 16th February 1906: - NOTICE is hereby
given, that the Partnership heretofore
subsisting between us the undersigned , Samuel Smethurst and
Joseph Smethurst, carrying on business as contractors and
Brickmakers, at Grimbies Brickworks, Rochdale Road, Oldham, in
the county of Lancaster, under the style or firm of S. AND J.
SMETHURST, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the
thirtieth day of December, 1905. All debts due to and owing by
the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Samuel
Smethurst. Dated this twelfth day of February, 1906.
SAML. SMETHURST. JOSEPH SMETHURST
Info by Frank Lawson.
Spotted by Richard Paterson in Taunton.
Alfred J Smith, West Town, Backwell, is listed in a trade directory for 1894. He was mainly a coal merchant in the south Bristol area. Found in Shepton Mallet and photographed by Daniel Hughes.
John Thomas Smith,Tyldesley Old Road,Atherton. Made at Swan Island brickworks.
Photo by Alasdair Smith.
James Smith & Co., Skiers Spring Brickworks, Hoyland, Barnsley. It seems that the brickworks was established by James Smith in around 1876 on land close to Lidgett Colliery leased from the Earl Fitzwilliam of Wentworth Woodhouse. He quickly went into partnership with various men including a Thomas Hitchmough before continuing with the business in his own name. It is likely that the works later passed into the ownership of the Earl Fitzwilliam as it produced bricks with the initials EFW impressed in them (see under Skiers Spring). Photos and info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Andrew Richards.
Photo by Chris Shaw.
Thanks to Ian Castledine for the photo.
Photo by Simon Patterson.
Photo by Andrew Morley.
Photo by Andrew Richards.
Herbert B. Smith is listed in Kelly's 1880 to 1892 editions; works, Ashby Road, Winshill, Burton. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Probably made in Brook, Surrey. Photo by Richard Symonds
Robert Smith is listed at Bunwell,
Attleboro, Norfolk in Kelly’s 1865 to 1879 editions. Kelly’s 1888 edition reads R. Smith exors
of. The entry is then James Eldon Smith, Bunwell, Attleboro in Kelly’s 1892 to 1908 editions. The
brickworks was to the south east of the village, on the other side of Bunwell Wood & is no longer
shown on the 1926 OS map. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Peter Smith is listed at Woodbridge Road, Framlingham & at Badingham, Suffolk in Kellys 1879 to 1896 editions. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Ed Smith (never called Edward) was a Kenilworth builder with his own quarry and brickworks, Kenilworth's first mechanical brickworks, known to have had a "steam clay machine" in 1868. It left the Smith family around the time of WW1. Earliest year of producing 'named' bricks unknown but this sample comes from a building dating from 1895-1900. The brickworks site is now a tennis club. Thanks to Robin Leach for the photo and info.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Front and back of same brick, photos by Ray Martin.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Rachel Anne Smith.
Raunds Manor Brickworks (1898 - 1974). This was the last surviving Brickworks in Northamptonshire and still produced hand- made bricks. Between 1881 and 1883 the Raunds Ironstone & Limestone Co. worked the iron ore from this area. However the ore was low quality and in 1898 the site was taken over by E. Smith & Sons, and a Brickworks was erected comprising 3 drying sheds and a huge updraught kiln holding 80,000 bricks. Clay was originally brought up to the works by a 2' 0" gauge tramway on which ran steel side-tipping wagons built by Robert Hudson and hauled by 2 diesel locos. After about 1920 2 circular and 1 rectangular downdraught kilns were built. The works also contained a machine for making simulated hand-made bricks, made by Berry & Sons of Southend. Photo and info by Nigel Furniss.
Found in Hartlepool. This may be a product of G F Smith who had several different works in the Stockton area between 1851 and 1897. Photo by Chris Tilney.
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Photo by Graham Fellows.
Made in Halesworth, Suffolk. Photo by Tom Langton.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
T Smith, Clarence Brickworks, Billingham, 1855 - 1906. Photo by Steven Tait.
This paver was found at East Bridgford, Notts. Photo by Sam Stiling.
