tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64934079002426498812024-03-29T11:54:36.024+00:00 East Midlands Named Bricks Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-44626548526424086942023-08-31T18:03:00.040+01:002024-03-23T13:04:29.873+00:00Shepshed Brickworks, Leicestershire<div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this post I cover the two brickworks which were situated in Shepshed & I start with the Fenney Hill works & then go on to the later Station Brickworks which is still operational today.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQgzKxMOjLMLWSzSJ8LXLkM_4qYkTFwzznAya3R29ZY4lbUPRxlEaoONhiAEbad0rQR7xYcuh2Sn4qSQWGOxG9eAf0l-SFrrc6miCyVdPOzO4If2flU2r4KIOV0wWlDO2gnsuP0QuUoQDQV9Wmq9Xu8e_S8Jz44CrcbBcpFqrxsUqh5MN2CxmU_7BPF50/s800/Fenney%20Hill%20BWs%20Shepshed%20OS%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQgzKxMOjLMLWSzSJ8LXLkM_4qYkTFwzznAya3R29ZY4lbUPRxlEaoONhiAEbad0rQR7xYcuh2Sn4qSQWGOxG9eAf0l-SFrrc6miCyVdPOzO4If2flU2r4KIOV0wWlDO2gnsuP0QuUoQDQV9Wmq9Xu8e_S8Jz44CrcbBcpFqrxsUqh5MN2CxmU_7BPF50/w640-h426/Fenney%20Hill%20BWs%20Shepshed%20OS%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have found several newspaper articles relating to this Fenney Hill brick yard which I have coloured purple on the 1901 OS map above. This works is also shown on the 1882 OS map. From these newspaper accounts this yard was owned by Mr Thomas Hopkins in the 1880's & was managed by his son William, his other son Francis being the brickmaker at the yard. This yard was advertise to be Let in 1876, so the Hopkins family may have taken it over then. Also employed at this yard in 1887 was brickmaker William Rossell who is recorded in two 1887 newspaper articles as living at Iveshead Cottages, Iveshead Lane, Fenney Hill, the location of which being a short distance from the brick yard (see map). William Rossell is also recorded as a brickmaker in Shepshed in a March 1862 newspaper article & may have worked at this Fenney Hill works back then. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">An April 1889 notice in the Hinckley News records with the death of Thomas Hopkins the brickworks together a newly built kiln, drying sheds, two clay mills & the surrounding arable land was to be sold freehold & it appears it was William Rossell who purchased this brickworks. Kelly's 1891 edition records William Rossell as brickmaker at Shepshed.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> No bricks stamped Rossell have been found so far & it is unknown how long Rossell ran this works for.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2V2pGlvZJLNCNYBnhBMzoFTk47ZkXJamHqfyHBfE_E_Fc1FHf4ha4k55eWCK8Ya8dKRZ0YgQbIhVli698WIFYe38VFwIbjml13ClFVuXqft16pR5zIYqk9eeHL2v2hbm5jgw-N08PfIP2uBAI2IDbs4r1ZJng_xMspS4p5nPLUpOSGQXF_4sbdP4bAl0/s800/Shepshed%20BWs%20OS%201900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="800" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2V2pGlvZJLNCNYBnhBMzoFTk47ZkXJamHqfyHBfE_E_Fc1FHf4ha4k55eWCK8Ya8dKRZ0YgQbIhVli698WIFYe38VFwIbjml13ClFVuXqft16pR5zIYqk9eeHL2v2hbm5jgw-N08PfIP2uBAI2IDbs4r1ZJng_xMspS4p5nPLUpOSGQXF_4sbdP4bAl0/w640-h420/Shepshed%20BWs%20OS%201900.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now on to the Station Brickworks also called the Charnwood Brickworks from 1899 which I have coloured green on the 1901 OS map above. Brothers William, Alfred & Horace Gibbs at first were primarily brick, lime, cement & coal merchants in Loughborough. My first newspaper reference in 1883 is to them owning a depot at the New Wharfs on Derby Road, Loughborough next to the canal. This 1883 advert also records they could supply every description of the well known Whitwick Forest coal from their Loughborough & Shepshed depots. In 1884 they were Agents for red, white & blue bricks, Ensor & Co.'s sanitary pipes & fire bricks, Edward Smith & Co.'s Encaustic Tiles & Breedon Lime. In 1886 they were the Sole Agents in supplying Mr. Wain's well known Heather pressed bricks. Slates, quarry tiles & chimney pots had also been added to the list of materials that could supply. An 1888 advert advertises they always had plenty of stock of bricks, tiles, chimney tops, slates, quarry tiles & lime available at their two railway depots in Loughborough & Shepshed.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocCsFRFSDQ_iqVLyMlpSvZ2AtnYStanpSU8WAYapOnvQ6AWVSS7njMrw41-jIS5Wnoz_gSDec2VeURpcwe7NqwA5grIo3dKCgHdUMynkRbfagfoJX-0X6uk0luNKJUynWMiQ7KBl_h19H1g7ySbo2UBh735PjTDK_WzSSEL6-e4myIVhzaYJIj8Xgq62u/s640/P1080888_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="640" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocCsFRFSDQ_iqVLyMlpSvZ2AtnYStanpSU8WAYapOnvQ6AWVSS7njMrw41-jIS5Wnoz_gSDec2VeURpcwe7NqwA5grIo3dKCgHdUMynkRbfagfoJX-0X6uk0luNKJUynWMiQ7KBl_h19H1g7ySbo2UBh735PjTDK_WzSSEL6-e4myIVhzaYJIj8Xgq62u/w640-h432/P1080888_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6djk4zZ1MLp0j_T0w38QQ0u6qIVswCL-UYCJAFderw0THHtRheoki8hIvHRNiNbYSALsyBCyqW2c4fhc3stqS7uBkw5RCViO6gJS_Qz6DT4kqiUIfsHL-t77Mef2EHTdKiVprC_D0FNS6bug_eg4sao3Xx4Z7quHz7MIRuo7TEbJ4pFb4qn8K07-2aQq/s640/P1080907_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="640" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW6djk4zZ1MLp0j_T0w38QQ0u6qIVswCL-UYCJAFderw0THHtRheoki8hIvHRNiNbYSALsyBCyqW2c4fhc3stqS7uBkw5RCViO6gJS_Qz6DT4kqiUIfsHL-t77Mef2EHTdKiVprC_D0FNS6bug_eg4sao3Xx4Z7quHz7MIRuo7TEbJ4pFb4qn8K07-2aQq/w640-h420/P1080907_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The first newspaper reference I have to the Gibbs Brothers being brick manufacturers comes from the Leicester Chronicle dated Saturday 28th of October 1893, when the brothers at a grand dinner event at the Railway Hotel formally opened their new brickworks. Situated next to Shepshed railway station & occupying four & a half acres I have coloured this brickworks green on the 1901 OS map above. With all new modern machinery provided by Mr. J. Jones of Loughborough, expected brick production from their two kilns was estimated to be 100,000 bricks per week. The drying shed used steam to dry the bricks & steam was also used to propel the trucks bring clay from the pit. The notice goes on to say the L & N. W. Railway Company had arranged to provide a siding into the works, therefore all parts of the country could be reached by the firm. Mr. J.B. Cooke of Ruabon had been brought in as Manager of the works, so I am assuming Mr. Cooke had previously worked for one of the well-known Ruabon works & had a good track record in producing bricks having worked in the trade for 35 years. This newspaper article reports that before work commenced on building the brickworks the brothers had test pits sunk, the first being in the spring of 1893 to establish the depth & quality of the clay. More pits were to follow with all results coming back satisfactory. In one pit a depth of 12 yards was reached & good quality clay was still not exhausted.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The next newspaper article dated October 1897 records Mr. J. Pope as foreman at the Shepshed brickworks in the matter of finding a John Cumberland aged 73 sleeping in the drying shed. Kelly's 1899 edition lists the Gibbs Brothers as brickmakers at the Railway Station, Shepshed, this being the Charnwood Brickworks. The Station Works was re-named the Charnwood works in 1899 & shared an access with the railway station from Charnwood Road. Today with the station now gone the brickworks is accessed via a road called Old Station Close. Kelly's trade directories continue to list the Gibbs Brothers with the address of the Station Brickworks. Then in January 1911 the </span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28461/page/803/data.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span>London Gazette</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> records Alfred Gibbs was leaving the Partnership & the company of Gibbs Brothers, Brick & Tile Manufacturers & Building Material Merchants of Loughborough would continue to be run by William & Horace Gibbs, Alfred was retiring. The 1919 OS map below shows the Gibbs Brothers had established a new clay pit on the south side of Ashby Road & a tramway had been built under Ashby Road to bring the clay to the works. The other field that I have coloured is now the extent of the clay pit in 2023.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNnYzocGSBO9spMmzjKHOLw5crl5TyLtmx7JII_3ZHbLlmLRYD8Mi2Qq3ccdO_mIvVZCmnx9v53x5pKHNxMvV0ZRDUkDz8cQAQMs_2jFRNVyQpRhKwWzMpetKLD6NGRXkQ5TqjLf_J2rWnwqFcBM-4N9cEUq_qWxtFfLjX-G_VFLGMGJofVdMjSAwFIAN/s800/Shepshed%20BWs%20OS%201919.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNnYzocGSBO9spMmzjKHOLw5crl5TyLtmx7JII_3ZHbLlmLRYD8Mi2Qq3ccdO_mIvVZCmnx9v53x5pKHNxMvV0ZRDUkDz8cQAQMs_2jFRNVyQpRhKwWzMpetKLD6NGRXkQ5TqjLf_J2rWnwqFcBM-4N9cEUq_qWxtFfLjX-G_VFLGMGJofVdMjSAwFIAN/w640-h428/Shepshed%20BWs%20OS%201919.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1932 edition is the last entry for the Gibbs Brothers operating the Station Brickworks, however newspaper articles reveal that William & Horace Gibbs on the 1st of January 1935 had entered into a partnership with several other brick manufacturers to form a new company to run their five brickworks & William Gibbs was to be a director in this new company. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On the 1st of January 1935 United Tile Manufacturers Ltd. of Hanley, Stoke was formed to acquire & amalgamate four long established businesses with five brickworks in North Staffordshire, Leicestershire & Yorkshire which produced high quality facing bricks & roof tiles. The Station Works at Shepshed being the Leicestershire works which now operated under the name of the Charnwood Brick & Tile Co. (references - newspaper job adverts). United's other works being Silverdale Tileries & the New Rose Vale Brick & Tile Works, both in Stoke & the Yorkshire works were in Strensall & Roecliffe. As wrote William Gibbs became one United Tile's directors. The other directors being - Edmund Hodgkinson, New Rose Vale Brick Co. - Robert Green, owner of the two Yorkshire Works - Cyril Fullard Entwistle MP, director & chairman. Shares in United Tile were being offered to the general public from the 11th of March 1935. A newspaper article dated August 1935 reports John William Hodgkinson was the manager of the Shepshed works. Kelly's 1936 & 41 editions record United Tile Manufacturers Ltd. are listed under that name as operating the Shepshed works. In June 1941 Edmund Hodgkinson of Chesterton, Deputy Chairman of United Tile Manufactures Ltd. passed away & I am wondering if there was a family connection to John W. Hodgkinson, manager at Shepshed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmm_c75_OcVZTJLvw8hYl7s8YOhYS3XQULLCP3FufYjevSMrmtOr-ICzm8YT6x1JJODhFLI5335S86U-tUtcn-dvd1aRtDDXioyr1QbJ9KIqY7ZGjZesNsa5hH-hnj0eNWQT9HCora-i1i7TYcQ7QPhNtWNqXLc_PcJRqoJcijg97gaQ4VPd3mWd1JjIZ1/s800/United%20Tile%201939.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="800" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmm_c75_OcVZTJLvw8hYl7s8YOhYS3XQULLCP3FufYjevSMrmtOr-ICzm8YT6x1JJODhFLI5335S86U-tUtcn-dvd1aRtDDXioyr1QbJ9KIqY7ZGjZesNsa5hH-hnj0eNWQT9HCora-i1i7TYcQ7QPhNtWNqXLc_PcJRqoJcijg97gaQ4VPd3mWd1JjIZ1/w400-h355/United%20Tile%201939.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 24 July 1939 </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD</span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The 1943 Ministry of War Directory records the Shepshed works was closed for the duration of the war & was not used by the Ministry to store armaments. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">By 1950 it appears United Tile was in financial trouble with a April 1950 newspaper article reporting Moira Colliery Ltd. had withdrew their offer to buy United Tile's shares as their offer had not been accepted by the required 90% of share holders. Next the Yorkshire Post dated 1st of September 1950 reveals United Tile Manufacturers Ltd. with five brick & tile works was being sold as a going concern, four of the works were freehold & one was leased. The article goes on to say offers are invited for all the works collectively or individual works could be purchased. The sale of the works was being administrated by C.C. Bullock, Receiver for Debenture Holders, Bourner, Bullock & Co. of Hanley, Stoke. With concentrating on the Shepshed works in this post, I have not followed up on what happened to the other four works. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So from my next finds it appears Solihull company, Proctor & Lavender were the next owners of the Shepshed brickworks. I do not have the exact date when this took place, but it was certainly by December 1951 when a newspaper advert records the Charnwood Forest Brick & Tile Works Ltd. were operating this works, a company owned by Proctor & Lavender. Previously this works operated as the Charnwood Brick & Tile Co. under United Tile. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So on to the beginnings of Proctor & Lavender who were formed in the 1920's by Arthur Herbert Proctor & Harold Thomas Lavender as Coal & Builders Merchants in Solihull. On the 1st of May 1928 the London Gazette records Arthur Proctor had retired & Harold Lavender was to continue to operate Proctor & Lavender. Harold formed a Limited Company with his wife, Winifred in May 1941 as Builders Merchants, & Coal & Coke Dealers. Then in October 1946 Harold Lavender became a director in the Coleford Brick & Tile Co. in Gloucestershire with a view to taking control of this company by increasing his share holding which appears to have happened by 1950 when Proctor & Lavender are recorded in a newspaper article as Brick & Tile Manufacturers. It appears after moving to a new brickworks called the Forest of Dean Brickworks near Cinderford in 1950 this brickworks run by Proctor & Lavender was still operating under the name of the Coleford Brick & Tile Co. Harold Lavender died in 1953 & from information received from Chris Sheldon (Harold's great-grandson) Winifred became Chairwoman & Jack Clift ran the company of Proctor & Lavender. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqRBRzFZ5vjzmIfW55NThb85MveInzd5HRGumw4nd5mNcR-8dMTOHDsfirP_IuLimrCp9lP8S7n9TkeUyBsx_8_GxuVSYhTGXyeUwkUm_j3LRpjOMzP2C4naRossoHqCDf0aPmlz7rhki8OshfmO1bKAYGKflcVNQ8-DCJCbLKHyZffS8nssnHm48ZLr4/s640/P1120854_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikqRBRzFZ5vjzmIfW55NThb85MveInzd5HRGumw4nd5mNcR-8dMTOHDsfirP_IuLimrCp9lP8S7n9TkeUyBsx_8_GxuVSYhTGXyeUwkUm_j3LRpjOMzP2C4naRossoHqCDf0aPmlz7rhki8OshfmO1bKAYGKflcVNQ8-DCJCbLKHyZffS8nssnHm48ZLr4/w640-h426/P1120854_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As wrote the Shepshed works now operating under the name of the Charnwood Forest Brick & Tile Works Ltd. had come under the control of Proctor & Lavender by December 1951 & below is a company advert from the Architects Journal dated 1957. According to newspaper articles both of Proctor & Lavender's works only produced hand-made facing bricks.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObb2rae-PZRkPnb_9DpsacfWUKBwKVxWoNMrAJvzYx12ZoB61kuK92dkeEdpq1DR8qi9QJwt-IEFlX5Ogjs9Y2kZgyKkPqxFeZv98zgc88vMCbx3DifIWtCB7RnJnapWBSxw7GHXakyNCcQDxpHORxTGOGMp5QUgp9vdi_NdFggDJeazecNBY24qZONXB/s800/Charnwood%20Forest%20B%20Co.%20Loughborough,%20Leicestershire%20The%20Architects%20Standard%20Catalogues%201957-1959.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="604" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObb2rae-PZRkPnb_9DpsacfWUKBwKVxWoNMrAJvzYx12ZoB61kuK92dkeEdpq1DR8qi9QJwt-IEFlX5Ogjs9Y2kZgyKkPqxFeZv98zgc88vMCbx3DifIWtCB7RnJnapWBSxw7GHXakyNCcQDxpHORxTGOGMp5QUgp9vdi_NdFggDJeazecNBY24qZONXB/w485-h640/Charnwood%20Forest%20B%20Co.%20Loughborough,%20Leicestershire%20The%20Architects%20Standard%20Catalogues%201957-1959.jpg" width="485" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It appears from a newspaper article that by August 1972 Proctor & Lavender had taken over the running of the Coalville Brick Co., another company who only manufactured hand-made bricks. In this article P & L's Managing Director Mr. Jack P. Clift was commenting on securing several contracts to supply one million hand-made bricks from their three works, Shepshed, Coalville & Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. If this take over date of the Coalville works surfaces I will update the post.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The next reference I have found to Proctor & Lavender still being brick manufacturers is in 1973. Tony Coleman a past director at P & L has informed me that the company in the early 1970's decided to sell off their three brickworks & then continue as Brick Factors. Tony also tells me the brick above was made at the Coleford Works. The one below found by Jason Alsop in 2023 may have also been made in Coleford. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2HjOBS84cFFYOxLGz32tYP-mP63eg8r69JqnWbvcKYhcCPso-Ul8AYIZv8w1DHHPEm4jP3bB6CDS_reXrto1ua6nD6fEw5JIDvEuDaLg8QDnLeaAK9Xm17zkqwkjIX0cBR2JQuLWK16lg6zT4RgOhKApEMWtXRRRRp7Nd-tSXsUmI3XBUDwFDGy7Yc6V/s640/P%20&%20L%20-%20Proctor%20&%20Lavender%20-%20Jason%20Alsop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="640" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2HjOBS84cFFYOxLGz32tYP-mP63eg8r69JqnWbvcKYhcCPso-Ul8AYIZv8w1DHHPEm4jP3bB6CDS_reXrto1ua6nD6fEw5JIDvEuDaLg8QDnLeaAK9Xm17zkqwkjIX0cBR2JQuLWK16lg6zT4RgOhKApEMWtXRRRRp7Nd-tSXsUmI3XBUDwFDGy7Yc6V/w640-h308/P%20&%20L%20-%20Proctor%20&%20Lavender%20-%20Jason%20Alsop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i>Photo by Jason Alsop.<br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The purchaser of Proctor & Lavender's three works was Jack Clift, chairman & managing director at Proctor & Lavender & the takeover appears to have taken place in late 1973 when Jack Clift stood down as chairman & managing director of Proctor & Lavender, however he did become a non-executive director afterwards at P & L. A September 1974 newspaper article records Sid Mills was Works Director at the Charnwood Forest Brick & Tile Works Ltd. The name of the company had continued the same after Clift had taken over. Then a 5th of December 1974 article records the Charnwood Forest Brick Works & the Forest of Dean Brickworks were both owned by the Charnwood Brick Holdings Group. Jack Clift was Managing Director of this holding company & his son John Clift was a Director. John's cousin Ceri Evans was running the Forest of Dean Works. There was no mention of the Coalville works in this article which was to close in November 1975. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In March 1990 Jack Clift retired handing over the Charnwood works to his son John, who then became MD of the Charnwood Forest Brick & Tile Works Ltd, while Ceri Evans became MD of the Coleford Brick & Tile Co. operating the Forest of Dean Works. Both these brick companies were still owned by Charnwood Holdings Ltd. with Ceri Evans now elevated to the position of MD.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25T7daJzAINoPe5gpCrtlQqbTtcoc8VkDxEq-vr9FfqPLBt-H-5zTWi__bODS9kteP_QunwLLkkDwVCXsTbs8A8V7lCWuuclHUsy2h_JiAKJqX2QjWqvmFdwKfE99M-ofU9NiNY3cquiJzZsLv9BluTvLSVTrKl3YrxBsSa4TzvEccOvlAG5ApDRE6M61/s800/Charnwood%201991.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="800" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25T7daJzAINoPe5gpCrtlQqbTtcoc8VkDxEq-vr9FfqPLBt-H-5zTWi__bODS9kteP_QunwLLkkDwVCXsTbs8A8V7lCWuuclHUsy2h_JiAKJqX2QjWqvmFdwKfE99M-ofU9NiNY3cquiJzZsLv9BluTvLSVTrKl3YrxBsSa4TzvEccOvlAG5ApDRE6M61/w400-h297/Charnwood%201991.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Leicester Daily Mercury - Tuesday 30 July 1991 </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This advert records Charnwood was established in 1899, however we know the Gibbs Brothers established this </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">brickworks in 1893 & 1899 was the year the works changed</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">it's </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">named from the Station Works to the Charnwood</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Works, however </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">certain articles & directories carry on to record it as the Station Brickworks. The brick below may have been made at anytime between 1899 & 1999.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFJ5KJF1Ax8txH961wR82Fk18pCsxKpwuubnzod2Z8BvTrhOvYjwYoj9tBELQGElPYSLk5oJZaIyJXvPHodwOJrJatRwT3KwExZSFyyvES8-NtvtgBcpCjW81Zf-oMSUJ3Hgg3QFF6YW1n5b43jYVkiGp5upo4EJncBOlVCWI1POlPoV8Mj0rYfAW0evW/s640/IMG_1960.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFJ5KJF1Ax8txH961wR82Fk18pCsxKpwuubnzod2Z8BvTrhOvYjwYoj9tBELQGElPYSLk5oJZaIyJXvPHodwOJrJatRwT3KwExZSFyyvES8-NtvtgBcpCjW81Zf-oMSUJ3Hgg3QFF6YW1n5b43jYVkiGp5upo4EJncBOlVCWI1POlPoV8Mj0rYfAW0evW/w640-h428/IMG_1960.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Since the Clift's took ownership of Charnwood in 1973 I have found at least three newspaper articles recording that with sale of bricks being slow to sell, the company had to either make staff redundant or was at the risk of closing altogether, however new brick orders were received at the eleventh hour & the company prospered once again. Other articles also reported on the highs of the company when they won a very large contract to supply bricks to Japan & in them winning prestigious awards from the building industry. With all these highs & possibly more lows John Clift in February 1999 decided to sell the Charnwood Forest works which employed 42 people to Michelmersh Holdings of Romsey, Hampshire. John remarked in the Loughborough Echo that he felt the brickworks will be better off under a larger umbrella were economies of scale can be used. It should cut down on overheads making the firm more efficient & more successful. In the deal Michelmersh would retain the Charnwood Forest name & it's workforce.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmAv5qJTD0mnoiqv00OEek8DDXwXH7efA-3F5Kp8b3hbgQ4D2Yiv-sdBaklAOLa3gmAZ6xmCecsxuGHYjIgjYR8JS-Lwf760gMV_dLG_TgSMQat-ZF4_k9oEew-qZDrDC026TXJMazrBpZpkCTMxWjT-lBs1SmFiOOHH7FOfGh5Ro_OXTV3m_Adl1lhhM9/s640/P1100914.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmAv5qJTD0mnoiqv00OEek8DDXwXH7efA-3F5Kp8b3hbgQ4D2Yiv-sdBaklAOLa3gmAZ6xmCecsxuGHYjIgjYR8JS-Lwf760gMV_dLG_TgSMQat-ZF4_k9oEew-qZDrDC026TXJMazrBpZpkCTMxWjT-lBs1SmFiOOHH7FOfGh5Ro_OXTV3m_Adl1lhhM9/w640-h429/P1100914.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It is thought this brick if fairly modern & made by Michelmersh.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Michelmersh are still operating the Charnwood Brickworks in 2023, but I have been reliably informed hand made brick production ceased in December 2022 & the works now concentrates on the production of Hathern Terra Cotta wares & FabSpeed pre-fabricated brick components. As to the Coleford Brick & Tile Works it is now owned by Gryhonn Concrete Products of South Wales. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-36598839634300839212022-05-05T16:20:00.009+01:002022-05-11T15:35:07.967+01:00Leicestershire Brickworks - part 3<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this post I cover brickmakers who operated in Measham. </span></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Measham Terra Cotta Co.</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0fK1ms6dtyqXat6mR6JowX5-qsv856xCO0XkT7DFD107I8f75JBzrl6133jnLZ_CRGWPLdsQc92V1yeznyew5d4eP6Wso6N6teB3EsNcdEyRvEym6bYfYsVnGfJUT9OkMm9ebeBwwGyUtj8_KsuW8OspIWNimdJDScWFGAqktLECm3W9dG1guBqfrw/s800/Measham%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0fK1ms6dtyqXat6mR6JowX5-qsv856xCO0XkT7DFD107I8f75JBzrl6133jnLZ_CRGWPLdsQc92V1yeznyew5d4eP6Wso6N6teB3EsNcdEyRvEym6bYfYsVnGfJUT9OkMm9ebeBwwGyUtj8_KsuW8OspIWNimdJDScWFGAqktLECm3W9dG1guBqfrw/w640-h426/Measham%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Measham Terra Cotta Co. is first listed in Kelly's 1895 edition at Measham (coloured green on the 1901 OS map above). Road access into this works was via Horses Lane & Peggs Close from the town centre (to the north), but there was also a lane running to the works from Atherstone Road (also coloured green). The next trade directory listing is Kelly's 1900 edition, but it is also the last. The <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27666/supplement/2322/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 12th of April 1904 reveals that on the 7th of April 1904 The Measham Terra Cotta Co. Ltd had been put into Voluntary Liquidation. It appears the liquidation of the company went through with next finding an article in the Burton Chronicle dated 22nd of March 1906 which reveals Auctioneers German & German had been instructed to put the Freehold Property & Works known as the Measham Terra Cotta Works up for sale. It also appears the works may not have been sold at this auction in 1906, however Mike Chapman has found that in 1919 the newly formed Redbank Manufacturing Co. who had bought the Red Bank Brick Co. were the owners of this property & works, so there is the option that the previous Red Bank Brick Company had purchased the Measham's Works in 1906 with the intentions to extract clay from this site, but that appears not to have happen with the 1920 map showing only the chimney was left standing & trees had been planted in the clay-pit, also four houses had been built next to the entrance of the works, which still stand there today.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhwnYPTZhNoCNu7P2Xz6kIAEKD6Cj9XQ4zOU2U5z8-Ta2YRiZEa1GBgx8jthOQ6eK5sA5MQmzwsAJRftZglpSE8XShxM0o8JhGYo_lKhW_s-ioNf57MhB-QmJMZz9Hgv14gRNess0PHetRsBmpn7ZhFim8K0LxyPeppSwpwXNAWQhHYpQ5YJqWPqk0yg/s640/P1100831.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhwnYPTZhNoCNu7P2Xz6kIAEKD6Cj9XQ4zOU2U5z8-Ta2YRiZEa1GBgx8jthOQ6eK5sA5MQmzwsAJRftZglpSE8XShxM0o8JhGYo_lKhW_s-ioNf57MhB-QmJMZz9Hgv14gRNess0PHetRsBmpn7ZhFim8K0LxyPeppSwpwXNAWQhHYpQ5YJqWPqk0yg/w640-h429/P1100831.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-VG6yviakRo5IrN9YjeVjvooC6BuFk5-FbFDJowpli_aSOC78noEEKqoe-3NQqVHQpThLsmU45EblxzPfOtUbWpbSSp_49qApv2XOm4SI9t2_AL2A9Lxm5nt6SAuyTTvCQkMk8KlJ9vKUFPSRk25P9eFyB4HklnOrHOUVAU66_GNpehpYjwbPQwqCFQ/s640/IMG_4727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-VG6yviakRo5IrN9YjeVjvooC6BuFk5-FbFDJowpli_aSOC78noEEKqoe-3NQqVHQpThLsmU45EblxzPfOtUbWpbSSp_49qApv2XOm4SI9t2_AL2A9Lxm5nt6SAuyTTvCQkMk8KlJ9vKUFPSRk25P9eFyB4HklnOrHOUVAU66_GNpehpYjwbPQwqCFQ/w640-h428/IMG_4727.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXZDTxxayVI2e5mxZLrM79YmbbbfZBvKA1JqoBLBTqjoIg6JlfBdIyPY6r7g_CgSPeCT8oK6D-BKjIeiDNjqWomB5IoZkhqAWoRP8sYIcjR3r3VvTni4j92jsiMaPvezE2axICfV5OfNNnnEy2HSBhhUlJ9VN8ZsWkaUO_QJQqPe8sccjJF0aBIKxog/s640/P1080927_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="640" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXZDTxxayVI2e5mxZLrM79YmbbbfZBvKA1JqoBLBTqjoIg6JlfBdIyPY6r7g_CgSPeCT8oK6D-BKjIeiDNjqWomB5IoZkhqAWoRP8sYIcjR3r3VvTni4j92jsiMaPvezE2axICfV5OfNNnnEy2HSBhhUlJ9VN8ZsWkaUO_QJQqPe8sccjJF0aBIKxog/w640-h422/P1080927_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79;"><u><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Coronet Brick Co.</span></u></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0fK1ms6dtyqXat6mR6JowX5-qsv856xCO0XkT7DFD107I8f75JBzrl6133jnLZ_CRGWPLdsQc92V1yeznyew5d4eP6Wso6N6teB3EsNcdEyRvEym6bYfYsVnGfJUT9OkMm9ebeBwwGyUtj8_KsuW8OspIWNimdJDScWFGAqktLECm3W9dG1guBqfrw/s800/Measham%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0fK1ms6dtyqXat6mR6JowX5-qsv856xCO0XkT7DFD107I8f75JBzrl6133jnLZ_CRGWPLdsQc92V1yeznyew5d4eP6Wso6N6teB3EsNcdEyRvEym6bYfYsVnGfJUT9OkMm9ebeBwwGyUtj8_KsuW8OspIWNimdJDScWFGAqktLECm3W9dG1guBqfrw/w640-h426/Measham%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Works coloured yellow on the 1901 map above had been established by 1895 with Kelly's 1895 Derbyshire edition recording this works was operating under the name & by Blakesley, Cash & Stinson at Measham, Atherstone. These gentlemen being George Blockley Blakesley, Thomas Cash & Herbert Lee Stinson. George B. Blakesley b.1854 of Blackfordby House, Blackfordby had married Thomas Cash's sister Eliza Jane in April 1876 & Thomas Cash b.1843 had married George Blakesley's sister Elizabeth in 1875, so a good family tie up. Thomas Cash also had his own brick & sanitary pipe works in Woodville. If my research is correct Herbert Lee Stinson b.1864 was the son of Joseph Lee Stinson, brickmaker & farmer of Brierley Hill, Staffs. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This Blakesley, Cash & Stinson listing continues in Kelly's 1900 Leicestershire edition through to Kelly's 1922 edition. It's in Kelly's 1925 edition that it now records this works was operating under the name of the Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. However I then found the 1901 edition of the Clayworkers Directory does record the Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. at Measham with H.L. Stinson as Agent, so it appears this works was trading under two names from it's inception, it's owners & Coronet. I then found a 1927 London Gazette notice which now records the owners of the Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. were Blakesley, Stinson & Ernest Edward Ratcliff & I am assuming Thomas Cash had died with him being in his late 70's. This <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33298/page/4938/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> notice dated 29th of July 1927 records </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">the partnership of Blakesley, Stinson & Radcliff operating as the Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. had been dissolved by mutual consent on the 1st of May 1927. A bit of digging has revealed in 1898 widower George Blakesley aged 44 married Annie Edith Radcliff aged 20, daughter of John Ratcliff (farmer) of nearby Measham Lodge & Annie's brother was Ernest Ratcliff. George & Annie went to live with John Ratcliff at Measham Lodge after their marriage. The 1901 census records Ernest Edward Ratcliff aged 21 as a Clerk in a brickyard living with his father & the 1911 census records him as a Brickyard Manager & still at home.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> So it appears Ernest Ratcliffe worked his way up Coronet until he became a partner in the company sometime in the early 1920's replacing the deceased Thomas Cash. So again another George Blakesley family tie up. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">We next find in Kelly's 1928 edition that the Coronet Brick Co. Ltd. was now operating this yellow works & I suspect some or all of the previous owners of this works had formed this new Limited Company. This is backed up in an article in the Dundee Courier dated Saturday 30th of April 1927 which reports that trading in the shares of the new Coronet Brick Co. Ltd would start the following Tuesday & this coincided with the previous Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. being dissolved on the 1st of May. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">A newspaper article dated September 1928 reveals Coronet held all the shares in the Hemel Hempstead Patent Brick Co. at Cupid Green, Hemel Hempstead & were declaring a dividend of 2% in the financial year ending 30th of June 1928. With checking Kelly's 1929, 33 & 37 editions it appears Coronet continued to run HHPB Co. under that name even though they owned all the shares. It is unknown how long Coronet continued to own this company for. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TGBqvKoh8yGBNbNhiwGPXQds0b-eJFPwNmSAk51pYKKRxfblMF6jMThp8nMRufem76vkIfT3URoajxYLoJJKAeTR0x75l5RP_fC4M3DuRQyGgIlgS9zAlYo1ktJyyxSwRNXn71BLSoq8_G9I1vKiwbYVSmQhB909fE1ON10BV6corVrWrkB76UAUXA/s640/P1090395_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1TGBqvKoh8yGBNbNhiwGPXQds0b-eJFPwNmSAk51pYKKRxfblMF6jMThp8nMRufem76vkIfT3URoajxYLoJJKAeTR0x75l5RP_fC4M3DuRQyGgIlgS9zAlYo1ktJyyxSwRNXn71BLSoq8_G9I1vKiwbYVSmQhB909fE1ON10BV6corVrWrkB76UAUXA/w640-h424/P1090395_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAdEeu2rYTkntjZUHZzjwMKlT13sMho501i0z-A73876kXtJLGv97KDEBkasQFkcV3Hsn6X89W5dTBrf4NPVmUVBuHgqniEz10VownNytSRQwQH_9zqXob3S-aehq8lUHueMi28oGX618-2hn_NOmTUIpsEtH16hkUXSCrDjO2rIBbh5cPJ2irPAnZrA/s640/P1140644_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAdEeu2rYTkntjZUHZzjwMKlT13sMho501i0z-A73876kXtJLGv97KDEBkasQFkcV3Hsn6X89W5dTBrf4NPVmUVBuHgqniEz10VownNytSRQwQH_9zqXob3S-aehq8lUHueMi28oGX618-2hn_NOmTUIpsEtH16hkUXSCrDjO2rIBbh5cPJ2irPAnZrA/w640-h428/P1140644_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Around 1930 Coronet then purchased two brickworks in Heather from Henry J. Ford who had been operating as the Heather Brick, Terra Cotta & Wains Co. Ford had purchased Andrew Wain's works around 1922. The first reference to Coronet owning these two Heather works is a newspaper advert dated December 1931 when the company was advertising for a clerk to work at Heather. Coronet is listed in Kelly's 1932 edition with works in Measham & Heather. Below is a 1937 advert for Coronet recording their three works & this advert also shows the company had registered their trade names with BCM, British Commercial Monomarks. This was a company formed in 1925 to provide manufacturers with a London address & mail forwarding services. After this advert are two bricks made with this BCM stamp mark, Coronet & Heather. A brick stamped BCM Wains has still to turn up. More can be read about BCM at this <a href="https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/bcm-british-commercial-monomarks/" target="_blank">link</a> by Mark Cranston.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDBjEO5B59ZBBrtyNNBGre2Kwfsa8z4GAKCgTVexuTxRIDlX3qi553_HtyBcWCqoCon9izzgArZfnh6K7epbkfVirZN60pfNnhy07GPRru6GYhb9tbBsPnEe7VdIoBU6-Ja3ARUMbqew64s_-48tQ2Cj1sn5Z_iskZ80xZ2ijpxKAXBk2sQWWeC-rnw/s800/Coronet%20Co.%20-%20Heather%20-%20Wains%20The%20Architects%20Compendium%201937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="765" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDBjEO5B59ZBBrtyNNBGre2Kwfsa8z4GAKCgTVexuTxRIDlX3qi553_HtyBcWCqoCon9izzgArZfnh6K7epbkfVirZN60pfNnhy07GPRru6GYhb9tbBsPnEe7VdIoBU6-Ja3ARUMbqew64s_-48tQ2Cj1sn5Z_iskZ80xZ2ijpxKAXBk2sQWWeC-rnw/w612-h640/Coronet%20Co.%20-%20Heather%20-%20Wains%20The%20Architects%20Compendium%201937.jpg" width="612" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: times; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Architects Compendium 1937.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgow7QfsFalLFVUk3JhW6EstwKsLCoR9oLaK_gv4Fs-Wa80kV-IEcQDff6Xf74zHwt-XZSgqkRREoxa8rtgPjLFbIzSLaZd70LYwSCUAyRZf4AtNZ5eFm_yDk_Au7EPa42bT2hWfy3H7q6SuarWv0P-ha7YVVN2Y6jAhaTC8tBZfZtzHKdrZKVj3-yPOw/s640/BCM-%20Coronet%2015312314879_386635cce6_o_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="640" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgow7QfsFalLFVUk3JhW6EstwKsLCoR9oLaK_gv4Fs-Wa80kV-IEcQDff6Xf74zHwt-XZSgqkRREoxa8rtgPjLFbIzSLaZd70LYwSCUAyRZf4AtNZ5eFm_yDk_Au7EPa42bT2hWfy3H7q6SuarWv0P-ha7YVVN2Y6jAhaTC8tBZfZtzHKdrZKVj3-yPOw/w640-h432/BCM-%20Coronet%2015312314879_386635cce6_o_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Photo by Frank Lawson.