It appears from information found that the two areas which I have coloured yellow were both owned by James Woodward. The area marked Sanitary Works (Anchor Works) we know belonged to James Woodward from an archeology excavation which took place on this site in 2010 & 2011. Today this Sanitary Works site is a retail park & Morrisons. Then the marked Brick Works site had been leased by James' father Thomas Woodward from John Hunt before James took over the business. Coal for the kilns is recorded as coming from Granville Colliery & as you can see on this map a tramway is shown connecting the brickworks & it's clay pits to the colliery & the Sanitary Works site.
Found during the excavation of the Woodward's site before the building of a retail park, these fireclay bricks stamped Made in England, Elephant Brand came from a kiln that had been built post WW2. They were found on the kiln floor & some were built into the wall of the kiln. It is unknown if these Elephant Brand bricks were made on site or by another manufacturer. Please see the Moore entry for further information on this fire brick.
Link to the excavation article of the Anchor Works site.
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-414-1/dissemination/pdf/aocarcha1-93541_1.pdf
The first trade directory entry that I have for Thomas Wragg & Sons at Swadlincote is in Kelly's 1876 edition in the Brick & Tile Makers section & it reads Thomas Wragg & Sons, Hill Top Fire Clay Works, Swadlincote, Burton on Trent. I have coloured the Hill Top Fire Clay Works yellow on the 1900 map above. The blue coloured works was Thomas' sanitary pipe works & this sanitary pipe works along with Thomas' fire brick works are listed in Kelly's 1881 edition.
The remaining trade directory entries that I have for Thomas all come from the Fire Brick Manufacturers listings, starting with the 1895 edition & they continue to the 1941 edition (last available). All these entries are listed as Thomas Wragg & Sons, Swadlincote with the exception of the 1895 & 1899 editions when there is the addition of a second works at Loxley near Sheffield.
In February 1900 Thomas Wragg & Sons was reformed & below is the article which appeared in the 2nd of February edition of the Birmingham Daily Post giving full details of the new company's subscribers.
Two more white glazed bricks from the company.
Today Church Gresley is in Derbyshire, but in the 1830's this village is listed in many documents with a variety of places that it was a part of or was administered by. The main one was Ashby Wolds, Leicestershire, but this district today only goes as far as Albert Village. Another was Church Gresley, Parish of Ashby-de-la Zouch, Leicestershire. I also have to note Church Gresley is also spelt as Church Greasley.
Now on to Joseph Walker Bourne who was born on the 1st of November 1800 in Burslem, Staffs. His father William was from Wollaston, Stoke & his mother Hannah (nee Walker) was from Duffield near Derby where the couple married in 1798. It appears naming a son with the mother's maiden name as a middle name was a common thing to do in the early 1800's & a another example is given later.
Joseph married Louisa England in Lyme Regis, Dorset in March 1828. Pigot's 1828 edition lists Joseph Walker Bourne as a Potter in Ashby Wolds, then in August 1829 at the time of the birth of his first daughter Emma Louisa, Joseph & Louisa were living at Church Gresley Cottage, no trade is given for Joseph, however from the document recording the birth of his second daughter, Adelaide Anne in 1830, Joseph is recorded as a Earthenware Manufacturer in Church Gresley, Parish of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire.
Pigot’s 1831 edition now lists Joseph Walker Bourne as a Fire Brick Maker in Church Gresley. At the time of his son’s birth, William England Bourne in December 1832, Joseph is again listed as a Fire Brick Maker in Church Gresley. It appears son William did not follow in his father’s footsteps & at the age of 21 emigrated to Australia were he became a Reverend. As previously mentioned on middle names, William England Bourne had been given his mothers maiden name as his middle name. Joseph Walker Bourne is again listed as a Fire Brick Maker in Pigot’s 1835 edition at Church Gresley. Also in December 1835 the document recording the birth of his third daughter, Ophelia Hannah, Joseph is still recorded as a Fire Brick Maker in Church Gresley.
