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English bricks - page 8a

Fencehouses to Findon


Fencehouses

I suspect that this is a product of Lumley brickworks. Photo by Mitch Richardson.


F. H. B. L. - Fencehouses

Photo by Chris Tilney.

Fencehouses Brickworks Ltd., Fencehouses, Co.Durham. Photo by Frank Lawson.


Fenton/Lane End Works





Front and back on Fenton/Lane End brick

Oldfield Colliery in Fenton and its associated brickworks was owned by Balfour  & Co in the 1880s.The colliery passed on to another company, the Lane End Works Ltd. by 1889. Then in September 1896 the colliery, now in the hands of the Oldfield Colliery Company  was closed leaving the brickworks to operate in its own right. This yard had a sustained life through until at least 1959, when it was manufacturing refractory bricks under the ownership of D Duddell Ltd.  Photos and info by David Kitching.

Fenton Collieries

Glebe Colliery was established by the mid nineteenth century and operated for around 100 years. From the 1860s it was operated by Challinor and Co and then by 1900, J Heath and Co. In 1919 it was in the hands of Fenton Collieries Ltd and continued to work into the nationalised era. It finally closed under the NCB in October 1964. The associated brickworks was situated a short distance to the south of the pit and had three round kilns in 1878. The brickworks was still in business in the 1930s, but had been levelled by 1953.  Photo and info by David Kitching.



Photo by William Whitehead



The Glebe Pit was one of the Fenton Collieries. Image PRBCO.

Photo by David Kitching.

Photos by Ken Perkins.


Fenton Low: see Hewitt, Fenton Low


Fenton Tileries

James Wood ran the Fenton Tileries, Fenton Culvert in partnership with Leonard Broughton Wood as a brick and tile manufacturer. The business is first listed in the trade directory of 1875-76 and James Wood was bankrupt in May 1892. It appears that the site was owned by Messrs John Challinor & Co Ltd, Glebe Colliery, Fenton,  and there is a memorandum of minutes re the application by William Hill and others to take lease of Fenton Tileries
brickworks, 20 Feb 1893.  Photo and information by David Kitching.

Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Photo by Greg Julian.

Photo by Phil Burgoyne.


Ferens and Love

Photos by Chris Tilney.

Photo by Ian Suddaby.

Photo by Steven Tait.

Photo by Richard Cornish.

Photo by Liz Robinson.

Kelly's Durham Directory 1890: - Fire Brick Manufacturers Ferens & Love, Lanchester, Durham Ferens & Love, 28 Market Place ; works, Cornsay & Lanchester Collieries, Durham Cornsay colliery was opened in 1868 by Ferens and Love, who employed 700 men at the colliery and its associated drift mines. The company established a works alongside the colliery specifically for the manufacture of bricks and sanitary pipes using fire clay extracted from the mine. The brickworks operated for some time after the closure of the colliery in 1953. Photos and info by Frank Lawson.

Joseph and Sarah Love had one son, Isaac Pearson Love, who died in 1854, leaving an only child, Joseph Horatio Love, born in 1853, who subsequently lived at The Hawkhills near Easingwold, Yorkshire. Isaac Pearson Love's widow Sarah (née Stephinson) in ca.1857 married Robinson Ferens (died 1892), originally a draper of Durham City and Willington, County Durham. Robinson Ferens became a member of the Methodist New Connexion perhaps in ca.1857. After his marriage he was appointed manager of Joseph Love's collieries. He later joined with Love as a partner in developing new collieries and after Love's death in 1875 had sole direction of the collieries, becoming wealthy.


Field's



 Found in the walls of a building at Lion Brickworks, Scalford. A possible source is Littleworth Tileries at Hednesford in Staffordshire. In 1876 this was William Field, Littleworth Works, Hednesford 1876. 1904 William Field, Littleworth Tileries. 1924 Field's Littleworth Tileries Limited. By 1928 the business was being operated by Itters Brick Co Ltd. The works is not listed in the 1940 trade directory. Photo by Nigel Furniss.



Photo by Frank Lawson.


William Finch

William Finch is listed in Somerset trade directories for 1883 with a works at Sedgemoor and offices at Burnham-on-Sea. Found in Somerset and photo by Neil Bannell.


Findon



Made in Sacriston in County Durham. A local history (Rand & Nairn, 'Memories of Sacriston', 2004) says it was made by the Findon Hill Coal Company in and for a few years after 1873. Photo and info by Ian Hunter.


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