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjTwmpRNFlv75n4mN8WA58X1t38tUrVjDlgXhUI7qBe-8dfRNnEHJxjGruAVIggzN5iy_JAUkef1xZe1qpIljeFK4liVxdPjWSghpJF47J8KPpsQoyloSxniyPtAz1HN696GGJKzlVYibcv96iEDgzRj-iFTiNIVElOTmq7ahA5AQSBdeA3M0RRxu8g/s640/IMG_1849_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjTwmpRNFlv75n4mN8WA58X1t38tUrVjDlgXhUI7qBe-8dfRNnEHJxjGruAVIggzN5iy_JAUkef1xZe1qpIljeFK4liVxdPjWSghpJF47J8KPpsQoyloSxniyPtAz1HN696GGJKzlVYibcv96iEDgzRj-iFTiNIVElOTmq7ahA5AQSBdeA3M0RRxu8g/w640-h480/IMG_1849_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Photo by Mike Chapman.</i></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At the time of his death in February 1952, Mr. N. Donaldson Mackenzie is recorded as being the Managing Director of the Coronet Brick Co. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Leicester Evening Mail dated 16th of March 1953 reports the Coronet Brick Co. had acquired W.T. Wright & Co's brickworks at Sileby, then another article a year later reports the Sileby works had been restructured & a new modern kiln had been built at Measham. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In November 1954 a newspaper article reports that Coronet's chairman </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. P. Ashmead- Bartlett announced in his annual report that the Heather works was to be sold, no reason for it's sale is given. This was the Station Road works known as the Wains Works. The article goes on to say </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">production at it's Measham works & at it's Sileby works, still operating as W.T. Wright & Co. (Sileby) was expanding. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am assuming the Pisca Lane works at Heather owned by Coronet did not re-open after WW2 with it being closed & under the care of the Ministry of War for the duration of the war to store armaments there. The Wains Works was also closed & under the care of the Ministry of War during WW2.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My next newspaper find in August 1960 records Mr C.W. Payne was Chairman of the Coronet Brick Co. I then found a newspaper advert dated October 1960 recording Coronet at Measham were now only producing salt glazed pipes with the company changing it's name to Coronet Sanitary Pipes Ltd. & were requiring a JCB Loadall driver. I am therefore assuming Coronet had disposed or closed it's Heather brickworks in 1954. However Coronet were still running their Sileby brickworks in the early 1960's with a</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> newspaper advert dated October 1963 advertising Wright's Ltd. (Sileby) were requiring two brick drawers & one loader at their Albion Works.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Info from an article by Mike Chapman, Mike records the Coronet Sanitary Pipes Ltd. works at Measham was bought by it's neighbour the Redbank Manufacturing Co. in the late 1970's. Redbank then with the removal of the disused Nuneaton railway line which had run between the two works, joined the two sites together & then proceeded to build four oil-fired low-thermal mass kilns on the Coronet site. I write about Redbank next. </span></span></p><p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Red Bank Brick Co.</span></u></b></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Redbank Manufacturing Co.</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0fK1ms6dtyqXat6mR6JowX5-qsv856xCO0XkT7DFD107I8f75JBzrl6133jnLZ_CRGWPLdsQc92V1yeznyew5d4eP6Wso6N6teB3EsNcdEyRvEym6bYfYsVnGfJUT9OkMm9ebeBwwGyUtj8_KsuW8OspIWNimdJDScWFGAqktLECm3W9dG1guBqfrw/s800/Measham%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk0fK1ms6dtyqXat6mR6JowX5-qsv856xCO0XkT7DFD107I8f75JBzrl6133jnLZ_CRGWPLdsQc92V1yeznyew5d4eP6Wso6N6teB3EsNcdEyRvEym6bYfYsVnGfJUT9OkMm9ebeBwwGyUtj8_KsuW8OspIWNimdJDScWFGAqktLECm3W9dG1guBqfrw/w640-h426/Measham%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Burton Chronicle dated 19th of November 1891 reports on the dinner at which the Red Bank Brick Co. was launched, it's owners being named as Joseph Massey, Managing Director, William Henry Ellis, J.P. & Arthur Brewin Partridge, directors, both of Ellis Partridge & Co. Also present at the dinner were Wilmot Massey, Joseph's father & W. H. Ellis' son Owen Ellis. It appears the company of Ellis Partridge & Co. played a major part in the running of the Red Bank Brick Co. in it's early years with Ellis Partridge & Co. recorded in adverts as operating this Measham works in it's own name, which is very confusing. It wasn't until Mark Cranston found me this Burton Chronicle article that I was able to understand why there were trade directory entries for the Red Bank Brick Co. & Ellis Partridge & Co. using the "Redbank" trade name at the same time, that it all fell into place. I write about Ellis Partridge & show these Ellis Partridge adverts after this Red Bank entry. Redbank went on to change hands in 1919 & it may have been then or even earlier that Ellis Partridge sold their stake in the Redbank Brick Co.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaTziPaAEupepGA5Lw-2PODXT2cX3zYu9awA_kCexYYIqQLazFKad5AnQzyUEzyx32cvVsLT27q11fbvT2d7vcXMHXNT3iZseih8U4aPqsQLi_uiVq1q_JRfgLYdk_JqV_czw0yExB2plLVoaZdFp7cI_N7HXreDYhaL01XEKCXl4XFwrsUNjnwfDgg/s640/P1090806_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaTziPaAEupepGA5Lw-2PODXT2cX3zYu9awA_kCexYYIqQLazFKad5AnQzyUEzyx32cvVsLT27q11fbvT2d7vcXMHXNT3iZseih8U4aPqsQLi_uiVq1q_JRfgLYdk_JqV_czw0yExB2plLVoaZdFp7cI_N7HXreDYhaL01XEKCXl4XFwrsUNjnwfDgg/w640-h428/P1090806_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first trade directory entry for the Red Bank Brick Co. appears in Kelly's 1895 edition & this is followed by the 1899 entry. Also in Kelly's 1899 edition in the brick makers section is the entry for W. Massey, Oakthorpe. So it appears in 1899 Wilmot Massey took over the running of Redbank from his son, Joseph Massey (1877-1947). Access to this works (coloured red on the 1901 OS map above) was gained off Atherstone Road next to Red Bank House were Wilmot Massey lived & was principally a farmer. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuug1tdwsKzngVB6KPiz_uZ0J1dXNLXrMcdz7F4Abb4hNJLlFaz9I78PasayqQ8EYPKdf2zCE0K4GPcBQLNMSYe1934Iei3xaj_d7h4m_xxsrYcPW-N9nllAL5c7BlBvr5Wy3iPvNokn1y7JLJoN0ljbZaXrpiTE8-XoqdABzPcIT2iLuFPodS7rYyA/s800/Red%20Bank%20Charles%20Barnett%201906%20Tim%20Barnett,%20whose%20Grandfather%20is%20the%20subject%20of%20the%20letter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="800" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuug1tdwsKzngVB6KPiz_uZ0J1dXNLXrMcdz7F4Abb4hNJLlFaz9I78PasayqQ8EYPKdf2zCE0K4GPcBQLNMSYe1934Iei3xaj_d7h4m_xxsrYcPW-N9nllAL5c7BlBvr5Wy3iPvNokn1y7JLJoN0ljbZaXrpiTE8-XoqdABzPcIT2iLuFPodS7rYyA/w640-h408/Red%20Bank%20Charles%20Barnett%201906%20Tim%20Barnett,%20whose%20Grandfather%20is%20the%20subject%20of%20the%20letter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Courtesy of Tim Barnett & Mike Chapman.</i></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I then found from Mike Chapman's article in the British Brick Society Journal that William Massey sold the Redbank Brick Co. to Mr. William Henry Lisney in 1919, who had interests in a local sanitary pipe company called Moore & Sons of Swains Park, Church Gresley. Also involved in this newly formed Redbank Manufacturing Co. were Lisney's two sons & J. Carey Moore. In tracing the Massey family I have found William Massey was christen John William Massey, born 1875, a Builders Merchant in Nuneaton in the 1911 census. His father, Wilmot Massey died in 1916, hence John William Massey selling Redbank in 1919. As wrote it appears Ellis Partridge & Co had sold it's shares in Redbank by 1919 with Mike not being able to find any evidence connecting Ellis Partridge to Redbank during his research. In 1931 the Redbank Manufacturing Co. was incorporated as a Limited company with the first board meeting taking place at the Midland Hotel, St Pancras on the 17th of July 1931. William Henry Lisney is recorded as Chairman & sons Messrs William Albert Lisney, John Lisney & J. Carey Moore were the company's Directors with William Albert Lisney as Managing Director. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk9XhBGLPK7dLzh_T_N4qUFIxvpfHlE6g5A7kbpc2NX9YHeUF2W37uvuz_OqRL2qLAQvlytuMQToayX_UFHfpnW_GiAHh5YIBeWf_0NFshcxXbple_bVxUkOKUYcoIRYj1KyY9w3mB7VVGtej7FQIsiv8m1BXwBYiR6YWLPghU_eFEtGJBm6JK14j-VQ/s640/IMG_4018.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk9XhBGLPK7dLzh_T_N4qUFIxvpfHlE6g5A7kbpc2NX9YHeUF2W37uvuz_OqRL2qLAQvlytuMQToayX_UFHfpnW_GiAHh5YIBeWf_0NFshcxXbple_bVxUkOKUYcoIRYj1KyY9w3mB7VVGtej7FQIsiv8m1BXwBYiR6YWLPghU_eFEtGJBm6JK14j-VQ/w640-h428/IMG_4018.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxp2qZYB04K_U-K3MWLDJCmHOIOFFFnZ8Y9_T4kUhTfrw-UIcPa_rzLTBAGRDZdSbP6toxjRzWdJHRrXDu54gVXiCr2ipB0mpfenp31MiwQwB6Wmco2MB2eLqkSvmeienZhEuVjkxycO6LMsf2xk7iTe4RfQiGOHcjm2fELwfIsMmbNMRAcjoZpfkuQ/s640/P1080930_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYxp2qZYB04K_U-K3MWLDJCmHOIOFFFnZ8Y9_T4kUhTfrw-UIcPa_rzLTBAGRDZdSbP6toxjRzWdJHRrXDu54gVXiCr2ipB0mpfenp31MiwQwB6Wmco2MB2eLqkSvmeienZhEuVjkxycO6LMsf2xk7iTe4RfQiGOHcjm2fELwfIsMmbNMRAcjoZpfkuQ/w640-h428/P1080930_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhps2hyV3YyEvexSeqQme5LpnKUS3TDSEZiwRvXYoL205HxTnQzDxWkIRpNDtlMrdkCVtO4h9tgZEYcBt1xHhxdGbHMEe6Plld8ADajVkjVvIl_QTPZzQAH5HsdOuQEzte21Nc1vLuZpaEGGChRl_-7gWhKgPPNioqexzBmkfgCU6x8uVNNIQq59gtd_Q/s800/Redbank%20MC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="800" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhps2hyV3YyEvexSeqQme5LpnKUS3TDSEZiwRvXYoL205HxTnQzDxWkIRpNDtlMrdkCVtO4h9tgZEYcBt1xHhxdGbHMEe6Plld8ADajVkjVvIl_QTPZzQAH5HsdOuQEzte21Nc1vLuZpaEGGChRl_-7gWhKgPPNioqexzBmkfgCU6x8uVNNIQq59gtd_Q/w640-h472/Redbank%20MC.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Redbank works, courtesy of the Mike Chapman Collection.</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div></i></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A 1933 aerial photo of the Redbank works can be seen at this <a href="https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW041748" target="_blank">Link.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Several generations of the Lisney family continued to run Redbank after William Henry & these were son, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">William Albert Lisney, then his son Travers Lisney who took over in January 1959. Redbank in the late 1970's acquired it's neighbour the Coronet Sanitary Pipe Co., Redbank had gradually been purchasing shares in Coronet since 1952. With the removal of the Nuneaton railway line which had run between Redbank & Coronet, the two sites were joined together & in a program of expansion & modernisation Redbank then built four </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">oil-fired low-thermal mass kilns on the Coronet site. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the early 1980's J.C. Bianco, a Lisney family member previously working in Europe joined the company & subsequently became Chairman & Managing Director taking over from Raymond Lisney who I am assuming was the son of Travers Lisney. In 1987 Redbank purchased Stanley Brothers, a specialist blue brick & terra cotta manufacturer in Nuneaton & by the end of the following year Redbank had </span><span style="font-family: arial;">moved all of Stanley's terra cotta production to Measham, closed</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> it's four works & then sold the sites for housing & factories. In 1984 Jeremy Capo Bianco succeeded his father as head of Redbank & together with his brother, Antony Bianco, Ken Russell, Peter Cobb & Tim Barnett, made up the Board of Directors. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In 2002 Hanson purchased Redbank's Soft Mud Brickworks with Redbank then concentrating on producing it's specialist products. However in January 2006 Hanson completed the purchase of the rest of Redbank. Hanson then proceeded to build their new ultra modern brickworks on the Measham site which took advantage of the vast amounts of clay still left on the site & could potentially produce 100 million bricks per year with just 28 people. Today Forterra operates this Measham works. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More can read about Redbank by Mike Chapman in the BBS Journal at this <a href="http://britishbricksoc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/BBS_124_2013_Jun_.pdf" target="_blank">link.</a></span></p><p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ellis, Partridge & Co.</span></u></b></h1><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This Ellis, Partridge & Company operating a brickworks at Measham had caused me many head scratching moments in trying to understand how they fitted in when there were only three brickworks in Measham of notable size & all were accounted for, but it was with Mark Cranston finding me a 1891 newspaper article that it all fell into place regarding Ellis Partridge owning a brickworks in Measham. Then with more newspaper finds & research Ellis Partridge were also involved with several other brick companies from at least 1881 & this has enabled me to put together a timeline for Ellis Partridge & Co. with them being listed as Brick Manufacturers in trade directories between 1881 & 1941. Ellis Partridge & Co. were primarily Slate Suppliers & Building Materials Merchants & Suppliers in Leicester & up to me writing this entry I had only found Ellis Partridge & Co. had operated there own brickworks in Woodville, Derbyshire between 1890 & 1925 & you can read what I have wrote about this works at this <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/12/south-derbyshire-brickworks-part-2.html" target="_blank">link.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1XL5XsB0DoG08W905AuxyVgzqoihNew-6McOx54vlbG1LHMivyp4ezj0ZCHVdXD6ot818voh5SQNLPKBh_apaj5-KA5oUcK64he_u_5FetQEgAnW-WGaZAhGyWxqUsl7CX8bd3_x4GrejnC6pPJukWaZxJJrT-bpIJdtlaILNKQ1lwCkNmfSDPWiMg/s640/P1150976.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH1XL5XsB0DoG08W905AuxyVgzqoihNew-6McOx54vlbG1LHMivyp4ezj0ZCHVdXD6ot818voh5SQNLPKBh_apaj5-KA5oUcK64he_u_5FetQEgAnW-WGaZAhGyWxqUsl7CX8bd3_x4GrejnC6pPJukWaZxJJrT-bpIJdtlaILNKQ1lwCkNmfSDPWiMg/w640-h428/P1150976.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So I hope you are sitting comfortably & I start with who owned what & how Ellis Partridge Co. & John Ellis & Sons were set up. The main player was William Henry Ellis, JP of Anstey Grange, Leicester & together with son Wilfred Henry Ellis they ran </span><a href="https://www.barrowuponsoarheritage.org.uk/articles/old-industries-of-barrow/john-ellis-barrow-lime.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">John Ellis & Sons,</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> a coal, lime & cement business established by William's father, John. Then William Henry Ellis was the senior partner in Ellis Partridge & Co., Slate Merchants, & Brick & Tile Manufacturers together with sons, Wilfred Henry Ellis, Owen Alfred Ellis & Arthur Brewin Partridge. A third son Francis Newman Ellis was a Colliery Manager & later MD of the Sherwood Colliery Co. Ltd. living at Debdale Hall, Mansfield who appears not have been involved in the running of either of the Ellis companies, but was an executor & beneficiary in William's Will. However there is a brick connection with Sherwood Colliery having it's own brickworks.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 1914 edition of Whitaker's Red Book records Ellis Partridge & Co. was established by William H. Ellis & Arthur B. Partridge in 1876 & from my findings this company were initially slate merchants. The 1881 census records Arthur Brewin Partridge as a Slate & Building Merchant employing 36 men & William Ellis is listed as a Coal & Lime Merchant (John Ellis & Sons). The first trade directory found recording Ellis Partridge & Co. as brick manufacturers appears in Kelly's 1881 edition with the office address of 10, Market Street, Leicester, but I have been unable to establish where they were brickmaking or with whom at this date.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> notice in the Leicester Chronicle dated 19th November 1887 for the newly formed Knighton Junction Brick Co. Ltd in Leicester tells us that the Directors in this company were William Ellis, Chairman, Arthur Brewin Partridge & Orson Wright, Leicester Builder, joint Managing Directors & Edward Sharman, who was also the MD of the Wellingborough Brick & Tile Co. I next found that in April 1886 William's son Owen Alfred Ellis had married Edward Sharman's daughter Margaret in Wellingborough, so I am assuming with this marriage that's how Edward Sharman got involved with the Knighton brick company. I come back to this company later. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ4Xx0Yb4D5D1lPeOIsdo-pstpPQifnd5AmSrQtswlPatwi53D5QYMxvw7skN4zqx7wVdbnt4BX_NF_wc5o4b_GY3fgWdzZtpUbESrkuF9hIsqIIaicITCJIt9wGtCA92lYhvDFh6Cl6ZQLuEzK0s79xNMjY-6FUXhVsem9ohAg3-ri8pcY5YdXI4YxQ/s640/P1080891_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ4Xx0Yb4D5D1lPeOIsdo-pstpPQifnd5AmSrQtswlPatwi53D5QYMxvw7skN4zqx7wVdbnt4BX_NF_wc5o4b_GY3fgWdzZtpUbESrkuF9hIsqIIaicITCJIt9wGtCA92lYhvDFh6Cl6ZQLuEzK0s79xNMjY-6FUXhVsem9ohAg3-ri8pcY5YdXI4YxQ/w640-h428/P1080891_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With adverts & trade directories clearly recording Ellis Partridge's Woodville brickworks I was unable to establish the location of it's Leicester works as per this brick, so there is the option that this brick was made for Ellis Partridge at the Knighton Junction Brick Co's works, especially with the shape of this frog being known to be have been used in the 1880's / 90's. Bricks stamped Knighton Junction have also turned up. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This EP brick could have been made at the Measham works which I write about next, but the colour of the clay does not quite match the colour of the Redbank bricks in the Redbank entry above. I also note that I cannot discount EP making this Leicester brick at their Woodville works as the texture of the clay is very similar. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now back to the Measham brickworks which set me on my "Trail of Discovery" of the Ellis Partridge Company. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The next brickworks Ellis Partridge had shareholdings & interests in was the Redbank Brick Co. at Measham & the Burton Chronicle </span><span style="font-family: arial;">dated 19th of November 1891 reports on the dinner that launched the Red Bank Brick Co. naming it's Managing Director as Joseph Massey with William Henry Ellis, J.P. & Arthur Brewin Partridge as Directors. Also present at this dinner were W. H. Ellis' son Owen Alfred Ellis & Wilmot Massey, Joseph's father. As you can see from the adverts below you would think like I did that Ellis Partridge & Co. were the actual owners of Red Bank Brick Co. with them advertising they owned the "Redbank" trade name & owned the Measham works as well as their Woodville works, but that was not the case, they were just associated with Redbank & selling their bricks & terra cotta & promoting their quality wares. Both companies are listed in Kelly's Leicestershire directories at the same time, but Ellis Partridge do not give a works address. There is the option Ellis & Partridge increased the amount of shares they held in Redbank & became it's owners at the time of these adverts, but when Red Bank was sold to the Lisney family in 1919 the person selling the works was William Massey & as previously wrote in the Redbank entry, this was John William Massey, son of Wilmot Massey who had died in 1916. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQo_HtWv6afOJoHUMVIluRb3qpYB5BuqFSWwWsTI2uXiuhNkvnMIjZnsKSBXHgGX04DjZjtHEK3muHN8CD9eoKXDcBKHDT-icAQPnu9P_xMbHvUNbQnXVbgk8e9iwXSHJAXh6W88y0J9wt3TWOCGQMY6012waa8Ft_AH2M6RCx4wH8tXPpTs_JM0keQ/s800/Ellis%20Partridge%20&%20Co.%201894%20Contractors'%20Compendium.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQo_HtWv6afOJoHUMVIluRb3qpYB5BuqFSWwWsTI2uXiuhNkvnMIjZnsKSBXHgGX04DjZjtHEK3muHN8CD9eoKXDcBKHDT-icAQPnu9P_xMbHvUNbQnXVbgk8e9iwXSHJAXh6W88y0J9wt3TWOCGQMY6012waa8Ft_AH2M6RCx4wH8tXPpTs_JM0keQ/w400-h360/Ellis%20Partridge%20&%20Co.%201894%20Contractors'%20Compendium.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Contractors Compendium 1894</span>.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGh_Z5FxrYapkSc8DhpocWZ1N-oO6ILLuXjTS86_hNEJ6lmd8xtgqvCzC9BwP2hrL2S7kIIoRlvT_-dOPm_gDHq_Z_JHHSjGRFB8Wjw8nKcPe_dmnUCNv6OL7n70wzIBzHuFovPnv_AQ6mbCt81O5jPQpkuNoz2iG665dEBI0BC4-oYVm9Hxp31bK3wA/s800/Ellis%20Partridge%20&%20Co.%20The%20Contractors%20Compendium%201896.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="800" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGh_Z5FxrYapkSc8DhpocWZ1N-oO6ILLuXjTS86_hNEJ6lmd8xtgqvCzC9BwP2hrL2S7kIIoRlvT_-dOPm_gDHq_Z_JHHSjGRFB8Wjw8nKcPe_dmnUCNv6OL7n70wzIBzHuFovPnv_AQ6mbCt81O5jPQpkuNoz2iG665dEBI0BC4-oYVm9Hxp31bK3wA/w400-h353/Ellis%20Partridge%20&%20Co.%20The%20Contractors%20Compendium%201896.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Contractors Compendium 1896</span>.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uuuQgoRRKoXMJF15smLkM1MnJikCq7sYdu_s-Q3h6ionR89WThGnlRvXAkbiDizxP_U8iIrBNqWQao9uyA5C0jZ1VJFhGKXxbuut0a23g3VjShA_ssFYdAB1FOp_Np-VbvPMzLYDAMoeLzDSBORiJnTf6W289CR-xDx6xicMY-qiuCgH11PgG-jygg/s800/Ellis%20Partridge%20&%20Co.%20The%20Contractors%20Merchants%20&%20Estate%20Managers%20Compendium%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="586" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uuuQgoRRKoXMJF15smLkM1MnJikCq7sYdu_s-Q3h6ionR89WThGnlRvXAkbiDizxP_U8iIrBNqWQao9uyA5C0jZ1VJFhGKXxbuut0a23g3VjShA_ssFYdAB1FOp_Np-VbvPMzLYDAMoeLzDSBORiJnTf6W289CR-xDx6xicMY-qiuCgH11PgG-jygg/w469-h640/Ellis%20Partridge%20&%20Co.%20The%20Contractors%20Merchants%20&%20Estate%20Managers%20Compendium%201901.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Contractors Merchants & Estate Managers Compendium 1901</span>.</i></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Going back to 1893 & William Henry Ellis died on the 25th of November & several newspaper articles & the London Gazette report on how the structure of Ellis Partridge & Co. was to proceed. The London Gazette records that the partnership which existed between William Henry Ellis (deceased), Wilfred Henry Ellis, Owen Alfred Ellis & Arthur Brewin Partridge was dissolved by mutual consent & from the 1st of January 1894 Ellis Partridge would then be run by Owen Alfred Ellis & Arthur Brewin Partridge. So with Wilfred Henry Ellis leaving this partnership I am assuming he was now running John Ellis & Sons on his own with a newspaper article reporting William had put in his Will that his sons as Trustees would divide his businesses as they may think expedient. Further research has revealed Wilfred was running John Ellis & Sons with his cousin Geoffrey Ellis, son of Alfred Ellis, (Alfred was the eldest son of John Ellis & brother to William Henry).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In 1904 Ellis Partridge & Co. became a Private Limited Company. In late July 1909 Owen Alfred Ellis aged 48 took his own life. He was found by the proprietor of the boarding house where he was staying at in Crowborough, East Sussex. Apparently Owen had gone to Sussex for the benefit of his health. In his Will Owen left full control in the running of his business to his brother Wilfred Henry Ellis & brother-in-law William Campbell Sharman. It is unknown if these two gentlemen actually joined Arthur Brewin Partridge in the running of Ellis Partridge & Co. with a later find only recording Arthur Partridge & his son Frank at this company. The 1901 census records Arthur Partridge's sons, Franklin (Frank) Sunner Partridge b.1880 & Arthur Stanley Partridge b.1883 were both slate merchant clerks & the 1911 census now records them both as slate merchants, working along side their father. Whitakers 1914 Red Book records Ellis Partridge & Co. Ltd. Slate Merchants & Shippers, Slating & Tiling Contractors, Brick & Terra Cotta Manufacturers, Grey Friars, Leicester; Directors, Arthur Brewin Partridge, Chairman & Frank Partridge, Managing Director. I come back to Ellis Partridge & Co. Ltd. & the Partridge family later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I now return to the Knighton Junction Brick Co. to complete this company's story & with the 1893 death of William Ellis this naturally affected this company as well with William being a major shareholder & Chairman. It appears Orson Wright then became Chairman & I have a newspaper article referring to Arthur Partridge as still representing the company in January 1910. However the men at Knighton's two works were given a weeks notice that the brickworks were to close in October 1909 due to poor sales. My thoughts are that Partridge stayed on to sell the existing stock. Then in January 1911 Orson Wright placed the Knighton Junction Brick Co. into Voluntary Liquidation & was Liquidated a year later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I now move onto a another company Arthur Brewin Partridge was involved with, this being the Leicester Brick Co. In doing so I go back to 1901 & an article in the Leicester Evening Mail dated January 1910 reports that in 1901 with several local brick companies losing money by trying to undercut one another & in the interest of all concerned a decision was made to unite & form The Leicester Brick Co. to distribute it's members bricks. It's members were the Knighton Brick Co., Gypsy Lane Brick Co. & Barrows Brothers. Chairman of the Leicester Brick Co. was Orson Wright (Chairman of the Knighton Brick Co.) & it's Directors were Arthur Patridge, representing the Knighton Brick Co., Mr. J. Barrow & Mr. W. Barrow for Messrs. Barrow Brothers & Mr. W.H. Winterton for the Gypsy Lane Brick Co. With this article mentioning seven brickworks were involved it only named the ones that I have listed. This 1910 article goes on to say although the association worked well for a start, one by one through poor sales several brickworks closed until only the Gypsy Lane Brick Co. situated on Fairfax Road, Leicester was left. Both the Gypsy Lane Brick Co. & the Leicester Brick Co. continue to be listed in Kelly's up to the last available directory in 1941. Whether anymore brick companies joined the association trading as the Leicester Brick Co after 1910 is unknown. I then found the Leicester Brick Co. was placed into Voluntary Liquidation in November 1945 & was wound up on the 2nd of July 1946. The Gypsy Lane brickworks is still shown on the 1950 map & newspaper adverts record this Fairfax Road works was now being operated by the Leicester Brick & Tile Co., the last one found being dated December 1965.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I now return to Ellis Partridge & Co. for the final bit & as wrote Arthur Partridge was the company's Chairman in 1914, with his son Frank listed as Managing Director. On the 7th of July 1920 Arthur Brewin Partridge passed away leaving the running of Ellis Partridge & Co. to his two sons, Franklin Sunner Partridge & Arthur Stanley Partridge. Directories up to Kelly's 1916 edition still record Ellis Partridge & Co. as brick manufacturers. However in March 1930 the two brothers formed a new company called Ellis Partridge & Co. (Leicester) Ltd. taking over all the assets, stock in trade & the goodwill thereof, but excluding the stocks & shares of the previous company. Both men then became life governing directors of this new company which is listed in Kelly's 1932 & 36 editions as brick manufacturers as well as slate merchants & contractors & builders merchants. In August 1939 Franklin Sunner Partridge died leaving his share of the business to his brother Arthur Stanley Partridge. In April 1941 Ellis Partridge Kilbert & Co. was formed, taking over the business of the previous company & this new company is listed as Brick Manufacturers in Kelly's 1941 edition. Arthur Stanley Partridge & J. Kilbert are listed as life governing directors & H.T. Johnson is named as a director. It appears J. Kilbert had worked for Ellis Partridge & Co. from at least April 1913 when he was representing the company in a court case against the bankrupt T. Gray & Sons of Sheffield, with this company owing Ellis Partridge money. I then found J. Kibert had died before 1946 & it appears from a newspaper advert that by 1948 the company run by Arthur Stanley Partridge were trading as Ellis Partridge & Co. (Leicester) Ltd. again. Arthur Stanley Partridge died in December 1951 leaving a wife & two daughters. However the company continues to operate & was placed into Liquidation by it's members in January 1991. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So this now begs the question for how many years did Ellis Partridge continue to manufacture bricks & where ? The last listing for Ellis Partridge as brick manufacturers is Kelly's 1941 edition & there are no other references to the company making bricks after this date. Then where did they have their bricks made after their Woodville works closed & they had ended their relationship with Redbank. The only option I can put forward is the company Arthur Brewin Partridge was involved with, that being the Leicester Brick Co., which was administrating the sale of bricks for several brick companies. So the example below could have been made at the Knighton Junction brickworks when Partridge was a director there & the works was associated with the Leicester Brick Co., or at the Gypsy Lane Works owned by the Gypsy Lane Brick Co. which was the last brick company the Leicester Brick Co. distributed bricks for, which does take us to the early 1940's & the 1941 trade directory. It would have been nice if I had found info on Arthur's two sons being associated with the Leicester Brick Co. after his death, but none was found. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkR65YZBJDDZ_a46B6cuOaIHaOk7q0j8-bpe050eLcEimWwwYkK_XMK7ZoKZhXTlauNKwHmJrGwuRh5xI2d0P-n5w6xHKYCE_BHGX4Vr9Fuflx_bp_Y4O3NkD9wCFTfA9ovw4f4rcMj49TdNkSJ6KtksB7xUTT-3_HSgTVUBe_EetQ3c5hdnuQAuT5A/s640/P1120537-Edit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnkR65YZBJDDZ_a46B6cuOaIHaOk7q0j8-bpe050eLcEimWwwYkK_XMK7ZoKZhXTlauNKwHmJrGwuRh5xI2d0P-n5w6xHKYCE_BHGX4Vr9Fuflx_bp_Y4O3NkD9wCFTfA9ovw4f4rcMj49TdNkSJ6KtksB7xUTT-3_HSgTVUBe_EetQ3c5hdnuQAuT5A/w640-h428/P1120537-Edit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I started on this Ellis Partridge trail with many unanswered questions & even with finding much info in newspaper articles & adverts along the way, I have had to end this article with several questions that I have not been able to answer. As always if I get the answers, I will update the post.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px;"><br style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;" /><br /></div><p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></p>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-69649909957458816992022-03-12T18:08:00.001+00:002022-03-16T17:34:25.798+00:00Edward Gripper's Early Years in Nottingham 1852-1858 by Jeff Sheard<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Foreword by Martyn Fretwell - </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Since Jeff Sheard wrote his book, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Clay Stealers to St Pancras Station: A History of Nottingham's Brickmakers, we have been in regular contact regarding other Nottingham Brickmakers & with Jeff now writing a more in-depth account of Edward Gripper's early life which was not in his book, I have created this post to showcase his new work.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Edward Gripper's Early Years in Nottingham 1852-1858 by Jeff Sheard.</span></b></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Edward Gripper’s early years in Nottingham were shrouded in mystery, however information from the British Newspaper Archive now has made it possible to form a much clearer picture of his business activities after 1850. The first article from the Newspaper Archive introduces Mr William Whitehead whose primary occupation was an auctioneer, however with his “finger in many pies” he was also a freeholder and manufacturer of bricks "with three admirably run yards situated on Beacon Hill" located in the St Ann's district close to the town of Nottingham. </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This article provides valuable information regarding the plant and equipment used to manufacture bricks before steam power was introduced in 1852 by Edward Gripper. Nottingham Brickmakers had already made inroads towards the "Holy Grail" of all-year-round brick production. This was absolutely necessary to meet the ever-increasing demands of the growing industrial town. </span></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Nottingham Journal May 18th 1855.<br /></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">TO FARMERS, BRICKMAKERS, BUILDERS AND OTHERS</span></span></h4><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 19.9px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i>To be Sold by Auction, on Tuesday, the May 22nd, 1895, at Eleven for Twelve O'clock Precisely, by </i><b><i>MR W. WHITEHEAD,</i></b><i> upon the premises, Mapperley Park, (</i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i>Alexandra Park</i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i>) Nottingham, the entire </i><b><i>PLANT</i></b><i> and </i><b><i>STOCK-IN-TRADE</i></b><i> of the </i><b><i>BRICKYARD</i></b><i> formally belonging to Mr W. Smith, the ground being required immediately for the setting out as villa sites. The plant consists of a excellent </i><b><i>CLAY MILL</i></b><i>, worked by horse-power; large </i><b><i>CLAY HOVEL</i></b><i>, covered with half-inch boarding; </i><b><i>BRICKMAKING SHED</i></b><i> 98 feet by 19 feet; Ditto, 92 feet by 19 feet, Ditto, 80 feet by 19feet, all covered with pantiles, nearly new. Extensive Flues with furnaces, dampers, and chimney; two large Kilns, with droughts, &c. The </i><b><i>STOCK</i></b><i> of nearly 200,000 common bricks, 20,000 Cants, 40,000 culverts; quantity of half-rounds, quarter-rounds, floor bricks, saddle copings, circulars &c.---The whole of the plant being new within the last three years, and the Stock good, the opportunity is a favourable one for parties building. </i></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px 19.9px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">2, Albert Street, Nottingham</span></i></span></p><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The traditional period for brickmaking on a smaller scale was from Our Ladies Day to St Michaelmas Day, March 25th to September 29th. St. Michaelmas Day was also a traditional holiday to celebrate the gathering of the harvest. Inclement weather conditions were the bane of traditional brickmakers. Horse-drawn clay mills had been introduced to the area as early as 1820, followed later with heated drying floors, covered brickmaking sheds and enclosed kilns with flues. Nottingham's seasonal brickmakers often worked in the malting trade during the winter months; malting barley for brewing purposes is a similar occupation all about kilns and critical temperatures. </span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Land released after the 1845 Enclosure Act was purchased by many speculators for building land, industrial and housing.