Joseph Walker Bourne died in June 1840 & the recorded place of his death is given as the Parish of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, but I am assuming he died in Church Gresley. I have come to the conclusion Bourne hand-made his bricks then used a hand stamp to mark his name in them because the earliest date that I have found that bricks stamped with a makers name & made by machinery first appeared in 1855.
Edward's sons, Edward junior & Henry Loader Ensor also worked alongside their father in the running of the Pool Works & the 1851 census records Henry Loader Ensor as Fire Brick Manufacturer & Clay Dealer. The earliest census I have found for Edward junior is the 1871 census in which he is listed as a Civil Engineer & Manufacturer. Wright's 1880 edition lists the Ensor Brothers as Patent Brick manufacturers in Gresley. So it appears the brothers took over the running of the Pool Works between 1877 & 1880.
The 1881 census records Henry Loader Ensor as a "Manager" of a firebrick & terra cotta works living at Brook Villa, Pool Village, Church Gresley. I then found in the Leicestershire edition of Kelly's 1881 edition that the Pool Works was now being operated by Ensor & Co. Ltd. so Henry was only working for this new company. Meanwhile in the 1881 census Edward Ensor is now listed as a Commercial Traveler, Sanitary Ware & living in Derby, so I am assuming he was still working along side his brother at this new company, however this is were the trail goes cold on Edward.
The 1891 census again records Henry Loader Ensor as a Manager of a Fire Brick Works with the additional listing of "Employed". Kelly's 1899 edition & the 1901 census records Henry Loader Ensor as the Secretary of Ensor & Co. Ltd. Henry died in May 1906.
Ensor & Co. Ltd. continue to be listed as Fire Brick Makers up to Kelly's 1925 edition. Kelly's 1932 edition only lists them as Fire Clay Merchants & we find that a new company was now running the Pool Fire Brick Works in 1932 operating as the Church Gresley Fire Brick & Fireclay Co.
Thomas Redfern is listed as brickmaker in Swadlincote in these directories - Slaters 1850, White's 1857 & Harrison's 1860. The location of Thomas' works in Swadlincote is unknown.
The Thompson Brothers are first listed in White's 1857 edition as manufacturers of ironstone earthenware, Rockingham ware, brownstone ware, fire bricks, red quarries & dealers in fire clay at their Hartshorne Potteries in Woodville. Harrod & Co. 1860 directory then lists the names of the brothers as John, Richard & William Thompson, earthenware manufacturers, Hartshorne Potteries, Woodville (note Hartshorne is spelt without an e on the 1879 map). White's 1863 edition is just Thompson Brothers. The last directory entry for the Thompson Brothers is in Wright's 1874 edition & it now lists Richard & Willoughby as the brothers & manufacturing glazed pipes, earthenware & terra cotta.
John Marsden Knowles established his Mount Pleasant Works in 1849 producing fire bricks & stoneware pipes. The twentieth century saw the introduction of ceramic products for the steel industry & ceramic radiants for gas fires.
Knowles who was a railway contractor originally came to the area working for Robert Stevenson who was constructing the Coalville to Burton Midland railway line & it was while Knowles was tunnelling between Castle Gresley & Moira, that he found a bed of fire clay. Knowles then purchased an acre of land from the Marquess of Hastings which contained this clay & this land was situated just over a mile east of the tunnel on Occupation Road. Then on the completion of his contract in 1849, Knowles erected a kiln on his land & fire clay was dug by primitive means. The fire bricks that were produced were then sold to the Midland Railway Company & steel producers in Sheffield. As the tunnel that Knowles had been digging was next to Mount Pleasant village, Knowles decided to call his works after this village, therefore, The Mount Pleasant Works.
With this success, Knowles then expanded his Company by leasing & buying more land to extract this rich source of fire clay which lay underground. Surface clay which is of a different composition was then used to produce stoneware pipes. New kilns were erected to keep pace with the demand for his products. 1863 saw Knowles open a London Office to take advantage of London's need to replace their crumbling sewer system.