William Smith is listed in Slater’s 1868 edition as brickmaker at the Atlas Brickworks, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. These bricks were found during the recent renovation of "The Old Chapel" in Gotherington near Cheltenham, which is now a community centre serving the village. Photos by Eddie McLarnon & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
R Smithson & Son, Ovingham, Prudhoe, Northumberland listed in Kelly's Northumberland Directory 1914. Info by Frank Lawson.
The works of the Smithy Bridge Brick Company at Hollingworth Lake was subject to a dispersal sale in June 1874. Info by Mark Cranston and photos by Jason Stott.
Photo by David McNicholas.
Sneyd Colliery & Brickworks Company was operated by Messrs. C.and J. May from 1844. In 1875 it was purchased by Messrs. William Heath, Arthur Dean and W. A. M. Telwright, and was converted into a limited liability company in 1881. Glazed bricks were a speciality of the company, which traded into the 1960s. Info by David Kitching.
Photographed on the seashore at Crosby, Merseyside. Closed in 1962, details here.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Roger Grimshaw, taken at Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke on Trent.
Note the Staffordshire 'knot' on the top of the brick. Photo by Ray Martin.
Front and back of Sneyd brick by Mike Shaw.
Photos taken by Mike Shaw at a building refurbishment site in
Shrewsbury.
Photo by Jeremy Nutter.
Photos by Phil Burgoyne.
This example is in the door lining of a small kiln at the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Silvia Colloseus.
Photo by Patrick Jones.
Photo by Henry Lisowski.
Photo by Mike Graham.
Photos by Steven Tait.
Photo by Arthur Brickman.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Found in the remains of a kiln on the site of the Liddle-Henzell
Glass Works in Newcastle by Dave Ashford.
Snowball Firebrick Works, Derwenthaugh, Gateshead. James
Snowball, Fire-brick and glazed Sanitary Pipe Manufacturers,
Stourbridge, near Pipewellgate. Gateshead.
After being a grocer for 12 years, James Snowball acquired a brick factory around 1853 & he is listed as being in partnership with Watson Walker in Slaters 1855 edition as Walker & Snowball (fire) at the New Stone Bridge Fire Brick Works, Gateshead. The 1856 OS map shows this works as the Stourbridge Firebrick & Sanitary Pipe Works & was situated in Stourbridge near Pipewellgate, Gateshead. The New Stone Bridge referred to in this entry was the original Redheugh stone bridge. The London Gazette dated 22nd October 1861 records that Watson Walker, a Spirit Merchant was declaring himself bankrupt & that he had been in partnership with James Snowball as Fire-brick & Sanitary Glazed Pipe Manufacturers at Stourbridge near Pipewellgate, Gateshead. James continues to operate this works on his own & he is listed in the 1861 census as a Fire Brick Manufacturer employing 15 men & living with his family at 25, High Street West, Gateshead. James continued to expand his business acquiring several collieries & in or around 1865 opened a new fire brick works at Derwent Haugh, Swalwell. The 1871 census lists James Snowball as a Coal Owner & Pipe Manufacturer. James passes away in 1879 and the business is then run by his son George Harrison Snowball (1846-1911). Kelly’s 1883 edition records that George Snowball of 10 Park Terrace was still running his business as James Snowball & Sons, Fire Brick Manufacturers, Swalwell. George was joined in the business by his brother James junior (1850 -1911). Both brothers died in 1911 and the Derwent Haugh Works, Swalwell closed in 1925. The census records show that George Harrison Snowball had nine sons and that son 2, George Harrison Snowball junior (b.1874) was a Brick Manufacturers Clerk in 1901 census, alas I have not found the 1911 census for him. However the 1901 census does record that he was now going by the name of Harrison Snowball. Then son 8, Malcolm (b.1886) is listed as a Works Manager at a Fire Brick Manufactory in the 1911 census. With finding at least two brothers were running their Grandfathers’ business Kelly’s 1914 Durham edition reads Snowball Brothers, Fire Brick Makers, Swalwell. Therefore it appears the works closed in 1925 with the Snowball family still in charge. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Snydale Colliery & Brickworks, Featherstone, West Yorks. The Colliery And Brickworks were owned by Henry Briggs & Sons and later by Whitwood Collieries Ltd. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.
