Oldfield Colliery in Fenton and its associated brickworks was owned by Balfour & Co in the 1880s. The colliery passed on to another company, Lane End Works Ltd. by 1889. Photos by Tim Lawton.
Ballard & Co. are listed in Kellys 1876 to 1884 editions at Stapenhill, Burton on Trent. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
S Balm & Sons, Denholme, West Yorkshire. Denholme lies on the
Keighley - Halifax Road.
Date of operation c1875. Image PRBCO.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
ellys Durham Directory for 1914 lists Barker & Co, Bowburn brick works, Quarrington, Coxhoe. Tom Barker won a handball championship in front of 7,000 people in the early 1900s. He used his winnings to establish a brickworks on the site of Bowburn's first colliery. Barker offered the works for sale in January 1916 when he stated that it was capable of producing 10,000 bricks per day. B C B could stand for Barker Co Bowburn or Bowburn Colliery Brickworks. Photo by Chris Tilney
Brickworks operated c1895 - 1905 and listed as James Barker, Ingleton Fireclay Works in Kelly 1897 and Robinson 1904. 'Barker also built brick kilns in Great Milner Field above Dolands and produced bricks with BARKER / INGLETON inscribed in the frog'. Source: Bentley, Bond & Gill, Ingleton Coalfield, 2005, Northern Mine Research Society. Ingleton, North Yorkshire. Image PRBCO.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by David Kitching.
Formed in 1909 a consortium of local business men trading as PH Haaggensen & Co. re-opened Cottam No. 2 Colliery, Barlborough near Chesterfield, renaming it Hazel Colliery. The associated brickworks operated as the Barlborough & Cottam Brick Co. Ltd. & this company is listed in Kelly’s 1912 & 14 editions. The colliery closed in 1914, but the brickworks remained open until 1917 & was operating as the Barlborough Brick Co. when it closed. Photo by Frank Lawson, information by Simon Patterson and Martyn Fretwell.
Derek Barker writes: It appears that there were four 19th century Northamptonshire brick-makers called Barlow. Two brothers, Frederick & Charles Barlow, owned a brick field in Burton Latimer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Frederick Barlow also owned a brickworks at Rothwell to say nothing of steam joinery works, lime-kilns at Rushton and a monumental masons workshop and branch office in Horsemarket, Kettering. His brother, Charles Barlow, evidently became involved with Burton Latimer's business and civic development. He seems to have owned and exploited iron stone in the area and also to have owned several shops.
The brothers probably made the illustrated brick but there were also Edward Barlow, brick & tile maker of Stamford Road, Kettering and another Charles Barlow, brick-maker of Scaldwell. He is present in the censuses for Scaldwell from 1861-1891 as a brick & tile maker, and must have been born in 1834.
Probably: - Edward Barlow (and from 1898, Frederick Barlow), Stamford Road & Rothwell, Kettering. Kelly's Northamptonshire Directory 1890 - 1910
Possibly: -
Either - Joseph Barlow, Moulton, Northampton.
Or - Charles Barlow, Scaldwell, Northampton.
Or - C Barlow, Burton Latimer, Kettering.
All of whom appear in the Northamptonshire Trade Directories at various times from 1890 to 1914
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Alfred Barlow was a significant building contractor in the Potteries and surrounding areas in the 1860s. He was responsible for the building of the Wedgwood Institute in Burslem amongst many other public buildings. He is listed as a brick manufacturer in a trade directory for 1865 at Railway Works, Stoke-on-Trent. His business got into some financial difficulties in April 1868 with liabilities of £27,000. It appears that arrangements were agreed to deal with his cash flow problems and the business continued until his death in late 1868 or early 1869. The Railway Works was situated at the junction of the Derby and Stafford branches of the North Staffordshire Railway and close to Stoke roundhouse loco shed. At this location were Barlow's workshops but I doubt there was a brickworks. Either he had a works elsewhere or the bricks were made for him by another manufacturer. I suspect the latter. Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Nathan Barlow was operating a brickworks at Portland Street in Hanley in 1879 and this brick probably came from this works when he was operating in partnership with Henry Faija in the late 1860s/early 1870s. Henry Faija was an engineer who came from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1868 and became managing partner at the Railway Foundry Company, Stoke-on-Trent. During this period he was engaged in constructing bridges and other works for the North Staffordshire and Market Drayton Railways. I wonder whether the demand for bricks to construct these railways led Faija to go into the brick manufacturing industry with Barlow. He removed to London in 1871 where he set up as an engineer on his own account. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Nathan Barlow was operating from Portland Street in Hanley between 1879 and 1887 but does not appear in trade directories for 1875 or 1896. In 1889 he is listed as Nathan Barlow, Boothen Brick and Marl Company, Cobridge. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Ken Perkins.
Photos by Jason Stott.
Barratt's Bury Directory 1880: - Barnes Henry (exors. of), grocers, butchers and brickmakers, Pits o' th' Moor, Bury. Info by Frank Lawson, photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Daniel Whitehouse.
Edward Barnett is listed in Kellys 1872 edition at Pelsall &
Walsall Wood. Then Kellys 1876 edition records Edward Barnett at the
Springfield Blue Brick & Tile Works, Walsall Wood, Walsall &
at Pelsall. In the 1892 edition the Springfield Works address is
given as Stubbers Green, Walsall. Kellys 1900 to 08 editions records
Edward Barrnett (exors of) at the Springfield Works. Info &
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Tim Lawton.