John Knowles died in 1869 & the works was run by his wife Sarah until her death in 1871. Sarah had made provisions in her will for the Company to be run by Trustees & the three main Trustees were Thomas Hassall Adcock, Henry Knowles & John Hassall. Many members of Sarah's family also had smaller shares in the Company & in later years this proved to have been a disastrous decision. I have pasted a link to the article at the end of this entry from which I have gathered some of the information for this works from & it gives a very detailed account of what happen next concerning the complex ownership of the Company. There is also another link to an article from the British Brick Society Journal on the Company which I have drawn information from.
So the three main Trustees ran the day to day running of the Company which was now trading as John Knowles & Co. with John Hassall as Chairman & between 1871 & 1928 the Company flourished under Hassall despite it's internal problems.
A special Trustees meeting in 1874 saw Henry Knowles coming to an agreement to retire from the Company with the proviso not set up a rival company in the name of Knowles. Henry agreed & left the Company in 1876 to go into partnership with Hosea Tugby forming the Albion Clay Co. & I write about that works next.
John Hassell then took the Company forward by expanding the Mount Pleasant Works between 1883 & 1901 when 30 round kilns & 1 large tunnel kiln was built. The 1920's saw the introduction of producing ceramic radiants for gas fires & in later years this was to be the main stay product for the Company. After John Hassall's death in 1928, Harry James Taylor then took over as Company Chairman. This election of Taylor as Chairman also created much controversy from Hassall's son, John Knowles Hassall who though that he would follow in his father's footsteps in running the Company. More again can be read in article which I have posted at the end of the entry.
I now move on to the Kelly's trade directory entries for the Company & John Knowles & Co. are listed in the Fire Brick Manufacturers section at Woodville/Wooden Box in either the Derbyshire or Leicestershire editions at these dates 1876, 91, 95, 99 & 1912. The Company are next listed in the Fire Clay Manufacturers section in the 1925, 32 & 41 editions. So this begs the question when fire brick production ceased. It may have been at some point after 1912, but before 1925 when the trade directory listings changed to Fire Clay Manufacturers section. As I do not have the 1916 or 1921 editions I am unable to give a precise date when Fire Brick production ceased.
We do know that it was in 1969 when the manufacture of sewerage pipes cease & the pipe works department closed. As previously said the Company by this time was mainly focusing on the production of ceramic radiants. In 1970 J. & J. Dyson of Sheffield purchased the Mount Pleasant Works, thus ending 121 years of John Knowles & Co. The Mount Pleasant works under Dyson closed in 1997 & the site was demolished.
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-449-1/dissemination/pdf/archaeol8-47158_1.pdf
http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/BBS_131_2015_Sep_.pdf
I first start with some early information about Hosea Tugby before he went on to own the Albion Works in 1874 & I have used the 1900 map above to show the location of this works. Also to note in the 1870's Woodville was classed as partly being in Leicestershire & partly being in Derbyshire.
In 1872 Hosea Tugby is recorded as giving notice regarding his improvements to kilns for burning bricks, pipes & tiles in the London Gazette dated 16th October 1872 & this is followed by a US Patent for his improvements in July 1873. Whether Tugby owned the Albion Works in 1872 is unknown & he may have put these improvements forward before building this works ? The earliest map that I have is 1881 so the works is shown built, but in the middle of nowhere next to the railway & it is accessed via small open lanes from Littleworth.
Then as wrote in the John Knowles & Co. entry, Henry Knowles was asked to retire from J.K. & Co. in 1874 with the proviso that he did not start a company in the name of Knowles, with Henry agreeing he left J.K. & Co. in 1876 to form the Albion Clay Co. with Hosea Tugby. I have found trade directory listings which slightly disagrees with this info, so I now present the information found.