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">A popular investment was to buy land on the clay fields, situated on the hilly terrain of the north-eastern outskirts of the town, then install a brick maker or brickmaking company who would pay rent until the clay had been exhausted. It was commonplace in Nottingham for earlier brickyards to remove only the top clay. This would remain the case until the powerful machinery needed to process the deeper more challenging compact clays were introduced. After the top clay reserves had been exhausted, brickmaking ceased and the freeholder would then be left with a ready prepared and levelled building plot, perfect for selling on at a healthy profit. </span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">One area of obvious brickmaking is located on Woodborough Road (Mapperley Hills) adjacent to Hungerhill Gardens, the area was eventually incorporated into the southern section of the Alexandra Park Estate. The Nottingham City Council built a multi-storey block of flats on the location in the 1960s. The land was formally part of the Mapperley Common, a ribbon of land situated on the eastern side of Woodborough Road that stretched from Hungerhill Gardens to Porchester Road. The area had been associated with brickmaking, both official and unofficial, for hundreds of years. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">The Hungerhill Gardens (now allotments) are Britain's oldest and largest detached town gardens and because of its rich history, the 75 acre site has been declared a Grade II listed site. In the 1840s, the area was established as "Pleasure Gardens" to provide space for the middle classes to get away from the dirt and grime of the expanding industrial town.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">An area of land formally Mapperley Common, (the date unclear), was purchased by a member of the Smith family, a prosperous family of Nottingham Bankers after one of Nottingham's Enclosure Acts, possibly before the extensive 1845 Act. One of my research adventures to this area provided the evidence of brickmaking on the site which was overwhelming. The clay hills situated to the rear of Alexandra Park (Hungerhills) were scattered with hundreds of reject bricks fused together in large blocks known as burrs. The evidence of over fired brick burrs pointed to a catastrophic kiln meltdown. It can take weeks or months to hack and chisel out the contents of a kiln when the temperature has been misjudged and overheated.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEincyMU64K4Ycbg7V2_PV5ya2xEtLgefefcZDxE-i8GCA3xPE5Ou5JxTGN9o2DPniuKbC6CCWAS0yJzUgE5UnMPqQAuNPS-l349fRIQRGEEw2Xfc9lruVV0-1lhCMJutiG5k-V-H-v8gukhkV3WUj_zqAqVLHP3dGMSK-KB4n0B9yWD8pdGLKGClII_RQ=s316" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="211" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEincyMU64K4Ycbg7V2_PV5ya2xEtLgefefcZDxE-i8GCA3xPE5Ou5JxTGN9o2DPniuKbC6CCWAS0yJzUgE5UnMPqQAuNPS-l349fRIQRGEEw2Xfc9lruVV0-1lhCMJutiG5k-V-H-v8gukhkV3WUj_zqAqVLHP3dGMSK-KB4n0B9yWD8pdGLKGClII_RQ=w267-h400" width="267" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6r0D6Mfp30Gk4T-3hT5eBtNMFc4zaru4AWwoDRJLp6uwRSLxJGtFHKBE2U4MtoEZrMoSx_x0GGQ0SNEJxMFtCX8j9wlEf_pYZ8J1RON03rV-fpmT49Gf0t8txJdbztERQQeFmtdPY-nLfZvQJh57dFQWJzqu-d3jhHfAfsYCKkwXNAus3M9W1ALIk_w=s631" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="451" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6r0D6Mfp30Gk4T-3hT5eBtNMFc4zaru4AWwoDRJLp6uwRSLxJGtFHKBE2U4MtoEZrMoSx_x0GGQ0SNEJxMFtCX8j9wlEf_pYZ8J1RON03rV-fpmT49Gf0t8txJdbztERQQeFmtdPY-nLfZvQJh57dFQWJzqu-d3jhHfAfsYCKkwXNAus3M9W1ALIk_w=w458-h640" width="458" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Nottingham Local Studies Library.</span></p></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sanderson's Map of 1835, 20 Miles around Mansfield, unusually includes brick making sites and kiln locations. Interestingly brick kilns are shown on the Mapperley Common area well before the 1845 Enclosure Act. There is also a huge amount of brick kilns concentrated further to the east along the Carlton Road</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>. <i> </i></b></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> </i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: x-large;">Edward Gripper 1815 – 1895 </span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvK0OLs8zZYnjkcN3zYwHRNeCOJUvvIaa07ahmL46JiO3YR3At1OSiI0M7r50LQnIR-wnSukTII8vb2_GMUVmTmXkP0jDOJ3vUX1H5UPv1zl2eRlByIgcu4ycpptypaGIyjBjjLlve4SyY6Ng-pfhnqOmtVHCU7FoY5DN6hPjtCOusnyOm189O84ZSNQ=s369" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvK0OLs8zZYnjkcN3zYwHRNeCOJUvvIaa07ahmL46JiO3YR3At1OSiI0M7r50LQnIR-wnSukTII8vb2_GMUVmTmXkP0jDOJ3vUX1H5UPv1zl2eRlByIgcu4ycpptypaGIyjBjjLlve4SyY6Ng-pfhnqOmtVHCU7FoY5DN6hPjtCOusnyOm189O84ZSNQ=s320" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nottingham Local Studies Library</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Edward Gripper (junior) was born in 1815 into a small Quaker Community in Layer Breton, Essex. His father was a landowner and farmer, a very active member of the local Society of Friends. The Gripper family lived at Layer Breton Hall and worked 256 acres of farmland. Edward Gripper received an excellent commercial education and was the manager of his father's estate and farm for many years, employing a considerable staff; 19 men and six boys are shown in the 1851 census. He worked with his father until 1850-51, he then made the decision to leave his native Essex give up farming and look for pastures new. He moved to Nottingham and invested in a pioneering Steam Powered Brickmaking Process. The family farm was later sold, and his remaining family moved to smaller accommodation, the White House, in Layer Breton.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With the repeal of the Corn Laws 1846, the future of farming looked rather bleak. In 1850 two newspaper articles appeared in the Essex Herald, proclaiming that Edward Gripper was now an "Appraiser and Estate Agent". The second article is aimed directly at poachers and anyone sporting on the land without authority. "Anyone doing so would be deemed TRESPASSERS and dealt with as the law directs". </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1OfJ3XZi8DjUeKPor6NhRd1pZQwAZjndyFAa8Su00wS-8ee9qOrBtpoCuXcCPnI97xo_FaLuvm5w3AS84KvQU73kwj80dhTfLDwt_AkGBNMLVDIGjoPOwewZ4iL11XaJxE8xNnRoVUpcJ0kmen6qOwXuJE4LxL7Fc1UjI0XkG8qxRRI20nDaEUgMugA=s339" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="252" data-original-width="339" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1OfJ3XZi8DjUeKPor6NhRd1pZQwAZjndyFAa8Su00wS-8ee9qOrBtpoCuXcCPnI97xo_FaLuvm5w3AS84KvQU73kwj80dhTfLDwt_AkGBNMLVDIGjoPOwewZ4iL11XaJxE8xNnRoVUpcJ0kmen6qOwXuJE4LxL7Fc1UjI0XkG8qxRRI20nDaEUgMugA=w400-h297" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Layer Breton Hall, Essex 2010.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial;">So was Edward suffering some kind of midlife crisis or had he mapped out his future in a purposeful and calculated way ?</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Edward Gripper's name next appears on December 10th 1852, In the Nottingham Review under the headline - </span><b style="font-family: arial;">Scarcity of Houses in Nottingham</b><span style="font-family: arial;">. The article refers to the high prices charged for rent and the very high demand for these houses. There were eighty-four applications alone for one house situated in the select Derby Road area of Nottingham. </span><i><span style="font-family: arial;">"The demand for houses of every class is on a similar scale." </span></i></span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The article then continues under the sub-heading<i>, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>The Brick Manufacture.</b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It will be some consolation to builders and others, whose operations are retarded throughout the country by the supply of bricks being deficient, to learn that companies have been formed in the most eligible localities that could be selected, for the purpose of manufacturing them in steam factories by a new patent process. One of these establishments has for more than twelve months past been in operation on a small scale at Huntingdon, where six men and four boys are making sixty thousand bricks a week, no alterations in weather in the slightest degree interfering with their operations. Under the same patent, and on an improved scale, immense works are just being put down at Arlesey, also on the Great Northern Line, a little more than twenty miles south of the metropolis, where about a million-and-a-quarter will be made weekly for the London Market. Other works are in progress at Cambridge, where 120,000 a week will be made, at Rugby (120,000), Leicester (600,000), Liverpool (500,000), Manchester (600,000), Birmingham (600,000), Derby (120,000), Nottingham (360,000), Doncaster, for the great Yorkshire towns (800,000). The Nottingham firm trading under the name of Edward Gripper and Company has commenced active operations. We understand they will have a large supply of bricks ready for sale early in the ensuing spring. The company's works will occupy forty-six acres at Mapperley. As the clay of which the patent brick is made must necessarily be ground very fine and is then forced by immense mechanical pressure through the moulds, a brick is therefore produced that when burnt will ring like china and is "as sound as an acorn." Another great advantage the patent brick possesses over the common brick is that being perforated, one-third of the clay is thereby taken out of it, enabling one horse to cart six hundred of them along an ordinary road, instead of only four hundred, to the place where they may be required for use. When put into work, the perforations form so perfect a key for the mortar that a single brick wall is said to be as strong as an ordinary nine-inch wall. When placed under hydraulic pressure, the-patent brick will bear three times the weight of a solid wall before it breaks or is crushed. To the eye, the face of a patent-brick is as beautiful as are the faces of the pressed bricks, or more so, the brass dies through which they pass, about a dozen at a time at the rate of 2,000 per hour, imparting to them a glossy smoothness the pressed brick seldom gains. Mr Beart, of Godmanchester, is the patentee. As this adaption will give a great stimulus to building operations, much additional labour will thereby be created for the working classes, and none will be more benefited by it than brickmakers themselves. Instead of their employment, as previously being uncertain, and their occupation cheerless and demoralizing, there is now a certain prospect for them having work to attend all year round, ten hours a day, every working day alike (all clay getters excepted) within the works or factories, which may be rendered as comfortable for the operatives employed as any workshop in the United Kingdom. A still greater privilege to be conferred by this process upon the workmen and boys employed will be that the arrangements made entirely preclude the necessity of Sunday work, leaving them opportunities they have not hitherto enjoyed for mental and spiritual cultivation.</span></i></span></p></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Edward Gripper first appeared in the local trade directories in 1853. It seems an incredible achievement that Gripper could leave the family business of farming at the age of 38 and within just a few years to be in charge of one the most productive brick companies in Nottingham. His ground-breaking introduction of steam power and automation increased production and lowered the cost of bricks while improving the product.<i> </i>Nottingham was now a boomtown and Gripper was definitely in the right place at the right time. Over 158 factories had been built between 1851 and 1857 for the lace and hosiery industries alone. The grandest buildings are still to be seen in the Lace Market. One observer commented that ‘’Nottingham had become the Manchester of the Midlands’’. </span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Wylie's Old and New Nottingham 1853 states "that an estimated<i> </i>21 million bricks were brought into Nottingham and its suburbs the previous year’'.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At first the exact location of Gripper’s first brickyard in Nottingham was unclear & it was from another quote from Wylie's account which pointed to it's location. <i>"A company under the name Messrs' Gripper and Co. have purchased an extensive piece of land on the Mapperley-Hill, where gigantic preparations for brick and tile manufacturing are being made".</i> Unfortunately, Mapperley Hill is 1.5 miles long, so this information is somewhat vague. The clue that eventually clinched the exact location was that Gripper’s brickyard occupied an area of 46 acres. The actual area occupied by what become known in later years as the Mapperley Middle Yard, situated in the area referred to as the "Brickmaking Estate," situated to the northwest of Woodborough Road. The Mapperley Middle Yard was flanked on both sides by two other brickyards, Cartledge’s Yard off Private Road and Huthwaite's, a farmer and brick manufacturer, trading under the name of Mapperley Brick Company, Scout Lane (Woodthorpe Drive).</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The date indicated for Gripper’s arrival in Nottingham is significant, 1852, one year after the Great Exhibition in London. Robert Beart is known to have displayed his Patent Brick Manufacturing Process, Page 41, of the Exhibition Catalogue. Constructing and establishing Mapperley Middle Yard as a going concern by December 1852 seems a gargantuan task even for a man with Gripper's talents. Maybe he was introduced to Beart's patented steam-driven process before the 1851 Great Exhibition ? It is still unclear how Gripper made contact with his future business partners John Green Hine and Thomas Chambers Hine. In the Nottingham section of Hunts Mining Statistics 1858, J G. Hine is quoted as the freeholder, Gripper, the brick manufacturer.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">I stumbled upon a snippet of information possibly connecting Gripper and T C. Hine during some earlier research. Alfred Stapleton's History of Mapperley refers to a row of 16 brickmakers’ cottages, situated on Woodborough Rd, directly opposite Mapperley Middle Yard. According to Stapleton, the terraced row was reputed to have been designed by T C. Hine.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjixTvwm8bH8D-SE4f1z2Q5iSR82C_0qb7QscvEeCZdQ3s6dvKnVtKkuoIUu_4-1gTM4N18ds0fpg6HifmeTGZD94IpYPWBzIK4vplsKjaRoKEP1IARJGvXJVyXZtreizP7SJ848LJJCQ_bUGYYTibHFn8COXL1wfVpGcBY_kT_mkY4Mb35I-SisQxpUA=s316" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="316" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjixTvwm8bH8D-SE4f1z2Q5iSR82C_0qb7QscvEeCZdQ3s6dvKnVtKkuoIUu_4-1gTM4N18ds0fpg6HifmeTGZD94IpYPWBzIK4vplsKjaRoKEP1IARJGvXJVyXZtreizP7SJ848LJJCQ_bUGYYTibHFn8COXL1wfVpGcBY_kT_mkY4Mb35I-SisQxpUA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Fern Cottages, Woodborough Road, Nottingham. </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The distinctive blue brick string course would have involved an extreme amount of work for the bricklayers, bricks having to be cut to size above and below the arching. A sure sign an architect was involved with the project! <b> </b></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The following information was found much later, in the publication Perry's Bankrupt Gazette February 18th 1854.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>Partnerships Dissolved : Edward Gripper and Edward Gripper, Junior of Layer Breton, Farmers. September 29th 1855.</i></span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">The next snippet of information is a real eye-opener! Published in the same newspaper, Perry's Bankrupt Gazette, October 6</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> 1855.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>Partnerships Dissolved: Hine John Green, Edward Gripper, Jun. and Thomas Chambers Hine, of Mapperley, in Basford, and elsewhere, Brick and Tile Makers as regards T C. Hine September 10th I855.</i></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Alexandra Park, Nottingham has a fascinating history and association with T.C. Hine and his brother John Green Hine, both of whom were responsible for the area's development during the 1850s. The following information is compiled from the website of the Mapperley and Sherwood History Group and gives a real insight into the brother's business activities during the period. </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoxlGvVbCNndlBf4MoCTlRiMLJ37knwJqNdU6H0F1oZJm0dLX-98Kzt3bACG613ESUt9-zmOIf2mFKJT4FMJJz6chouNyShz6-mXemTO_QW88UQPpxk3N_kYKlBI8PsCj4ecZkxZBkTJBwkrgahQOEfGDKBRL4JQaMmXdtuh9qw3qvu4prDbdHRpa0tQ=s150" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="135" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoxlGvVbCNndlBf4MoCTlRiMLJ37knwJqNdU6H0F1oZJm0dLX-98Kzt3bACG613ESUt9-zmOIf2mFKJT4FMJJz6chouNyShz6-mXemTO_QW88UQPpxk3N_kYKlBI8PsCj4ecZkxZBkTJBwkrgahQOEfGDKBRL4JQaMmXdtuh9qw3qvu4prDbdHRpa0tQ=w360-h400" width="360" /></a></div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Nottingham Local Studies Library</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">.</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Hine Family were a prosperous old family from Beaminster in Dorset. Jonathon Hine (senior) came to Nottingham in 1795, he started out as a framework knitter and rose to become a senior partner in Chambers, Wilson & Morley, later to become the famous I. & R. Morley Company. In 1803 he married Mary Chambers, daughter of Thomas Chambers. Ten years later in 1813 their eldest son Thomas Chambers Hine was born. Instead of joining the family firm he was articled to a London architect returning to Nottingham in 1834 to establish his own practice, initially in partnership with William Patterson a local builder. By the 1850s he was regarded as Nottingham's best and busiest architect. By 1850 Nottingham's lace trade was at its zenith with many nouveau-riche manufacturers seeking homes outside the town to display their new wealth and status.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Thomas Chambers Hine had his eye on a particular piece of land released as part of the 1845 Enclosure Act located on the lower section of the former Mapperley Common, plot no.163. The Hine brothers drew up an ambitious provisional plan for plot 163 shown on Frederick Jackson's 1861 map, but they immediately started to run into difficulties. Less than six months after purchasing plot 163, in January 1854 Thomas accepted the post of surveyor to develop the Duke of Newcastle's Park Estate, this occupied his attention for the next 30 years. His office was responsible for 200 of the 650 houses constructed. Thomas almost immediately sold his interest in plot 163 to his brother John who took out two large loans to buy out his brother. By October 1855 John was in serious financial difficulties and unable to meet the loan repayments, it looked as if the intended development would not proceed.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">T C. Hine had already established a reputation for developing rather unprepossessing sites. Still the proposed estate (plot 163) was possibly not so attractive to clients until Woodborough Road had been created & with the area being levelled in 1886. It was that steep that horse-drawn carriages could only reach the entrance to the estate with difficulty. On the other hand the Park Estate in Nottingham was more attractive to clients because in addition to it being more accessible, it was extra-parochial and not subject to the Poor Law Rate or other local taxes. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">However in 1857 John Hine managed to start the first four large houses situated on the southern edge of plot 163 at the entrance to the estate – Enderleigh, Fernleigh, Springfield and Sunnyholm. These four houses were designed by T.C. Hine and were strategically positioned with views down Trough Close and over Hungerhill Gardens. Enderleigh was intended as John Hine's family home, but he never lived in it and in 1862 he moved away to London. However he held onto the undeveloped land (west of Albert Road and north to Ransom Road) until 1881, when it was sold. </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9cSUoXXSiLXXBTu7e2G9rGIZo_yDNTmwmtC89VBBsi1YjrQ1reX-nRbkG-FDQ21GiJhv-SbYIfVHeXB67B-Aav5DJKAOzg9bl0IP-P9z3KTbgqDUcTqSSFGzMgYzvI9Xwmzw9WHk-rlOkY4idLPgajqSOoy7E-ucfasT7pzOcgDNmpmKsS5lnltbV4A=s445" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="445" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9cSUoXXSiLXXBTu7e2G9rGIZo_yDNTmwmtC89VBBsi1YjrQ1reX-nRbkG-FDQ21GiJhv-SbYIfVHeXB67B-Aav5DJKAOzg9bl0IP-P9z3KTbgqDUcTqSSFGzMgYzvI9Xwmzw9WHk-rlOkY4idLPgajqSOoy7E-ucfasT7pzOcgDNmpmKsS5lnltbV4A=w400-h286" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Map of the southern section of Alexandra Park, the blue outline corresponds precisely to the former Mapperley Common, before the enclosure act of 1845. The dotted line is the north boundary of Enderleigh, a sunken plot well below the level of the other houses, the former brickyard of William Smith.<b> </b></span></span></p><div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">The following newspaper article announces the dissolving of the partnership of John Green Hine and Edward Gripper and appears in the London Gazette on 2nd March</span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">1858. The dates correspond with the development of the first four houses in Alexandra Park. It looks for all to see that J G. Hine sold the freehold of the Mapperley Middle Yard to Edward Gripper to help finance the new development. </span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>NOTICE is hereby given, that the Co-partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Edward Gripper the younger, of the town of Nottingham, Gentleman, and John Green Hine, of the same town, Gentleman, as Brick and Tile Makers, at Mapperley, in the parish of Basford, in the county of Nottingham, and elsewhere, under the style or firm of Edward Gripper and Co., was dissolved as from the 1st day of January last.—As witness our hands this 27th Day of February 1858. </i></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ8ypoXY4sYF0oIlFO_RH-ccL0CFdJWF4z5mQgsbxlE1mc9s1OdNPmuHwCQ4OE6UJ2hVvLT5ViqtcD4IU2_uOgPH5bUupjDsIQ2OnujTsBIPsj7HdR1Ahe93fy1oHw-r-x9gI--bYG3xKCgcSMsVqdbn5-mhDMReFHPVkKUVbMuxTQpJvCHGuwYlIFEA=s487" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJ8ypoXY4sYF0oIlFO_RH-ccL0CFdJWF4z5mQgsbxlE1mc9s1OdNPmuHwCQ4OE6UJ2hVvLT5ViqtcD4IU2_uOgPH5bUupjDsIQ2OnujTsBIPsj7HdR1Ahe93fy1oHw-r-x9gI--bYG3xKCgcSMsVqdbn5-mhDMReFHPVkKUVbMuxTQpJvCHGuwYlIFEA=w368-h400" width="368" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1915.</span></i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 21px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Footnote by Martyn Fretwell - </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Coloured green on the 1915 OS map above, this was Edward Gripper's first yard which he established in 1852 & was later known as the Middle Yard when owned by Nottingham Patent Brick Co. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1866 Edward Gripper went into partnership with William Burgass & the Nottingham Patent Brick Company was formed on the 3rd of June 1867. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The yellow yard was Gripper's second yard, later NPBCo.'s Top Yard & the purple works was NPBCo.'s Bottom Yard. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">With the Top & Bottom Yards already closed the Middle Yard (green) closed in 1969 as part of the restructuring of the Nottingham Brick Co. and production was transferred to the Dorket Head works in Arnold. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">So the story of Edward Gripper after 1858 continues in Jeff's book if you have a copy or my <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/05/nottingham-brickworks-part-1-mapperley.html" target="_blank">Mapperley Post. </a></span></span></p></div></span></div></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><br /></div>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-16232093467967489672022-01-08T12:28:00.022+00:002024-02-20T17:21:29.046+00:00Leicester Brickworks<p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Messenger & Healey, Wigston.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XVsRKckPR90/YaZbHU_S_mI/AAAAAAAANA8/r_pmB3dHpfgLoSDIXHTmY0gVvMEKlMgVwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Messenger%2B%2526%2BHealey%2B-%2BDennis%2BGamble.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="640" height="326" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XVsRKckPR90/YaZbHU_S_mI/AAAAAAAANA8/r_pmB3dHpfgLoSDIXHTmY0gVvMEKlMgVwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h326/Messenger%2B%2526%2BHealey%2B-%2BDennis%2BGamble.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Photo by Dennis Gamble & reproduced with the permission of the "Old Bricks" website.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Some info in this entry has been supplied by Dennis Gamble.</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I first tell you that Ebenezer Healey in the 1871 census is recorded as a Manager of a Steam Brickworks in Knighton, Leicester. Whites 1878 edition records Healey was now the owner & brickmaker of this works which was on Saffron Lane, Leicester. Healey may have left this works shortly after 1878 as we find in White's 1877 edition Ebenezer Healey was in partnership with Thomas Goode Messenger at the Wigston Junction Brickworks in Glen Parva, Blaby. This works is also listed as being in Wigston or South Wigston. The 1881 census records Healey as a Master Brickmaker, living in Glen Parva & employing 45 men & 20 boys. It appears Thomas Goode Messenger who lived in Loughborough was the moneyman in this partnership with him owning several other businesses as well. He is recorded as a Master Plumber, Glazier & Horticultural Builder. Then listed under Messenger & Co. as Valve Makers, Hot Water Engineers & Iron Founders. </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Several editions of Wright's directories & Kelly's 1881 edition records Messenger and Healey at the Wigston Junction Brickworks, Glen Parva & their works is shown on the 1884 OS map below. This is followed by Messenger & Healey's half page 1881 advert for their works. Healey is still listed as a Brick & Tile Maker in Glen Parva in Wright's 1887 edition.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dennis Gamble has found that by 1888 Orson Wright was now the owner of this Glen Parva works & his company the Knighton Brick Co. is listed in Kelly's 1891 edition as owning two works, Knighton Junction & Glen Parva, so it appears Messenger & Healey ran this brickworks for around ten years. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">In the 1891 census Messenger is recorded as a Retired </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Horticultural Builder & </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Healey is recorded as a Farmer in Aylestone, however in Wright's 1899 edition & the 1901 census Healey, aged 60 is listed as a Brick Manufacturer in Kirby Muxloe & living a mile away from his works on Hinckley Road in Leicester.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JhTbnx-n330/YaZbHf-K2HI/AAAAAAAANBA/v3t05M1gD3gcXlBLjdSH3LHIBlqOPdeBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Wigston%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1884.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JhTbnx-n330/YaZbHf-K2HI/AAAAAAAANBA/v3t05M1gD3gcXlBLjdSH3LHIBlqOPdeBwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Wigston%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1884.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1884.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-919m-KyZqQM/YaeQOenPXaI/AAAAAAAANBM/9P8B6NhUnOQSwLIIvWNHxrAkvt092t3CQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Messenger%2B%2526%2BHealey%2BWigston%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BKellys%2B1881.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="800" height="448" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-919m-KyZqQM/YaeQOenPXaI/AAAAAAAANBM/9P8B6NhUnOQSwLIIvWNHxrAkvt092t3CQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h448/Messenger%2B%2526%2BHealey%2BWigston%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BKellys%2B1881.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Kelly's 1881 edition.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Blaby Brick & Tile Co.</span></u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0sNi0UTX6AWIwVqluSXEGwWK_rfxklUcVDr7QFHIqmydj4RYAfffu3xDMeWuF45JaCqBA14Oev-UudF_OJpAHcCecv_y-4YFJMjJx8Hp_DLDP5oeZc50ulNS7WZl5jTULoVbqJs5tba_WaJVdnjRrUIBIOXiZBzglm5l-fN2Fownnb-QLkSWjAMqaULE/s640/P1100320.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="640" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0sNi0UTX6AWIwVqluSXEGwWK_rfxklUcVDr7QFHIqmydj4RYAfffu3xDMeWuF45JaCqBA14Oev-UudF_OJpAHcCecv_y-4YFJMjJx8Hp_DLDP5oeZc50ulNS7WZl5jTULoVbqJs5tba_WaJVdnjRrUIBIOXiZBzglm5l-fN2Fownnb-QLkSWjAMqaULE/w640-h416/P1100320.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Blaby Brick & Tile Co. is listed in Kelly’s 1928 to 1936 editions at Cork Lane, Blaby, Leicester. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have used the 1928 OS below to show the location of this brick & tile works.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhheMDzmceUKi5YdPQFDNGnHWN0bRIV0qeBE8zKKYTX9YRhekeAwhDTdnE4dccrfDxGk3MZjJoWK0vlALICk-cnwhKo---fZMl3otJJj0oMlkiI2D-e8k-6ue01Y8RgJD4VeE8XT17DxeJdKaHzwJFbWJgkr8IjDc6NWd5EBWO_Y8jZfM1HvygHz-Ae9M/s800/Blaby%20BWs%20OS%201928.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhheMDzmceUKi5YdPQFDNGnHWN0bRIV0qeBE8zKKYTX9YRhekeAwhDTdnE4dccrfDxGk3MZjJoWK0vlALICk-cnwhKo---fZMl3otJJj0oMlkiI2D-e8k-6ue01Y8RgJD4VeE8XT17DxeJdKaHzwJFbWJgkr8IjDc6NWd5EBWO_Y8jZfM1HvygHz-Ae9M/w640-h426/Blaby%20BWs%20OS%201928.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1928.</i></b></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The advert below from Leicester Daily Mercury dated 9th of September 1939 indicates the works was still active in the sale of it's bricks & operating an Air Raid Warning Station, but the making of bricks had ceased due to the war. The 1943 Ministry of War Directory of Brickworks records the Blaby works was completely closed & not under their ownership, however my next newspaper article dated 28th of March 1946 written by Managing Director Mr Charles Arthur Sword in the Leicester Evening Mail records the opposite & the works had been used by the Ministry of War. Simply Blaby on Facebook also revealed some bits of info about this works. Charlie Sword grandson of Managing Director Charles Sword wrote in 2021 that the War Dept requisitioned the works from his grandfather to store Rolls Royce aircraft engines there during the war with the location of the brickworks being far enough away from major industrial centres which were being bombed. Charlie also writes that his father also called Charles was the works general foreman & he use to take him as a child down to the works to see the kilns being fired & emptied. Charlie notes his happy memories of the brickworks & what a great bunch of chaps who worked there were. I tried contacting Charlie for more info on the works in August 2023 through FB, but alas I have not had a reply. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzsKhgNrCA61zLXYGhZgDfEX6M8fw3xLMDz2aV5dvyFrcjgswbA2Jqi_fEmpg1WnSn52HqRZq-IQwzvHw33iD7WFJ41hliPtkGITGTuPUdn9CjDZjRSVqPBZeCyz_aT36DoRvQLK1QuF4uNxKEnHjO2uD2UBA2e9iDCUKV4iVl8IIu0dg6DN2p5WzjOYt/s800/Blaby%20Leicester%20Daily%20Mercury%20-%20Saturday%2009%20September%201939.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzsKhgNrCA61zLXYGhZgDfEX6M8fw3xLMDz2aV5dvyFrcjgswbA2Jqi_fEmpg1WnSn52HqRZq-IQwzvHw33iD7WFJ41hliPtkGITGTuPUdn9CjDZjRSVqPBZeCyz_aT36DoRvQLK1QuF4uNxKEnHjO2uD2UBA2e9iDCUKV4iVl8IIu0dg6DN2p5WzjOYt/w365-h640/Blaby%20Leicester%20Daily%20Mercury%20-%20Saturday%2009%20September%201939.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</i></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIU9J6TFUYkzL6MCAPw0mb5Ma9Nx1HDiZ92rp3H6dqaaobP7ufnL1Gt7jH1LjDL2Xf_sMUC19OySpZOZceDKB5L4LMUfb9mYiyfwMSHQPUcw4a6CTU6lnNQzmVgZAteV-IoUoMZlkBeBLMdtexO2WWDyjtRYKRYJEsOiTTapztylkQfx1645JHgoq0Sz9/s800/Blaby%20Brick%20Co.%20%20Leicester%20Evening%20Mail.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="541" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIU9J6TFUYkzL6MCAPw0mb5Ma9Nx1HDiZ92rp3H6dqaaobP7ufnL1Gt7jH1LjDL2Xf_sMUC19OySpZOZceDKB5L4LMUfb9mYiyfwMSHQPUcw4a6CTU6lnNQzmVgZAteV-IoUoMZlkBeBLMdtexO2WWDyjtRYKRYJEsOiTTapztylkQfx1645JHgoq0Sz9/w270-h400/Blaby%20Brick%20Co.%20%20Leicester%20Evening%20Mail.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i> Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1947 the company was taken over by the Butterley Brick Co. & in 1955 Butterley was renamed the Butterley & Blaby Brick Co. The Butterley & Blaby Brick Co. was taken over by the Wiles Group in 1968, later called the Hanson Trust & the company was renamed Butterley Building Materials Ltd. In June 1986 Lady Hanson commissioned the new kiln at Blaby. However with poor brick sales Butterley/Hanson decided to close it's Blaby works in November 1990 with a loss of 60 jobs & hand made brick production was transferred to Butterley's Heather works. Today houses on Navigation Drive have been built on this former brickworks site. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: times; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As a footnote there was another brickworks which was on the opposite corner of Cork Lane were the Chemical Works is shown on the 1928 map above which was only operational for a few years around 1900. Kelly's 1900 edition lists the Blaby Brick Co. with Charles Halford as Managing Director. Charles Halford was a builder & timber merchant in Blaby. The 1900 map shows this works had two bee-hive kilns & a tramway into the clay pit from the main building. </span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Knighton Junction Brick Co.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gcsdl02DtlE/YaeVsijjOnI/AAAAAAAANBU/HxY41zBkZoAPooh3fMFJdX4LgEim9BpDACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1170288.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Gcsdl02DtlE/YaeVsijjOnI/AAAAAAAANBU/HxY41zBkZoAPooh3fMFJdX4LgEim9BpDACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1170288.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Knighton Junction Brick Company first appears in Kelly's 1891 edition with James Squires as Manager & as wrote previously this company was formed around 1888 & was owned by Orson Wright, a local builder. A new find by Mark Cranston in a newspaper article which appeared in the Leicester Chronicle dated 19th of November 1887 reveals The Knighton Junction Brick Company had been formed with capital of £30,000 in 3000 shares at £10 each to take over the brickworks owned by William Watts Clarkson & it's owners are listed as William Henry Ellis & Arthur B. Partridge of Ellis Partridge & Co. Builders Merchants in Leicester, Orson Wright, Builder & Edward Sharman, MD of the Wellingborough Brick & Tile Co. Ellis was Chairman & Partridge & Wright were joint Managing Directors. The majority of the shares had been taken up by it's Directors, with the rest being available to the general public. