Samuel Barnett & Sons, Rattle Chain & New Stour Valley Brick
Works, Dudley Port, Staffs., Common Reds, Brindles & Blue Bricks. Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Barnett & Beddows Ltd., Atlas Brick, Pipe & Tile Works, Stubbers Green, Aldridge, Walsall, Staffs. Kelly's Staffordshire Directory 1900 - 1940. Atlas was their trade name. It is thought that Barnett & Beddows was formed through a partnership of Walsall brickmakers as prior to the 1900 directory John Beddow and Edward Barnett operated as independent brickmakers in the Aldridge area. At some time in their history Barnett & Beddows incorporated both the Hamblet Blue Brick Co of West Bromwich and the Manners Brick Co of Eastwood, Notts. The works is still operating as part of the Wienerberger empire. Info & photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Deacon.
Photo by David Kitching.
Spotted in Riddings, Derbyshire by Martyn Fretwell
Photo by Steve Dewhirst.
Martyn Fretwell notes that the Coronation of Edward VII should have taken place on the 26th June, but was delayed because the King took ill two days before the event it eventually took place on the 9th August 1902.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Sue Hogan,
Barnsley Metallic Brick Co. Ltd, Summer Lane, Barnsley, South Yorks. It seems that the company was founded by a John William Bottomley in around 1904 and was in his ownership until his death in 1929. The London Gazette records that the company was dissolved in 1936. Photos and info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Simon Patterson.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Jud Hirst.
Made at the site formerly operated by the Langley Barony Fire Clay Co. The Langley Brickworks, south-east of Haydon Bridge in the Tyne Valley, made high-quality glazed sanitary ware trademarked 'Baronite'. After this finished the works was taken over by Gordon Wardle of Haltwhistle who used local shale to make red facing bricks until 1958. Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
The London Gazette for 28th March 1848 has a notice referring to the firm of Barrass and Company at Heddon Fire Brick Works, Heddon on the Wall, Northumberland. Photo by Chris Tilney.
The business was running in 1868 making both bricks and tiles. Dissolution of partnership. Barrows & Barrows, Great Bridge, Stafford, brickmakers, 10 April, 1888. Debts by Frederick Welch Barrows, who continues the business. Barrows was also the owner of the Midland Brick Company. Photo by Alwyn Sparrow.
Photo by Tim Lawton.
These three bricks are products of the Seamer Road Brickworks
in Scarborough, sometimes known as Barry's Lane brickworks. This
was the first of four brickworks in the town with quarries
working the soft shales of the Upper Estuarine Series which were
crushed for brick making. It was also the longest lasting and
the largest. Seamer Road brickworks were set up by a local
building contractor, stonemason and architect John Barry some
time prior to 1850 when he also set up the manufacture of
stoneware and patent marble . On John Barry's death in 1866 his
son Willam Barry took over the brickmaking side of the business
and bricks were stamped WB. From the 1880s the brickworks were
leased out to a local estate agent and property developer Frank
Horner.
From the early 1930s the brickworks operated as Scarborough
United Brickworks - See separate entry
The brickworks ceased production about 1965.
Probably Barrys Stoneware and Sanitary Pipes, from a house of
about 1866.
from a house of 1852 - a John Barry product
From a house of 1870 - a Willam Barry product. Photos and info by Chris Hall.
Paver, photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Barwick & Marshall, Guiseley, West Yorks. Probably associated with M. Marshall & Marshall & Gray as owners of Guiseley Brickworks. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.
George Basford is first listed in 1864 as a manufacturer of blue and red floor tiles at Ellgreave Street. Basford Brothers brickworks is listed at Dale Hall, Burslem in 1868-70 and in 1873-79 as owned by James Powell Basford. The brickworks was on the south side of Ellgreave Street with a small clay pit by the road and one round kiln. Photo and information by David Kitching.
The Basin Brick and Tile Co works was in Whieldon Rd, Fenton. It is listed in the 1896 Kelly's trade directory and as a limited company in 1904. It does not appear in the 1912 edition. Photo and information by David Kitching.
This brick was found in Fenton and it is believed to be a Basin Co product. Photo by Greg Julian.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Alan Davies.
Photo and info by Richard Symonds. The Batcheler & Kenton website can be found at http://www.brockhamhistory.org/business-and-industry/lime-works/ and more can be found at http://www.derelictmisc.org.uk/bhl.htm