The Apedale brickyard and the Apedale iron works were built close together. In the Apedale valley there were good stocks of coal, iron and marl. This brick was found in the woods where the brickyard boundary wall can still be seen in the woods. Info by Ken Perkins and photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Ken's bricks can be seen on display at the Apedale heritage centre, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire in the brick and tile exhibition. There are several hundred on display.
Arlesey in Bedfordshire once had six brickworks, none of which remain today. photo kindly supplied by Richard Pike.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photos by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Mike Shaw and by courtesy of the Nick Southwick collection.
The first brick houses in Kingswear were built in the 1870s by Armeson with bricks from his Dartmouth brick works. These were Mount Agra (now The Mount), Agra Villas on Brixham Road, and the present Post Office and houses on the South side of The Square. Photo by Andrew Florey.
George Armitage & Sons Ltd., Robin Hood, Lofthouse, Wakefield. The history of the company has been traced back to 1824 when stonemason John Armitage joined fellow masons to work a quarry at Robin Hood. In 1864 one of his sons established the firm of George Armitage and Sons, also at Robin Hood, and expanded into brick making by exploiting the blue shale or marl which was found along with the sandstone. The Company expanded to open several brickmaking sites around the Leeds and Wakefield area including Woodlesford, Lofthouse, Morley & Swillington. In 1988 the brickmaking business was sold to Marshalls of Halifax and from them it passed to the Hanson Group.
Bricks impressed with the Armitage name may of come from any of their works.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Thanks to Colin Butler and Martyn Fretwell for the contribution.
Probably made at Armitage Brickworks, Woodkirk, Leeds. Photos by Simon Patterson
A delightful Armitage brick from 1954, photo by David Fox.
Photo by Darren Haywood.
A Coronation commemorative brick.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Frank thinks the V may be the wartime 'V for Victory'.
Photo by David Fox.
Photos by Frank Lawson. This is the back of a decorative Armitage brick.
J Armitage is listed as early as 1857 at Hunshelf Bank, Penistone
& Sheffield. Deepcar is listed as a yard by 1861, continuing
over the years as an expanding enterprise including lime kilns at
Wicker in Sheffield, finally listed as John Armitage & Son in
1901. By 1904 the concern is listed as Armitage Works Company
at Deepcar and can be found as late as 1936 in Kelly West Riding,
but not in Clay Products Directory 1961/1962. Image PRBCO.
The reverse of the J ARMITAGE & SON brick is marked
MANCHESTER/SHEFFIELD, possibly as a result of being connected on the
railway line linking these two cities at Deepcar. It is possible
Armitage had concerns in Manchester.Image PRBCO.
Reverse of the JA brick. Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photos by Geoffrey Armitage.
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A new brick made by Ibstock at Bexhill, E. Sussex, found at Pevensey Bay by Simon Patterson.
Found around the Hayling Island / Langstone Harbour shoreline in
Hampshire by Tony Russell.
Photo by Ken Evans.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The Ash Grove Brick & Fireclay Co seems to have been established in the late 19th century. In 1899 the business was advertising 'Good red bricks, also fire bricks and prepared ganister'. The site was taken over by W T Knowles & Sons Ltd which continues to produce pipes and chimneypots at Ash Grove Sanitary Pipe Works, Elland Road, Elland. Photo by Chris Shaw.