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This Knighton Junction brickworks on Welford Road in Leicester had been owned & run in his own name by William Watts Clarkson from at least 1871 to 1888 when he retired, hence the Knighton Junction Co. being formed to take over the running of this works. I am therefore thinking this Knighton Junction brick was made by the Knighton Junction Brick Co. rather than Clarkson. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">William Watts Clarkson is first recorded as a Brick Manufacturer in the 1871 census employing 33 men & 2 boys. The next references to William Clarkson manufacturing bricks are the many advertisements which appear in local newspapers from May 1874 & these all refer to his works being on Welford Road. I next found two trade directory adverts, the first is from Barker's 1875 edition & the second is from Kelly's 1881 edition. It is only the 1881 advert which refers to Clarkson's works as being situated at Knighton Junction, hence my thoughts this Knighton Junction brick was made by the Knighton Brick Co. I am just hoping a brick stamped Clarkson now turns up, so it can be added to this entry. </span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-en5mOJxMpFY/Yaj8nIftQdI/AAAAAAAANCc/Qrvmt61ASbIKkMKFlydrLMYMb_bDX3n7gCNcBGAsYHQ/s800/W.W.%2BClarkson%2B-%2BBarker%2527s%2BLeics%2B%2526%2BRutland%2B1875.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="560" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-en5mOJxMpFY/Yaj8nIftQdI/AAAAAAAANCc/Qrvmt61ASbIKkMKFlydrLMYMb_bDX3n7gCNcBGAsYHQ/w448-h640/W.W.%2BClarkson%2B-%2BBarker%2527s%2BLeics%2B%2526%2BRutland%2B1875.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Barker's 1875 edition.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pb4gjI5-gY0/Yaeb8oNOf0I/AAAAAAAANBc/Mce_qz68ijIyR-uhaKo9eEXSyMkAPyZrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/William%2BWatts%2BClarkson%2B-%2BKnighton%2BJunction%2BBWs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="800" height="442" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pb4gjI5-gY0/Yaeb8oNOf0I/AAAAAAAANBc/Mce_qz68ijIyR-uhaKo9eEXSyMkAPyZrwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h442/William%2BWatts%2BClarkson%2B-%2BKnighton%2BJunction%2BBWs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Kelly's 1881 edition.</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KLWaTltjctw/YaekIxQWySI/AAAAAAAANBk/qewax5ESCF4VFsHi3aOsxMA6av7BczFTACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Knighton%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KLWaTltjctw/YaekIxQWySI/AAAAAAAANBk/qewax5ESCF4VFsHi3aOsxMA6av7BczFTACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/Knighton%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1902.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1902.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I have digressed I now return to the Knighton Brick Co. & I have used the 1902 OS map above to show their Welford Road brickworks which I have coloured green. Kelly's 1891 edition also records that the company owned a second works called the Wigston Junction Brick Works at Glen Parva & this works up to 1888 or thereabouts had been run by Messenger & Healey. I have coloured this Glen Parva Brickworks yellow on the 1902 OS map below.</span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yl98vpTbCfI/YaeqKW5bXVI/AAAAAAAANB0/1G5fpJg1TA8YhR44se9TAkVE6D2FEtHsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Wigston%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1902.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yl98vpTbCfI/YaeqKW5bXVI/AAAAAAAANB0/1G5fpJg1TA8YhR44se9TAkVE6D2FEtHsQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Wigston%2BJunction%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1902.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1902.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ylT0x6zZpHk/YaeqKEsLiwI/AAAAAAAANBs/g4vn3afVgrMatlKaPqpF6aNs5eP4uPsRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Knighton%2BJuction%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BKellys%2B1899_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="800" height="262" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ylT0x6zZpHk/YaeqKEsLiwI/AAAAAAAANBs/g4vn3afVgrMatlKaPqpF6aNs5eP4uPsRQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h262/Knighton%2BJuction%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BKellys%2B1899_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1891 advert for the Knighton Junction Brick Co. with works at Knighton Junction & South Wigston which is the Glen Parva works.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I next found in Kelly's 1895 edition that the company had acquired another brickworks at Countesthorpe previously operated by the Countesthorpe Brick Co. & below is the OS 1885 map showing this works which I have coloured purple. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NDbJglU64XE/Yaev_msmVGI/AAAAAAAANCE/S2hgTu0V7GcGBklJtA098WUbwoUZK6JPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Countesthorpe%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1885.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NDbJglU64XE/Yaev_msmVGI/AAAAAAAANCE/S2hgTu0V7GcGBklJtA098WUbwoUZK6JPQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Countesthorpe%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1885.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1885.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gjcCLj_3Cl4/YaeqKc-xggI/AAAAAAAANBw/AAdsvmaLuhkGLCUFSZFOtTQVWoqVeiBqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Knighton%2BJuction%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BKellys%2B1895_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="800" height="260" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gjcCLj_3Cl4/YaeqKc-xggI/AAAAAAAANBw/AAdsvmaLuhkGLCUFSZFOtTQVWoqVeiBqgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h260/Knighton%2BJuction%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BKellys%2B1895_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1895 edition advert with the addition of the Countesthorpe works & this time the Glen Parva works is listed as Wigston. Kelly's 1899 editions only lists the Knighton Junction & Wigston brickworks, so the Countesthorpe works was only short lived & the 1902 OS map confirms this with only the clay pit now being shown.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1908 edition is the last trade directory recording the Knighton Junction Brick Co. & the Leicester Daily Post dated the 14th of October 1909 reports that men working at both of Knighton Junction's brickworks were given a weeks notice that the company was to close & the closure was due to very poor sales. This article goes on to say that at it's most profitable time the company was paying it's workers £100 pounds per week, but this had gradually dwindled until the Glen Parva works was now only paying £40 & Knighton Junction £35. I then found in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28460/page/714/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 27th of January 1911 that Chairman Orson Wright put the Knighton Junction Brick Co. into Voluntary Liquidation & the company was wound up a year later by the Liquidator. It appears Wright had become chairman of the company after the death of Ellis in December 1894.</span></div></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">George Wain</span></u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUD3Ov6Ut1A9fxPOnCdZ54tzAfllNsGBj1C__4z-q2tjMWGUNsMhEvlxHNl5N2CPTDjmcl0Gvo7PH9_O5wL4mfYRGrrL40tQDQigTQm8kNIYfvSZKM9y-fQa_OHRXsU6JYLA9iynfSuIKWOSZ883qO0x8jIGqF_ctcXShU88DjxGFr0ReJBuMm2XkWCg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUD3Ov6Ut1A9fxPOnCdZ54tzAfllNsGBj1C__4z-q2tjMWGUNsMhEvlxHNl5N2CPTDjmcl0Gvo7PH9_O5wL4mfYRGrrL40tQDQigTQm8kNIYfvSZKM9y-fQa_OHRXsU6JYLA9iynfSuIKWOSZ883qO0x8jIGqF_ctcXShU88DjxGFr0ReJBuMm2XkWCg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Photo by Frank Lawson.</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The only info that I have for George Wain is that his brickworks was on Ansty Lane, Leicester (shown as disused on the 1885 OS map below) & he is listed in Wright's 1878 edition with the address of Leicester Road, Belgrave & then the 1880 edition of the Commercial Gazette records his works as being on Ansty Road. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihf805bVbsr2dwicmJ2hTWkW0XgSMehs3wy3jaJfWi-mDafeM99OkaZ0PzoJn6InaGs84cqtanYZ3GOBHYZDYMdbacZe60S5w0ls4ylIHRMVka3O14fwm4apIm5F-iboUnk5XaKqEeEnb8T9qLwiGzbWJI1Vu2bUwIkHhta5GrppqSbdGU4gR1un1QrA=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="800" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihf805bVbsr2dwicmJ2hTWkW0XgSMehs3wy3jaJfWi-mDafeM99OkaZ0PzoJn6InaGs84cqtanYZ3GOBHYZDYMdbacZe60S5w0ls4ylIHRMVka3O14fwm4apIm5F-iboUnk5XaKqEeEnb8T9qLwiGzbWJI1Vu2bUwIkHhta5GrppqSbdGU4gR1un1QrA=w640-h422" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1885.</i></b></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Billesdon Brick & Pipe Works</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIO2y_EhMCKb5x7UkXLLIJogaKPxZyIKg8oVJDtFAHcimyiQcj2lGqzulDNdXuuOGHSrFReEPhqV5JzdP5HomJxeM05Z4qTP9shGwFNlOrLCPEVeGlGnGxNg2W4oomBVfz8YtElV7gk79CSRKdbvmFJG2zlPkvipxPO_tcBKKihNUGMxJeaza2UktN3tx/s800/Billesdon%20BWs%20OS%201900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxIO2y_EhMCKb5x7UkXLLIJogaKPxZyIKg8oVJDtFAHcimyiQcj2lGqzulDNdXuuOGHSrFReEPhqV5JzdP5HomJxeM05Z4qTP9shGwFNlOrLCPEVeGlGnGxNg2W4oomBVfz8YtElV7gk79CSRKdbvmFJG2zlPkvipxPO_tcBKKihNUGMxJeaza2UktN3tx/w640-h426/Billesdon%20BWs%20OS%201900.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1900.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Before I write about the marked brick, tile & pipe works, coloured green on this 1900 OS map I tell you about another brick yard in the village. A Freehold Sale Notice in the Leicester Journal dated 15th of February 1867 describes this excellent brick yard together with pasture land of 3 acres, cow shed, stables. piggeries, pottery, sand pit & other buildings situated with a considerable frontage to the Turn-pike-road from Billesdon to Leicester, & also to Long Lane, & adjacent to the Work House. This all points to the fields which I have coloured yellow. The buildings listed may relate to the ones situated to the right side of this field on the Turn-pike-road, but by this 1900 map some may have disappeared. The Notice goes on to say the brick yard was leased & worked by Thomas Henry Sharpe who is recorded in another article as being a brickmaker in the village in 1865. Also in the same Notice there were eight other houses/cottages being sold with sitting tenants, two were on the main street & five situated on or just off Long Lane which I have coloured red. I am therefore assuming one person was disposing of their estate which included all of these houses & the land on which the brick yard was built. It appears from my next find this brick yard was purchased by Thomas, John & William Batchelor, builders in Glenn Magna. However by April 1868 the brothers were advertising this brick yard to be Let. With the brothers failing to Let this yard they then proceeded in October 1868 to sell 90,000 bricks, all of the Plant & tools associated with brickmaking some of which were being sold as nearly new. In January 1869 Messers Batchelor advertised the Freehold Sale of the brick yard, kilns, a house & other buildings together with land amounting to three acres. It appears with there being no takers for the brick yard it then closed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Now on to the marked brickworks coloured green & it appears Thomas Henry Sharpe, brickmaker at the other yard had established this works by 1876 with Thomas being listed as brickmaker in Billesdon in Kelly's 1876 edition. Thomas then goes into partnership with George Ward Ward, a Provisions Merchant in Leicester operating as Sharpe & Ward. The <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24677/page/690/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 11th of February 1879 records Thomas Henry Sharpe now living in Ruabon & a Brick & Pipe Manufacturer in the County of Denbigh, North Wales & George Ward Ward, a Provisions Merchant in Leicester operating as Sharpe & Ward, brickmakers in Billesdon had dissolved their partnership by mutual consent on the 5th of February 1879 & from this date William W. Ward alone would continue to operate this brickworks under the name of Sharpe & Ward. The only answer I can come up with Ward continuing to operate as Sharpe & Ward is that he felt customers would continue to purchase bricks & pipes from him with Henry Sharpe being a trusted brickmaker in the area. Kelly's 1881 edition records the company of Sharpe & Ward as brickmakers in Billesdon, however Kelly's 1891 edition records this works was being operated in George W. Ward's name only. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig36V-lpePIg5hZdYoGNByRe1zJPFQ2nVqo4-QuwzxLSoUQgbGY9K89EXZ8rgO3iDXD3hGUzpCWvCV-fmVwfHQ7BCz-6uQhkZhaia6iiRIHZfvq8d6AMHoQVmP_ix-cf-nta2xLkuLwukWCUZYgcYonQKTaVlLtvk4sWLstbQVr9tnFZcfG17XTnWoyMRj/s640/Billesdon.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="640" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig36V-lpePIg5hZdYoGNByRe1zJPFQ2nVqo4-QuwzxLSoUQgbGY9K89EXZ8rgO3iDXD3hGUzpCWvCV-fmVwfHQ7BCz-6uQhkZhaia6iiRIHZfvq8d6AMHoQVmP_ix-cf-nta2xLkuLwukWCUZYgcYonQKTaVlLtvk4sWLstbQVr9tnFZcfG17XTnWoyMRj/w640-h422/Billesdon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photo by Lynne Dyer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A newspaper article in The Leicester Chronicle dated 21st of April 1894 states the Billesdon Brick & Pipe Works would be Let by Private Treaty. Machinery & all Stock in Trade could also be purchased at current prices. Immediate possession can also be had. Apply Williamson & Whittle, Auctioneers & Estate Agents, Leicester. Kelly's 1900 edition records the partnership of Bird & Hubbard were now operating the Billesdon works, therefore it appears Bird & Hubbard purchased the lease in 1894. Bird & Hubbard are not listed in Kelly's 1908 edition nor is anyone else, so I am assuming the brickworks had closed for good by 1908. The shape of the frog indicates the brick above may have been made between 1890 to when the works closed. Lynne has found there are several of these bricks displayed in walls in the village. Thanks Lynne. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Belgrave Brick Co.</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdT788_pVpInXPhxDor_dUDz5_S5SFaq1cRDpsTGSonYMIE4gfzq7bblRWfvEeENvaMdtWkJsDrpko0VbRLS40iy2LFX2NlTi-lcmWNyelF7aFcdVtpKwH4VGKCbJ0EQihjIKdCqGCDKfX-afP8DOdxtgplr4lehgOCXsLN9Oa5xT3jR99R4MUr4WJtY50/s800/Belgrave%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdT788_pVpInXPhxDor_dUDz5_S5SFaq1cRDpsTGSonYMIE4gfzq7bblRWfvEeENvaMdtWkJsDrpko0VbRLS40iy2LFX2NlTi-lcmWNyelF7aFcdVtpKwH4VGKCbJ0EQihjIKdCqGCDKfX-afP8DOdxtgplr4lehgOCXsLN9Oa5xT3jR99R4MUr4WJtY50/w640-h426/Belgrave%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The first reference found to the Belgrave Brick Co. appears in a newspaper article dated 29th July 1898 when the company had been summoned to court for allowing two youths under the aged 18 to be working after 6pm. The bench fined the company one & a half guineas plus costs. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1900 edition records the Belgrave Brick Co. Barkby Road, Leicester. I have coloured this works green on the 1901 OS map above. Kelly's 1908 edition is the same entry plus John Henry Weston as manager. However from my next find in a newspaper article dated September 1909 it records John Henry Weston as a brick manufacturer & had died in June 1909. With John not having any sons his estate was left to his brother Joseph, a retired farmer, so I have come to the conclusion with the death of John the brickworks closed. The 1919 map shows this works as disused & not shown at all on the 1928 map. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3Xu1Ub3Ytq7MAp94GGLapK8ZSfNhvzTknpd7vZP8bexoNbQpNUk6yB605tVbdCEU7AAohUnTdI1KkmwlOP6hbm_mRHMKYVu09cOD0sA6IYid2NDSVmPv8B3uudj5b0GDemfDLMlETH7aQGlSwrQmnvNg71SU-CxiWgDMrdGHeTh3DlRsEHhN6TmSgbZn/s800/Belgrave%20by%20Paul%20Ross.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG3Xu1Ub3Ytq7MAp94GGLapK8ZSfNhvzTknpd7vZP8bexoNbQpNUk6yB605tVbdCEU7AAohUnTdI1KkmwlOP6hbm_mRHMKYVu09cOD0sA6IYid2NDSVmPv8B3uudj5b0GDemfDLMlETH7aQGlSwrQmnvNg71SU-CxiWgDMrdGHeTh3DlRsEHhN6TmSgbZn/w640-h426/Belgrave%20by%20Paul%20Ross.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>Photo by Paul Ross. </i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More brickmakers will be added to this post, when time allows, so please call back. Thanks.</span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-51329631551371591592022-01-08T12:27:00.017+00:002023-10-03T15:26:47.700+01:00Leicestershire Brickworks - part 2<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In this post I cover brickmakers who operated in Burton Bandalls, Heather, Loughborough, Whitwick,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Henry Dickens, Burton Bandalls & Rempstone</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ajoD6Qtx5kQ/YNHj3sfIivI/AAAAAAAAL-c/0fAPb7CQplcqkyJCRVEBfOei-ymIdY6XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5958.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ajoD6Qtx5kQ/YNHj3sfIivI/AAAAAAAAL-c/0fAPb7CQplcqkyJCRVEBfOei-ymIdY6XwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_5958.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Henry Dickens (in some documents & records it's spelt as Dickins) was born in 1840 in Loughborough & the 1861 census records him as a brickmaker aged 21 living on Bridge Road, Loughborough together with his wife Elizabeth & 2 year old son, John Henry b. 1st February 1859. In 1861 Henry will have been working for another brickmaker. An advertisement in the Loughborough Monitor dated 5th of September 1867 reports Henry Dickens had re-opened the Burton Bandall's brickworks on the 28th of August & was willing to sell bricks & pipes at much lower prices than normally charged. The 1871 census records Henry was living & running his own brickworks at Burton Baudill. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">During my research I have found several ways of spelling Baudill, in Bandals & on the brick above Bandalls. One web reference states Bandalls is in the Parish of Burton on the Wolds on land running down to the River Soar. This spelling</span><strong style="font-family: arial;"> </strong></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">is used today for Bandalls Lane. Another son Thomas was born in 1865. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1876 edition is the first trade directory for Henry Dickens at Burton Bandalls. I have coloured Henry's brickworks yellow on the 1879 OS map below.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--rdnPo_SQFs/YNLybJFXM8I/AAAAAAAAL-o/lACeRFawAKgDdnnoReO5se5knWeN0eOPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Burton%2BBandalls%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1898.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--rdnPo_SQFs/YNLybJFXM8I/AAAAAAAAL-o/lACeRFawAKgDdnnoReO5se5knWeN0eOPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Burton%2BBandalls%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1898.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b style="color: purple; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1898.</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">We next find in the 1881 census that Henry & Elizabeth had moved to Rempstone, Notts., living on Main Street with Henry taking over the brickworks which was just south of the village on Loughborough Road. This census records Henry was employing 3 men & 3 boys. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">I have to note the village of Rempstone, Notts is situated very </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">close to the border with Leicestershire & some trade directory entries do list it as Rempstone, Loughborough.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Meanwhile son John Henry is listed in the 1881 census as a brickmaker, unmarried & living at The Brickyard, Burton Bandalls. With Henry Dickens still listed in Leicestershire trade directories up to & including Kelly's 1900 edition at Burton Bandalls, son John Henry was running this Burton Bandalls works for his father during this time. The 1881 census records Henry's other son Thomas became an Agricultural Engine Driver & later a Coal Merchant. </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The two Dickens, Bandals bricks below will more than likely been made by John Henry. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qN0LByxYo8/YMesp4UhbFI/AAAAAAAAL78/jeub6Yq5qXwQoT2FYs00VBoHQaM9fQ_MwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1070987.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qN0LByxYo8/YMesp4UhbFI/AAAAAAAAL78/jeub6Yq5qXwQoT2FYs00VBoHQaM9fQ_MwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1070987.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-12YWXu_Qpy8/YMespy78lSI/AAAAAAAAL8A/ZMgORGcuqz0cG2VgrFIKVxL2TA3CYmGNQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1100288_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-12YWXu_Qpy8/YMespy78lSI/AAAAAAAAL8A/ZMgORGcuqz0cG2VgrFIKVxL2TA3CYmGNQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h424/P1100288_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">John Henry Dickens, b.1859 in Thrussington is recorded in the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> 1891 census aged 32, a foreman brickmaker & now married to Elizabeth, living at the Brickyard House, Burton Bandalls. Their son Charles Harold was born on the 3rd of May 1888. As wrote John Henry continued to run this brickworks for his father to at least the early 1900's. The 1901 census records John Henry, a brick manufacturer (worker) was now living at 40 Glebe Street, Loughborough. I have come to the conclusion with there being no more trade directory entries for the Burton Bandall's works after 1900 that the good quality clay on this site had been worked out, hence the brickworks closing. I write more about John Henry & his son later.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wEo2XV4qEbI/YNL0hVwY-vI/AAAAAAAAL-w/EhjrbmrMnQ4nEnrVnD0V5xLYlQJCbLupgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Rempstone%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1899.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wEo2XV4qEbI/YNL0hVwY-vI/AAAAAAAAL-w/EhjrbmrMnQ4nEnrVnD0V5xLYlQJCbLupgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Rempstone%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1899.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1899.</i></b></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Back to Henry Dickens at Rempstone & the 1891 census records Henry, aged 51, a Brick Manufacturer & living with his wife Elizabeth at The Old Manor House, Rempstone, so it appears Henry was making good money from brickmaking. I have coloured this brickworks green on the 1899 OS map above & the Old Manor House red. At this moment in time no bricks stamped Henry Dickens, Rempstone have turned up. So if you have got one please get in touch via email, the address of which can be found on the Contacts Tab at the top of this page. Thanks.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Still living at the Old Manor House in the 1901 census Henry is also listed as a Farmer as well as a Brick Master in Rempstone. Kelly's 1904 edition is the last trade directory recording Henry brickmaking at Rempstone. Henry died on the 10th of May 1909 leaving effects of £3610 19s & 3d to his son John Henry Dickens, brickworks manager & Henry Lovett, tailor. This probate notice records Henry had been a Coal Merchant at the time of his death.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">I now digress & take you out of the East Midlands with me returning to John Henry Dickens & the 1911 census now records John Henry Dickens, wife Elizabeth & son Charles Harold were now living at 192, Charles Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. John Henry, 52 is listed as a brickmaker (worker) & 22 year old Charles Harold is listed as a Traveller - Brick Trade (salesman). Although there had been a brickworks on Charles Road up to 1900, John Henry was more than likely working at the Little Bromwich Brick Co's works which just around the corner from where he lived on Bordesley Green road. Charles Harold may have also worked for the Little Bromwich Brick Co. which was owned by the Winterton family. An old newspaper article reveals that the Winterton family lived in Cadby, Leicestershire & were also co-owners of the Gypsy Lane Brickworks in Leicester, so I am assuming John Henry Dickens knew the Winterton's hence his move to Birmingham & working at their Little Bromwich Brickworks.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">The 1939 Register lists John Henry as a Brick Manager, aged 80 living at 51, Elmdon Lane, Marston Green, Birmingham & son Charles Harold is listed as a Brick Manufacturer living on Bordesley Green road, so from this Register it appears father & son were running their own brickworks, but where ? </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">With me writing about the Little Bromwich Brick Co. on my </span><a href="https://uknamedbricks.blogspot.com/2018/04/birmingham-brickworks-part-2.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;" target="_blank">UK brick site</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> my findings are that the Winterton family owned their Little Bromwich brickworks up to 1951. There are no trade directory entries for Dickens owning a brickworks around 1939, so were the Dicken's running the Little Bromwich Brick for the Winterton Family ? I do know </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Mr. Winterton's son-in-law G.H. Major was Managing Director when LBBC was wound up in 1951. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do have a second option to were father & son were working in the late 1930's. With the help of Mark Cranston who has tracked down some newspaper articles & me studying old maps, I am putting forward a brickworks at Bickenhill which may have been owned & run by Charles Harold & John Henry Dickens. This works was only 4 miles from John's house & 7 miles from Charles'. Although the Dicken's are not named as such in this article which appeared in the Birmingham Daily Gazette dated 1st November, 1927, I think they were the owners of the Bickenhill Brickworks Limited. This Company with a capital of £5,000 pounds had been formed to purchase the "Bickenhill Brickworks" from it's directors Mr & Mrs Sutton of "Bora", Broad Lane near Coventry, who were also builders. This new company would then continue to operate the works, making brick, tiles, drain pipes & other clay goods. Bickenhill Brickworks Limited is listed in Kelly's 1928 & 1936 editions on Birmingham Road, Bickenhill. I have to note that today this former brickworks site is on Coventry Road & Birmingham Road does not start until the junction with the A452.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So had the Dicken's owned this Bickenhill Brickworks between 1927 & 1939 ? I have two bits of info which indicates this. First a Coventry Evening Telegraph newspaper article dated April 1936 reports Charles Harold Dickens was standing down as a Vicar's Warden at St. Peters Church, Bickenhill after 12 years of service, with him planning to leave the district shortly. Then second the Dicken's certainly made money from brickmaking because when John Henry Dickens died on the 24th January 1942 he left effects of £24,323 2s 8d to his son Charles Harold Dickens, brickmaker & daughter Mrs. Alice Barker. Then w</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">hen Charles died in June 1957, while living in Manor Road, Solihull, he left effects of £19,565 9s & 8d to his wife Constance. If I do get concrete evidence of the Dickens owning the Bickenhill Brickworks, I will update the post. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">If my research is correct the next owner of this works was Mr. Jackson who was advertising large quantities of bricks for sale in September 1939 from Jacksons Brickworks, Bickenhill. Also a second brickworks owned by the Bridge Brick Co. (red) had been established on the left hand side of the Bickenhill works (yellow) & both are shown on the 1937 OS map below. From a Brick Association advert both The Bridge Brick Co. & Jacksons were still trading in 1961. I think I am correct in saying that the Bridge Brick Co.'s works was taken over by Redland. Today industrial units now occupy these former brickworks sites, situated between the M42 & A452 on the A45.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUUryo36qEk/YNiw2gZWKRI/AAAAAAAAMA8/FB3Mqd8si-g8d4LN4iJyFJTvzWmEHQI0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Bickenhill%2B%2526%2BBridge%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUUryo36qEk/YNiw2gZWKRI/AAAAAAAAMA8/FB3Mqd8si-g8d4LN4iJyFJTvzWmEHQI0wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Bickenhill%2B%2526%2BBridge%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1937.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></span><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1937.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Horace Rendall Mansfield, Whitwick</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Z8JG9O5deQ1eZfqcGJp2hzRidyNQIlTNT5rNFAbfywOmTRBEeqQJHgN_hnQJZ3hrAQSPcaHwdHz5TSMdYSP4X_n6yWUzaSQP2XpHkuf9FV8k3C1SRgHDvJIejlGGXAhL2aq_REnnHPeACvr1zzt1PEXwWp5xbGCS8_50o2qcJ4yLCE8e2tjxRbzM5w/s640/IMG_4185.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Z8JG9O5deQ1eZfqcGJp2hzRidyNQIlTNT5rNFAbfywOmTRBEeqQJHgN_hnQJZ3hrAQSPcaHwdHz5TSMdYSP4X_n6yWUzaSQP2XpHkuf9FV8k3C1SRgHDvJIejlGGXAhL2aq_REnnHPeACvr1zzt1PEXwWp5xbGCS8_50o2qcJ4yLCE8e2tjxRbzM5w/w640-h429/IMG_4185.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Horace Rendall Mansfield (1863-1914) is listed as owning the Hermitage Brickworks, Whitwick in Kelly's 1899 to 1912 editions. Mansfield's works was renowned for manufacturing terra cotta bricks & mouldings. I have coloured this works green on the 1920 OS map below. The Hermitage works had it's own railway siding coming into the yard from the Charnwood Forest Branch Line. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Horace also owned the Railway Works, Church Gresley, producing salt-glazed pipes & fittings there. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd73fmOFpBXHF0vbb0OZZS35VGUieyggZNgamvaSMMJoLfIX-sgAQEI1JVprb0Xrw4_QswP67jOR9TCYrLvczodjUGJcaJb0D5bfwm2cpabojMq7sxCoTd6pQoXkrG0drLkJq8dFTKkqM4cA5FZAzlHys2m932z1uPyiGq58Ep5am-0pg2utvd15ww7g/s800/Hermitage%20BWS%20Whitwick%20OS%201920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd73fmOFpBXHF0vbb0OZZS35VGUieyggZNgamvaSMMJoLfIX-sgAQEI1JVprb0Xrw4_QswP67jOR9TCYrLvczodjUGJcaJb0D5bfwm2cpabojMq7sxCoTd6pQoXkrG0drLkJq8dFTKkqM4cA5FZAzlHys2m932z1uPyiGq58Ep5am-0pg2utvd15ww7g/w640-h426/Hermitage%20BWS%20Whitwick%20OS%201920.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1920.</i></b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Horace Mansfield was a devout Methodist, a Justice of the Peace in Derbyshire & the Member of Parliament for Spalding between 1900 & 1910. In 1908 Horace purchased Broom Ley's House in Coalville, this large Victorian house had been built in the 1840's for brick manufacturer William Whetstone who I have written about in <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2022/01/leicestershire-brickworks-part-1.html" target="_blank">Leicestershire Brickmakers - part 1. </a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the death of Horace & the First World War in 1914, I am assuming the works then stood idle. The next record of this Hermitage Works as being in production again is in Kelly's 1925 edition when it lists the National Brick Co. situated in Heather were now operating this works. </span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietAwDotwPZqWVvoOsR5MfPBzPtOvhoAYpQ6PqepxcYVj-Du7VTaUJ2Zei531ZOhCqXAELfnNUAUGkDuNI6aWGcc1EUj6am95YSwtPnh2-p800JmsnnGaVmHgPEJbgcyLD3u8pZLLHM2l2wlCh3FJfTErB_Znnd4n-3_q6aIqNZYuStCWMALJ9ZlgfqQ/s640/9549597694_602c05e869_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEietAwDotwPZqWVvoOsR5MfPBzPtOvhoAYpQ6PqepxcYVj-Du7VTaUJ2Zei531ZOhCqXAELfnNUAUGkDuNI6aWGcc1EUj6am95YSwtPnh2-p800JmsnnGaVmHgPEJbgcyLD3u8pZLLHM2l2wlCh3FJfTErB_Znnd4n-3_q6aIqNZYuStCWMALJ9ZlgfqQ/w640-h480/9549597694_602c05e869_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Photo by Frank Lawson, found in Leicestershire.</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ep6PK2axjPnkc_Ujwgpr8NPsMYc2Zu2hlQ_lMlN9m7ENgB23kdtnbYp-Cy33-YD7SrFYxnEIxFqne35H-4oZ-4JvdpqMljJC06aU40hrEm9k0fgumRUD2Qjdl9safRFiv_hBv2WWr7b-LIvnWUzBudlT1I9i69DV0DX-esN-N2wGZWcBkRStVN0kfA/s640/9591829629_4e4652cbea_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ep6PK2axjPnkc_Ujwgpr8NPsMYc2Zu2hlQ_lMlN9m7ENgB23kdtnbYp-Cy33-YD7SrFYxnEIxFqne35H-4oZ-4JvdpqMljJC06aU40hrEm9k0fgumRUD2Qjdl9safRFiv_hBv2WWr7b-LIvnWUzBudlT1I9i69DV0DX-esN-N2wGZWcBkRStVN0kfA/w640-h428/9591829629_4e4652cbea_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Photo by Frank Lawson.</i></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This next shaped brick is stamped Mansfield on one side & Hermitage Brickworks on the other. Bricks just stamped Hermitage Brickworks have also turned up, but until I found this brick below the previous Hermitage bricks were in a folder marked unknown maker with there being three more brickworks in the country called Hermitage, with one being fairly local in Mansfield & both works using the same band of clay which runs from Leicestershire to Nottinghamshire.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tDZfEIvWqseQmtwU-XCw33H1hxhcCPDOP5UawJTEJB9BVvf1m4Q1h_H0pvtip-5C7nYcO3ROxVBXsWzRErIjVQhu9aJgt88mkwjslLJ8pgfiwnK4fJ4-cj13dxJTwiiiRVuuknpFpnW7beDLNCIks9Z42BeMzhc93lBApqr9iGlejZhZP-MI22BpBQ/s640/IMG_1175.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tDZfEIvWqseQmtwU-XCw33H1hxhcCPDOP5UawJTEJB9BVvf1m4Q1h_H0pvtip-5C7nYcO3ROxVBXsWzRErIjVQhu9aJgt88mkwjslLJ8pgfiwnK4fJ4-cj13dxJTwiiiRVuuknpFpnW7beDLNCIks9Z42BeMzhc93lBApqr9iGlejZhZP-MI22BpBQ/w640-h428/IMG_1175.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkXtq7svuGgFTU-H9f2DS7P0334FGnR6p-yZQYSEfUkq5szJYVzvQsXvU9aO8shed9hOKyyBCV8USIJ_CyyYl00JWdOdIZL9LUHePVapO8RhdUViNGvRAwPGqaWMh1ZCM16Fo4uO7uAl0SLwGb5VlQnnTy6oWKir0hU0wez-tEja2pyTgXZ2sHOXkF5Q/s640/IMG_1177.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkXtq7svuGgFTU-H9f2DS7P0334FGnR6p-yZQYSEfUkq5szJYVzvQsXvU9aO8shed9hOKyyBCV8USIJ_CyyYl00JWdOdIZL9LUHePVapO8RhdUViNGvRAwPGqaWMh1ZCM16Fo4uO7uAl0SLwGb5VlQnnTy6oWKir0hU0wez-tEja2pyTgXZ2sHOXkF5Q/w640-h428/IMG_1177.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Heather Colliery Brickworks</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Heather Brick & Terra Cotta Co.