Wright's 1874 edition records the entry of Tugby (Hosea) & Knowles (Henry), Terra cotta & earthenware manufacturers, Albion Works, Woodville. So this entry contradicts this agreement unless this partnership was formed before the agreement as we next find in Kelly's 1876 & White's 1877 editions that the entry is Hosea Tugby & Co, Albion Works, Woodville. It is recorded in a BBS web article that Tugby took out a full page advert for his company in the London edition of the Post Office Directory to advertise the range of goods that he produced. After 1877 there are no more trade directory entries for Tugby & Co. at Woodville until Hosea Tugby & Co. are listed as owning the Briton Potteries at Moira, Leicstershire in Kelly's 1891 to 1900 editions.
Now this begs the question of the J. K. & Co. article stating that Tugby & Knowles formed the Albion Clay Co. in 1876. This may have took place, but as wrote, from 1876 the Albion Works was listed as being run by Hosea Tugby & Co. & the Albion Clay Co. may have existed in name only to satisfy the agreement with John Knowles & Co.
The first trade directory recording the Albion Clay Co. as owning the Albion Works appears in Kelly's 1891 edition. This entry continues until Kelly's 1899 edition. Again I assume with A. C. Co. being a Limited company it then continued under new management with Henry Knowles not having any children to follow in his footsteps.
It is unknown if this H.T. brick was made by Tugby at his Woodville or Moira works. Below is a 1900 map of Moira showing Tugby's Briton brickworks & coal/clay mines. I also note that the works & kilns on the opposite side of the railway line may have also formed part of Tugby's works as Kelly's 1895 & 99 entries records the works as Briton Potteries, but I have no proof to back up this statement. In a 1900 web mining reference, Briton Colliery is recorded as being owned by Hosea Tugby & managed by S. Wheatley. It then states that this mine produced mainly fire clay & was abandoned in 1900. With this date of 1900 being the same as the last entry in Kelly's for Tugby, I presume that this was the year the Britton Works closed under Tugby. The 1921 map still shows the Briton works as operational with the works on the opposite side of the railway closed, but a tramway is shown going under the main railway line connecting the Briton works to this other works clay pits. Who owned the Briton Works in 1921 is unknown.
Ellis & Partridge were a Leicester based brick company & builders merchants who are recorded in Kelly's Directories as owning a second works in Woodville, Derbys. Ellis Partridge & Co. are listed in Kelly's 1891 Leicestershire edition at Leicester & Woodville & this entry is followed by a half page advert (shown below) for the company in Kelly's Derbyshire 1895 edition, which records the company as sole makers of their well known trade marked EP Woodville red sandstone bricks. Kelly's Derbyshire 1899 to 1922 editions then lists the company at Woodville. None of these directories actually record an address for the Woodville works & examining maps from that period of time has not revealed the location of their works either. The brick above was photographed at Cawarden Reclamation Yard & I was told that these bricks came from the demolished Royal Infirmary Hospital in Derby.
A search in old newspapers & trade directories at my local library has revealed the first names of Ellis & Partridge. Wright's 1911 edition records Arthur Brewin Partridge as a Builders Merchant, living at Wavertree, Radcliffe Road, Leicester. Then a Will notice in Leicester Chronicle dated 23rd of June 1894 reports that William Henry Ellis J.P. of Anstey Grange died on the 25th of November 1893 aged 64. William had three sons, Francis Newman Ellis of The Park, Nottingham was a colliery manager, Wilfred Henry Ellis of Kirby Road, Leicester, merchant & third son, Owen Alfred Ellis of 42, Fosse Road, Leicester was a builders merchant. In his Will, William appointed his three sons to carry on his interest in the business of Ellis & Partridge, Slate, Brick & Tile Merchants which he had run together with his sons Wilfred, Owen & Arthur Partridge.
The advert below was found in Wright's 1911 directory.
After leaving a request for information about Ellis & Partridge at the Magic Attic in Swadlincote, a local history group based at Sharpe's Pottery Museum, I have recently been contacted by the Society who has supplied me with the following information on the location of this works & it's previous owner.
