Pynson Wilmot Bennitt was manufacturing bricks in Oldbury before 1869. He is listed in the Worcestershire Post Office Directory for 1876 as a Brick Manufacturer at Littlefields, Oldbury. The 1871 census shows him as MA Oxford and Brickmaster employing 14 men, 4 women, 7 boys and 13 girls. In 1881 he is shown as employing 30 hands and by 1891 he had ceased business and was living off his own means. Photo by Theresa Casey.
Photo by Alison Milton.
This brick was found at Cawarden Reclamation and is believed to be from the brickworks of William Bennitt, father of Pynson Wilmot Bennitt (see entry above) adjacent to his Alston Colliery in Oldbury. Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Found at Broxburn, West Lothian. Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Found by Vladimir in Kaliningrad, Russia.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Thomas Walter Benson & Co, Bell's Close, Scotswood, Northumberland is recorded in the 1873 Post Office Directory and Kelly's for 1883. In later years he ran his father's colliery and brick businesses along with his brother William Robert Benson. (See William Benson). Photos by Chris Graham.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
A casual find from the site of the Fourstones
Lime Kilns, Northumberland, once operated by William Benson, together with
Fourstones Colliery and the Quarries to the north of the village. William Benson owned the Montagu Main colliery along with associated brickworks at Scotswood in the later 19th century. Kelly's Directory for 1883 has William Benson & Son, Montague Main Colliery, Scotswood, Northumberland; manufacturers offirebricks, lumps, quarls, chemical pipe &c. Brand 'Benson'. The business is still listed in Ward's directory for 1916. Photo by Arthur Brickman.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Martyn Fretwell writes: Records show that bricks were produced at Bentinck Colliery, Kirkby in Ashfield, in 1933 and again in 1940. The Colliery was owned by the New Hucknall Colliery Company at Hucknall under Huthwaite near Mansfield. ( not to be confused with Hucknall Torkard near Nottingham ) where the company only had a pit. The village is now just known as Huthwaite, Sutton in Ashfield. The Company also produced bricks at Welbeck Colliery, Meden Vale, near Warsop, Notts. A Mr. Fenwick is recorded as chairman of the Company until the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. Also see entry for NCB Welbeck.
Photo by Alan Davies.
The original Bentley brickworks used reclaimed mine waste. The first record in Kelly’s is for Mills and Walton in 1896 followed in 1900 and 1904 by Bentley Brick Co. and was located near Bentley Colliery. The bricks were pressed from surface shale from mine waste and fired in a continuous Hoffman kiln. Photo and info by Ray Martin.
The Bentley Hall Brick Company Ltd. was founded in 1933. The 1938 OS map shows the Hoffman continuous kiln capable of burning over 200,000 bricks a week and 3 rectangular kilns on the site. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson courtesy of the John Baylis Collection.
The Bentley Hall Brickworks was started in 1933 at a different site near to Pouk Hill, northeast of Bentley Hall. Bricks were made from excavated clay. See http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Darlaston/RO5.htm for more details. I suspect that the Bentley Hall and Bentley Hall / Walsall bricks were early production, later bricks being stamped BHBCo. until the works closed in 2002. Two BHBCo bricks were found buried in my garden, the house was built 1961. Photo and info by Ray Martin.
Photos by Phil Burgoyne.
Bentley Tileries Ltd, Bradwell Wood
Tileries, Tunstall, SOT. traded between 1930's & 1966.
BCM means British Commercial Monomarks, a company formed in 1925 to provide manufacturers with a London address and mail forwarding service. Photographed at Cawarden Reclamation Yard by Martyn Fretwell.
Hand made, photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Paver at the Apedale Museum.
Photo by courtesy of Colin Driver.
Photo by Jason Stott