</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Coronet, Heather</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpBvAYuOG4aU23CNUPgSnkIBzdw9p_8I1XhR72HciCP1YNoDAhpsZpigXr-5XOX9j6Wi5HtjirvQRxrucuvVH5uoRNFv2QwuQwvVjlbPZbxLvW9WFKs4ySavaLK_p-riFznEFtTJbpPaw3UwU-Ieo-JpXreamuZzEg18Urz1kHVEFqsd8hvVE9hVLURg/s800/Heather%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpBvAYuOG4aU23CNUPgSnkIBzdw9p_8I1XhR72HciCP1YNoDAhpsZpigXr-5XOX9j6Wi5HtjirvQRxrucuvVH5uoRNFv2QwuQwvVjlbPZbxLvW9WFKs4ySavaLK_p-riFznEFtTJbpPaw3UwU-Ieo-JpXreamuZzEg18Urz1kHVEFqsd8hvVE9hVLURg/w640-h426/Heather%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This entry covers the four companies which operated the Pisca Lane brickworks in Heather, which I have coloured red on the 1901 OS map above.</span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>The 1881 OS map shows Heather Colliery & it's associated brickworks was accessed off Pisca Lane (brickworks coloured red on the 1901 map above - colliery a little further north),</span><span> but there are no trade directory entries for this brickworks at this date. It is not until 1891 when the colliery & brickworks was re-opened as the New Heather Colliery Co. that this company is listed in the Brick Manufacturers section of Kelly’s 1891 edition with Henry Slater Wooley recorded as proprietor. Henry Wooley lived at Highfield House on Station Road (coloured blue). This house still stands today. I suspect the brick below will have been made by the New Heather Colliery Co.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzgGryJiYoFZEew9EfDFk3Q4WjGtIFaB8vkD2awn0xNygfxjn9Zss26-j6_oyw8HGldbDG6EwprMaLkewdj6iJiD6W7T91BY58SeC8kgTZLib1jtB-3wVKAUCssw-cNgKrqDV9mkZ1lDTZRvEqMHZdP1IoZs7iBYrqirmNhs7pkTJrradHIrRUcwUHw/s640/Heather%20Colliery%20by%20Peter%20Harris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzgGryJiYoFZEew9EfDFk3Q4WjGtIFaB8vkD2awn0xNygfxjn9Zss26-j6_oyw8HGldbDG6EwprMaLkewdj6iJiD6W7T91BY58SeC8kgTZLib1jtB-3wVKAUCssw-cNgKrqDV9mkZ1lDTZRvEqMHZdP1IoZs7iBYrqirmNhs7pkTJrradHIrRUcwUHw/w640-h320/Heather%20Colliery%20by%20Peter%20Harris.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo by Peter Harris.</i></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Heather Colliery closed in 1896 due to flooding & low coal reserves, but we find the brickworks had been sold off before then with Kelly’s 1895 recording the Heather Brick & Terra Cotta Co. proprietor, Henry J. Ford now owned this brickworks. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6aSjFz5_SVUXU6FFjG5mHx8GCb9XF9mT85V_oM4TYqN7qAsh2kUySGW3cKkDAfNtMBItcIH5QhUp32z6MTpGUOYyKoyY9dzkj00pXcI4UxIlSb6Fh0ZgFucEkokj54D95X3CbEhe8C4XbQJHzNW8wKQd99X5SS8OwyotvsoIql1hX28aKzGsfN2Slw/s800/Heather%20advert%201901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="800" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc6aSjFz5_SVUXU6FFjG5mHx8GCb9XF9mT85V_oM4TYqN7qAsh2kUySGW3cKkDAfNtMBItcIH5QhUp32z6MTpGUOYyKoyY9dzkj00pXcI4UxIlSb6Fh0ZgFucEkokj54D95X3CbEhe8C4XbQJHzNW8wKQd99X5SS8OwyotvsoIql1hX28aKzGsfN2Slw/w640-h420/Heather%20advert%201901.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Contractors Merchants & Estate Managers Compendium 1901</span>.</i></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>This Heather Brick & Terra Cotta Co. entry continues in trade directories until Kelly's 1922 edition when the entry now records Ford had purchased Wains Brick & Terra Cotta Works (coloured yellow) after Wains had closed down. I cover Andrew Wain's works next. </span><span>Ford continues to run both works up to c1930 with Kellys 1928 edition being the last entry for the Heather Brick & Terra Cotta & Wains Co. (red & yellow works). We next find the</span><span> Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. in Measham, purchased both these works around 1930. Kelly's 1932 edition is the first directory listing Coronet's Heather works.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmE3trPZLZDwDaILbYUKFJjQza7YsGsw7Q8P98t0fbUIjlN3eISPx_6tzAdYKxYt1GRs4V05JqQIeibNl-HGVW24z1cMF-8myxQEfwHMLOpcmOo0THrou4uOCQm_9ASbGHbGmw5md3rM0RgM-18HvaRhYc9GRjt3eYxQP2P5jYpox7asHTF6HCQM48HQ/s640/IMG_1849_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmE3trPZLZDwDaILbYUKFJjQza7YsGsw7Q8P98t0fbUIjlN3eISPx_6tzAdYKxYt1GRs4V05JqQIeibNl-HGVW24z1cMF-8myxQEfwHMLOpcmOo0THrou4uOCQm_9ASbGHbGmw5md3rM0RgM-18HvaRhYc9GRjt3eYxQP2P5jYpox7asHTF6HCQM48HQ/w640-h428/IMG_1849_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photo by Mike Chapman.</span></i></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>This BCM Heather brick will have been made at the Pisca Lane works when owned by Coronet. The Coronet 1937 advert below records Coronet's three works & that BCM stands for British Commercial Monomarks, a company established in 1925 to provide manufacturers with a London address & mail forwarding services. It was an early form of the Post Code we use today, but companies & individuals back then had to pay for this service. It was with this advert being forwarded to me by Paul & Cynthia that I was able to reveal to the brick fraternity that BCM stood for British Commercial Monomarks & not British Clay/Ceramic Manufacturers as thought for many years without any written evidence turning up for this explanation of the initials. So another thumbs up to me for bring this evidence to the brick fraternity. If you would like to learn more about BCM please visit <a href="https://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/bcm-british-commercial-monomarks/" target="_blank">Mark Cranston's article.</a> It is unknown in which year this Pisca Lane Works closed under Coronet</span><span>. </span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx2Bj7AEX6T2dwr96BXHFgqwibONaGATcJJSdjP4utKB0-5l5P6S7lRpplzYR5fhwLhMOoHdo5kSh1d1tqIuy2X13glubErUDZcpnQgg9kBTMhZWAT6_yOafjd5lIX7K6Lsd9_KAuXxPJj3EBhd94lpIVLZ0VG1FLdWrHeAe1Z2Gm5Z1ADiECyyfzjIA/s800/Coronet%20Co.%20-%20Heather%20-%20Wains%20The%20Architects%20Compendium%201937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="765" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx2Bj7AEX6T2dwr96BXHFgqwibONaGATcJJSdjP4utKB0-5l5P6S7lRpplzYR5fhwLhMOoHdo5kSh1d1tqIuy2X13glubErUDZcpnQgg9kBTMhZWAT6_yOafjd5lIX7K6Lsd9_KAuXxPJj3EBhd94lpIVLZ0VG1FLdWrHeAe1Z2Gm5Z1ADiECyyfzjIA/w612-h640/Coronet%20Co.%20-%20Heather%20-%20Wains%20The%20Architects%20Compendium%201937.jpg" width="612" /></a></div><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Architects Compendium 1937.</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121);"><b><u>Andrew Wain, Heather</u></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121);"><b><u>Wain's Ltd.</u></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121);"><b><u>Coronet, Heather</u></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpBvAYuOG4aU23CNUPgSnkIBzdw9p_8I1XhR72HciCP1YNoDAhpsZpigXr-5XOX9j6Wi5HtjirvQRxrucuvVH5uoRNFv2QwuQwvVjlbPZbxLvW9WFKs4ySavaLK_p-riFznEFtTJbpPaw3UwU-Ieo-JpXreamuZzEg18Urz1kHVEFqsd8hvVE9hVLURg/w640-h426/Heather%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Andrew Wain (b.1843) established his brickworks around 1880 with Kelly’s 1881 to 1891 editions recording him at Mill Lane, Heather (coloured yellow on the 1901 OS map above). </span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjow8UrtVKXb06Yk8sIBbNTKXTlZl5B2yVotkw3CS0m9_KYLqnIu4uL5rusd4hshzqIR3fQ2Q4XOPVPykp5KQUJn0-OcdisleCFcJv982RrboJoQTkvHjxmowVASZ168UQfCeQ6lUZFQ4RlYbthUAuAkYTkRK-O21Cj7JapRnkOTuq1iCGvFXPSKucxaQ/s640/P1100198_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjow8UrtVKXb06Yk8sIBbNTKXTlZl5B2yVotkw3CS0m9_KYLqnIu4uL5rusd4hshzqIR3fQ2Q4XOPVPykp5KQUJn0-OcdisleCFcJv982RrboJoQTkvHjxmowVASZ168UQfCeQ6lUZFQ4RlYbthUAuAkYTkRK-O21Cj7JapRnkOTuq1iCGvFXPSKucxaQ/w640-h428/P1100198_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DiTeq0KFL7OsYRZxIjXK5bn33I6bg0EHkqdfNjFYGydBe9zcj1ahlW5AN7mvipnHJOk0BStWsxGh9ONnabgT45EFgIXnJwYmwlNI3YeAnBBDMN_cq_ZtijIEH6OEcqKv2Fid59MwPemR5ZEM8UY23T3FrTR0jurjnwe0fAtyQhctygH-JOkX6ua4xg/s640/IMG_7560.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DiTeq0KFL7OsYRZxIjXK5bn33I6bg0EHkqdfNjFYGydBe9zcj1ahlW5AN7mvipnHJOk0BStWsxGh9ONnabgT45EFgIXnJwYmwlNI3YeAnBBDMN_cq_ZtijIEH6OEcqKv2Fid59MwPemR5ZEM8UY23T3FrTR0jurjnwe0fAtyQhctygH-JOkX6ua4xg/w640-h428/IMG_7560.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andrew died in January 1894 & the entries in trade directories for this works are then Andrew Wain "exors of the late” in Kellys 1895, 99 & 1900 editions. Andrew had three young sons, Arthur b.1876, Walter Andrew b.1878 & Thomas Bertram b.1881. Whether Arthur was one of the exors with him being 18 is unknown & I have not been able to find later census for him to see if he took over the running of the company. However the 1901 census for Walter Andrew Wain records him aged 22 & a Brick Manufacturer, so it appears Walter was running the brickworks. The 1911 census records Walter now aged 32 as a retired brick manufacturer & that explains Kelly's 1908 entry for the Mill Lane works with it being operated by Wain's Limited. I am assuming Walter had sold the works to this new Limited Company. Walter's younger brother, Thomas became an Architect & appears not to have been involved with the brickworks. </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrmIoqliCPWRJOqvqfcdWydzavUmZrnhHvtz9CrSrcLBM9-b4KIJqvb3iX9ojwhxc2a2yMsWDfR2-Q23XPA0hH2UfR_Xfj_7GXpNgfSiiKIM1nejh95nP7m10k_ptPaqjk4HmrrHdRVpbhlrpdrutHwDA7bjqXovtFwADg862WmvVqks0mRW5N_45YA/s640/IMG_1603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrmIoqliCPWRJOqvqfcdWydzavUmZrnhHvtz9CrSrcLBM9-b4KIJqvb3iX9ojwhxc2a2yMsWDfR2-Q23XPA0hH2UfR_Xfj_7GXpNgfSiiKIM1nejh95nP7m10k_ptPaqjk4HmrrHdRVpbhlrpdrutHwDA7bjqXovtFwADg862WmvVqks0mRW5N_45YA/w640-h429/IMG_1603.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a 2 inch smooth faced paver.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2KVECda6T7ItJsnIui4_jUn0hxJDAAKxNgjr9DJ5aLVO92gWyp5p8dYMZXjId8Tv7o8q5m6t_9qliznlRxsGS6yEz20jNelniSf2692SUDUn_hK_DWRp6ANq21xtuqMtsRIJE8raHAT1GXusxRqodX3DIb-AJBIAjlYuixZfXE3NG4XLqBuI5yaoPlA/s640/P1050111_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;"><i><span><span>Photo by </span></span>Carwyn Tywyn.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDxNF6dv4PW2qAF4x2Yur_MqaRfr8vk1Dw5lT-cThRWOjIFWVEeW2pudJz5U6FlwejCteP2CebBCo5n1yd4zgDmtEBDU2eDepiSCf3DvVgWQAbtphUAmALZqsFommuENQhxrYwdblAq72XMQ71DNoXimDT2a2dJGr4W10EU7gQT_2hastGTaoPEDUbQ/s640/Wains%20Heather%20by%20George%20Denny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDxNF6dv4PW2qAF4x2Yur_MqaRfr8vk1Dw5lT-cThRWOjIFWVEeW2pudJz5U6FlwejCteP2CebBCo5n1yd4zgDmtEBDU2eDepiSCf3DvVgWQAbtphUAmALZqsFommuENQhxrYwdblAq72XMQ71DNoXimDT2a2dJGr4W10EU7gQT_2hastGTaoPEDUbQ/w640-h426/Wains%20Heather%20by%20George%20Denny.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Photo by George Denny.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9jTPO79B2ArGi3hNSb4-phNtYQLO1HIHP8iPS-93VXyi9l1qgn44ucE1QavzHUYvT1KI8v71WVozkEdCFygYS0ICNg-GAq1y0Z6VZK8aLnUCG8oZkqy-07lQaTsmRdOPyjm3jAr03-Qy2zfvp2vQ_wsVjMQt_2WHJTYu06HfTvAc789GPTioQkjOyw/s640/P1080878_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9jTPO79B2ArGi3hNSb4-phNtYQLO1HIHP8iPS-93VXyi9l1qgn44ucE1QavzHUYvT1KI8v71WVozkEdCFygYS0ICNg-GAq1y0Z6VZK8aLnUCG8oZkqy-07lQaTsmRdOPyjm3jAr03-Qy2zfvp2vQ_wsVjMQt_2WHJTYu06HfTvAc789GPTioQkjOyw/w640-h428/P1080878_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7_oJItZ9JW3ibZBjso3eLSREfUs-miSvnvbmn6SC_rLbpnK2LJzi0vNf-zZWHekxsfb5GNeCupMzOO-E7tvCUxvY7Vzuo_zILcDpEqreKHENd2ZJ_9V9kMsl78N700E9N56SkM6AlqqOpUCI0f0BwSUbopoPEcXewPfAfq8UmtiIjptnJRyKzF05oQ/s640/P1070936_edited-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="640" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7_oJItZ9JW3ibZBjso3eLSREfUs-miSvnvbmn6SC_rLbpnK2LJzi0vNf-zZWHekxsfb5GNeCupMzOO-E7tvCUxvY7Vzuo_zILcDpEqreKHENd2ZJ_9V9kMsl78N700E9N56SkM6AlqqOpUCI0f0BwSUbopoPEcXewPfAfq8UmtiIjptnJRyKzF05oQ/w640-h416/P1070936_edited-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I then found in Kelly's 1922 edition that Henry Ford owner of the Heather Brick & Terra Cotta Co. was now operating this Mill Lane works as well & the entry reads Heather Brick, Terra Cotta & Wains Co. Heather. This entry is repeated in Kelly's 1925 edition. Kelly's 1928 entry is the last for Ford's company at this works. Around 1930 Ford sold his two Heather works to the Coronet Brick & Terra Cotta Co. based in Measham. Kelly's 1932 is the first directory listing Coronet at Heather, but it only lists one works, this being the Mill Lane works & now listed as being on Station Road. After checking maps they reveal Mill Lane & Station Road met at the entrance of this brickworks, even today Google Maps record this section of road as Station Road, but factories on this part of the road give their address as Mill Lane. Kelly's 1936 & 1941 editions also only list the Station Road works, but we know from the 1937 Coronet advert shown earlier that Coronet were operating two brickworks in Heather, this one & the one on Pisca Lane. The year Coronet closed this Mill Lane/ Station Road works is unknown. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">John French Neal</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">National Brick Co.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpBvAYuOG4aU23CNUPgSnkIBzdw9p_8I1XhR72HciCP1YNoDAhpsZpigXr-5XOX9j6Wi5HtjirvQRxrucuvVH5uoRNFv2QwuQwvVjlbPZbxLvW9WFKs4ySavaLK_p-riFznEFtTJbpPaw3UwU-Ieo-JpXreamuZzEg18Urz1kHVEFqsd8hvVE9hVLURg/w640-h426/Heather%20BWs%20OS%201901.jpg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;" width="640" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The first reference found relating to this green coloured brickworks appears in the London Gazette dated 9th of July 1897, in which John French Neal & John Thomas Jacques were dissolving their partnership on the 5th of July 1897 & had operated as Neal & Jacques, Brickmakers, in Heather, Leicestershire. All debts due to & owing by the said company would be received & paid by John F. Neal. It is unknown in which year Neal & Jacques had established their brickworks, but they are not listed in Kelly's 1895 edition & this works is not shown on the 1881 OS map. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">John French Neal then went on to run this works on his own with </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1899 & 1900 editions recording John French Neal at 2a, Halford Street, Leicester, offices; works, Heather. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As you can see on the 1900 OS map above this works had road access from Newton Road & footpath access from Mill Lane, both are coloured green. It's not until the 1927 map that it shows this works had road access via Station Terrace (blue dotted line) from Mill Lane. Again I found some anomalies because later company's operating this works give their address of Station Road when it was actually off Mill Lane. I then found in the 1970's after the disused railway line had been removed, a new road was built to access this works, coloured purple. This road is still there today & it will give access to whatever they build on this former brickworks site. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As I have digressed I now return to John French Neal & after finding two badly damaged bricks made by Neal I came across this mint example at 4 Oaks Reclamation. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQFzo4fmgAX30RyWgRXsmg5RNWM4Gj6bhxQ-U2JxLWlu3CzirQQ2u1uIMDUWvYOrkYnIZajzaHsAANZJh5jLIVx_gGRx0iuoYsN6kfFTq0zFyJQVxtI9Xld2Rl7IBp-2p5DNnbICBh4_Z1qSXMcx2QHsf1gSvfibVFjnYEjzUNhmK32dlnrR1IEQxbQ/s640/P1110199_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQFzo4fmgAX30RyWgRXsmg5RNWM4Gj6bhxQ-U2JxLWlu3CzirQQ2u1uIMDUWvYOrkYnIZajzaHsAANZJh5jLIVx_gGRx0iuoYsN6kfFTq0zFyJQVxtI9Xld2Rl7IBp-2p5DNnbICBh4_Z1qSXMcx2QHsf1gSvfibVFjnYEjzUNhmK32dlnrR1IEQxbQ/w640-h428/P1110199_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John French Neal b.1860 is listed in the 1901 census as a Brick Manufacturer, aged 41, wife, Clavender (nee Pearson m. 1882) & with one son John P. Neal, aged 18, living at Bardon Hill House, Bardon. The 1901 edition of the Directory of Clayworkers records Neal was making Red hand-pressed bricks, facing bricks, tiles & terra cotta. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I next found Bennett's 1901 trade directory records the partnership of Neal & Jacques, Brick Manufacturers in Heather once more & this find is followed by a Derbyshire Records Office reference from the web which reveals that in 1901 Neal's business had been incorporated as Neal & Co. Limited. So from this info it appears Neal & Jacques joined forces again & then started a new company called Neal & Co. This Derbyshire Records Office article then states </span><span style="font-family: arial;">in 1903 the company changed it's name to the National Brick Company Limited. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I next found three London Gazette Notices which record John French Neal had declared himself bankrupt on the 25th of March 1904 or had a bankruptcy petitioned declared against him on the 24th May 1906. Neal is listed as Brick & Tile Manufacture & a Builders Merchant's Traveller with him having a second home in Kilburn, London. Now I do not know how this affected the National Brick Co. as this notice does not name this company. My only thought's are that Neal himself was declaring himself bankrupt rather than the Company. The notice dated 30th of April 1907 which records Neal had declared himself bankrupt also tells you that he is now deceased, so John died some time between May 1906 & April 1907. I can only assume other directors/shareholders were running the National Brick Co. which may have included John Thomas Jacques as you will next read next was still associated with the company.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1908 edition records The National Brick Co. Heather, Ashby-de-la-Zouch with John T. Jacques as manager. This entry is repeated in Kelly's 1912 & 16 editions.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAjmNsyjSNgr8UDz6ZztfAkbkdsufvLh3yi7OrLsS7GAoU7qzSLosDtIUNUnoAG3MeJVcmD-rzvzfWCTqNfcLgdBdTschVh7YfHLFMPXYCOVXf8L5hEBSkIkSnnvGQcMfOJOieAMQlA8xdUXJDK8Fd_xMN36e4r5uajkKPo0WJu0Rb_6l6LQ5SksYcZQ/s640/IMG_4791.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAjmNsyjSNgr8UDz6ZztfAkbkdsufvLh3yi7OrLsS7GAoU7qzSLosDtIUNUnoAG3MeJVcmD-rzvzfWCTqNfcLgdBdTschVh7YfHLFMPXYCOVXf8L5hEBSkIkSnnvGQcMfOJOieAMQlA8xdUXJDK8Fd_xMN36e4r5uajkKPo0WJu0Rb_6l6LQ5SksYcZQ/w640-h428/IMG_4791.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNhwhZL-pASo_L3WXsKZR6a6uFS2qdkHpIly7wg8nBfGQ-nPEtNvH06xsiXUw5KESR7ejCh1bJhqxPRUH4_7kElDbK8IMdEiWEQEB4GucDf5njI1kRb1tZtZHWvWFqGYAbBURuo_k7eISn7J-aWu0lcW9zg2tfzPvVvHxfPMpgqs_yiMdUBby-hHSEQ/s640/IMG_4828.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHNhwhZL-pASo_L3WXsKZR6a6uFS2qdkHpIly7wg8nBfGQ-nPEtNvH06xsiXUw5KESR7ejCh1bJhqxPRUH4_7kElDbK8IMdEiWEQEB4GucDf5njI1kRb1tZtZHWvWFqGYAbBURuo_k7eISn7J-aWu0lcW9zg2tfzPvVvHxfPMpgqs_yiMdUBby-hHSEQ/w640-h428/IMG_4828.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXjncyAnve00XeZaWBhY5zGSoFcS5ujjAkWL3h-s4U7-W28Zs114hnNYXIf5Xv2O7SYSBv0qGNMOfBauIvlNfAz-m9f-Qi7WPE2fJZKi9Z7xUde9gV846CxhLdI58RdabvJh9WnGkPyI8Mo4efpfcVOPDa0DunTOGBMZ07vkIci-g-jnch-YfQkCqVcQ/s640/IMG_4491.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXjncyAnve00XeZaWBhY5zGSoFcS5ujjAkWL3h-s4U7-W28Zs114hnNYXIf5Xv2O7SYSBv0qGNMOfBauIvlNfAz-m9f-Qi7WPE2fJZKi9Z7xUde9gV846CxhLdI58RdabvJh9WnGkPyI8Mo4efpfcVOPDa0DunTOGBMZ07vkIci-g-jnch-YfQkCqVcQ/w640-h428/IMG_4491.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">After WW1 we find Kelly's 1922 & 25 editions now record John T. Jacques as Managing Director of the National Brick Co. Heather. Kelly's 1925 edition also records National were now operating the Hermitage Brickworks in Whitwick as well, previously owned by H.R. Mansfield. The 1932 to 41 directories list both brickworks with the address for the Heather Works is given as Station Road & as previously wrote this works was actually accessed off Mill Lane.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXTsaWfrtb5aHnbrpxWh2rzixVHvOGg2skWDVYVvEnACUo74OZDmBAMX8fupsW6xGW_9MMr9dhgCgos71Nu4NuZuAoX_6Ib3t79ThZqgT3dzXiLOy-xMIMc2EpV8X_j0JTsotetlEa4LGRLUhpAngraMaxVeSomgy4xNmgzVe03bJGCRjxD_wuWFjPUA/s640/P1070926.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXTsaWfrtb5aHnbrpxWh2rzixVHvOGg2skWDVYVvEnACUo74OZDmBAMX8fupsW6xGW_9MMr9dhgCgos71Nu4NuZuAoX_6Ib3t79ThZqgT3dzXiLOy-xMIMc2EpV8X_j0JTsotetlEa4LGRLUhpAngraMaxVeSomgy4xNmgzVe03bJGCRjxD_wuWFjPUA/w640-h428/P1070926.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My next find is the 1959 advert below in which it states the Star Brick & Tile Company of Ponthir, Newport, South Wales was an Associated Company. Star was a large concern & owned several brickworks in South Wales. We then find at a date unknown National & Star amalgamated forming the National Star Brick Co. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tK8c8a_-5NbqNSRAO3Uqwe3IP2mwhBhG7ooXgvN7lwQXUqdYZSFQePOvzwZS35acqTZf6Mu_Bki57MZ1RO9c6_xOmMcJ6aPaANfxpk3P7VZ1jY8flrcRql0D3lgyB2QUSC3Wkg-GRpDBx-pYm_W1HO5TT91OY5fZZEBg1jXASNVhNfAi7J2ZXFkyMA/s800/National%20B%20Co,%20Heather,%20Leics%20The%20Architects%20Standard%20Catalogues%201957-1959.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="619" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tK8c8a_-5NbqNSRAO3Uqwe3IP2mwhBhG7ooXgvN7lwQXUqdYZSFQePOvzwZS35acqTZf6Mu_Bki57MZ1RO9c6_xOmMcJ6aPaANfxpk3P7VZ1jY8flrcRql0D3lgyB2QUSC3Wkg-GRpDBx-pYm_W1HO5TT91OY5fZZEBg1jXASNVhNfAi7J2ZXFkyMA/w496-h640/National%20B%20Co,%20Heather,%20Leics%20The%20Architects%20Standard%20Catalogues%201957-1959.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEwDJ0Ji4UQziIVcF4dsoxE1JHxN6JRxp-9jj85AVP5geo5Qfu9iDakvIWQoxN1AwrUMqSV1ngOyR5FN1XW0SYZOleU0s7wW1oQQHT2Dcg3Ixu-xlAx6gWktkbjnXNtk-rcMUYyTk4lKLeMV9M8skE-NOjTfdFC9K4JmRSDhvsbfxvJzBtAYf3HxZPOA/s640/P1140066_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEwDJ0Ji4UQziIVcF4dsoxE1JHxN6JRxp-9jj85AVP5geo5Qfu9iDakvIWQoxN1AwrUMqSV1ngOyR5FN1XW0SYZOleU0s7wW1oQQHT2Dcg3Ixu-xlAx6gWktkbjnXNtk-rcMUYyTk4lKLeMV9M8skE-NOjTfdFC9K4JmRSDhvsbfxvJzBtAYf3HxZPOA/w640-h424/P1140066_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The next change at the National Star Brick Co. is when Butterley/Hanson Group purchased it in 1971. It appears Butterley continued to operate this new Group in it's own name with the Brickworks of Wales website stating National Star Limited of Newport, South Wales were still operating under this name in 1978. Whether the Heather & Whitwick works were still operating under the National Star name is unknown, but I suspect these two works changed their name to Butterley with them being close to Butterley's headquarters in Ripley, Derbyshire. Butterley's Heather Works closed in 2012 & the site is awaiting to be redeveloped, but it is unknown when the Hermitage Brickworks in Whitwick closed. </span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">John Stanley Brown, Loughborough</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BG6tJ1ZPYQE/XAPBofDxIpI/AAAAAAAAFwU/fSML9dzMZfM9_ANnjbeqPEfEVN2UqCk8wCEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_1959_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BG6tJ1ZPYQE/XAPBofDxIpI/AAAAAAAAFwU/fSML9dzMZfM9_ANnjbeqPEfEVN2UqCk8wCEwYBhgL/s640/IMG_1959_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Photo by Richard Thorpe.</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GI2yh8u9w3g/XAPBoblvgNI/AAAAAAAAFwk/mRdRMBteGc8MME5Ih78yTHQ_aMA-5hD3ACEwYBhgL/s1600/P1080855.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GI2yh8u9w3g/XAPBoblvgNI/AAAAAAAAFwk/mRdRMBteGc8MME5Ih78yTHQ_aMA-5hD3ACEwYBhgL/s640/P1080855.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Stanley Brown, is listed as brickmaker on Park Lane, Loughborough; & grocer in White's 1877 edition. This is the only entry for John as a brickmaker, so how long he was making bricks for, is unknown. He does not appear in Kelly's 1881 edition. The earliest map that I have for Park Lane is 1883 & this map only shows Tucker's yard, therefore I cannot give you the exact location of Brown's yard.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I then found in Barker's 1875 edition that John is only listed as a grocer at 26, High Street, Loughborough & then in Kelly's 1876 & White's 1877 editions John is listed as being in the partnership of Brown & Jarratt as grocers & provision dealers, High Street, Loughborough. It appears William Wright Jarratt was only a partner in the grocer side of the business. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">John Smith, Loughborough</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yej2zA7lQxI/XAPSnLrzGeI/AAAAAAAAFw8/jjr5BOL-aX0Yhc9AWEMuGsjIgbAWnul0wCLcBGAs/s1600/P1130957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Yej2zA7lQxI/XAPSnLrzGeI/AAAAAAAAFw8/jjr5BOL-aX0Yhc9AWEMuGsjIgbAWnul0wCLcBGAs/s640/P1130957.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Smith is listed as brickmaker on Park Lane, Loughborough in White's 1863 edition. I can only assume that this was the same yard that John Brown took over around 1877, as we next find that John Smith is listed as brick merchant at 5, Derby Road, Loughborough in White's 1877 & Brown is listed as brickmaker on Park Lane in this same directory. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Henry Ebenezer Harrold, Diseworth</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS1kAdiZe7LpHDG__FMUZbwLs128xwzyDrjiJdbeGRi01ONdNKwI-7JiDPf48FPLFxp93hQOsRe6-4G1Aw9Ht_TcPbt8l1hbmY1zk4iNcgBshp0OWPDgxzRJiLOG64JvFcznwMHa7CePh00YZrOXtv7QrA1bHTFtJu2L9U8nR_YL0i1OYjQ-gTyrgyPseV/s640/H.E.%20Harrold,%20Diseworth%20by%20Steve%20Follows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS1kAdiZe7LpHDG__FMUZbwLs128xwzyDrjiJdbeGRi01ONdNKwI-7JiDPf48FPLFxp93hQOsRe6-4G1Aw9Ht_TcPbt8l1hbmY1zk4iNcgBshp0OWPDgxzRJiLOG64JvFcznwMHa7CePh00YZrOXtv7QrA1bHTFtJu2L9U8nR_YL0i1OYjQ-gTyrgyPseV/w640-h428/H.E.%20Harrold,%20Diseworth%20by%20Steve%20Follows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo by Steve Follows.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3ULwjcZIHq8mOS53iWf9La1niw7NALfCvFuNa_03zchKERNyS2X0nffMTX5HvJ8IhzqhLfzmfB6dQtx9O2OSqQY2uGjrw6Zkrk4KKOaQGYGMt_kYfUNa1DTFlU0-GHrYO-52LNHwKHj_3UBjC1f-r5NJImZ3SLaOpgIOD6mJjSvHvvlUHOEs5gbLr1Eu/s640/IMG_7535_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe3ULwjcZIHq8mOS53iWf9La1niw7NALfCvFuNa_03zchKERNyS2X0nffMTX5HvJ8IhzqhLfzmfB6dQtx9O2OSqQY2uGjrw6Zkrk4KKOaQGYGMt_kYfUNa1DTFlU0-GHrYO-52LNHwKHj_3UBjC1f-r5NJImZ3SLaOpgIOD6mJjSvHvvlUHOEs5gbLr1Eu/w640-h424/IMG_7535_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Henry Ebenezer Harrold is listed in Kelly's 1876 edition as residing at Bedford Square, Loughborough & brickworks at Diseworth. Harrold owned the brickworks which I have coloured yellow on the 1882 OS map (below) & is marked as disused, so we know Harrold had finished brickmaking by 1882. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuM1gikhTOZV0wrHFvadSiNuMrmYeJgG8eCcBMN04cper0Kz51zA3LobFkv8ySWMolGZ9J9GqI93AQ0EQprK9oDzdeivuNWnBvCSgLacgAOPpqVWIcgRiBtRbAAKZIJqemvVCn68YMKCc3zTR2wPDMJ9cIwdEVO5eyEsfnZGMLFYc2FyU7lkXHHJVq-1W/s800/Diseworth%20BWs%20OS%201882.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuM1gikhTOZV0wrHFvadSiNuMrmYeJgG8eCcBMN04cper0Kz51zA3LobFkv8ySWMolGZ9J9GqI93AQ0EQprK9oDzdeivuNWnBvCSgLacgAOPpqVWIcgRiBtRbAAKZIJqemvVCn68YMKCc3zTR2wPDMJ9cIwdEVO5eyEsfnZGMLFYc2FyU7lkXHHJVq-1W/w640-h426/Diseworth%20BWs%20OS%201882.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1882.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Charles Moore</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfoXwMp7fydtE92yyFI96ZaC_bR2KIux6JjH0vAiWOp6dgKuGahs-ZXJhWIXhddlMTn3EB57Pf_hJtwN7y_CThtGuAobyXhqYru_SR5qq518DRf3VK0r3Oqmw_oLSorfGuTrWTvkR4Pz0Z3CbaNwxBHGKOZoV_B_vNh6e4MKwz05U1hyZ9Wf_CqCiBVDHm/s640/IMG_7529_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="640" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfoXwMp7fydtE92yyFI96ZaC_bR2KIux6JjH0vAiWOp6dgKuGahs-ZXJhWIXhddlMTn3EB57Pf_hJtwN7y_CThtGuAobyXhqYru_SR5qq518DRf3VK0r3Oqmw_oLSorfGuTrWTvkR4Pz0Z3CbaNwxBHGKOZoV_B_vNh6e4MKwz05U1hyZ9Wf_CqCiBVDHm/w640-h418/IMG_7529_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Charles Moore is listed as brickmaker at Clements Gate, Diseworth in Kelly's 1876 & 1881 editions. I have coloured this brickworks green in the Harrold entry above.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More brickmakers will be added to this post, when time allows, so please call back. Thanks.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-24814025105552378062022-01-08T12:22:00.077+00:002023-11-01T20:18:17.301+00:00Leicestershire Brickworks - part 1<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br />In this post I mainly cover Coalville together with Whitwick, Ibstock & South Leicestershire Collieries.</span></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whitwick Road Brick & Tile Works, Coalville.</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jhUACezGUm4/YazvU7bhbII/AAAAAAAAND4/KGX4YTY5JUcvQ9R-5h708EZeKMPufwFlwCNcBGAsYHQ/s800/Mosaic%2BTile%2B%2526%2BBrick%2BWorks%252C%2BCoalville%2BOS%2B1881.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jhUACezGUm4/YazvU7bhbII/AAAAAAAAND4/KGX4YTY5JUcvQ9R-5h708EZeKMPufwFlwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h429/Mosaic%2BTile%2B%2526%2BBrick%2BWorks%252C%2BCoalville%2BOS%2B1881.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1881.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After William Whetstone had run this Whitwick Road tile works for 12 years, this works then became a brick & tile works (coloured green on the 1881 OS map above) & we then find it's ownership changed many times over the next 30 years, so after writing about William Whetstone, I continue with the other owners of this works until it's closure in 1903.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">William Whetstone</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CwFD6I8dJxM/Yazux6s6wII/AAAAAAAANDw/q_RMJDvU8KIQ1Cv_cgWm6fZ0gnpjWmvAQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_7157.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CwFD6I8dJxM/Yazux6s6wII/AAAAAAAANDw/q_RMJDvU8KIQ1Cv_cgWm6fZ0gnpjWmvAQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_7157.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I first start with some early info on William Whetstone who was born in 1817 & along with his elder brother Joseph b.1800, both are listed in Melville's 1853 edition as Wool-staplers in Leicester which they carried on doing for many years thereafter, but the 1861 census records both had branched out into new directions. Joseph had become a partner in the Whitwick Colliery Company with William Stenson the elder & others. Further research has revealed Joseph became a shareholder in the late 1850's & then with William Stenson retiring & leaving the partnership in April 1860, Joseph Whetstone became the main shareholder. Then William Whetstone is recorded as a manufacturer of ornamental flooring tiles or that's what I believe the scribe of this census was trying to write as he has wrote ornametace. This census 1861 records William was living with his family at 49, Northgate Street, Leicester. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">White's 1861 edition also records William Whetstone as a Manufacturer of ornamental tiles. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Newspaper articles reveal William owned the Mosaic Tile Works on Whitwick Road in Coalville. The earliest OS map that I have access to is 1881 & this map above shows there was a brickworks as well at this date which I have coloured green, but it is unknown if William Whetstone had brickworks on his tile works site in 1861. I have only found info relating to William Whetstone making floor tiles at his works which he stamped Whetstone, Coalville, but my thoughts are that with him stamping his name in his tiles he may have also made the Whetstone brick above at his tile works, however I do have another two locations were this William Whetstone brick may have been made & I write about these two other brickworks shortly.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As wrote William's elder brother Joseph in the late 1850's became a partner with William Stenson the elder (1771-1861), Samuel Harris & his other brother James Whetstone at the Whitwick Colliery Co. & in 1860 William Stenson the elder left this <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22405/page/2704/data.pdf" target="_blank">partnership</a> leaving Joseph as the main owner. Stenson's grandson William Towndrow Stenson became the manager of Whitwick Colliery at this date. I mention William Towndrow Stenson at this point as he plays a part later in this Whetstone story. The 1861 census records Joseph Whetstone was employing 400 men at his worsted works & 500 men at his colliery. Joseph Whetstone died in January 1868 leaving his whole estate of 50 thousand pounds including Whitwick Colliery to his brother William, the sole executor. I am assuming brother James Whetstone has also died. Harrod's 1870 edition records William Whetstone as a Manufacturer of patented mosaic, encaustic & other ornamental flooring tiles. So with William Whetstone owning Whitwick Colliery the 1871 census records him as a Landowner & Colliery Proprietor living at Broomleys House, Coalville. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">I have also found Joseph Whetstone had purchased Ibstock Colliery & Brickworks in January 1865 from E.M. Green after the colliery's lessees Messrs. Bray, Roseby & Child had gone bankrupt in October 1864. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">With William Whetstone acquiring both Whitwick Colliery & Ibstock Colliery after Joseph's death in 1868, it appears Thomas. T. Paget then joined William Whetstone as a partner at his collieries. A</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> October 1868 newspaper article reports that Thomas Paget MP held a well attended election canvass meeting in the large room of William Whetsone's Tile Works, so I am assuming both men were in partnership at the time of this meeting. T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23983/page/2714/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 3rd of June 1873 records Thomas Paget left this partnership on the 28th of May 1873 & the business would then carry on under the sole control of William Whetstone. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now both Whitwick & Ibstock Collieries had brickworks, so was this Whetstone brick made at either of these two collieries while under the sole control of William Whetstone ? </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">1873 seems to be year when William Whetstone decided to sell off his empire, the Freeholds on both Whitwick Colliery & Ibstock Colliery were put up for sale in late May 1873 & it appears from an 1873 newspaper article that William sold his Mosaic Tile Works to the Coalville Tile & Brick Co. which had been established by John Green Evatt</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">, Edward Ison & William T. Stenson to take over William Whetstone's tile works. This 24th of October 1873 Leicester Journal article reports on a supper at the Mosaic Tile works </span><span style="font-family: arial;">for the employees of the Coalville Tile & Brick Co. which was paid </span><span style="font-family: arial;">for </span><span style="font-family: arial;">by the works previous owner William Whetstone & the works new owners. Evatt & Ison were present at this supper & in a speech by the works foreman Mr. G. Westerman he thanked William Whetstone Esq. for his contribution to this fine evening which was enjoyed by all. I write more on the Coalville Tile & Brick Co. later in this post.