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English bricks page 4a-3

Bon Lea to Bovingdon


Bon Lea

Bon Lea Brickworks, Bon Lea, Thornaby on Tees, North Yorks. This brick may have been made by Richardson Johnson & Co (later A Bainbridge) of North Yorkshire Ironworks, Thornaby who also owned a brickworks. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.


John Bond, Birmingham

Photo by Phil Burgoyne.

Photos by Frank Lawson.





Both found at North Shropshire Recycling yard by Martyn Fretwell.  Martyn adds :-  

John Bond owned three brickworks, operating them only during the summer months & then being employed as a maltster & brewing beer during the winter months. His three works where on Watery Lane, Dark Lane & the one on Garrison Lane which he operated from 1867 to 1875 & was called the Globe Brickworks was then sold to a syndicate who formed the Globe Brick & Tile Co.



Photographed at Cawarden Reclamation Yard by Martyn Fretwell.



Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell from the Chris Thornburn Collection.


John Bond, Dudley

This may be the same John Bond as the one in Birmingham, but no link has been established yet. Photo by Adrian Chapman.


Bonds Main

Made at Bonds Main Colliery, a colliery village in the parish of Temple Normanton, Derbyshire. Photo by Frank Lawson.

W Bones

William Bones is listed in the 1881 census as a brickmaker living at Crook, County Durham, which is close to where this brick was found. Photos by Chris Tilney.


Henry Bonsor



Henry Bonsor in listed as brickmaker in South Kilworth, Rugby in Kelly's 1876, 1881 & 1891 editions. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

F W Boone, Wednesbury

Photo by Frank Lawson.

Found by Stanley Jones in Sandwell valley, West Bromwich


A Boorer

A Boorer, Crowhurst, near Oxted, Surrey. Photo by courtesy of the Richard Symonds collection.


G Boot, Sutton

History of the works can be found here. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.



Made at Sutton in Ashfield, photo by Simon Patterson.


William Booth





William Booth of the Salvation Army established a brickworks at Hadleigh near Southend in 1891. More can be read about this works in the Salvation Army Land Industrial Colony entry.  Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

William David Boothman

Found near Mabgate in Leeds by John Pease.  William David Boothman is listed in White's Clothing District Directory of 1870 as (exors. of) Beckett Street & Potternewton, Leeds.  Info PRBCO.

Photo from a wall in Settle by Mike Chapman.


Boothorpe Co

The Boothorpe Pipe Co. in Woodville are also recorded as Boothorpe & Co. It is listed from 1876 to 1921 at which date the business was owned by the Boothorpe Brick & Pipe Co. when it was making fireclay bricks. In 1895 Boothorpe Co. was producing blue bricks along with sanitary pipes, chimney pots & red bricks at their Thorn Street works. Info and photo taken at Ashby Museum by Martyn Fretwell.


Bordesley Green



Made in Birmingham, photo by Alwyn Sparrow.



This works was originally owned by George Savage & after he had spend all his life savings keeping it running, it was put up for sale in 1884. The Bordesley Green Brick Co. took over the yard around 1895 & is first listed in Kelly's 1895 edition with Henry C. Davis as Managing Partner. The company produced bricks using the Hoffman type kiln built by Savage until 1902, after which houses where built & a park created on the brickworks site. Some bricks made by the company are stamped Charles Road & this was a new road built to access the works. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

Borough, Nelson

The Borough Brick Company, Railway Street, Nelson, Lancashire. Listed in Kelly 1918 / 1924. 
The site finally closed in the 1950s and was owned by the Proctor family for several 
generations in the 20th century. Makers of bricks marked NELSON PLASTIC. Image PRBCO.



Photo by courtesy of Colin Driver.

Photo by David Kitching.

Photo by Jason Stott.


Botany Bay Brick Works, Armley

Found at Elland by Jason Stott.

Several of these bricks were found on the Wm Sutcliffe, Armley, Leeds site.  Found in Armley one would presume B B Brick Works, Armley.  There is an area of Armley called Botany Bay near the Leeds & Liverpool canal so a possible site of manufacture although I can find no such works listed in trade directories.  Info and image PRBCO.


Botcherby



 Found near Wigton by Ian Suddaby.  The Botcherby Brick and Tile Works was on the eastern edge of Carlisle. 

Photo by Graham Brooks.


Botfield

The Botfield ironworks at Stirchley in Shropshire was expanded in 1838 to encompass the manufacture of bricks. Photo by Shellie Bradshaw.


Bourne Valley Pottery see Sharp & Jones


Boulton

Photo by Frank Lawson.

A Staffordshire Blue brick, photo by Darren Haywood.  The blue colour means they are made from clay deposits known as Etruria Marl. http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB149_D-SSW_2_AB/



By 1896 Boulton & Co advertised their business from the Midland Brick and Tile Works, Port Vale. They were still operating in 1940 as Boulton & Co (Longport) Ltd., Midland & Port Vale Tileries, Longport.  Photo and info by David Kitching.



Photo by Martyn Fretwell.



Photo by Tim Lawton


Boulton Burnett

Boulton, Burnett, & Platt first appear in the trade drectories in 1867 at Brownhills Colliery, Tunstall. In 1868 the listing is for Boulton, Burnett & Co, and in 1869 it is Boulton & Co. brick and tile makers. Proprietor George Boulton was living at Moreton House, Wolstanton. The works was last listed in 1892. Photos and information by David Kitching.


Boulton & Platt

Daniel Platt first appears as working with Boulton and Burnett in the trade drectories in 1867 at Brownhills Colliery, Tunstall. Platt is likely to have formed part of Boulton & Co until he bought the Brownhills Works at Tunstall from Boulton in 1896. Photo by Christopher Dixon.


John Walker Bourne, Church Gresley

Joseph Walker Bourne is recorded as a Earthenware Manufacturer in Church Gresley, Parish of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire at the time of his daughter Adelaide's birth in 1830. Pigot’s 1831 now lists Joseph Walker Bourne as a Fire Brick Maker in Church Gresley. At the time of his son’s birth, William England Bourne who was born in December 1832, Joseph is listed as a Fire Brick Maker in Church Gresley. It appears William did not follow in his father’s footsteps. Joseph is again listed as a Fire Brick Maker in Pigot’s 1835 edition at Church Gresley. Joseph Walker
Bourne died in the Parish of Ashby de la Zouch in June 1840. Photo by John Goodman & Info by Martyn Fretwell.


Bouthwater: see Southwater


Bovey

 

Made in Bovey Tracey, near Newton Abbot in Devon. Photo by Pete Joyce.


Bovingdon Brick & Tile Co



Found on the Easton Neston estate, near Towcester by Nigel Furniss.  Made by Bovingdon Bricks in Hertfordshire. The works closed in 2016 when it ran out of clay.

Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Photo by David Kitching.

Photo by Ian West.


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