The Society came across a notice in a local newspaper recording Ellis Partridge & Co. at the Boothorpe Brick Works situated near Woodville & I have coloured this works yellow on the 1900 OS map below. This works was accessed by small roads (coloured red) from both Woodville & the hamlet of Boothorpe. Since coming across this notice the Society has been unable to re-find this very small notice again, but it is thought that it appeared in an edition of the local newspaper during the first three months of 1887. If this notice turns up, I will add it to the post.
The 1888 date of this notice then ties in nicely with the 1891 trade directory entry for E & P at Woodville. The Society has also informed me that the previous lease owner of this brickworks was Captain Perry & the 6th of April 1882 edition of the Burton Chronicle records that he had put his small brick yard up for sale. The brickworks at this date consisted of three flue sheds, two kilns, a warehouse & had capital beds of clay on the two acre site. The 1881 map only shows one kiln & two clay pits at this location with the 1900 map above showing that E & P had established a much larger works by this date to exploit the ample supply of clay & I expect E & P were in full production by the 1888 newspaper advert. Another 2022 newspaper article find dated September 1894 reveals Ellis Partridge first leased their brickwork's land off Lord Donington & in 1894 Lord Donington was selling several lots of land around Boothorpe village at £500 per acre & it include the land E & P were leasing. Therefore I am assuming E & P purchased the brickworks land at this 1894 auction.
The Society has also sent me information from two notices which appeared in the Burton Chronicle.
4.5.1893 edition - E.P. & Co. Woodville, brickmakers, summoned for employing a child under age.
Then in the 18.1.1898 edition, the company is charged for employing William Dark aged 16 without a certificate of fitness.
Bretby Brick & Stoneware Co. Ltd. are first listed in Kelly's 1912 Derbyshire edition in the Brick & Tile Makers section at Newhall. The company are not listed again until the 1932, 36 & 41 editions. Whether they stopped producing bricks & just concentrated on producing stoneware from 1913 to 1932 is unknown.
Two photos of the works taken in 2008 by Chris Allen.
I have trade directory entries recording Joseph & Nathanial Nadin as Coalmasters at Stanton & Newhall Collieries in Kelly's 1855 edition through to it's 1891 edition. So I am taking it that the Stanton Colliery brick was made around the 1890's. Then in Kellys 1912 & 1916 editions in the Brick & Tile Makers section, J. & N. Nadin & Co. (glazed) are listed at Stanton, Burton on Trent.
Just thought I would clarify why this brick is stamped Burton on Trent. Stanton is a small village next to Newhall & Swadlincote in Derbyshire & more than likely B on T on this brick was used to signify the nearest main town. Burton by the way is in Staffordshire. Also with the borders of Derbys. Staffs. & Leics. all meeting at Swadlicote, I have found that brickmakers in this area can be listed in either of Derbys. or Leics. trade directories & Burton on Trent is given after the village name in many entries.
Bretby Colliery was also known as Newhall Colliery & was sunk in 1872 - 76. So I expect his brick was produced at the colliery which was originally owned by the Countess of Chesterfield, then was taken over by the Earl of Carnarvon in 1890, both of whom resided at Bretby Hall. Carnavon sold the colliery and Bretby Hall to fund his Tutankhamun expedition in 1920. The colliery closed in 1928 due to it being unprofitable, but various seams were then re-opened at different times up to 1962. I have also found that the marked Stanton Lane Brickworks was owned by Lake & Son & this brickworks is listed as the Stanton Lane Brick & Pipe Works (Lake & Son), drain pipe manufactures, Stanton in Kelly's 1932, 36 & 41 editions.
Samuel Moore, Overseal
Moore & Sons
I first note that when Samuel Moore first operated his own brickworks in Overseal, this village was in Leicestershire, however this village was transferred over to Derbyshire in 1897 & with all of Samuel's trade directory entries appearing in Derbyshire directories I have added this entry to this Post.