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As wrote William Whetstone in 1873 sold Ibstock Colliery to the newly formed Ibstock Colliery Limited, a partnership formed by it's directors Wilkinson, Webb, Stalland & Standing. Now originally this colliery was being sold Freehold, but it appears from an 1884 newspaper article that this new Limited Company only purchased the colliery & brickworks etc & not the land because this article reports William Whetstone as landowner was selling all remaining brickworks stock which included over a million bricks which had to sold with the premises now being leased. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There's also a twist on the Freehold sale of Whitwick Colliery which does appear to have gone ahead as planned. The colliery & brickworks freehold was sold to George Thorp & Joseph Boam who had formed the Whitwick Colliery Company Limited with others (including William T. Stenson again) with shares being offered in September 1873 & here's the twist William Whetstone is then recorded in this notice that on the 18th of July 1873 he had entered into a contact with George Thorp & Joseph Boam, owners of the Whitwick Colliery Co. Ltd. It's White's 1877 edition which reveals the answer to this contract & in the description entry for Coalville it reports that the Whitwick Colliery Brick & Tile Works were producing high quality white & blue bricks, encaustic tiles & chimney pot etc. It then states William Whetstone Esq. of Leicester was employing a large number of women at the colliery tile works in the production of encaustic tiles for flooring. So it appears through this agreement with Thorp & Boam, William had established a new tile works next to Whitwick brickworks & was still producing his high acclaimed mosaic tiles. The 1881 census records William with no occupation, so I am taking it he had retired by this date & was living on the money received from the sale of Whitwick Colliery which the September 1873 newspaper article states that it had created great wealth to it's former proprietors. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So in a nutshell this Whetstone brick could have been made at William's Mosaic Tile Works or Whitwick Colliery or Ibstock Colliery, so the choice is open to discussion. </span></p></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Coalville Tile & Brick Co.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wtCChtxPcUw/Yaz2cNZZmjI/AAAAAAAANEE/5zwcdgYC2X8KdfBB2YLPZTWpsX5CHHKMgCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_1195.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wtCChtxPcUw/Yaz2cNZZmjI/AAAAAAAANEE/5zwcdgYC2X8KdfBB2YLPZTWpsX5CHHKMgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_1195.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Coalville Tile & Brick Co. was formed by </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">John Green Evatt</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">, Edward Ison & William T. Stenson to take over William Whetstone's Mosaic Tile Works situated on Whitwick Road, Coalville. This transfer appears to have taken place in the summer of 1873 & the first listing for the Coalville Tile & Brick Co. appears in Kelly's 1876 edition. </span></span></div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoxJPa1s1u9qlA-9ETu_e57qDhwm9BkCVpD7-OaAxMd3yb-7krn0KEKKmI9TLEIarEE3jJZ2C9AmfVmsY6Z-PkMsoqPPFj7QMraAC6fljMXaAcxvx_c5nS7INNRjzyB-qITHFoH2hUNJLxaLh-Zx2mRK3qn-UbJFJEviyMwA0Gaev1bteXKAEhVDmGsw=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="534" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoxJPa1s1u9qlA-9ETu_e57qDhwm9BkCVpD7-OaAxMd3yb-7krn0KEKKmI9TLEIarEE3jJZ2C9AmfVmsY6Z-PkMsoqPPFj7QMraAC6fljMXaAcxvx_c5nS7INNRjzyB-qITHFoH2hUNJLxaLh-Zx2mRK3qn-UbJFJEviyMwA0Gaev1bteXKAEhVDmGsw=w429-h640" width="429" /></a></span></div><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><p style="text-align: center;"><i>White's 1877 edition.</i></p></i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The London Gazette dated 23rd of February 1877 then records that on the 1st of February Edward Ison left the partnership by mutual consent & from that day the Coalville Tile & Brick Co. would then operate under the style or firm of Evatt & Stenson. I next found William T. Stenson died in October 1877 leaving Evatt as the sole owner. Four years later another London Gazette notice dated 25th October 1881 records John Green Evatt instituted the Liquidation of Evatt & Stenson, Tile & Brick Manufacturers. We then find John Green Evatt had formed the Coalville Brick & Terra Cotta Co. to operate this Whitwick Road works & this new company is listed in Kelly's 1881 edition. This same directory on another page lists John Green Evatt as an Encaustic Tile Manufacturer. I am assuming this Evatt brick below was made when Evatt was the sole owner of the Whitwick Road works between November 1877 & 1883.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQqXqfWrzZFdH92AJpTrtEnxy4Qa3Pdd2EPJv1sXI09W6fKcYTpGw6SRjxgPeLn27-gJ2Amcoz8ZgDGiTIFKi6Wk7lAnPmGqOYYitEC9-Q6sfrnE9d5uAuAmDT-S8EoKxrUcdCKSpR1PW2y1ArKwf5Qoqn0LZl2O4yWHVuK2VKCBPCkscZW5vJ_zCA6Q=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="640" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQqXqfWrzZFdH92AJpTrtEnxy4Qa3Pdd2EPJv1sXI09W6fKcYTpGw6SRjxgPeLn27-gJ2Amcoz8ZgDGiTIFKi6Wk7lAnPmGqOYYitEC9-Q6sfrnE9d5uAuAmDT-S8EoKxrUcdCKSpR1PW2y1ArKwf5Qoqn0LZl2O4yWHVuK2VKCBPCkscZW5vJ_zCA6Q=w640-h328" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photo by Dennis Gamble, courtesy of the "Old Bricks" website.</span></i></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By 1883 there was another change at this Whitwick Road works with John Green Evatt now being listed in Wright's 1883/4 edition as the manager at Edward Smith & Co, Coalville & Edward Smith was now the new owner of this encaustic tile & brick works. I write about Edward Smith next, but before I do the London Gazette dated 6th of October 1885 records the Coalville Brick & Terra Cotta Co. would have it's accounts laid before it's Members on the 6th of November 1885, after which the company would be duly Liquidated. So I am assuming Evatt had got into financial difficulties in 1883 hence Smith stepping in.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Edward Smith & Co.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">As just wrote Edward Smith had taken over the Whitwick Road brick & tile works in 1883 previously owned by John Green Evatt (trading as the Coalville Brick & Terra Cotta Co.) after he had got into financial difficulties. Edward Smith & Co. are listed in Wright's 1883/4 edition with John Green Evatt as manager, so it appears Evatt was still running the works for Edward Smith. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Edward Smith & Co. Coalville are next listed in Kelly's 1891 edition, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">however Edward Smith & Co. are not listed in Kelly's 1895 edition & a Liquidation Notice in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26587/page/177/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 8th of January 1895 reveals the "Partnership which has for some time past carried on by Edward Smith & William Frederick Dadley operating under the style of Edward Smith & Co. at Coalville as Tile & Terra Cotta Manufacturers was this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to the late firm of Edward Smith & Co. will be collected by Edward Smith who will also discharge the liabilities of the said firm. Dated </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">2nd of January 1895."</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We next find the Whitwick Road Works was next operated by the Tamar & Coalville Terra Cotta & Tile Works Limited & I write about them next.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VqflBiyKC_Y/Ya49QnfDs1I/AAAAAAAANEU/kfyEoLLHkewJJ7Z5YjoCYPcGeBEn_CHsQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_0523.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VqflBiyKC_Y/Ya49QnfDs1I/AAAAAAAANEU/kfyEoLLHkewJJ7Z5YjoCYPcGeBEn_CHsQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_0523.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimHtMYAXsgEzJblnxoNB0a7NqzRDjLi9RsSEd_Rsic0LZ0c4fZ6MrMT8fbUrFtV1WJKsIAeB3vnxyThevNXaXQMd7F3LrvR-wHvVRJshhQSTnXl6skEbdBtK7t3Ruz-7JXlCOjxrX2ZMNsR9j4nmOWtRg3ckJ33_SWsb7ArReVqL6L7yftU_FMx8jysA/s640/IMG_9510.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPzple56EoH2zhk_CcSqXRxm8yWijjwsoFOTB8syeHliVf9izGr7QDeb2NUbPrbiwFqdF7AlVIPZNSiHqKE1Fj1K-oNwf8WCscfnNjdEtZUdEHJOPXExUhUyrkES5N9ZJu4nMxNXNPqkRkAAvjVirIVTY9CsWqS9cPk5Kf8xuEO4v4_8ACV7oVo4siQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="583" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkPzple56EoH2zhk_CcSqXRxm8yWijjwsoFOTB8syeHliVf9izGr7QDeb2NUbPrbiwFqdF7AlVIPZNSiHqKE1Fj1K-oNwf8WCscfnNjdEtZUdEHJOPXExUhUyrkES5N9ZJu4nMxNXNPqkRkAAvjVirIVTY9CsWqS9cPk5Kf8xuEO4v4_8ACV7oVo4siQ=w466-h640" width="466" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: left;">The Architect's, Surveyor's and Engineer's Compendium 1891</span>.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tamar & Coalville Terra Cotta & Tile Works Limited.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">So with Edward Smith leaving Whitwick Road in January 1895 we find Kelly's 1895 edition now records the Tamar & Coalville Terra Cotta & Tile Works Limited were operating this works. However a year later in a <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26754/page/3805/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> Notice dated the 13th of June 1896, it records one of the company's creditors, Septimus Hedges of Sudbury-on-Thames petitioned the courts to put the said company into liquidation. The Tamar & Coalville Terra Cotta & Tile Works Limited was <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27243/page/6712/data.pdf" target="_blank">liquidated</a> in December 1900. So it appears this Company only had a short existence. Although I have no written evidence I suspect with the company being called Tamar & Coalville there may have been a tie-up with another brickworks in Devon situated on the River Tamar, of which there were several situated on it's banks.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0s_CUtCjeKc/Ya4_AdIvvOI/AAAAAAAANEo/EJwZj4dEGa4MDWOuuTq-CQy-5S-iReE8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1080893_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0s_CUtCjeKc/Ya4_AdIvvOI/AAAAAAAANEo/EJwZj4dEGa4MDWOuuTq-CQy-5S-iReE8QCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h424/P1080893_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Coalville, Sandford & Alston Limited.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With the departure of the very short lived Tamar & Coalville Company from the Whitwick Road works we next find in Kelly's 1899 edition it now lists it's new owners as the Coalville, Sandford & Alston Limited, Coalville, Leicester. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: arial;">The name of this Company is derived from the three places it operated in. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Sandford works was in Sandford near Wareham, Dorset & was originally a pottery works which changed over to produce salt-glazed sanitary pipes & fittings. The Alston works was in Oldbury & was situated next to the disused Alston Colliery, producing blue & red bricks & salt-glazed sanitary pipes & fittings. As far as I can find the Coalville works only produced bricks. As no named bricks have turn up made by this company, it's one to look out for. Further investigations have revealed the Coalville, Sandford & Alston Ltd. was owned by Managing Director John Howard Shaw, M.I.C.E. (Member of Institution of Civil Engineers) & he had established the Sandford works in 1895, operating as Sandford & Co. I am assuming it was nearer to 1899 that he acquired the Alston & Coalville works & then changed the Company's name. Kelly's 1900 edition is the next trade directory entry for this Company & this is followed by the entry in the 1901 Directory of Clayworkers book, but this is also the last. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">A Notice in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27563/page/3731/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 12th of June 1903 records that on the 5th of June at an Extraordinary General Meeting, Members of Company voted to place the Company into Liqidation. Another <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27687/page/3963/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> Notice dated </span></span><span><span style="font-family: arial;">21st of June 1904 records the </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Coalville, Sandford & Alston Limited would have it's accounts laid before the Company's Members before it was wound up on the 29th of July 1904. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So I am assuming the Whitwick Road brick & tile works finally closed for good around 1903 with there being no more companies recorded as owning this works in trade directories. However a notice in the Derbyshire Advertiser dated 13th of August 1909 brings your attention to the sale of Coalville, Sandford & Alston's works as a going concern by the Trustees of the Debenture Holders. After listing what was for sale the notice ends with the premises could be viewed by contacting Thomas Pratt, Foreman of the Works, so this indicates to me the brickworks was still operational in 1909 & was being run by the Debenture Trustees. It then appears no one bought the works & it closed.</span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCXnybDTGf4Q8wRSQKAoVYpMcpEtSVO3nquoK32qTmwHcyGEdZyi1eis-OcG0A-s1mM3NEAt8S7nWw-Sjqf-B3OKLezQEFKnCR3yh2bonbgc-Ow1SZo6q3o0q_YI-pdtbKFfvcmVNyhiztN7NucM7b4ty74FfYFAMxGeJXzCakwJYiP9nNPKPxsortMw=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="612" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCXnybDTGf4Q8wRSQKAoVYpMcpEtSVO3nquoK32qTmwHcyGEdZyi1eis-OcG0A-s1mM3NEAt8S7nWw-Sjqf-B3OKLezQEFKnCR3yh2bonbgc-Ow1SZo6q3o0q_YI-pdtbKFfvcmVNyhiztN7NucM7b4ty74FfYFAMxGeJXzCakwJYiP9nNPKPxsortMw=w490-h640" width="490" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Contractors Merchants & Estate Managers Compendium 1901</span>.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whitwick Colliery.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jhUACezGUm4/YazvU7bhbII/AAAAAAAAND4/KGX4YTY5JUcvQ9R-5h708EZeKMPufwFlwCNcBGAsYHQ/s800/Mosaic%2BTile%2B%2526%2BBrick%2BWorks%252C%2BCoalville%2BOS%2B1881.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jhUACezGUm4/YazvU7bhbII/AAAAAAAAND4/KGX4YTY5JUcvQ9R-5h708EZeKMPufwFlwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h429/Mosaic%2BTile%2B%2526%2BBrick%2BWorks%252C%2BCoalville%2BOS%2B1881.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1881.</i></b></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Whitwick Colliery was sunk in 1826 by William Stenson the elder (1771-1861) on land close to Coalville village & the first coal was brought to the surface in 1828. A web article records the colliery had an associated brickworks (coloured yellow on the 1881 OS map above) which had 10 circular kilns, producing 100,000 bricks per week, but it is unknown in what year this account of the works relates to. However another article records George Smith became the Manager of the brickworks in 1859, this was after Smith had thought he had signed a contract with the owners of Whitwick Colliery to take full control of the brickworks & be it's owner, but this turned out not to be & his job only entailed him being the Works Manager. More details were then found in an 1877 newspaper article which reports George Smith started with one kiln in 1860 then built more, one at a time until he had twenty or more, producing an annual income of £12,000 pounds per year. So the 10 kilns account of the works will refer to after 1860. George Smith is famous for introducing better working conditions for children working at the brickworks & a comprehensive account of his work can be read <a href="http://www.crick.org.uk/smith.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Bricks stamped G. Smith, Manager have turned up & one is shown below. I have also got an image of another brick which has had the G. Smith removed from the die-plate, so I expect this brick will have been made shortly after Smith had left the company in 1873 with newspaper articles revealing George Smith was now running the brickworks owned by the Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Company & I write about this works later. Meanwhile the Whitwick Colliery Company placed this notice in the 4th of January 1873 edition of the Leicester Chronicle.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjokf7UX-eVgPn7Rb_upM0joUsPyfyrmJ6mVXhkhTxhQNW8SEQ08vKbDYhI4pvyhfHPR86fhG34UnRFcdfXF6y5b_QostA8IPhKUOd-q7SyvPZcQnfqttycXxZaWAtzZvEvU4BugamYcuhzKoML3Mas5gcXfIcHAdleOdyfaLiCnmyLEMzKWWgAlDT0Rg/s800/Whitwick%20Colliery%20-%20Leicester%20Chronicle%204.1.1873%20Image%20%C2%A9%20THE%20BRITISH%20LIBRARY%20BOARD.%20ALL%20RIGHTS%20RESERVED.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="800" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjokf7UX-eVgPn7Rb_upM0joUsPyfyrmJ6mVXhkhTxhQNW8SEQ08vKbDYhI4pvyhfHPR86fhG34UnRFcdfXF6y5b_QostA8IPhKUOd-q7SyvPZcQnfqttycXxZaWAtzZvEvU4BugamYcuhzKoML3Mas5gcXfIcHAdleOdyfaLiCnmyLEMzKWWgAlDT0Rg/w640-h362/Whitwick%20Colliery%20-%20Leicester%20Chronicle%204.1.1873%20Image%20%C2%A9%20THE%20BRITISH%20LIBRARY%20BOARD.%20ALL%20RIGHTS%20RESERVED.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: times;">Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">With having a photo of a brick stamped Stenson Collieries, this brick may pre-date Smith's time at Whitwick Colliery & could have been made as early as 1855. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QoCDhNRG-oA/YbJImv9ufaI/AAAAAAAANFc/Kdp0TlzihCQtDqx8eV3iZfyjWLG0ogdLACNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1080882_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QoCDhNRG-oA/YbJImv9ufaI/AAAAAAAANFc/Kdp0TlzihCQtDqx8eV3iZfyjWLG0ogdLACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/P1080882_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QbWplrk6Kuw/YbJImg3MkLI/AAAAAAAANFg/jAR79u2GPPEanuQJWJaCGD27s43gD8X_ACNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1100385_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QbWplrk6Kuw/YbJImg3MkLI/AAAAAAAANFg/jAR79u2GPPEanuQJWJaCGD27s43gD8X_ACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1100385_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I1dELfS_ZQ0/YbJImoFw8zI/AAAAAAAANFY/JVQNcTXs4WQNsj_QO3ap-P3RsXGHjXeqgCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1120209_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I1dELfS_ZQ0/YbJImoFw8zI/AAAAAAAANFY/JVQNcTXs4WQNsj_QO3ap-P3RsXGHjXeqgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1120209_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vVwd9pnEXaw/YbNHDmAPCaI/AAAAAAAANFw/GkrhwCPk3N4Y_vEczACLNpVYycEDipjmQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1110155_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vVwd9pnEXaw/YbNHDmAPCaI/AAAAAAAANFw/GkrhwCPk3N4Y_vEczACLNpVYycEDipjmQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h424/P1110155_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As I have digressed I return to the late 1850's & Joseph Whetstone b.1800, a Wool-Stapler in Leicester joined William Stenson the elder as a partner in William Stenson & Co. owners of the Whitwick Colliery Company. Then in April 1860 as recorded in a </span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22405/page/2704/data.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">London Gazette</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> Notice dated July 1860, William Stenson left this partnership with him retiring & Joseph Whetstone became the main shareholder of the Whitwick Colliery Company. As wrote Joseph was the elder brother to William Whetstone, a mosaic tile maker & he comes into the picture shortly. Around this time William Stenson's grandson William Towndrow Stenson b.1834, a mining engineer became the Manager of Whitwick Colliery. I also found the 1841 census records William's son, William Stenson the younger b.1811 & William T's father also was a mining engineer & had been a Mining Agent at Whitwick Colliery in 1841. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 1861 census records Joseph Whetstone was employing 400 men at his worsted works & 500 men at his colliery. Joseph Whetstone died in January 1868 leaving his whole estate of 50 thousand pounds including Whitwick Colliery to his brother William Whetstone, Tile Maker & the sole Executor. William Whetstone was then joined by </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Thomas Paget MP as a co-owner of Whitwick Colliery & this may have also been in 1868. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">The 1871 census records William Whetstone as a Landowner & Colliery Proprietor living at Broomleys House, Coalville. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23983/page/2714/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 3rd of June 1873 records Thomas Paget had left this partnership on the 28th of May 1873 & the business would then carry on under the sole control of William Whetstone. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It appears with the departure of Paget, William Whetstone decided to sell off all his businesses & the Freehold of Whitwick Colliery & it's brickworks was sold to George Thorp & Joseph Boam & this was completed in a matter of days before the month of May had finished. In September 1873 Thorp & Boam formed the Whitwick Colliery Co. Limited with others & the colliery & brickworks was sold to this new Company with shares being offered for sale. Other Directors included Joseph Whetstone, son of William Whetstone & William Towndrow Stenson, previously the Manager of Whitwick Colliery when owned by the Whetstones. As previously wrote William T. Stenson was involved with many companies & he also had shares in the South Leicestershire Colliery Company which also had a brickworks & I write about this brickworks soon.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Kelly's 1881 edition is the first trade directory found recording the Whitwick Colliery Co. Ltd. & it is listed as producing blue & white pressed bricks. Whitwick Colliery Co. Ltd. is again listed in Kelly's 1891 edition now with </span><span style="font-family: arial;">W.H. Gibbs as Manager & Secretary. Walter Lindley then became Manager of the brickworks, as listed in Kelly's 1899 edition. In Kelly's 1925 edition with Walter Lindley still at the helm, the works is listed as now producing wire-cut facing bricks as well as pressed bricks (red, white & buff), red sand stock bricks, moulded bricks & terra cotta. Hand made sand faced roofing tiles was added to the list in Kelly's 1928 edition & Walter Lindley is now listed as Director. So it appears from his charge the company expanded & excelled. I've just found a very interesting account of Walter Lindley when he was presented with a gold watch for 20 years of loyal service with the Company in 1915, which is worth a <a href="https://mediafiles.thedms.co.uk/Publication/LM-SPE/cms/pdf/October%20in%20Whitwick%201915%20edited.pdf" target="_blank">read</a>. The account records every man contributed to his collection despite the works being temporary closed (WW1).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBAl_FNt6oR76jA2uKoBmhFVl8czJWHmu2CbKvhOPw8vOaPgti3Gs4XMFETAsgc0jhcXlcx2DftQJJs7ouqpjD6eGG4txTYtHNaSQd7MvcckCmZLOASau7vQ5OtfSTRjn-UbaRDRw2uX1OF4Hvqotev2dBQewJpiBEowLquhph1kq4qxQ4dh-f8BSvfQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="800" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBAl_FNt6oR76jA2uKoBmhFVl8czJWHmu2CbKvhOPw8vOaPgti3Gs4XMFETAsgc0jhcXlcx2DftQJJs7ouqpjD6eGG4txTYtHNaSQd7MvcckCmZLOASau7vQ5OtfSTRjn-UbaRDRw2uX1OF4Hvqotev2dBQewJpiBEowLquhph1kq4qxQ4dh-f8BSvfQ=w640-h436" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">The Contractors Merchants & Estate Managers Compendium 1901</span>.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBzch37FS1QZcVRIRcG03JHOaMsm8nAgxHj1TNf8ab79k8QR8RTzNemDwJMi1EgmZEJ-uM5PuKCeS76AVAWrUBcp9ZQjh2e0AqWa8FGCiIg0beZJ3h4NL3fpjxQPozQrYWy6JsMX7fPLJnOWM0MZFmFYkasVv7EMUc6BDQrZvCVmRGfCLbKZWslbYfpg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="800" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBzch37FS1QZcVRIRcG03JHOaMsm8nAgxHj1TNf8ab79k8QR8RTzNemDwJMi1EgmZEJ-uM5PuKCeS76AVAWrUBcp9ZQjh2e0AqWa8FGCiIg0beZJ3h4NL3fpjxQPozQrYWy6JsMX7fPLJnOWM0MZFmFYkasVv7EMUc6BDQrZvCVmRGfCLbKZWslbYfpg=w640-h440" width="640" /></a></div><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Architects Compendium 1911.</span></i></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1932 edition records T.J. Sales was now the manager of the brickworks. 1947 sees the colliery & brickworks Nationalised & bricks stamped NCB Whitwick are shown later. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In 1967/8 the National Coal Board decided to sell off many of it's brickworks & Whitwick together with several other brickworks in the Midlands were transferred to a company called the Midland Brick Co., a subsidiary totally owned by the National Coal Board. The view was to sell this Midland Brick Co. to another brick manufacturer at a later date & this turned out to be the Butterley Brick Co. in November 1973. So with Butterley now running Whitwick there were plans to totally modernise & extend this works with there being ample supplies of clay, a figure of a quarter of a million pounds was to be spent as quoted in a newspaper article. Then came a slump in brick sales & the decision was made not to spend the money & to close the works in September 1974 with the loss of 44 jobs. Just to note the colliery still operating under the National Coal Board closed in July 1986.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy34osmC4Gg/YbNJO7GT3wI/AAAAAAAANF8/xX1S1_gUgIYZFSPU-f8sGg55_jZq7NuJQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1100311_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy34osmC4Gg/YbNJO7GT3wI/AAAAAAAANF8/xX1S1_gUgIYZFSPU-f8sGg55_jZq7NuJQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/P1100311_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oab41FKJIA4/YbNJOyGXAKI/AAAAAAAANF4/K0g9MOhuwCkATI158zSzBf8VHvlTIrHHgCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1090117.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oab41FKJIA4/YbNJOyGXAKI/AAAAAAAANF4/K0g9MOhuwCkATI158zSzBf8VHvlTIrHHgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1090117.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u2ESRujMeRc/YbNLbg9IyhI/AAAAAAAANGY/M4vOxHKYqNcH8cT2j-wDhur-5Jtp8aQgACPcBGAYYCw/s640/P1130919.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u2ESRujMeRc/YbNLbg9IyhI/AAAAAAAANGY/M4vOxHKYqNcH8cT2j-wDhur-5Jtp8aQgACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h428/P1130919.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBAQ3t7tt9Y/YbNLbgPfiFI/AAAAAAAANGU/mXqkLeiLuOQPCaZ33TLz22O32mDs6aMuACPcBGAYYCw/s640/P1100382_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EBAQ3t7tt9Y/YbNLbgPfiFI/AAAAAAAANGU/mXqkLeiLuOQPCaZ33TLz22O32mDs6aMuACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h428/P1100382_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGjxXQhY4h8/YbNLbpsCv9I/AAAAAAAANGQ/mYfQDYsMU6wVZaswCLzEil6E-HmSZVvlQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130789_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="640" height="422" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fGjxXQhY4h8/YbNLbpsCv9I/AAAAAAAANGQ/mYfQDYsMU6wVZaswCLzEil6E-HmSZVvlQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h422/P1130789_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This next brick with intertwined letters W & C or C & W had got many brick collectors baffled for a long time until Sandra Dillion found one which had a better imprint which revealed the Co. & Ld. Then with collectors finding most of these bricks were turning up in Leicestershire, I reached for the Leicestershire trade directories. It wasn't long into my search before I found it was Whitwick Colliery Co. Ltd. Why I had not solved this one before is beyond me. The answer was staring us in the face. So below I show a brick which is in Mike Chapman's collection & I have coloured the letters in on the second one which makes it more readable. I have a theory that the C was designed as railway tracks with the brickworks being connected to the colliery by sidings, but I maybe barking up the wrong tree.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEXhr7Ez0tA/YbNMmL4NcOI/AAAAAAAANGk/Jy8obmGAjfw202j-gwEHW3HXHYhTe_vRQCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5238.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEXhr7Ez0tA/YbNMmL4NcOI/AAAAAAAANGk/Jy8obmGAjfw202j-gwEHW3HXHYhTe_vRQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_5238.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-46fUnKDY1_I/YbNMmEVddSI/AAAAAAAANGg/-5-MxAQnOvcZ2Y4nsO0ecYv1A5M6Z2yewCNcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5238.1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-46fUnKDY1_I/YbNMmEVddSI/AAAAAAAANGg/-5-MxAQnOvcZ2Y4nsO0ecYv1A5M6Z2yewCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_5238.1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ibstock Colliery.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9-NAEcoeYgsjoxFSL75SXb_g0u01Lf0NAf--7T_CGwourjgeIBGBAe8KZy3ZexuQTE_raK7v52N3MmSZbhmFqUEsvKXRbo4haJPT3N7_WgiexbqicaUiIpefM0WKfQPWxFvTWCZi_vi7ntkRmFmp7LMEk7Kv0sk41dd6QdU4run9tutzmNNmZeC9IYQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9-NAEcoeYgsjoxFSL75SXb_g0u01Lf0NAf--7T_CGwourjgeIBGBAe8KZy3ZexuQTE_raK7v52N3MmSZbhmFqUEsvKXRbo4haJPT3N7_WgiexbqicaUiIpefM0WKfQPWxFvTWCZi_vi7ntkRmFmp7LMEk7Kv0sk41dd6QdU4run9tutzmNNmZeC9IYQ=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ibstock Colliery was sunk in 1832 by William Thirby, a farmer, grazier & lacemaker on his land at Ibstock Lodge with brickmaking commencing soon afterwards using clay shale removed from the mine. After a bit of wrangling the colliery & brickworks then came into the hands of the Storer Brothers, after which they sold Ibstock Colliery to the Leicestershire Coal Co. in 1837. Ten years later the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20770/page/3213/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> reveals The Leicestershire Coal Co., owners of Ibstock Colliery was dissolved by mutual consent on the 18th of August 1847. I note at this point Edward Mortimer Green was one of it's partners. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In 1853 E.M. Green is now recorded as the owner of Ibstock Colliery & it appears he had purchased the colliery after it had been put up for Auction in April 1852, when it did not sell. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At a date unknown E.M. Green then leased the colliery to Messrs. Edwin Bray of Ibstock Lodge (previously owned by William Thirby), John Roseby & John Childs who were to operate under the style of The Ibstock Colliery Co. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I next found the </span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22899/page/4735/data.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span>London Gazette</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> records Messrs. Bray, Roseby & Childs went bankrupt on the 1st October 1864. However a newspaper article in the Loughborough Monitor dated 2nd </span><span style="font-family: arial;">February 1865 reports "The colliery has been closed for some time in consequence of the bankruptcy of the Lessees, Messrs. Bray, Roseby & Childs, has now commenced working, with it being bought by Joseph Whetstone Esquire. So it appears Joseph Whetstone stepped in & purchased the colliery & brickworks from E.M. Green. I then found another reference to Joseph Whetstone owning Ibstock Colliery in a newspaper article dated October 1867. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">During his time at Ibstock Joseph Whetstone updated & greatly expanded the brickworks & in doing so was producing an extensive range of terra cotta & bricks. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I also note Joseph Whetstone had also been the sole owner of Whitwick Colliery since 1860.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Joseph Whetstone died on the 2nd of January 1868 & he left both Ibstock & Whitwick Collieries & their brickworks to his brother William Whetstone, a Mosiac Tile Manufacturer in Coalville. As far as I can find, William Whetstone was only involved in the running of these two collieries after his brother's death. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the summer of 1873 William Whetstone sold Ibstock Colliery & it's brickworks</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> to the newly formed Ibstock Colliery Company Limited & a newspaper article dated 11th of September 1873 advertises the sale of this new Company's shares & listing it's Directors as Messrs. Wilkinson, Webb, Stalland & Standing. Now originally this colliery was being sold Freehold, but a 1884 newspaper article reveals this new Limited Company had only purchased the colliery & brickworks & not the land because this article reports William Whetstone as landowner was selling all of his remaining stock which consisted of over one million bricks, which had to sold with the premises now being leased. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSz4XClqhG41mik0SRgdbItJWmgTBdA7RBiYRgl2mmvYlfP3GiPhE0T1I0ZQn_cPAQfkZMTYETEi0rf9gmORg7l7h8ww92FR0x6bEpx-ipP9sMCkRxNyLu_ROKB-ba9SDTg2bvtgcvXeCYqQL6NsSqjUmyJ18bdo258ksAry859hDUQKj-YSwrglCbcQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="640" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSz4XClqhG41mik0SRgdbItJWmgTBdA7RBiYRgl2mmvYlfP3GiPhE0T1I0ZQn_cPAQfkZMTYETEi0rf9gmORg7l7h8ww92FR0x6bEpx-ipP9sMCkRxNyLu_ROKB-ba9SDTg2bvtgcvXeCYqQL6NsSqjUmyJ18bdo258ksAry859hDUQKj-YSwrglCbcQ=w640-h413" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Going back to 1874 & in September with the directors of Ibstock Colliery Co. Ltd. coming to the conclusion that the company was not on a financially sound footing as they first thought & with them requiring an injection of new cash, Dr. S.M. Thomson became a shareholder. Dr. Thomson & his family were owners of a colliery in Wishaw, Glasgow & according to the Ibstock plc website the Thomson family purchased Ibstock Colliery Co. Ltd from it's directors in 1875. Kelly's 1876 edition is the first directory to record Ibstock Colliery Co. Ltd., Ibstock with Robert Bland as secretary. In the early 1880's Dr. Thomson's son Robert D. Thomson was appointed Colliery Agent with William P. Sheppard becoming Colliery Manager. We then find in Kelly's 1895 edition that it records William Philpott Sheppard & Robert Donal Thomson were now managing partners at Ibstock Colliery, so I am assuming Dr. Thomson had stood down from the day to day running of the company. