"Old Bricks - history at your feet"
English bricks - page 4b-3
Brookes to Brown & Ragsdale
Brookes, Halifax
Brookes, Baildon
This brick was found at Baildon, West Yorkshire. Brookes (Hx) were
owners of the Yorkshire Ganister Co. on Green Road, Baildon
between 1901 & 1908. Brookes also manufactured white glazed
bricks at their Huddersfield site, so it is open to
conjecture as to where this ordinary red building brick was made.
Image PRBCO.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Warren Dunford.
Brookfield : see Taylor, Brookfield, Bolton
Edward Brooks
Edward Brooks appears as a brickmaker in the 1875 Worrall's Directory of Oldham where he is listed as living at 55 Ashton Road. Photo by David Kitching.
William Brooks
William Brooks, Chamber Brick Works, Ashton Road, Copster Hill, Oldham is listed in trade directories 1875-1895.
Found in Middleton. I think the two holes to the right of the 'K' denote the pins that had held the missing 'S' in place. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by Jason Stott.
William Brooks junior
William Brooks junior, Hathershaw Brick Works, Oldham. Worrall's Directory of Oldham 1875 - 1880. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Brooks & Pickup - see Towneley Colliery, Burnley
Brookfield Clay Co, Chesterton
This brick may have been made by The Brookhouse Brick & Tile
Co. who are listed at Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffs. in Kelly's
1876 & 1880 editions. Info by Martyn Fretwell. Photo by David Kitching.
Brookhouse
The Brookhouse Brick Co., Littledale, Caton, Lancaster operated
from the early 1920s to the late 1960s - Winstanley, M. Rural
Industries of the Lune Valley, 2000. See also
entry for Lune.
Broomhill
Broomhill Colliery near Alnwick. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Brothers, Blackburn
O.Brothers Co.,Livesey,Blackburn. Livesey Brickworks was
started by Orlando Brothers (surname) around 1845.The site was to
the west of Malvern Mill by the Leeds/Liverpool canal..Clay was
transported from Meadowhead by mineral railway.By 1886 William
Brothers owned the works but went bankrupt that year and it became a
Limited Company.It was last worked by Livesey Brick & Tile
Co.Ltd.but was wound up in 1894. Found in Sale. Photo
and info by Colin Driver.
W Brough
William Brough, Haying, Silverdale, Newcastle under Lyme is listed
in Kellys 1860 edition, then the entry is W. Brough & Son in
Kelly's 1868 to 1892 editions. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photos by Ken Perkins.
Photo by Aron Bowers.
Broughton Moor: see Wilson, Broughton Moor
Brown, Belper
The reverse of this brick is very lightly stamped Belper. W.
Brown of Becksick Lane in Belper is listed in Kelly's 1855
edition. Becksick Lane does not exist on maps today, but I
have found Becksitch Lane which could be the modern name for this
lane? Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Brown,
Braintree
James Brown is listed in Kellys 1871 to 1902 editions at Braintree.
Brown also owned several more brickworks in Essex at various times
between 1871 & 1908 & these where at Chelmsford, Romford,
Brentwood, Boreham & Witham. From Kellys 1906 edition the
company name is listed as James Brown Ltd. & then from 1912
there is only one brickworks listed at Kavanagh Road, Brentwood.
1919 see the company change it's name to James Brown (1919
Brentwood) Ltd. The next change is in Kellys 1937 edition when the
entry is Browns Brick Works (British Cavity Brick & Tile Works
Ltd.) Kavanagh Road, Brentwood. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Brown, Kingswinford
J. & E. Brown of Kingswinford are listed in Kelly's 1868 to 1880
editions, then in 1884 edition just as John Brown, brickmaker, High
Street, Kingswinford, Dudley. Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the
John Cooksey Collection & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
J S Brown,
Loughborough
Photographed at Cadeby Reclamation yard by Martyn Fretwell.
Joseph Stanley Brown - White's 1877 Trade Directory. Found in the garden of a house on Gladstone Avenue, Loughborough. Photo and info by
Richard Thorpe.
James Brown, Essex
Photographed at a brick reclamation yard in Kent. James Brown
owned brickworks in Brentwood, Boreham, Hatfield, Witham, Upminster
& Romford in Essex & I have found him listed in several
trade directories from 1874 to 1914. Kelly's 1894 edition records
him at Writtle Street, Chelmsford, Upminster, Romford &
Braintree. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
The earliest type of brick found on the site of the Brown Brickworks at Pot Kilns, Upminster is the brick which is simply embossed JB on a flat face. Subsequent ones are embossed with JB in the frog. Later types are embossed JBU, where the 'U' identified Upminster as the manufacturing site. James Brown was a highly successful producer of bespoke, hand-moulded bricks in 650 versions (1891 catalogue) - eminently suitable for the Victorian high-gothic use of decorative brickwork. Arguably they were the leading manufacturer of such bricks and the brickearth at Upminster was particularly well suited to this application. After WW1 Brown's had concentrated production at their Brentwood Brickworks and given up their Upminster site. Info & Photos by Andy Grant.
James Brown, Rossington
James Brown, Rossington Hall, Doncaster. This brick was found in the grounds of Rossington Hall. James Brown was the owner of the hall from 1845 until his death in 1877. On the OS 6 inch map of 1901 there is evidence of brick ponds just to the north of the hall so I suspect that this brick was made on the estate and pressed with the estate owner's initials. Photo & info by Frank Lawson.
John Brown & Co. Aldwarke Main Colliery.
Photographed at Valley Reclamation Yard, Chesterfield by Martyn
Fretwell. Made by John Brown & Co. Aldwarke Main Colliery
Brickworks, Parkgate, Rotherham. Info by Frank Lawson.
John Brown & Co. Rotherham Main Colliery.
The Sheffield steel firm owned Rotherham Main Colliery at Canklow near Rotherham. Photo and information by Antony Meadows.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
J K Brown
Photo by Frank Lawson.
John Kay Brown was born at Skiers Hall in Elsecar in 1808. His father was a brick maker and John ran his own brickworks close to Milton Ironworks. He died in 1877. Photo by Vanessa Arnold.
R. Brown
Roger Brown, Ecclesall New Road, Sheffield. White's Sheffield Directory 1856/1862. Photo by Frank Lawson, courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.
Brown & Ragsdale
Brown & Ragsdale, Millgate & Beacon Hill, Newark - Kelly's trade directory 1853. Photo by Ben Powell, brick found at Barnby-in-the-Willows, Nottinghamshire.
Brown Royd
In 1905 Brown Royd brickworks was run by the Executors of Jessey Medley. It was situated in the old Brown Royd quarry on Kilner Bank, Dalton, Huddersfield. Photo by Martin Fretwell.