The 1851 census records Samuel Moore aged 25 (b.1826 in Enderby) was a brickmaker living in the Parish of Saint Mary's, Leicester with his wife Eliza & two small boys, James 2 & William 18 months & I am assuming he did not run his own brickworks at this date with him not being listed in trade directories. The 1885 OS map shows an Old Clay Pit next to the Cattle Market on Aylestone Road, so Samuel could have worked there with it being within St Mary's Parish.
The 1861 census now records brickmaker Samuel & his family were now living in Overseal, Leicestershire, but I still think he was working for another brickmaker at this date. This census records Samuel & Eliza had produced three more sons, Samuel junior 8, John 5 & George 3.
We next find in the 1871 census Samuel is recorded as a Master Brickmaker employing 7 men & 14 boys & still living in Overseal, therefore I am assuming Samuel now owned his own brickworks in the Overseal area. This census also records another son Charles had been born in 1865. It's not until Kelly's 1881 edition that we find Samuel is recorded as owning the Swains Park Brickworks, Church Gresley. This works coloured green on the 1900 OS below was actually situated between Church Gresley & Overseal & was on Park Road (red). Park Road then becomes Occupation Road (yellow) & this road connects Linton Heath to Albert Village.
The 1881 census now records Samuel aged 55 was employing 3 men & 4 boys & as wrote Kelly's 1881 edition is the first listing of Samuel Moore & Sons at Swains Park Brickworks, Church Gresley. This works is then listed as being in Overseal in Kelly's 1887 to 1904 editions.
Samuel & Eliza produced six sons & three daughters, eldest son James b.1859 was an engine driver at a colliery most of his working life.
William b.1850 joined his father at the brickworks becoming a brickmaker. In Kelly's 1899 edition William is recorded in his own name in the Brick & Tile Makers section with the address of Field View, Overseal & this was his home address. The 1901 census records William as a brick & sanitary pipe maker living on Moore Street, Overseal.
Samuel junior b.1853 also became a brickmaker with his father, but in the 1891 census he is recorded as a Manager in a Brickworks in Bolsover, Derbyshire, he sadly died in 1895.
John b.1855 after working at his father's brickworks as a labourer moved on to be an Engine Driver at a colliery for the rest of his working life.
George b.1858 after being recorded as a labourer aged 13 at a brickworks living with Samuel & Eliza in the 1871 census the census trail on Ancestry goes cold, so cannot say what he did next.
Finally youngest son Charles b.1865 became a brickmaker with his father as recorded in the 1881 census. The 1891 census records Charles as a Brick Manufacturer - Employed, living in Overseal with his family, so I expect Charles was still working for his father. The 1901 census now records Charles had moved to Scarcliffe in Derbyshire & was a Foreman at a Brickworks, however the 1911 census records Charles aged 46 as a Brick Manufacturer - Employer, living with his family at 203, Brimington Common, Chesterfield. It is unknown which brickworks in Chesterfield he was running.
As I have digressed telling you about Samuel's sons, I now return to Samuel Moore at Overseal & Samuel is listed as a Brickmaker - Employer in the 1891 census. The 1901 census records Samuel was now 75 & Eliza 73 living on Moore Street, Overseal & still running the brickworks, however the 1911 census records Samuel aged 85, a Brick & Pipe Manufacturer & a Widower, so Eliza must have passed away by 1911. As previously wrote son William was working alongside his father & a newspaper article reports that when Samuel retired & with William in charge the works was converted to the manufacture of sanitary pipes & fittings. Samuel Moore sadly died in January 1915 leaving effects of £354 16 shillings to sons James, a mechanic & William, a sanitary pipe manufacturer. So with William being listed as a sanitary pipe manufacturer only in January 1915 we know the production of bricks & fire bricks had ceased by this date. As wrote with the rest of Samuel's sons had branched out in other directions either into other trades or had moved out of the area, so it appears William was now the sole owner of Moores & Sons, pipe manufacturers.
Now with Moore's no longer producing bricks or fire bricks it would have normally been the end of my article on this company, but with new information turning up on the Elephant Brand fire brick found during the archaeology dig of the kilns at Woodward's in 2010 I continue with the history of Moore & Sons.