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdTLsWqwr8T4J2nHjVbJTNCGcDhBMnms1XfLECdj_ZBp5dt2KCaGQ1lsp-NaaaqrozYNQwGFWTlimbLJ6hKppxDk_nlUGHuuzhM609Houy7krlPf3wNQ4UgF9T80t4sLt908PjPjBp_IsyLgjMd3MmXqWEpCyg0P6fHmwwyY2U2RpzM1Y_WDsSloertA=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdTLsWqwr8T4J2nHjVbJTNCGcDhBMnms1XfLECdj_ZBp5dt2KCaGQ1lsp-NaaaqrozYNQwGFWTlimbLJ6hKppxDk_nlUGHuuzhM609Houy7krlPf3wNQ4UgF9T80t4sLt908PjPjBp_IsyLgjMd3MmXqWEpCyg0P6fHmwwyY2U2RpzM1Y_WDsSloertA=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8B_NbbEeWfQQ4dyO57-T1EGHjxSrOvfCPoCgQXC68WZzAUhSMvPbMw5nhxAWX4rnKJ3SAbmiI7ybLtB3pjX9oIOBDQ_1B6CupCbEHIQfbZXD5X5p5kVQYYPX7QyhcMTIEkwU5TtX_g4DyWbpolC7zDo3hT31CfoKdlBj4Luz3jtTEg9G33liSNPu1zw=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8B_NbbEeWfQQ4dyO57-T1EGHjxSrOvfCPoCgQXC68WZzAUhSMvPbMw5nhxAWX4rnKJ3SAbmiI7ybLtB3pjX9oIOBDQ_1B6CupCbEHIQfbZXD5X5p5kVQYYPX7QyhcMTIEkwU5TtX_g4DyWbpolC7zDo3hT31CfoKdlBj4Luz3jtTEg9G33liSNPu1zw=w640-h398" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Courtesy of the Mike Chapman Collection.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">It is thought the photo for this postcard was taken between 1905 & 10. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9ymivskRxmp3kb4Sd34PWZ3uO1x6GeF72RYxwIWBnowhRoKVWlt3CMwIATDSm3AdNwJvsUkOYU0WBxGvnLD6tDZ6076vdxe7BSVhtRaxQ_u47F5eVL1nKIZ038NdDCSiZhQw29PsPdXqx9dNEd5UuLAZB5OyAuy38Ue65T_YvI6ArqmhMR0-VEamgHg=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9ymivskRxmp3kb4Sd34PWZ3uO1x6GeF72RYxwIWBnowhRoKVWlt3CMwIATDSm3AdNwJvsUkOYU0WBxGvnLD6tDZ6076vdxe7BSVhtRaxQ_u47F5eVL1nKIZ038NdDCSiZhQw29PsPdXqx9dNEd5UuLAZB5OyAuy38Ue65T_YvI6ArqmhMR0-VEamgHg=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next notable date is 1929 when due to the lack of good quality coal being found, coal mining ceased, but with there being profitable seams of clay above the coal measures brickmaking continued. Many changes to the structure of Ibstock & the acquisition of other brick companies over the years has resulted in Ibstock plc today being a market leader in the production of bricks.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYN_VOFPjdooGKPsSloMv2SZW1q7j64XTGptsoSlxJRmRzaZirvFW4dQElXwcb7oTYcNued8BX60N_k3N5Yk2OkW65CAJSLXSSCQ7R_7Bv4LCNFDt-c4af1hWrQM2dcvw4CPndFh-CT81smRvcchlqdg9Ys60b9ICAa7AwEW4096h3SNC-07PKMJ7DpA=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="509" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYN_VOFPjdooGKPsSloMv2SZW1q7j64XTGptsoSlxJRmRzaZirvFW4dQElXwcb7oTYcNued8BX60N_k3N5Yk2OkW65CAJSLXSSCQ7R_7Bv4LCNFDt-c4af1hWrQM2dcvw4CPndFh-CT81smRvcchlqdg9Ys60b9ICAa7AwEW4096h3SNC-07PKMJ7DpA=w408-h640" width="408" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1939 advert.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRLv2R4c9uyTPEpagPLpP3fqAMigQRKX8GWyt8PaG8KyUZSGxsjjETFXO1iZofnOAt3ICq7VDqroAtmzTF1baQ6GicGu2KmYEAWz4AwTaVzXQQvfSSU8Vwz0jBjTzGrrlhHOtsL8TLXaBsMaB9Ng0kEWpjqCaNlMUgNZ2Wi9bXRn5v1G71ToKLDgThaA=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRLv2R4c9uyTPEpagPLpP3fqAMigQRKX8GWyt8PaG8KyUZSGxsjjETFXO1iZofnOAt3ICq7VDqroAtmzTF1baQ6GicGu2KmYEAWz4AwTaVzXQQvfSSU8Vwz0jBjTzGrrlhHOtsL8TLXaBsMaB9Ng0kEWpjqCaNlMUgNZ2Wi9bXRn5v1G71ToKLDgThaA=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This Ibstock clock brick is on display at Apedale Mining Museum, Stoke.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi47X0HRF0FCoLHVZoG3TPvQIAHmj1zsspnS96sYsa1v2fdZv3lys9jSHtscOB3ESQE2cLIMAOj8qeEPENMBTA9X688nFCN5xn2YzGXID39qLNzB3JJRYAjBXwm3jpMEorpYlhT68oBvDYTbnJeshtD6a0Nf9_av378IzFDKcuvrBzWuc6U_Ah77Jzw_A/s640/Ibstock%20c1982%20by%20David%20Fox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="640" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi47X0HRF0FCoLHVZoG3TPvQIAHmj1zsspnS96sYsa1v2fdZv3lys9jSHtscOB3ESQE2cLIMAOj8qeEPENMBTA9X688nFCN5xn2YzGXID39qLNzB3JJRYAjBXwm3jpMEorpYlhT68oBvDYTbnJeshtD6a0Nf9_av378IzFDKcuvrBzWuc6U_Ah77Jzw_A/w640-h346/Ibstock%20c1982%20by%20David%20Fox.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo by David Fox.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With David Fox requesting info on who made this i brick on Bricks & Brickworks Past in February 2023, Rod McInnes provided the answer of it being made by Ibstock with this logo being used in the company's newspaper, dated February 1982. Then I found a Ibstock Roughdales advert in the Liverpool Echo dated 4th November 1982. Then finally Mike Chapman supplied this Ibstock letterhead & the information that Ibstock PLC used this logo until they were taken over by CHR in 1998 & more than likely this brick will have been made at the Roughdales Works, with that works still having one pressed-brick product line, with the rest being wire-cut production lines. Therefore I think we can date these i bricks as being made between 1982 & 1998. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DxGhh5fw2A2R2hzgEYUaZgNDbRpd5sscUpud0VE-G85VS0t3NmgJrv_3CfOLKZRCR32CI4pP5ehpHfIVCELkr3ejZjAy-PF03yIa_XoiIpFqrDre2PZG6lN_dljTmKvQBamXpkOe9BDc2cjS7oSdLNS2Ad9r7Y9wRFAsNyY36gvfj7aKeVN41aGP1g/s1270/Ibstock%20News%201982.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1270" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4DxGhh5fw2A2R2hzgEYUaZgNDbRpd5sscUpud0VE-G85VS0t3NmgJrv_3CfOLKZRCR32CI4pP5ehpHfIVCELkr3ejZjAy-PF03yIa_XoiIpFqrDre2PZG6lN_dljTmKvQBamXpkOe9BDc2cjS7oSdLNS2Ad9r7Y9wRFAsNyY36gvfj7aKeVN41aGP1g/w400-h217/Ibstock%20News%201982.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Courtesy of Rod McInnes.</i></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUheySHkilwHu3x3dQLGact7JKjl72FR8cI-95mMHPCib-koewBSfvOWr3bWSKDYwYcriT2fbk92vBxx0EY6IGxJju2QauQlnIx1EyJnnTkYcFNQw2lFPFKLF3TwHkdqNf2FeKOY5Ki2TaoudCmIcERZ_565Q8fXCLWGvjcYW6pwHO5Oj0PQ6bNpGRhA/s640/Ibstock%20Roughdales.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="640" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUheySHkilwHu3x3dQLGact7JKjl72FR8cI-95mMHPCib-koewBSfvOWr3bWSKDYwYcriT2fbk92vBxx0EY6IGxJju2QauQlnIx1EyJnnTkYcFNQw2lFPFKLF3TwHkdqNf2FeKOY5Ki2TaoudCmIcERZ_565Q8fXCLWGvjcYW6pwHO5Oj0PQ6bNpGRhA/w400-h243/Ibstock%20Roughdales.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGb5u1-ho2AOv2B7NHzE4gtDLztWtBH8ZZquryr9yuEEVJmNjyCNrGpKplNNWpJ0Gczlk1dOW-iwaY18M-DlMWgNKqvEBKNEpVw-Dgdf0npPWGyaLJwf4xCAuWIzbD8xiJ9tGQYee0kRcTQPYH-3idcaP1J4y_tC5S0TvPKl5e15t2XNIXMuIJBBONTg/s800/Ibstock%20Letterhead%201995%20Mike%20Chapman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="800" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGb5u1-ho2AOv2B7NHzE4gtDLztWtBH8ZZquryr9yuEEVJmNjyCNrGpKplNNWpJ0Gczlk1dOW-iwaY18M-DlMWgNKqvEBKNEpVw-Dgdf0npPWGyaLJwf4xCAuWIzbD8xiJ9tGQYee0kRcTQPYH-3idcaP1J4y_tC5S0TvPKl5e15t2XNIXMuIJBBONTg/w400-h210/Ibstock%20Letterhead%201995%20Mike%20Chapman.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Courtesy of Mike Chapman.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">South Leicestershire Colliery Co.</span></u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR4CFBsJQlXHh8x_ly7pd6mecoErw01aOAVwYduS_LXKMyU7ppRoxfGogm4kTZvZn5ok7fMB6kj37sWXBpsLwc-jJyQyCFk8Hk3jkifnI_1uZwi7qpvKhp5xspfC82ZzLN0SaL9EkAeEcnH0XjAY5oE04Hsm2nsKJSgQKOquWpEDrcJs3GGrCr-C2W9Q=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR4CFBsJQlXHh8x_ly7pd6mecoErw01aOAVwYduS_LXKMyU7ppRoxfGogm4kTZvZn5ok7fMB6kj37sWXBpsLwc-jJyQyCFk8Hk3jkifnI_1uZwi7qpvKhp5xspfC82ZzLN0SaL9EkAeEcnH0XjAY5oE04Hsm2nsKJSgQKOquWpEDrcJs3GGrCr-C2W9Q=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">South Leicestershire Colliery, Hugglescote was sunk in 1876 & White's 1877 edition records George Lewis as manager & engineer of this colliery, so I am assuming it was Lewis who oversaw the sinking of the pit. As previously wrote William Towndrow Stenson was also involved in this colliery with White's 1877 edition recording him as a director of the South Leicestershire Colliery Company & also as a director of the Whitwick Colliery Company. Mining engineer William T. Stenson had been the Manager of Whitwick Colliery & it's brickworks between 1860 & 1873. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The first reference to a brickworks at </span><span style="font-family: arial;">South Leicestershire Colliery is the 1881 OS map, but I think I can safely say the brickworks was established around 1876 to provide the bricks needed for the lining of the pit shafts & roadways. Kelly's 1891 edition is the first directory recording a brickworks at the colliery & John Puxley White is listed as chairman & managing director, Wiliam Mellings as certified works manager & William Hurst as secretary. Kelly's 1899 edition lists William Eames as the certified manager along with White & Hurst. We then find Kelly's 1908 edition just lists William Hurst as Manager & Secretary. Then Kelly's 1925 to 1941 lists the Leicestershire Colliery Co. Ltd. as producing hard common bricks with the addition of agricultural drain pipes in the 1936 edition. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3EQmLn87QteB_KJg-wma8VV9iCQ5YxocZpSz_zQ42Rj8n3LSvmubl4imDUN2ci0FtF-USMnvMtDR6nvAkYG4I6C0bvDl3R4EvF9-RijpvU6uiYx7qkyTWDduxUHCws29blG3hACT4XzRL0JdVM-dBnWncgBW7x2C3iv6g1-yB9G6SsSxcYjNmVwAoDQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3EQmLn87QteB_KJg-wma8VV9iCQ5YxocZpSz_zQ42Rj8n3LSvmubl4imDUN2ci0FtF-USMnvMtDR6nvAkYG4I6C0bvDl3R4EvF9-RijpvU6uiYx7qkyTWDduxUHCws29blG3hACT4XzRL0JdVM-dBnWncgBW7x2C3iv6g1-yB9G6SsSxcYjNmVwAoDQ=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With this brick being stamped G. Tucker, Agent, it begs the question if this is the same Gilbert Tucker who was a brickmaker in Loughborough in the late 1800's. The reference to Agent in mining terms usually refers to the person who is in-charge of the colliery on behalf of the directors & who employs managers & under-managers to actually run the day to day operations, so this G. Tucker is more than likely another man all together. </span></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The colliery & brickworks were Nationalised in 1947 & a NCB brick is shown below. The colliery closed in 1986, but it is unknown in which year the brickworks closed. The last reference to the brickworks that I have found comes from a railway signalling website which records rail traffic to the colliery & brickworks ceased in 1964.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0t3OPG3sELtIF34_BHWZC1stTw5k4htFr3-Ajjr0PiiP9TORk1_tLDgUZJFuVUmsTzkUA6yyA4ABofxVJNpOZggFqSXzyig0VMPFojWwg7Whp6WfdbuUTm0HVixTFeIuePJMTC8mhhd7wNnALjIzn6IpvZzcnHSbcP84WeYHPUFYnFMGJm0imRRqYzA=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="640" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0t3OPG3sELtIF34_BHWZC1stTw5k4htFr3-Ajjr0PiiP9TORk1_tLDgUZJFuVUmsTzkUA6yyA4ABofxVJNpOZggFqSXzyig0VMPFojWwg7Whp6WfdbuUTm0HVixTFeIuePJMTC8mhhd7wNnALjIzn6IpvZzcnHSbcP84WeYHPUFYnFMGJm0imRRqYzA=w640-h362" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photo by Darren Haywood.</span></i></div></span></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">John William Stableford, Coalville</span></u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8d4HLM6GyPI-qRAp2BcBgFZS5UoxSkvmzyVLnHy6bBTvj_MZGgGCnbsQUD4sgrruzDgL6okGIiszc2mgGOlJ-gUg10IMMCUVTGeNv4bPTh5QesPTe4STbH7ooeua8jn8SESTE89yzDRUWZFDylCse0Wz0gjshRtmZvkzqEmGWgEQQZaGFyqoNlIsP2w=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8d4HLM6GyPI-qRAp2BcBgFZS5UoxSkvmzyVLnHy6bBTvj_MZGgGCnbsQUD4sgrruzDgL6okGIiszc2mgGOlJ-gUg10IMMCUVTGeNv4bPTh5QesPTe4STbH7ooeua8jn8SESTE89yzDRUWZFDylCse0Wz0gjshRtmZvkzqEmGWgEQQZaGFyqoNlIsP2w=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John William Stableford was foremost a railway carriage & wagon builder on Mantle Lane in Coalville which he established in 1865. The 1871 census records him as a railway wagon builder & brickmaker, employing 62 men & 30 boys. His brickworks was situated just off High Street in Coalville & I have coloured his works blue on the 1881 OS map below. Stableford was also a brass & iron founder & later a timber merchant. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">John William Stableford is listed as a brick manufacturer in White's 1877 edition through to Kelly's 1899 edition.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWvM8MSJtbzdglU-RRMXflZc2mHGTJ4UIVmjlgsIVJXb0Y9P9yyFdyyNM6FjSGA_nGBM1CDreVdVZUSaVBEExE9tYadNXZ5tWvpjIg2N5cmmy3k1Lb3QlfUtBpNxrIPt5jouax7z0qzYhYtQkszfo6qGxAThcMQJMxnoftaHPaXJC2RPVliBs4ykTuRQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWvM8MSJtbzdglU-RRMXflZc2mHGTJ4UIVmjlgsIVJXb0Y9P9yyFdyyNM6FjSGA_nGBM1CDreVdVZUSaVBEExE9tYadNXZ5tWvpjIg2N5cmmy3k1Lb3QlfUtBpNxrIPt5jouax7z0qzYhYtQkszfo6qGxAThcMQJMxnoftaHPaXJC2RPVliBs4ykTuRQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1881.</i></b></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 1881 census still records John William Stableford as Railway Wagon Builder, but I have found his uncle William Stableford, also a railway wagon builder in Oldbury had purchased his business in 1879 & then ran the Mantle Lane works as Stableford & Co. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 1891 census now records John William Stableford as a colliery owner & employer, but it is unknown which colliery he owned. As wrote the last entry for John as a brick maker is Kelly's 1899 edition. The 1901 census now records John W. Stableford as a timber merchant & the 1900 OS map below still shows brick kilns at his works, but I am assuming by 1901 John had closed down the brickworks & with the words saw mills being added to the map, I am taking it John had converted the brickworks to a saw mill. The 1911 census still records him as a timber merchant aged 71. </span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8pqB6WaELN17BmlQH67YctMm4BwMGaNinAXodHfQhjWkodQY0GWRqSWmzIucX-Kbk7-nqjlk5HqC7ABC3cF1RsAcOf9wTpQ2NmLQq3GfJNL4yQiAe-yY0z4oYcbCuKsiZnEypyzwnae7F9zh1E-kTVvUUSSI6dg7ZBQ_jAOcRkM_3-o0BPjWw5EMlfg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8pqB6WaELN17BmlQH67YctMm4BwMGaNinAXodHfQhjWkodQY0GWRqSWmzIucX-Kbk7-nqjlk5HqC7ABC3cF1RsAcOf9wTpQ2NmLQq3GfJNL4yQiAe-yY0z4oYcbCuKsiZnEypyzwnae7F9zh1E-kTVvUUSSI6dg7ZBQ_jAOcRkM_3-o0BPjWw5EMlfg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of footnotes, first, John William's son William was also a brickmaker & he is listed in Kelly's 1899 to 1908 editions as operating a brickworks in Shepshed. Bricks stamped William Stableford, Shepshed have still to turn up. Second, found that Thomas Porter Stableford & his son John Thomas Stableford, both brickmakers in Chellaston, Derby were also related to this Stableford family with Thomas Porter Stableford being John William's uncle.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">J. Hewes, Coalville</span></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Scotland Brick & Tile Co.</span></u></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The first reference found to Hewes is Kelly's 1895 edition & it lists J. Hewes as brickmaking on London Road in Coalville & I coloured his yard purple on the 1881 OS map below. It is unknown if J. Hewes was at this works in 1881. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga0SW3aGBOI2aavR7MMDie0fnvx27HBRJhrTzMxyoDZ_I654UsXr-7dgW2atSUfzY7pj6jOddgwvA1GN_iNIZTmOipLuXvz8uKKg6AEzgUy6r8VxTYxD6lDzS259AuuIFIeFid5HajkWFugSSysUgSbSJXAztEL_SODCM0XRFznSt2aEYAoZANt026Pw=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEga0SW3aGBOI2aavR7MMDie0fnvx27HBRJhrTzMxyoDZ_I654UsXr-7dgW2atSUfzY7pj6jOddgwvA1GN_iNIZTmOipLuXvz8uKKg6AEzgUy6r8VxTYxD6lDzS259AuuIFIeFid5HajkWFugSSysUgSbSJXAztEL_SODCM0XRFznSt2aEYAoZANt026Pw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1881.</i></b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I next found that this brickworks was actually owned by the Hewes Brothers & a Notice in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27024/page/6885/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated the 18th of November 1898 records that Thomas Hewes was leaving this partnership by mutual consent & the business of Hewes Brothers, Builders & Brickmakers in Coalville would then be run by John Hewes & George Harry Hewes alone. Kelly's 1899 edition now lists John & George Harry Hewes, London Road, Coalville, however this is the last entry for the brothers as we find another London Gazette Notice dated 29th of June 1907 records the brothers were attending the courts to sort out their debts. They were discharged from their debts in January 1910 as they were unable to pay. I am taking it their brickworks closed in June 1907 because in Kelly's 1908 edition we find a new company called Scotlands Brick & Tile Co. was running this London Road brickworks. With the 1900 OS map below showing Scotlands Farm nearby, I am assuming that is were the company took it's name from. The Scotland Brick & Tile Co. are next listed in Kelly's 1912 edition, but it is also the last. So far, bricks stamped Hewes or Scotland Brick & Tile Co. have yet to be found. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIuuOF8PdZQIBM3KbE55_kOOrkRNYlLJthZfaU9m6r2Jp_oC4J_jUCpa93U4AzFG1CV1JBUjoN06XwVCje5HuMDdTccdxE0THF_cvUvRhcwCLZ2MMBxyH5diGY7RyhnfNf9vb9g-OuOhzkHn_i0SYbPDW6IVGzDglqbzbf75F_t0XWyk7snKdh-uMiQg=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIuuOF8PdZQIBM3KbE55_kOOrkRNYlLJthZfaU9m6r2Jp_oC4J_jUCpa93U4AzFG1CV1JBUjoN06XwVCje5HuMDdTccdxE0THF_cvUvRhcwCLZ2MMBxyH5diGY7RyhnfNf9vb9g-OuOhzkHn_i0SYbPDW6IVGzDglqbzbf75F_t0XWyk7snKdh-uMiQg=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1901.</i></b></span></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co.</span></u></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It appears the Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co. with their Head Office in Coalville was established in the early 1870's. A February 1873 advert in the Leicester Daily Post reports the company was in the process of erecting extensive works at Coalville & at Polesworth near Tamworth to produce their celebrated Glypto-Terra-Cotta, Metallic Tiles & Sewage Pipes. This advert also records George Smith was Managing Director of the company which had a capital of £30,000 in 3,000 shares at £10 each, all of which had been allotted. Now Smith had been the Manager of Whitwick Colliery's brickworks up to 1873 & it was through a disagreement with the owners of Whitwick Colliery over his involvement in campaigning against the Canal companies to provide better conditions for their child labour, that Smith was asked to either concentrate on his job or leave & he chose the later. So by February 1873 we know he was working for the Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co. & it appears he had invested his own money in this company with him being made Managing Director. Now a </span><a href="http://www.crick.org.uk/smith.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">web article</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> records that Smith had signed an agreement that when the works were up & running, the Company could then make him redundant & this happened two years later. Whether Smith had read the small print or not is open to speculation as we find in an article in the Leicester Daily Mercury dated 19th of October 1875, that Smith was taking the Company to Court & claiming £5,000 pounds for wrongful dismissal. This figure may have been the amount that he had invested in the Company in 1873. Now this report goes on to say that there would be another meeting a week later, but I have been unable to find another newspaper article reporting on it's outcome. However the early web article says Smith after working for two years fell on hard times & was destitute, so I can only assume Smith did not win his case. Don't worry Smith did later find his feet & carried on to win improvements in the conditions for the children working on the canals.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So with the Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co. operating works at Coalville & Polesworth as listed in Kelly's Leicestershire 1876 edition, this directory also records the company had added a third works at Market Bosworth. Below are three maps of the three works plus bricks made at two of them. A Market Bosworth brick has still to turn up. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHWjDyFQLJSPkPQE6tO0St4T0nP03J5GAsbGd6hBD4rXVOZA0w5fpEzr5BLZtAiORCmS1WjB4RTY9FcrU0v_9YPbZFd0MgBep_YviCizya33k93i33AIisqwxxMO0uv8oKcSBI9919leIqwF_hWUrBV9aiVo6NbHJ3CU_r4GUER433BzSprSaUep0g-w=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHWjDyFQLJSPkPQE6tO0St4T0nP03J5GAsbGd6hBD4rXVOZA0w5fpEzr5BLZtAiORCmS1WjB4RTY9FcrU0v_9YPbZFd0MgBep_YviCizya33k93i33AIisqwxxMO0uv8oKcSBI9919leIqwF_hWUrBV9aiVo6NbHJ3CU_r4GUER433BzSprSaUep0g-w=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1884.</i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Polesworth works, the town is just to the right.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZAyDR_M2aYcyDDKhhjJYdhYuHXACEh1Fub43lHv8Ij7mhyLePZAcffqGGFaCowz3eDVfqnRdY_FP-V1gsl5cZA6Lgk34fwLteOmZzw_1xt8o5N02WTfwGLCt0D-nWZvvdl_Kw2ZAM9uzKUUWSWcoJkR__FWYkvNRKkb75b1R-ZchqSMh3sLmMFCtQVQ=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZAyDR_M2aYcyDDKhhjJYdhYuHXACEh1Fub43lHv8Ij7mhyLePZAcffqGGFaCowz3eDVfqnRdY_FP-V1gsl5cZA6Lgk34fwLteOmZzw_1xt8o5N02WTfwGLCt0D-nWZvvdl_Kw2ZAM9uzKUUWSWcoJkR__FWYkvNRKkb75b1R-ZchqSMh3sLmMFCtQVQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1881.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Coalville works.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq6aQddUzq_zhn5cy-rl_3zRBBzhdwj_Vc_SiAwkCVK0CNWyZgjXdVIwlSWycwSGqn9o2WyljLhmlja7uSpc0iA-9VANj61b7x54V7xZKcAtmnMS5n7EneQ-9ZrC4XL-cmadUjjkxniNsCs14VP9g9yiBQqc4gYotlqI_-nx4eBDkCY_qoI6Bofn6xtA=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq6aQddUzq_zhn5cy-rl_3zRBBzhdwj_Vc_SiAwkCVK0CNWyZgjXdVIwlSWycwSGqn9o2WyljLhmlja7uSpc0iA-9VANj61b7x54V7xZKcAtmnMS5n7EneQ-9ZrC4XL-cmadUjjkxniNsCs14VP9g9yiBQqc4gYotlqI_-nx4eBDkCY_qoI6Bofn6xtA=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1885.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Market Bosworth works.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_eAxkpLjBNVz6z74Flgod7xLuqqHR2S0QRDPtDaSlztSz_x8qYBRe6vmEpw5OSVDOWpK6yGZA7MLkdWzGaCkqCYpTc6TFEYB2sfKhr04j8xZTjNh-Sert16c-UgruTvrqS7FvGvJH2y-a48Gy7ncJPhTGEmarxH5ZzMX7JelreBRa66HVPVTrTq65RQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_eAxkpLjBNVz6z74Flgod7xLuqqHR2S0QRDPtDaSlztSz_x8qYBRe6vmEpw5OSVDOWpK6yGZA7MLkdWzGaCkqCYpTc6TFEYB2sfKhr04j8xZTjNh-Sert16c-UgruTvrqS7FvGvJH2y-a48Gy7ncJPhTGEmarxH5ZzMX7JelreBRa66HVPVTrTq65RQ=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhP2SGf7W7r1pKnQDLGmlyGvS6w7rlSlTKa2VzWm7WFh_ob4dEGp9LlaXkgTQGNoAV1DwvFaF5vu0X6HeRNwlPnvbkbvVIjsKEecA-jFEyYlBjkEAiaAA3X09ZSTXUiar7di8Hx4OEF-YG1x83d-0RvBHj6qUukEt3NKmKwYLk4z7ABGi_OAiU5_LvMoQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhP2SGf7W7r1pKnQDLGmlyGvS6w7rlSlTKa2VzWm7WFh_ob4dEGp9LlaXkgTQGNoAV1DwvFaF5vu0X6HeRNwlPnvbkbvVIjsKEecA-jFEyYlBjkEAiaAA3X09ZSTXUiar7di8Hx4OEF-YG1x83d-0RvBHj6qUukEt3NKmKwYLk4z7ABGi_OAiU5_LvMoQ=w640-h428" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's 1881 Leicestershire edition again records the company with three brick/pipe works. Kelly's 1884 Worcestershire edition lists the Polesworth works, however this is the last trade directory entry for this works as it is not listed in the 1888 edition. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is unknown what happened to the Polesworth works, however the 1900 OS map only records this site as being a pipe works.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Then a September 1887 notice in the Hinckley News reports the Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co. were auctioning all stock at it's Market Bosworth works, so I am assuming this brickworks was closing especially with Kelly's 1891 to 1912 editions only recording the company as operating the Coalville Works. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1895 edition reveals that the Market Bosworth works had been taken over by Hextall & Sons who were operating it as the Market Bosworth Brick & Tile Co.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wright's 1894 edition lists the Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co. at Coalville with John Roberts as Managing Director & James Leech as foreman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27071/page/2406/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 14th of April 1899 records that on the 7th of April the company was being restructured, after which the old company would be liquidated by secretary James Hewitt & a new company called THE Midland Brick & Terra Cotta Co. Ltd. would then be registered by James Hewitt to carry on the same business. My only thoughts on this restructure was a change of directors, but this article mentions no directors names. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With Kelly's 1912 edition being the last entry for Midland's Coalville works, I can only assume the company had ceased trading by the start of WW1.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(166, 77, 121); color: #a64d79; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Coalville Brick Co.</span></u></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLRKCJ5LtGspUQJS4mxXGlJyBkipvm3Ltj8xwLU7mZ9EsDjI_uToFP1WuGMhB2-4laGSKu7lAYVtFmYMGyBOLGiLFUynJgIEEbOhBFSuX78bPZ0gveabUqrBeJfuMs9jUfjbQDIEwVh-omYrjVcbBDxH5HHJBvLggBqflx0Af8dlbPfskl2kYyd5wk1Q=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLRKCJ5LtGspUQJS4mxXGlJyBkipvm3Ltj8xwLU7mZ9EsDjI_uToFP1WuGMhB2-4laGSKu7lAYVtFmYMGyBOLGiLFUynJgIEEbOhBFSuX78bPZ0gveabUqrBeJfuMs9jUfjbQDIEwVh-omYrjVcbBDxH5HHJBvLggBqflx0Af8dlbPfskl2kYyd5wk1Q=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: purple; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1938.</i></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">From information received from Coalville Library, the Coalville Brick Co. was established by eight local businessmen in 1927 & these were D. Sitdown, Fish, Game & Poultry Dealer; C.H. March, Plumber, Painter & Decorator; A.B. Moss, Builder; T. Robinson, Milliner & Brickyard Manager; J.G. Lidwell, Builder; C.K. Deeming, Cinema Proprietor; G.S. Taylor, Builders Merchant & C.E. Crane, Solicitor. However a May 1926 newspaper article reveals the Coalvile Brick Co. had recently been formed to exploit the rich & extensive bed of red clay which had been discovered behind All Saints School on land owned by Mr. Dan Sitdown. Trial holes revealed the clay was 40 to 50 feet deep over the 26 acres site. Plans were then drawn up & permission was granted to erect the works. With the works being next to the London Midland & Scottish railway line plans were to be made to the railway company to provide a railway siding. </span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">The Nottingham Journal dated 15th of September 1927 reports the building of a new brickworks at Coalville owned by the newly formed Coalville Brick Co. was progressing satisfactorily & would start brick making in three weeks time. Then the Birmingham Gazette dated 15th of September 1928 reports with the proposed building of a Co-operative bakery at Coalville which required one & half million bricks the Coalville Brick Co. who had won the contract to supply the bricks was to then build two more kilns & another drying shed to meet this & other orders. The bakery was to be built two fields from this brickworks.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kao9zkP91qlsmOGuTmhSQhRib42i_MNFa6fw8JcoLJaXCdr2Xht30w_Ao6d9rfSWJV4vatYAYl0aRck66C_vIMck8jqfmxD7GUeQmncNTdRNmAdiCFI2lmJ-5M7_Qh9lxHk6tpH_gK-n1dmtl_FTpENnLwiwEI6YuOPDvne7lpYKsbAXhtYEnmbSAVZj/s640/IMG_1978.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3kao9zkP91qlsmOGuTmhSQhRib42i_MNFa6fw8JcoLJaXCdr2Xht30w_Ao6d9rfSWJV4vatYAYl0aRck66C_vIMck8jqfmxD7GUeQmncNTdRNmAdiCFI2lmJ-5M7_Qh9lxHk6tpH_gK-n1dmtl_FTpENnLwiwEI6YuOPDvne7lpYKsbAXhtYEnmbSAVZj/w640-h429/IMG_1978.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">This hand made Coalville brick turned up at Cawarden in October 2023.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">I then found Kelly's 1931, 36 & 41 editions lists the Coalville Brick Co. Ltd. (grey & red facing brick) on Ashby Road, Coalville. I have coloured this works green & Ashby Road red on the 1938 OS map above. Built next to the Burton to Ashby railway line this works had it's own railway siding & a site plan in Dennis Baker's book shows the coal storage area was next to this siding. Next to the coal area was the boiler house, engine house & two chimneys. This plan also shows there were five down-draught circular kilns, a drying shed & stockyard. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">A Leicester Evening Mail article dated 7th of February 1938 tells you that the company's Portland Grey Facing bricks were used to build the newly opened Rex Cinema in Coalville.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> A search on the web has revealed Charles K. Deeming was the Managing Director of Coalville Theatres Ltd. owners of the Rex, Grand & Regal Cinemas in Coalville plus the Empire in Loughborough, so there's a good chance CB Co's bricks may have been used in the construction or alterations to these other cinemas as well. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">The 1943 Ministry of Defence Directory records that this brickworks was not in production & was under their care & maintenance, so more than likely as with other brickworks during this period of time, armaments were being stored at the works. An April 1946 article in the Leicester Evening Mail reports after six years production at the brickworks was to restart & the hope was in a short time to produce 20,000 bricks per day. Managing Director, Mr. G. Taylor said with men coming back from the forces he was able to re-engage them & the plan was to concentrate on making facing bricks.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: arial;">In September 1970 the works was converted from coal to butane gas to power their downdraught kilns which improved air quality at the works & which also met the requirements of the Government's Clean Air Act. It also improved the quality of bricks by burning them for less time. Mr. Ken Nicholls, General Manager of the brickworks said a previous kiln firing burnt 30 tons of coal against the new use of 9 tons of butane with an increase of 40% of thermal efficiency.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It appears from a newspaper article that by August 1972 Proctor & Lavender Ltd. had taken over the running of the Coalville Brick Co., another company who only manufactured hand-made bricks. In this article P & L's Managing Director Mr. Jack P. Clift was commenting on securing several contracts to supply one million hand-made bricks from their three works, Shepshed, Coalville & Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. If this take over date of the Coalville works surfaces I will update the post.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">In late 1973 Proctor & Lavender decided to restructure their company & in this move the companies three brickworks came under the control Jack Clift who had been P & L's Chairman & Managing Director up to that date. How financially this split took place is unknown. Clift's Charnwood Holdings Ltd. now operated the Coalville Brick Co., the Charnwood Brick & Tile Co. in Shepshed & the Coleford Brick & Tile Co. in Gloucestershire. Proctor & Lavender after this split proceeded to be Brick Factors only.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Leicester Daily Mercury in it's 5th of December 1974 edition reports Charnwood Holdings Ltd. director John Clift (son of Jack Clift now retired) revealed the uncertainties of the hand-made brick market & how the company had to half it's workforce in the last few months to survive & there were thoughts that one of their plants may have to close. There are 14 workers at the Shepshed works & 13 at the Coalville works. This was certainly a different story now to when the company was enjoying the pleasures of receiving orders for one million bricks two years earlier. John goes on to say "Business is diabolical due to general economic conditions & the budget didn't help. We make a high-class hand made facing brick which costs about two-thirds more than those made by machine."</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Leicester Daily Mercury reported on the 19th of September 1975 that Coalville's last brickworks run by the Coalville Brick Co. was to cease production & then to close in early November with the loss of 12 jobs. Twelve months earlier the company had a workforce of 50. Company director Ken Nicholls said, the closure of the works is mainly due to the cut back in public expenditure & with local authorities scaling back their building programs. The company had plenty of stock to fulfil existing contracts. I note that Ken Nicholls had been the General Manager at the Coalville Brick Co. in 1970, so had seen all the highs & lows of the company & the changes in ownership. I have a brick friend who knew John Clift, but sadly John has passed away & answers to some of my questions I am sure John would have been able to answer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another bit of information received from the library records there were ten kins in total with the last two kilns, numbers nine & ten being photographed as still standing in 1990 by Marilyn Palmer. This grainy black & white photograph shows that there were bushes growing on the roofs, so I am assuming these will have been buddleia or birch as they can establish themselves in any nook or cranny in a derelict building which has been neglected over a long period of time.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Many Thanks to -</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">John Martin, Coalville Library</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Dennis Gamble - photo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Darren Haywood - photo</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mike Chapman</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Paul & Cynthia - adverts</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mark Cranston</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">NLS/Ordnance Survey - maps</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Kelly's & White's Directories</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">London Gazette</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-46143674163008810822021-06-04T15:37:00.011+01:002022-03-04T16:01:09.700+00:00The Hathern Station Brick & Terra Cotta Co. - works - Hathern Station near Loughborough & Cliff near Tamworth<p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Hathern Station Brick Company near Loughborough, Leics. was established in 1874 by George Hodson & James F. Hodson. The first trade directory listing for the company appears in Kelly's 1876 edition. The brickworks was actually situated next to Hathern Railway Station on the edge of Sutton Bonington village & I have coloured the works yellow on the 1882 OS map below. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-fu-gTiG6c/YLnxJ3vEyHI/AAAAAAAAL00/emlItfijQzcLlvmmWd3b2TjuXfUvyju_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Hathern%2BBWs%2BOs%2B1882.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-fu-gTiG6c/YLnxJ3vEyHI/AAAAAAAAL00/emlItfijQzcLlvmmWd3b2TjuXfUvyju_gCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Hathern%2BBWs%2BOs%2B1882.