The Somerset Brick & Tile Company was established before 1883 and is listed in Kelly's directory from 1889 to 1939. In 1886 Clifford Gyfford Cogan is listed as proprietor, with the works situated at Evercreech Junction. Photo by Neil Bannell.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Southdown Brickworks in Cornwall was opened in 1888 by the South Down Metal, Chemical and Brick Co, later separating into the Southdown Brick Co. In 1914 it amalgamated with other brickworks in the area to form the Western Counties Brick Co which was taken over in 1928 by Westbrick Products Ltd. Closure came in 1956 due to deteriorating quality of the ground slate raw material. Photos by David Kitching, part of the
collection at Wheal Martyn
China Clay Museum.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Ian Williams.
Thought to be South Brancepeth Colliery at Page Bank, County Durham. Photo by Steven Tait.
South Elmsall Brick Co. Ltd., Doncaster Road, South Elmsall, West Yorks.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photos by Tony Gray.
Photo by Jessica Walker.
Photo by Steve Smith.
South Medomsley Colliery was also known as Pontop Hall Colliery. Photo by Ian Hunter.
South Moor colliery was near Annfield Plain, County Durham. Link to details. Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Southerns & Watson were in business as firebrick manufacturers at the Tyne Firebrick Works at Dunston. Their partnership was operating by 1849 and was dissolved in June 1855. In July 1855 Mr G W Southern was advertising for contractors to manufacture 30,000 firebricks at the Dunston works. Southerns & Watson are also listed as firebrick manufacturers, 29 Quay Side, Newcastle, in the 1855 Slater's Directory.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Lisa Cullingworth.
Listed as the Southwater Brick, Tile, Terra Cotta, Pipe & Clay Co. Ltd at 52, North Street, Horsham in Kelly's 1915 edition. The works had been taken over by the Sussex Brick & Estates Co in 1907. In 1930 it was re-named The Sussex Brick Co. Ltd. and in 1935 it was joined by a Dorking firm to become the Sussex & Dorking United Brick Cos. Ltd. After 1958 the company became part of Redland Bricks Ltd. The Southwater Works closed in 1981 and the site is now a country park. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Both photographed by Simon Patterson in Bexhill.
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This one does have a B instead of an S as it's first letter, not surprisingly they are very uncommon!
Photos by courtesy of the Richard Symonds collection.
Caroline Cowen writes: The bricks by the Rolling Track Walls and around the Mulberry harbour construction platforms at the historic D-Day preparation/departure area at Lepe Beach, Hampshire, are all spelled Bouthwater, with a good majority in good condition
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Martin Light.
Photo by David Sallery.
Made at Shincliffe Colliery, County Durham. Thanks to David Oliver for the info. Photos by Vladimir Smirnov.
John Speakman & Sons Ltd,. Bedford Colliery, Leigh, Lancs. Kelly's Directory 1924. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
G W Spence manufactured firebrick at Monwearmouth in the 1870s. Photos by Steven Tait.
The tile was found at Harlestone kiln which is on the edge of Harlestone House Park, of which Earl Spencer was Lord of the Manor. Charles Robert Spencer (1857 - 1922) would have had control of the kilns on his land. The kiln at Harlestone has 5 fire holes per side, a tiled roof & is of the downdraught type, still in remarkable condition for its age. Known operating dates are 1883 - 1901. Photos and info by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Spinkhill is a small village to the north of Renishaw in Derbyshire
Photographed at Corris
by Martyn Fretwell.
The Spring Vale Fire Clay Co. Darwen is recorded in Grace's Guide as being owned by Thomas Knowles Ltd, who were sanitary ware manufacturers producing salt glazed pipes & fittings, cattle & pig troughs, horse mangers, waste water closets, latrines & urinals, patent manholes, patent outlet pipes for gas cookers & Knowles' patent golf sand boxes. The company was acquired by the Hepworth Iron Co. in 1962. Photo by Jason Stott.
The works was situated at Springwell in County Durham. Louis Cuthbert Ridley esquire of 33 Grainger Street West, Newcastle was proprietor/director of several different companies during his career. Louis C Ridley and Co Ltd operated as brick, tile and pipe makers at Springwell brickworks through the Springwell Stone and Brick Co Ltd.
Lee Hudson of Stanton Croft and Co was appointed Receiver of the company in 1908 and it was wound up in 1910. Photo by Steve Bell.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Anthony E Gray.
