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English bricks page 5b

Coalbrookdale to Cocking


Coalbrookdale



Coalbrookdale, Lightmoor. Photo taken at Blists Hill.



Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the Bill Richardson Collection at Southwick Hall.

Coales, Chicheley

Francis Coales, Farmer and brick maker, Chicheley, Newport Pagnell, appears in Kellys Directory for Buckinghamshire only for 1883. Photographed at Bucks Museum resource centre by Nigel Furniss.


Coalfield

Photo by Alan Davies.

Photo by David Kitching.

Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Photo by Steve Reynolds.

Coalfield Brickyards Ltd., Clayfield Road, Mexborough, South Yorks. Liquidated 1971. The Yorkshire Brick Company 'Coalfield' Brickworks at Mexborough ceased firing towards the end of 1982. It was the last Pressed Brick Kiln in South Yorkshire to operate.


Coalmoor

All the above were used to build a house in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is likely that the H A brick is also a Coalmoor product. Photos by Jade Ling.

Photo by David Kitching.




Coalmoor is near Telford in Shropshire.

The Allenite was a tough refractory brick used for lining kilns, etc.

Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection

Photo by Antony Meadows.

Made in Coalmoor, Telford on the same site as Allenite bricks.

The Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd was formed in 1901 & in 1908 became the New Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd. making pipes & fire bricks at it's works located near to Woodlands Farm now Myford House Nursing Home on Woodlands Lane, Horsehay near Coalmoor, Telford between 1908 & 1948. In 1948 the company was purchased by Coalmoor Refactories Ltd who produced refractory bricks for the steel industry. In 1951 the company purchased the nearby Lightmoor brickworks and in doing so transferred all production to the new site. By 1980 the company employed around 150 staff at both the quarry & works. The Lightmoor Works on Brick Kiln Bank, Lightmoor was owned by Ibstock when it closed in 1992 and the site now has houses built upon it. Allenite and Mossite are both trade names used by the company. Info by Martyn Fretwell.


Coalport



A little bit of info and a map showing the location of the works can be seen at this link. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Coalville

The Coalville Brick Co. was formed in 1927 by eight local business men & was built on land just off Ashby Road, Coalville owned by one of these business men, Dan Sitdown. This works only manufactured hand made bricks right up to it's closure in November 1975. Photo and info by Martyn Fretwell.


Cobridge Brick & Marl Co Ltd

Photo by David Kitching.



Cobridge Brick and Marl Co Ltd., was based on Leek Road produced common bricks with a "Cobridge" logo moulded into the frog. They also produced fire bricks to line kilns used in the pottery industry and engineering bricks used in foundation works. They produced a large range of hand made bricks to order. Marl was extract from the adjoining marl hole and a second one behind the works in Sneyd Street. They had a second production site on Scotia Road in Burslem where they had a modern continuous oil fired kiln main common brick production was based here with overflow production of commons in Cobridge. Information by John Roberts.

Photo by Frank Lawson.


Cobridge Brick & Sanitary Pipe Co.



Cobridge Brick & Sanitary Pipe Co Ltd was based just 200 yards up from Cobridge Brick on Leek Road. Their site on Hamil Road at Burslem was abandoned early in their history. They did produce a few bricks in Hamil Road and these were stamped as per this sample. Examples are rare as they were not in brick production for long. At their Cobridge site they produced salt glazed pipes and tiles. Information by John Roberts and photo by David Kitching.

Cobridge Colliery

Photo by Phil Burgoyne.

In 1874 Tellwright & Watkin were running Cobridge Colliery near Hanley in North Staffordshire. They also operated the Sandbach Colliery brickworks nearby. By 1892 - 1896 the Cobridge site was operated by the Cobridge Colliery & Brickworks Colliery Co Ltd which also had a works at Bycars in Burslem. By 1900 the business had become the Cobridge Brick & Sanitary Pipe Co Ltd. Photo by John Tougher.


Cochrane

Cochrane & Co Ltd operated the New Brancepeth Colliery in County Durham in the 1890s and probably for some years after that. Photos by Chris Tilney.


Cocking - Balby

Photo by Frank Lawson.


Cocking - Doncaster











Various bricks made by Cocking & Sons of Balby, Doncaster, all photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Refer to the entry below for more info on this company.

Cocking - Walkeringham






Front and back of a Cocking brick, Clayton is the name of the manufacturer of the brick making machinery.



Photographed near Newark by Martyn Fretwell.

Photo by Malcolm Holt.

Martyn Fretwell writes :- Thomas Cocking started his Walkeringham, Notts. brickworks around 1876, producing red & white bricks & red floor quarry tiles. Thomas was followed at this yard by his sons and son-in-law, George Cooper. This works was sold sometime in the 1940's and continued under new owners until it closed in 1956. After the sale of the Walkeringham works, the Cockings family then opened a new works at Balby, Doncaster & bricks stamped Balby are also believed to be made by them. The Balby works then became part of Yorkshire Amalgamated Brick Co. in the 1960's. Photographed at Bassetlaw Museum, Retford by Martyn Fretwell.


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