Photo courtesy of AOC Archaeology, London.
From Moore's adverts requiring workmen dated 1917, it now records the company as Moore & Sons Ltd. & William's two son's Frederick William Moore & James Carey Moore had joined the company. William together with his sons at a date unknown, but certainly by 1926 had gone into partnership with London builders merchants John Turner & Lisney Ltd., still trading as Moore & Sons. Ltd. & John Turner & William Albert Lisney became directors. Lisney was also the Managing Director of the Redbank Manufacturing Co.
So with me being unable to find the maker of these Elephant Brand fire bricks at the time they were added to the Woodward entry as a possibility that they were made at Woodward's. Now fast forward to 2023 & a chance find that this Elephant Brand logo was being used by Turner & Lisney in one of their adverts dated 1926 which records "Brand on Stoneware."
Thanet Advertiser - Saturday 20 March 1926 Image © Successor rightsholder unknown. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Then George Denny posted this Elephant pipe paperweight on Bricks & Brickworks Past which came from the offices of Woodward Limited when they were being demolished to make way for the new Morrisons.
So with these finds I thought Turner & Lisney held this trade mark, but I found only from when they went into partnership with Moore & Sons & it was Moore & Sons who owned the trade mark & was using it on their fire bricks. So the fire brick above will have been made no later than 1915 when William Moore converted his works to the sole manufacturer of sanitary pipes & fittings. Below is a 1956 listing of Moore & Sons/Turner & Lisney from the Salt Glaze Association book of distinguishing marks which ties the two companies together in the use of this trade mark. With Turner & Lisney putting "Elephant Brand On Stoneware" in their adverts we know that it was Moore & Sons who first used the Elephant Mark on their fire bricks.
To round off this entry Moore & Sons Ltd. continued to be run by the Moore family until T. Wragg & Sons bought the share capital in Moore's in February 1969 & this was followed by the transfer of production to Wragg's works & the Swains Park Works was closed. With there being vast amounts of fire clay still on the site, the largest in the area Mike Chapman tells me the site eventually ended up in the hands of Ibstock who then sold this vast reserve of fire clay to other manufacturers.
The Coton Park brickworks is shown on maps dated 1881 & 1902, but is shown as disused on the 1920 map. Kelly's 1881 edition lists the Coton Park & Linton Colliery Co. as brickmakers at Linton, Burton on Trent with Walter Hardgraves as manager. Then in Kelly's 1895 edition the listing is Coton Park & Linton Colliery Lim. William Blanch Hodgson, Certificated Manager & Agent, Linton, Burton on Trent. The 1881 map shows the colliery on the same site as the brickworks, but marked as Coton Park Colliery. Also shown on this 1881 map is that both the colliery & brickworks had access to the Coalville to Burton Midland Railway line via their own siding at this date.
Frank Lawson - photos
Mike Shaw - photo
Chris Allen - photos
AOC Archaeology - photo of the elephant brand brick found during the excavation of the Woodward site.
http://www.aocarchaeology.com
Britain From Above - photo
National Library for Scotland - maps
British Brick Society - info
Archaeology Data Service - info
Swadlincote Library
Magic Attic - info. http://www.magicattic.org.uk
I found this page very informative. Thanks for taking the time and effort for putting it all together. It's very much appreciated. I found it very difficult to find the informative on Hosea Tugby & Company on any other sites.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments, they are much appreciated. A lot of deep delving into the web & trade directories helped me write the HT entry. Something that I did not add to the post was that I went to my local library to use their access to Ancestry & I found to my surprise 8 Hosea Tugby's listed in that area all been born within ten years, so I was unable trace our brickmaker. I naturally expected to only find one man with that unusual name. Maybe someone who is putting their family tree together may be able to trace our brickmaker in the future. Thanks again, Martyn
DeleteGreat research. I found it hard to get an overview of South Derbyshire fireclay and brick companies...this did it well.
ReplyDeleteGlad to have been of help.
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