Photo by Andrew Morley.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The Stafford Coal & Iron Co. had collieries and brickworks in Stoke-on-Trent in the area close to the Great Fenton Collieries & Ironworks complex. First listing of the brickworks comes in Kellys trade directory for 1888 and In 1908 there were nine beehive kilns on site. The colliery (renamed Stafford Colliery) closed in early 1969, but the closure date for the brickworks isn't known. The bricks were certainly of a high quality, and are still very prevalent over North Staffordshire. The actual location of the brickworks was just across the access road to Stoke City's Britannia Stadium and the site has now been heavily redeveloped with nothing remaining to reveal its previous use.
Photo by Mike Shaw and by courtesy of the Nick Southwick collection
Photo by Alan Davies.
Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photographed at Blaydon on Tyne by Chris Tilney.
Found in south-east Durham by Chris Tilney.
Stairfoot Brick Co., Wombwell Lane, Stairfoot, Barnsley, S.Yorks. Stairfoot Brickworks has had several owners including the Stairfoot Brick Co., the Yorkshire Brick Co. and finally the Hanson Group which mothballed the works in 2008 with demolition soon following. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Ian Castledine.
Stampley Moss Brick Works, Winlaton, Blaydon on Tyne. This works does not appear on the 1895 OS Map and is shown disused by 1914. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Standard Brickworks, Willenhall Road, Moseley Village, Willenhall. The works was operated by Howard & Davies c.1924, then a name change to the Howard Standard Brickworks Ltd c.1940. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Standard, Pelaw, Gateshead, Co. Durham. A product of William Foster's 'Standard' Brickworks, established in the early 1900's to produce the raw materials for the building of the New Town associated with the establishment of the CWS (Co-operative Wholesale Society) Works at Pelaw. Info by Arthur Brickman, photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Graham.
The Stanfield Colliery Company in Burslem appears as a brick
manufacturer in the trade directories from 1872 to 1879. In 1872 the
manager is listed as William Heath who was part owner in partnership
with a Mr Norris from at least 1869 and later with Samuel and
William Tellwright who were from the mid 1870s to become brickmakers
in their own right at other locations. At the end of 1874 Heath and
Tellwright sold their business and a limited company was formed with
big ambitions but probably little yield, indeed it was in
liquidation by September 1876. The collieries around Stanfield were
badly affected by flooding in the 1880s and all closed as a
consequence. Stanfield Colliery appears to have been abandoned in
September 1885 and the brickworks is likely to have closed before
then. Photos and info by David Kitching and Ken Perkins.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Neville Akers.
Stanley, County Durham.
John Barber, Stanley, Derbys. Found near Stanley village, north east of Derby. White's History and Gazetteer of 1856 mentions a John Barber at Stanley and his occupation as a brick maker and coal owner. It can therefore be assumed that he owned the brickyard and also the land where the pit was later dug. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Alan Baxter.
Spotted by Simon Patterson on the top of a wall at Egmanton, North Nottinghamshire.
found by Nigel Furniss near Gayton on the old SMJR railway line.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by David Kitching. Link to brickworks history here.
Photo by Jason Alsop.
Stanton Ironworks Co. Ltd., Stanton Brick Works, Derby Road,
Ilkeston, Derbys. Kelly's Derbyshire Directory
1932/1936/1941. Photo by Antony Meadows and info by Frank Lawson.
Found in N. E. Derbyshire by Simon Patterson.
info found at Matlock Archives - Martyn Fretwell writes: This brickworks on Derby Road, Ilkeston was originally owned by the Oakwell Red & Blue Brick Co. Kelly's 1916 to 1928 & is then recorded as Stanton Ironworks Co. Ltd. Stanton Brickworks, Derby Road, Ilkeston in Kelly's 1932 to 1941 editions, 1941 being the last Trade Directory at Matlock Archives. SIC = Stanton Ironworks Company.
Found at Easton on the Hill ironstone mine near Stamford, Lincs by Ian.
