This is probably one of the earliest bricks produced by the company. Photo by Ray Martin.
Photos by David Kitching
Photos by Ray Martin. The Castle Brick Works was in Birchills, Walsall, just off Upper Green Lane, and first appears on the 1902 OS map with five rectangular kilns. The listing in Kelly’s 1900 to 1908 editions reads Castle Brick Works, Birchills, Walsall. Kelly’s 1924 lists J. Griffin Jones & Co. at the Castle Brick Works, Upper Green Lane, Birchills, Walsall. The listing in Kelly's 1928 to 1940 editions is the Castle Brick Co. Upper Green Lane, Birchills, Walsall. Castle are listed as operating a second works at Bloxwich in Kelly’s 1932 to 1940 editions. The works seems to have closed and been swallowed up in extensions to the tube works by the early 1950s. Info by David Kitching.
The Castle Bromwich Brick Co. was owned by Mr. W.H. Winterton & is first listed in Kelly's 1921 edition with the address of Black Pit Lane, Ward End which was formerly the Little Bromwich Brick Co's yard. The 1932 Kelly's Directory records the business on Bromford Lane (red), Ward End. This works remaining open until 1967 & still being run by the Winterton/Major family. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photo by Ray Martin. Found at Four Oaks reclamation yard.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by Darren Haywood.
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the above photo.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
It would appear that there were two different Castleford Brick
Companies. The manufacturer of this brick is listed 1897- 1912 and
the brick was used in the works of the Aberford Railway, which
principally shipped coal from the Garforth Collieries to a coal
depot at Aberford on the Great North Road. A later Castleford
Brick Company, with works at Glasshoughton, is listed as a
branch of the Yorkshire Brick Co., 1922 to 1965.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Seen at Wakefield Museum and believed to be a product of the Castleford Brick Company. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Catchpole & Co., College Road, Masbrough, Rotherham. White's Sheffield & Rotherham Directory 1893 & 1901. In the 1893 directory the listing is just James Catchpole. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
James Catchpole and Edward Johnson were in business at both Parkgate and Masbrough near Rotherham as brick and sanitary pipe manufacturers. The partnership ended with the death of Johnson in April 1892. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Thanks to John Biggs for the photo, found in the remains of
Southmead Manor, Bristol.
Photo by Richard Paterson.
Photo by Mike Chapman.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Cattybrook brick house number. Photo by Andrew Morley.
Nicholas Cawthorn, Tees Tilery, Middlesbrough - Slater's Northern Counties Directory 1855, albeit mis-spelled as Craythorn. By 1873 the works was being run by Jackson Gill and Co in 1873. In 1877 the works and contents was offered at auction on the instructions of the Trustees of the Property of Mr W Chipchase, Brick Manufacturer. The sale advert describes one downdraught kiln and two large open-top case kilns. Found near Guisborough. Photo by Dan Armstrong.
Whittlesea was an important brick making area east of Peterborough. The Central Brickworks Whittlesea was acquired by the National Coal Board in 1966. It was sold in 1973 to the London Brick Co by N. C. B. Ancillaries.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
