The Butterley Company were based in Ripley, Derbyshire and began life as Benjamin Outram & Co in 1790. They owned several brickworks and the brickworks side of the business eventually became part of Hanson PLC.
Martyn Fretwell writes; Info from the National Archives, The Butterley Co. owned brickworks at Waingroves, Ollerton & Kirkby, but with Kirkby being nationalised in 1947 they acquired the Ambergate Brick Co. and the Blaby Brick & Tile Works. These two works were merged into the group in 1955 & they renamed the group, Butterley & Blaby Brick Co.Ltd. Hence B & B Waingroves and B & B Ambergate, see link for picture of name board at Ambergate. In 1968 the company was taken over by the Wiles Group, later called Hanson Trust Ltd. Then in 1969 the company was renamed as Butterley Building Materials Ltd., when it acquired several more brickworks in the 1970's & 80's including the National Star Group, the Castle Brick Co. and the London Brick Co. 1985 saw the company change its name again to the Butterley Brick Co. Ltd. http://www.cacn.org.uk/news/basa0612.htm
Photo by Colin Butler.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photos by David Kitching.
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the above photos.
Photo by Ian Armstrong.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Clayton Woods.
photo by Martyn Fretwell
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photos by Clayton Woods.
Found in Ironville, Derbyshire by Martyn Fretwell.
Thanks to Colin Butler and Martyn Fretwell, they believe that this brick was made at what later became N.C.B. Kirkby. Photo by Jason Stott.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Believed to have been made by Butterley and Blaby, Found by Keith.
Photo by John Tougher.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Found in Mickleover, Derby by Alan Murray-Rust.
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Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
J. & William Buxton are listed as brickmakers in Kimberley,
Nottingham in Kelly's1876 edition & is followed by entries for
William Buxton in 1881 to 1904 editions at Kimberley. Photo &
Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
James Byrom ran a brickworks in the Audley area of Blackburn. He sold off his plant at Lambeth Street in 1884 by which time the area was being built over.
The Byrom family were involved in brickmaking in the area south of Bank Top in Blackburn where there were a number of works from the late 1840s. At East Street in 1868 Dobson & Barlow were runnng the Witton Patent Brickworks with machinery driven by a 16 hp horizontal steam engine. This was subsequently operated by John Dixon before the area was built over in the 1880s. William Byrom is listed as a brickmaker in the 1861 and 1871 census, living on Duckworth Street and then Galligreaves Street just to the east of the brickworks.
Byron bricks were made at Byron Brick works near Carr Vale
Derbyshire. Link to history of the company here.
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photos.
The lettering reads: Adamantine. T Bytham W. Registered. Found by Frank Lawson in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire and is from the works of Towers & Williamson who operated in Little Bytham until the early 20th century and specialised in Allenite Clinker bricks.