The Star Pressed Brick Co traded from a works at Dogsthorpe, Peterborough from 1899. This was bought in 1915 by the Dogsthorpe Star Brick Co which was incorporated in 1913. There was also the Star Pressed Brick Co at Kings Dyke, Whittlesey which had bought its works in 1909. These works were all absorbed into the London Brick Company in 1923/24. More history here. Photo by Ian Armstrong who found this in Retford.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
George Ball is listed as owner of the Star Brick Works in Linthorpe,
Middlesbrough in Bulmer's 1890 edition. Photo by Tony Gray, info by Martyn
Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Martyn Fretwell writes :- George Hill & Sons are listed in Kelly's 1913 edition as owning the Station Brickworks in Ledbury. Also see George Hill, Ledbury entry.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the John Baylis
Collection in Birmingham.
Single brick found at Cawarden Reclamation Yard. Traced from List of Mines 1880 to Station Colliery Co. located to west of Bloxwich. Mine had closed by 1880 but 1885 map shows brick works with four rectangular kilns and main building located adjacent to canal. Later map of 1903 shows brick works had expanded with adjacent marl hole and truck track. By 1913, all buildings had been demolished and map only shows Old Clay Pit. Not recorded in Kellys directories or in London Gazette. Photo and info by Ray Martin.
Photo by Nigel Furniss.
From Chesterfield in Derbyshire, Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photos
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, found at Barlow near Chesterfield.
The Staveley Iron & Chemical Co. was formerly a subsidiary of Staveley Coal & Iron Company, being nationalised in 1951. In 1960 the company was sold to Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd for six million pounds and it then merged with the Stanton Iron Works Co. to form Stanton and Staveley.
Photo by David Kitching.
Mark Cranston advises that the business of John Stead and Co., at Jarrow were listed as brick and tile manufacturers. The business was carried on in partnership by John Stead and William Pawson of Tweedmouth. The partnership had ended before December 1862 when Pawson was adjudged bankrupt. Photo by Tony Gray.
Found in West Yorkshire, photo by David Fox. The likely maker is Thomas Stead who was listed in the 1851 census as aas a brickmaker at Wortley, Leeds. In 1861 whilst still at Wortley he is listed as a fire brickmaker. In Whites 1881 directory Thomas Stead is listed as a brick manufacturer at Quarry Gap. Pudsey.
The Steele Family appear as brickmakers at Clayton Street in Longton in trade directories between 1860 and 1866. Photo by Ken Perkins.
Photo by Britta Holmes.
Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.
Photo by Liz Robinson.
Photos by Steven Tait.
Coke ovens of the Stella Coal Company and Joseph Cowan existed here in the late 19th century on both the west and east sides of the Tyne. The Stella Coal Company and Joseph Cowen also had a staith here, as did the Consett Iron Company. A guano works and a bone mill once flourished here too. A row of houses with the Skiff Inn at one end once existed at Derwenthaugh, and famed oarsman (and boatbuilder) Harry Clasper once lived and worked here. Thanks to George for the history.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Found near Exmouth by Simon Fogg. The works was possibly in the Bristol area.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photos by Mark Cranston.
Photo by Gary Featherstone.
Frank Lawson adds: Stephenson - (Throckley Coal Co. Throckley, Northumberland). "Throckley Brick and Tile Works. Mr W Stephenson had established a brick and tileworks near the Maria coal pit by 1849, making firebricks, common bricks, quarls, field drainage tiles and soles. Early handmade firebricks were marked 'W.S.& Sons, Throckley', or 'Stephenson, Newcastle'. In the 1920s a new grinding plant was installed and two new brick machine presses. The brickyard eventually had 34 Newcastle-type kilns. In 1951, these kilns were replaced by a 20-chamber Staffordshire transverse-arch kiln, and produced six million bricks per year. A tunnel kiln was built in 1965 and the works modernised by the Northern Brick Company. The Throckley yard is the only survivor of a group of 26 brickworks that were owned by the National Coal Board in 1947. In 1973, Gibbons (Dudley) Ltd took over the remaining nine brickworks and by 1977 only Throckley and Cramlington were still working."
Photo by Martin Briscoe.
Thanks to Andrew Gardner for the photo.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steven Tait.
These last two images show a Stephenson brick stamped C M on the reverse. Photos by Chris Graham.
Hugh Stewart is recorded as being in partnership with James
Greenfield, owning the Denby Brick, Tile & Terra Cotta Works,
Denby from 1869 to 1874. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Ian Castledine.
