William & Thomas Boardman, Manchester Road, Ince in Makerfield, Lancs. Worrall's Wigan & District Directory 1881. Photo by David Kitching.
Bockenfield Tile Works, Felton, Northumberland. In 1877 R Fowler & Son were advertising bricks and tiles from this works in the Morpeth Herald. Photo and info by Mark Cranston.
In the second half of the 19th century the Boffin family were confectioners in Oxford and it looks as if they diversified into other businesses, particularly in the last quarter century. Alfred Boffin was the head of the family and he is noted in 1891 as confectioner, coal-merchant and timber-merchant. He was also involved in speculative building of houses in Oxford. Alfred's son seems to have been the one making bricks. I can find just one reference to this which is in Kelly's directory for 1890. Boffin, James, brick, pipe & tile maker & lime burner, Shotover, Headington Quarry. It would be logical for him to be supplying brick to his Father's developments and others in Oxford.
This brick was found in a house in Fairacres Rd,Oxford. Photo by Rachel Wheatley.
Found in Newburn, Northumberland by Frank Lawson.
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Photo by courtesy of the Ian Stubbs collection.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Bolckow Vaughan. Auckland Park Colliery, Durham. Photo by Liz Robinson who found this at Byers Green, Durham.
Bolckow Vaughan, Byers Green Colliery. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Bolckow Vaughan, Leasingthorne Colliery. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by David Fox.
Bolckow Vaughan, Newfield. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Sharon Stevens.
Photo by Rod Lavan, taken at Teesside Iron & Steel works.
Photo by Ian Stubbs.
Photo by Neville Akers.
Bolckow Vaughan, Witton Park. Photo by Sarah Fawcett.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Found in south west Durham by and again thought to be a product of Bolckow Vaughan at Witton Park. Photo by Sarah Fawcett.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photos by Nigel Dodds.
Arthur Brickman adds: Bolckow, Vaughan & Co. were colliery owners/managers in South West Durham and operated a number of Brickyards in association with their mining interests.
Made at Boldon colliery, Tyne and Wear, thanks to George for the photo.
Found near Rotherham by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Image by Ian Suddaby.
Let this be a lesson to insensitive management everywhere. These bricks were made by the men on the last shift before Ibstock’s Himley brickworks in Kingswinford closed in December 1999. The men responsible for this feat altered the numbers & letters normally stamped on these bricks to seek revenge on how they had been treated over the closure of the works and 30,000 of these bricks found their way to customers. Ibstock managed to retrieve some & then issued an apology letter to those customers who had used their bricks. It is reported that some of these bricks were exchanging hands for £5 each. The problem for the men was not being made redundant but rather that management told them that they had better ensure the last batches were good ones!
B C - This came from the pit houses at Pleasley, Notts, which they are slowly reclaiming the bricks from. The outer walls are hand made and the inner bricks have been so far - Riddings - Blackwell - Ilkeston Colliery Co - Oakwell - Byron and now B C. Which I believe to be Bolsover Colliery, which was next door to Byron Brick Co. Went to Bolsover to check BC out and at the "Model Village" now New Bolsover built by the Colliery, I met Malcolm, an ex miner who told me this: Bolsover Colliery & Brickworks was near what they originally called "The Model Village", now New Bolsover. The brickworks was in production to around 1947 when the pit baths were built on the site and is now the home of Aztec Oils. The clay for the bricks was dug from what is now the village football fields and the bricks were stamped, BCC for Bolsover Colliery Company. Thanks to Malcolm, an ex miner for the info, who lives in "The Model Village" Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Another day I when to Linby looking for Linby Colliery bricks, which I had been told about and I found a BCC brick there. Photo and info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson
Bricks at the site of Bolsover Colliery incorporated over the windows of many of the survivimg buildings including these from the pit Manager's house. The intertwined initials are those of the Bolsover Colliery Company. Photo by David Kitching.
Bolton Brick Co., Settle Street Brickworks, Great Lever, Bolton, Greater Manchester. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photo by Henry Lisowski.
Edward Bolton, Barton Road, Cambridge is listed in Kellys 1888 to 1904 editions. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
The firm of Fawler Iron Ore Co Ltd (Bolton & PartnersLtd) began a considerable ironstone-mining, lime burning and brick-making business in the village of Charlbury in Oxfordshire in 1882 but closed down in 1890. Photo by Peter Daley.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell
found in the Village of Woodlands near Doncaster by Dennis Canning.