Joseph Lee Stinson started his business at at Brockmoor, Brierley Hill
in and ran this until 1880 when he went into partnership with Henry Cross. Photo by Martyn
Fretwell.
Photo by David Fox.
Henry Stobart & Co. Ltd. owned a number of collieries in Durham including Newton Cap and Woodhouses Collieries in Bishop Auckland. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Derek Barker is certain it was made in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. In the late 19th century the names of James Richardson, and then James Lomas, were associated with Stonefall Brickworks, Wetherby Road. In the first three decades of the 20th century the brickworks formed part of the Harrogate Red Brick Company. Finally, in the period 1938-1965, it was subsumed within the Allied Brick & Tile Company (1938-65) whose brickmarks of [ALLIED] and [AB&T LTD] are already on this website.
Both sides of a Stonehouse brick below.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Ray Martin.
Photo by Guy Morgan.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
STOTAM was a trade mark of the long-established firm of Stoneware Ltd of Dosthill near Tamworth. The extensive works manufactured stoneware pipes and gullies as in this example. They also made firebricks under the trade names of KETHER and ZENTITH, red facings, common blue and brindle bricks, roofing tiles and ridge tiles. The business seems to have closed in the 1980s. Info by Brian Yates, photos by Hamish Fenton.
This firebrick was found near Caerphilly, photo by Richard Paterson.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Alan Murray-Rust, found on a farm near Keyworth.
Photo by Steven Tait.
S G B, Dudley. Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the John Baylis
Collection.
STOURBRIDGE FIRE-CLAY has a world-wide reputation, and its importance in the manufacture of fire-bricks, glasshouse pots, and for a variety of other-purposes in connection with the Industrial Arts need not be enlarged upon. Its chief value consists in its refractory character, which enables it to resist the highest temperatures without melting. Thanks to Darren Haywood for the contribution.
Stourbridge Red & White Glazed bricks - Stourbridge Glazed
Brick & Fire Clay Co. Ltd. - Info by Martyn Fretwell:
In 1892, Thomas Clulee sold the Thornleigh Fire Brick Works
and Colliery at Blowers Green to the newly formed Stourbridge
Glazed Brick and Fire Clay Co. Ltd. which was owned by Fred Clark,
his son, F.E. Clark & Thomas J. Hill. This new
Company is listed in Kelly's 1896 to 1932 editions at the
Thornleigh Works, Holly Hall near Dudley. The Clark
family purchased another brick yard in Moor Lane, Brierley
Hill & this was one of the last yards to be built in the Black
Country. In 1903 the company owned 40 kilns
producing glazed bricks, glazed wall tiles, glazed patent
partition bricks & sanitary ware, employing 350
workers. In 1935 the company was sold to S.G.B. (Dudley)
Ltd. & is recorded at Blower's Green, Dudley in Kelly's 1936
& 40 editions. During the early 1960's, S.G.B. (Dudley)
Ltd, in its turn became a subsidiary of Thornleigh Building
Industries Ltd. which was then in 1966, taken over by a company
called Five Oaks. This new company only lasted two years &
went into voluntary liquidation, closing in 1968. So this ended
150 years of fireclay production at the Thornleigh Works.
Michael Raybould found this one in Barmouth. The PH could stand for Peares Howson?
Photo by Anne Jeffcoat.
A County Durham brick
Found on Bishopthorpe Road in York by Don Boldison.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by John Harrison.
Photo by David Ranson.
Photo by David Ranson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo. Martyn Fretwell writes: Walter Straw, brick & earthenware manufacturer of Mansfield Road, Forest Side, Sutton in Ashfield is recorded in White's Directory 1888.
G & H Strongitharm of Daw End Brick Works near Walsall. The business was advertising Superior Red Bricks (Common and Pressed), also Tiles, Quarries, and Agricultural Drain Pipes in the Walsall Observer, 18, December 1880. Photo by Martin Collins.
Barry Wilson rescued this one from the bed of the River Cam in
Cambridge.
Ernest S. Styles is listed as brickmaker at Colne Road, Goggeshall, Essex in Kelly’s 1912 to 1925 edition. Styles had taken over this works from Harry Saunders. See Saunders entry. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.