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><i style="caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: Times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1882.</i></div></i><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vsUZP17IH3w/YLnxlId5nXI/AAAAAAAAL08/5MIZ5YsEX1UMtMaFbAtttHP9IdSwGdQ-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Hathern%2BStation%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BKellys%2B1876.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="800" height="164" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vsUZP17IH3w/YLnxlId5nXI/AAAAAAAAL08/5MIZ5YsEX1UMtMaFbAtttHP9IdSwGdQ-ACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h164/Hathern%2BStation%2BBrick%2BCo.%2BKellys%2B1876.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Kelly's 1876 edition.</i></div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l1gLCi7kOGs/YLoCVWIq4aI/AAAAAAAAL1M/pKpO3KnaRYkPINW5M6sxfatzbsQUhwf8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_4719.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l1gLCi7kOGs/YLoCVWIq4aI/AAAAAAAAL1M/pKpO3KnaRYkPINW5M6sxfatzbsQUhwf8ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h429/IMG_4719.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFP1zEbGSu0/YMeoTsantTI/AAAAAAAAL7k/VqXMFOU9sV4uOtZFkbIwncBcy4tHreEzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5951.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFP1zEbGSu0/YMeoTsantTI/AAAAAAAAL7k/VqXMFOU9sV4uOtZFkbIwncBcy4tHreEzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_5951.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6ga2Hi5U-w/YLz9kap-BSI/AAAAAAAAL24/QEv6DjwIqUgbd99PgV3H1MNGoJd4D-dQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Hathern%2BKellys%2B1881.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="800" height="305" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a6ga2Hi5U-w/YLz9kap-BSI/AAAAAAAAL24/QEv6DjwIqUgbd99PgV3H1MNGoJd4D-dQgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h305/Hathern%2BKellys%2B1881.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Kelly's 1881 edition.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">An article in the December 1896 edition of the British Clayworker magazine reports The Hathern Station Brick & Terra-cotta Company Limited had been formed to raise capital of £40,000 pounds in £10 pound shares to acquire the business owned by G. Hodson at Sutton Bonington, Notts & at Cliff near Tamworth, Warwick & to then carry on the business as brick, tile, pipe & terra-cotta manufacturers. This new Company was incorporated in 1902 & the first trade directory entry listing this new company is in Kelly's 1904 edition. This business flourished & 'Hathernware' & glazed faience wares were exported worldwide during the first three decades of the twentieth century with many cinemas being faced and decorated with the products from this works. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">December 1907 advert.</span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cheMDyIG0i8/YLnmvVoj5gI/AAAAAAAAL0g/LAbei5YoYEY98QkSS-ckweIvp4oAVg04QCPcBGAsYHg/s800/Im19071225BJ-Hathern.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="800" height="438" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cheMDyIG0i8/YLnmvVoj5gI/AAAAAAAAL0g/LAbei5YoYEY98QkSS-ckweIvp4oAVg04QCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h438/Im19071225BJ-Hathern.jpg" width="640" /></a><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hathern_Station_Brick_and_Terra_Cotta_Co.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">1911 advert.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXF9PDml54bAfcvtcEpdO9LHqiTXAjYXkIpEHmtFxe9Nx_OYOsDYHOsL9Sc3z9gPFPQ9Cqg_SOltjSCgQUSWtFa9kzfCLE-RVmzryWZDbQZl-y9vbdWYbe4aoxfPrexsQTkcLhUXvbqHLiElv2VLuxnF_GrYRcl33OC9L8i4UvP7licDMyqTwnEsewtg=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="575" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXF9PDml54bAfcvtcEpdO9LHqiTXAjYXkIpEHmtFxe9Nx_OYOsDYHOsL9Sc3z9gPFPQ9Cqg_SOltjSCgQUSWtFa9kzfCLE-RVmzryWZDbQZl-y9vbdWYbe4aoxfPrexsQTkcLhUXvbqHLiElv2VLuxnF_GrYRcl33OC9L8i4UvP7licDMyqTwnEsewtg=w461-h640" width="461" /></a></div><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Architects Compendium 1911.</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJS76tIH65s/YLn5_iz-jnI/AAAAAAAAL1E/hGqxiJqUi68y0aW-I_RvoonGVJSes_iPACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Hathern%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1919.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OJS76tIH65s/YLn5_iz-jnI/AAAAAAAAL1E/hGqxiJqUi68y0aW-I_RvoonGVJSes_iPACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Hathern%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1919.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: Times;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1919.</i></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">This 1919 OS map shows the brickworks had increased in size & was now occupying two more fields since the 1882 map. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h9RCWm34ikc/YLoapdumHfI/AAAAAAAAL18/UQswqyspsrIQ1dxmD2eevzgi6SIjcSvgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1680/Hathern%2BStation%2BBrick%2B%2526%2BTerra%2BCotta%2BCo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1288" data-original-width="1680" height="490" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h9RCWm34ikc/YLoapdumHfI/AAAAAAAAL18/UQswqyspsrIQ1dxmD2eevzgi6SIjcSvgwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h490/Hathern%2BStation%2BBrick%2B%2526%2BTerra%2BCotta%2BCo.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I "acquired" this advert several years ago from a source that I cannot now remember where from, so if I am infringing any copyright I will remove this advert if asked to do so by it's owner. It may date from the early 1900's. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In 1934 the Company re-branded it’s name to Hathernware Limited, Loughborough, manufacturers of terra-cotta & blue bricks. I am assuming with this 1934 info the company had ceased producing red bricks from this date, however the last trade directory listing the manufacture of bricks at the Hathern Station Works appears in Kelly's Notts. 1916 edition, so it may have been shortly after 1916 that red brick production ceased. WW1 may have been another factor for brick production to cease with many of their men joining up to go to war & the company then concentrating on producing their faience ware.</span></span></p><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Although the Hathern Station works survived into the 1970's when restoration projects began to provide much needed business, a takeover by Ibstock finally led to closure of this works in the summer of 2004. The Hathern name is now owned by </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #333333;">Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC & the company's terra cotta & faience wares are made at their Charnwood works in Shepshed.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W0uimGU4KE4/YLoDpR8P5II/AAAAAAAAL1c/KIYPiSkxMn4RhL3ncSqiKWA5P5KvT4YdwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/9594630640_896d05d1e9_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W0uimGU4KE4/YLoDpR8P5II/AAAAAAAAL1c/KIYPiSkxMn4RhL3ncSqiKWA5P5KvT4YdwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/9594630640_896d05d1e9_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Photo by Frank Lawson.</i></span></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">As wrote Hathern also manufactured blue bricks at their brickworks in Cliff, Kingsbury near Tamworth which they had taken over from Richard Bennett of Derby after his death in late 1885 or early 1886. Kelly's Warks. 1888 edition is the first listing for the Hathern Brick Co. at Cliff. Hathern closed it's Cliff Works in 1969. Today this former Cliff Brickworks site is the clay pit to Wienerberger's massive blue brick works which was built on the former Whateley Colliery & Brickworks site. I have coloured the Cliff Brickworks green & it's access road red on the 1902 OS map below.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wojqHnwKbk/YLnnTZKngsI/AAAAAAAAL0o/rOfA6Z9_SF4YXh0aH6D95n0w7Vq_teWiQCPcBGAsYHg/s800/Cliff%252C%2BTamworth%2BOS%2B1901.jpg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wojqHnwKbk/YLnnTZKngsI/AAAAAAAAL0o/rOfA6Z9_SF4YXh0aH6D95n0w7Vq_teWiQCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h426/Cliff%252C%2BTamworth%2BOS%2B1901.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0000ee; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i>© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1902.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TGGBUPeDOJ4/YLoU2h2aXYI/AAAAAAAAL10/5ZRKCClt-78utGP0Nb9xakEy3cT4ptUTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1130394_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TGGBUPeDOJ4/YLoU2h2aXYI/AAAAAAAAL10/5ZRKCClt-78utGP0Nb9xakEy3cT4ptUTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1130394_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I photographed this coping brick on a disused Nottingham Suburban Railway bridge in Woodthorpe Grange park, so this brick can be dated as being made before 1889 when the railway opened.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IVBMyJVnqD0/YLnnTc-gCII/AAAAAAAAL0o/5esb5ru19k83KxP6w2CJp71Hw6jRKSYhwCPcBGAsYHg/s640/IMG_0577.jpg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IVBMyJVnqD0/YLnnTc-gCII/AAAAAAAAL0o/5esb5ru19k83KxP6w2CJp71Hw6jRKSYhwCPcBGAsYHg/w640-h429/IMG_0577.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DKWG62sgdW8/YLo2OmXdUlI/AAAAAAAAL2I/xuDrYgE9FOcVliN8wFj_wkG-xmGsKs5KwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_4980.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DKWG62sgdW8/YLo2OmXdUlI/AAAAAAAAL2I/xuDrYgE9FOcVliN8wFj_wkG-xmGsKs5KwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_4980.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This is smooth faced thin paver has the Staffordshire Knot logo stamped in the centre of the frog.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ij-8Wjq6O-s/YLoEVLU7QzI/AAAAAAAAL1k/cBjb1oYY61clMqQ13DSs79d4GfS7l__HACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5471.jpg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ij-8Wjq6O-s/YLoEVLU7QzI/AAAAAAAAL1k/cBjb1oYY61clMqQ13DSs79d4GfS7l__HACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h429/IMG_5471.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This coping brick can be seen on a railway bridge situated on Station Road, Spondon, Derbys.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeCGLuqx7xw/YLuvFEXBTMI/AAAAAAAAL2Y/N_b2L0c3CGcd2e2Q1raP2gr19zjavQXAQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5471.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oeCGLuqx7xw/YLuvFEXBTMI/AAAAAAAAL2Y/N_b2L0c3CGcd2e2Q1raP2gr19zjavQXAQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_5471.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; 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margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Cliff Brickworks in 1928. </span></span></p><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I wish to thank the following for their help in bring this post to the web.</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Frank Lawson - photo</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">David Kitching - info</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">National Library of Scotland & Ordinance Survey - maps</span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's Directories</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Graces Guide</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Britain from Above<br /></span><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">were two brickmakers who operated at this site in Stanley, Derbyshire, of which I have got an example by one of the makers, John Barber. These bricks were produced from the clay/shale which was found between the seams of coal at the adjoining colliery.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Information for the brickworks at Stanley was rather sketchy until I came across an article on the web by Michael Robinson, a local historian in Stanley. Michael wrote that he had found a brickworks & cottages on Sough lane, now Dale Road marked on an Ordnance Survey map dated 1841 & then in White's 1857 Trade Directory I found that John Barber is listed as brickmaker & colliery owner in Stanley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Reverse of J. Barber. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Photo by Frank Lawson.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The small pit & brickworks was then sold on the 13th of October 1858 to the Small Brothers, who set about sinking a deeper mine which was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">opened in 1870. It was at this time that the Small Brothers formed the Stanley Kilbourne Colliery Company. I have yet to find a brick in this name, but the Small Brothers also leased the colliery in Kilburn & I have a brick made by the Brothers at that works & it is stamped with the brothers initials & Kilburn on the reverse & this brick features in my Kilburn Post. The Stanley Kilbourne Colliery Company due to financial difficulties closed in 1885. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have found that after 1885 the brickworks ceased to exist but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stanley Kilbourne Colliery was later sold to the newly formed Derby Kilburn Colliery Company in 1893. After </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">DKCC established their coal business they opened a brickworks at Chaddesden Hill & more can be read about this works in my Derby Brickworks - part 2 Post. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Emily Stevens (1863-1935) moved to Newark in 1883 from Altringham, Cheshire to work for a clothing company called Coopers, where she stayed until 1903. By which time she had become the buyer for the clothing company visiting Paris on many occasions. After leaving this company she acquired a large number of shares in a brickworks in Dinnington, Yorkshire & she is also thought to have owned the small brickworks which was on Clay Lane in Newark at this date. It was now that she became a property developer, purchasing land off London Road & over the next three years building the houses known as The Park. In 1905 & aged 42 Emily married butcher William Blagg & they went to live at No. 2 The Park for eight years. After building more quality houses on Lime Grove which became to be known as Newark's most elegant & much sought after place to live, Emily built her own home at 131, Lime Grove which was started in 1912 & was called The Lodge. It was here that Emily & her husband would spend the rest of their lives.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Emily then built Newark's first motion picture cinema called the Kinema on Baldergate, which opened it's doors on the 20th December 1913. A few years later Emily built another cinema, The Palace on Appletongate which opened in July 1920 & is thought to have been made using bricks from her Clay Lane, Newark brickworks & some from the brickworks at Dinnington. Within a year Emily had sold her two cinemas to a group of Sheffield business men who operated cinemas in that city.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In April 1921 Emily went into partnership with Frank M. Johnson forming Blagg & Johnson, metal pipe & guttering manufacturers on Massey Street in Newark. It was to be on Massey Street that Emily was to later build her brickworks which fronted on to this street. The engineering works was built to the rear of this site & while excavations were taking place for this building, good quality brick making clay was found & not to miss an opportunity Mrs Blagg then built part of the engineering works notably the steel stores on supporting piers so that the clay could continue to be extracted from under the building. </span><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Mrs Blagg registered the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Newark Brick Co. at Companies House, Cardiff on the 25th May 1925. Then on the 3rd of September 1925 after five months of construction the brickworks was officially opened at a grand ceremony with Mrs Blagg's neice, little Miss Winnie Stevens, daughter of one of the Company Directors, Mr W. Stevens (Mrs Blagg's brother) setting the machinery into motion. The works had access to seven & half acres of best quality brickmaking clay & the latest up to-date machinery could produce 1,200 bricks per hour using the semi dry process. A capacity of 100,000 bricks could produced each week & order books were full for a considerable time. Mr. Bramall was the brickworks manager at the time it's opening. This info has come from an article in the Newark Herald dated 5th of September 1925. </span><div><br /></div><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">An account of the brickworks published in 1927 records that the plant was highly mechanised with a light railway constantly bring clay from the pit to the grinding pan which crushed the clay before sending it for screening & then to the mixing machine. The mixed clay ending up at the pug-mill where a machine then forced it into moulds, which where then pressed. After drying using the waste heat from an adjacent cooling kiln which had previously been used, up to 200,000 bricks where then loaded into another one of the kilns. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">After a share issue was not taken up by the public a motion was put to the Board at a special meeting on the 27th February 1928 to put the brickworks into Liquidation. This motion was later passed with the works closing on the 4th February 1929. It is unknown if the brickworks closed because of the shortfall in the sale of these shares or if the clay had simply run out on site. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I have found no trade directory entries for the Newark Brick Co. during it's three/four years of production. The engineering works continued under Mrs Blagg's guidence until her death at the age of 72 in April 1935. Blagg & Johnson still continue to this day, with their works now situated on Brunel Drive. As a footnote t</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">he old claypit void underneath the floor of the engineering works was put to good use as an air raid shelter during WW2 for the company's worker force.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">I am indebted to Tim Warner of the Newark Advertiser who's articles on Mrs Blagg appeared in this newspaper many moons ago & the information taken from these articles has been used with the newspaper's permission. A more detailed account about Mrs Blagg by Tim Warner can be read at these links.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As previously mentioned, Mrs Blagg owned a brickworks on Clay Lane, Newark & this works can be seen on the 1883 map above coloured green & situated not to far from Massey Street (coloured purple where the railway line loops round). It is thought that this Clay Lane works was operated by Mrs Blagg from the early 1900's up to 1920, but this cannot be verified.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With this Clay Lane brickworks being shown on this 1883 map, I have a trade directory entry for Duke & Smith owning this Clay Lane brickworks in Kelly's 1881 edition. More research has revealed Thomas Smith before joining William Duke at Clay Lane is recorded in a newspaper article dated July 1866 as owning a brickworks in Caunton, Newark, Smith is then listed in Kelly's 1876 edition at Caunton. Meanwhile William Duke is listed as solely operating a brickworks at Lowdham in Kelly's 1876 & 1881 editions. I then found White's 1885 edition reads William Duke, 6, Victoria Street, Newark (home), works Lowdham. Also from White's 1885 edition I obtained William Duke's advert in which he lists two brickworks, Lowdham & Clay Lane, so from this advert it appears Duke may have taken full control of the running the Clay Lane works. My next find in the London Gazette reveals William Duke in July 1886 placed his company into Liquidation.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuRKESomcnLPczRgZtds_9kIUE-pQR2h5O4IO_xgp4EYsaiW2iQsXLmhKWOKNqDO3u-ZkE2sBOpoNegEkLW-QxRhn9JnFc-IkYvZn-JWmzLVXR7CQ-1cM8MS7polcTuIBro9WytD9zTkb3TDB_VbQenFhImKfgVDxDNsp1AheXinH3MtL2QR6YCArIg/s797/William%20Duke,%20Newark%20Whites%201885.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="797" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmuRKESomcnLPczRgZtds_9kIUE-pQR2h5O4IO_xgp4EYsaiW2iQsXLmhKWOKNqDO3u-ZkE2sBOpoNegEkLW-QxRhn9JnFc-IkYvZn-JWmzLVXR7CQ-1cM8MS7polcTuIBro9WytD9zTkb3TDB_VbQenFhImKfgVDxDNsp1AheXinH3MtL2QR6YCArIg/w640-h490/William%20Duke,%20Newark%20Whites%201885.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Below is a brick made by Thomas Smith at Caunton between 1866 & 1876 which was photographed by Frank Lawson who has since donated this brick to Newark & Sherwood Museum Services. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The web article goes on to say that Robert Lineker in 1860 was calling himself a farmer. Then in 1861 Lineker is described as brickmaker & had entered into a partnership with Samuel Fretwell, a builder & stonemason in Newark as brick & tile manufacturers. There are no trade directory entries for this partnership & it may have been short lived as we next find that Samuel Fretwell is only listed as builder in White's 1864 edition & Lineker is not listed. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Now finding this Samuel Fretwell info sent a tingle down my spine, as they say, as my name is Fretwell ! As far as I know I am not directly connected to this Newark branch of the Fretwell family. Research by my Cousin Jean has revealed that the Fretwell's "followed the coal" & everywhere you find a colliery in the East Midlands, you will find a miner by the name of Fretwell. Apparently it all started in Scunthorpe & the Fretwell's moved east, colliery to colliery, thus ending up in Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire. My Grandad in Huthwaite was a miner & he had 8 brothers & his father was one 8 brothers, so going back to my great great grandfather's brothers, there may be a connection to Newark, the date of the 1860's then fits.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I first start three years earlier in the build-up to the formation of the Vale of Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. & in 1864 William Jacobs who quarried gypsum & produced plaster at his Trent Works in Newark purchased the Royal Plaster Works situated in the village of Orston from Willis & Co. of London who were on the verge of closing their Orston Works. William was then joined by James Carter an auctioneer & stock broker from Nottingham who then purchased land just south of the village of Orston & a larger gypsum, plaster & brick works was established </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">next to the Great Northern Railway. This new works took two years to build & get operational. In the mean time in 1865 Jacobs & Carter in order to finance their new venture decided to raise share capital in their Vale of Belvoir & Newark Plaster, Cement & Mineral Company, but this venture failed to gain the required subscriptions despite it's good local publicity & appearing in London's financial newspapers. So despite this set back the works was opened on the 3rd of April 1866 & </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">the company at first only made bricks during the summer months as their core activities were in producing cement, plaster & gypsum. Clay was only a by-product of this activity with it being found overlaying the gypsum & after testing was found to make good quality bricks which were used to build some of the buildings at this new Orston Works. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So after this failed attempt to raise the required share capital a new company, The Vale of Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. was formed in March 1867 with Jacobs & Carter being joined by James Hobson & Newark solicitor William Newton. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">William Jacobs became manager of the works & this </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">new business started off well. Then in February 1868 the decision was made to expand the business by purchasing Stocker & Bell, another plaster manufacturer in Newark who were on the edge of closure. To finance this acquisition 350 new shares where issued to the partners in Hardy & Company, bankers in Grantham, who owned part of the lease of the land on which Stocker & Bell's works was sited. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This is where things start to go downhill for VOB as the accounts had not been kept up to date. The company was then restructured in 1870 with the hope that new investors would be found, but this did not happen. In November 1870 William Jacobs wrote to a customer, "I am sorry to say that that we are quite out of bricks at our Orston Works, therefore shall not be able to send you any more until next season." So from this account the company was still only producing bricks in the summer months. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">VOB then advertised in the</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> August 16th 1871 edition of the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Newark Advertiser </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">that they were </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">making bricks at 5s per 1,000.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> I expect this advertisement was to entice customers back to the company.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As previously wrote the 1870 restructure did not solve VOB's financial problems & the company went into Liquidation on 12th May 1873. This is the notice that appeared in the Newark Advertiser dated October 1st 1873.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Vale of Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. into Liquidation."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Lot 1 - 7 acres at Orston inc. brick kilns.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Lot 2 - Bowbridge - kilns & brick plant; </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Beacon Hill & Mineral Hill, North Gate & Trent Works.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">North Gate adapted for the manufacture of plaster of paris, cement, bricks, tiles etc.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Hardy & Co. who had previously been financial backers & share holders in VOB then purchased all the Works through a 3rd party (Mr Holland) at Auction. After which they continued to trade as The Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. Then in 1897 Hardy & Co. sold VOB to Mr R.P. Almond who had been the General Manager at the Company. After this sale of the Company Hardy & Co. continued to be share holders in Almond's "new" Company until it closed. Kelly's 1900 trade directory records Almond's new company as The Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. & still operating the three brickworks at Orston, Beacon Hill & Bowbridge (also recorded on maps as the Lowfield Works). Almond is next recorded in the two articles from which I have obtained this VOB information from, as owning the Orston plaster & brick works until it closed in 1920/1928. I have put both dates as these two articles contradicts each other on the closure date of the Orston Works. As to the brickworks at Beacon Hill & Bowbridge Road still being operational after Almond's purchase of VOB is "slightly in question", as the account of these two works is not recorded in the articles from which I have obtained most of the history of VOB from. I have found from trade directory entries that the Beacon Hill Works is last listed under Almond's Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. in Kelly's 1900 edition & this works may have then been sold, as new owners, The Beacon Hill Brick Co. are listed at this works in Kelly 1904 edition & I write about the Beacon Hill Brick Co. later. The Bowbridge/Lowfield Works is last recorded as being owned by the Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. in Kelly's 1904 edition, but this is also the last trade directory entry for the Orston Works. My only conclusion is that Almond still operated the Bowbridge Road Works along with the Orston Works until 1920/28 as we next find in Kelly's 1928 edition that Thomas Ward & Co. are listed as running the Bowbridge Road brickworks in Balderton. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Ward continues to be listed as brickmaking at the Balderton Works in Kelly's 1932 & 36 editions, Directory of Newark 1938 edition, then Kelly's 1941 edition. The Government's Ministry of Works 1941 census of brickworks lists Thomas W. Ward Ltd. of Sheffield as operating the Vale of Belvoir Brickworks at Newark-on-Trent & extracting Keuper Marl (clay) for brickmaking. Then the 1949 edition of the British Clayworkers Directory lists Thomas Ward Ltd. at the Vale of Belvoir Works, New Balderton, Newark. The last trade directory entry found for Thomas Ward at New Balderton is in Kelly's 1950 edition. All these entries are the same works. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">1950 was also the year that the brickworks closed as it is shown as disused on the 1950 map. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Please note that this is the second brickworks to be built at Lowfield/Bowbridge Lane, Balderton & can be seen on the 1915 map above marked as the Lowfield Brickworks. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">No information has been found to say if Thomas Ward Ltd. were operating the plaster works at the Lowfield Works as well from 1928, so my only conclusion is that it may have closed before Ward's takeover of the brickworks in 1928. As of yet no bricks stamped Ward have been found. However Angus Townley found this Ward Co. one in North Lincolnshire in July 2022, so there's a strong case it was made by Thomas Ward.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrdT1dhGRNVZuDLvfIQ8Ko4yhlu49oGH6njtY7Mqf9FW--bO4pgv55APjU4SFHD7mAFZwWuWbpmZe9xR08NnqalLC1ce9V9T2CtLVPmECIapt-mecjq0xcTiJ4I_OO8t0-9zzpB6gQaTIhAx0Z7GWuozT_-fj2PctOME4en5C0DhFaF_Qe9vfkfaLOw/s640/Ward%20&%20Co.%20by%20Angus%20Townley.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="640" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWrdT1dhGRNVZuDLvfIQ8Ko4yhlu49oGH6njtY7Mqf9FW--bO4pgv55APjU4SFHD7mAFZwWuWbpmZe9xR08NnqalLC1ce9V9T2CtLVPmECIapt-mecjq0xcTiJ4I_OO8t0-9zzpB6gQaTIhAx0Z7GWuozT_-fj2PctOME4en5C0DhFaF_Qe9vfkfaLOw/w640-h330/Ward%20&%20Co.%20by%20Angus%20Townley.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Photo by Angus Townley.</i></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Until recently this former brickworks site (2nd brickworks) had been used as smallholdings, but now the whole of this area is in the process of being regenerated with Newark's new Southern Relief Road being built to take traffic from the A46 to the A1 & plans are a foot to build houses & industrial units on the land previously used as gypsum quarries owned by VOB & Cafferata. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Brian Mackinney has sent me this info - "</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Hi Martyn, </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My father was foreman at the Belvoir Brickworks, Balderton in the forties and early fifties before it was taken over and shut down by Cafferata." </span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I then asked Brian if his father worked for Thomas Ward & if the works stamped their bricks Ward or Belvoir & this was his reply - " </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">That’s right, he worked for Thos. W. Ward. I’m a bit hazy on details, but as a child I spent a fair amount of my time there. I can still have the sense of the smell of the freshly pressed bricks. I used to help to load the lorries and go out with the drivers to deliver the bricks in the late forties. That was in the days when I used to do a paper round in the village at the age of 8 and buy Woodbines with my earnings. </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I think it was called Belvoir Brickworks, but I can’t remember if the name was on the bricks.</span><br />
<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The down side of the lack of health and safety regulations was also a time of lack of unemployment support and benefit. When Cafferata shut down the Lowfield Works, my father was left with no job other than as a labourer at Cafferata Brickworks across the road. In this capacity he had a nasty toe injury which never healed properly and had fateful consequences.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">" </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Many thanks Brian for sending me your information which includes the bit about Cafferata taking over the Lowfield Works after Thomas Ward. It explains why I have only found Cafferata bricks on the edge of this former brickworks site.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As I have slightly digressed I now return to the trade directory entries for the Vale of Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co., but first I quickly tell you that after the Orston Works had closed Mr. Almond's sister, Lissie Almond who was the leaseholder of the land, sold the property in 1928 to Lt.Col. N.G. Pearson. Pearson then gave the land to the Girl Guides Association who demolished the buildings in 1930 & created an adventure area. As of 1991, the date of the info article, the Girl Guide Association still owned & used this adventure site.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">These are the trade directory listings for Vale of Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. which are in the Brick & Tile Manufacturers Section.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1885 - Works, Beacon Hill, Newark; Bowbridge; Orston.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">K. 1888 - Works, Beacon Hill, Newark.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">K. 1891 - Works, Orston Sidings, GNR; Lowfield Sidings, GNR; Beacon Hill, Newark. Mr. Richard P. Almond, Manager.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">White's 1894 - Works, Newark.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Belvoir & Newark Plaster Co. (now owned by Richard Almond).</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1900 - Works, Orston Sidings, GNR; Lowfield Sidings, GNR; Beacon Hill, Newark.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">K. 1904 - </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Works, Orston Sidings, GNR; Lowfield Sidings, GNR.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As previously recorded, Bowbridge & Lowfield are the same works on Bowbridge Road, Balderton, Newark.</span><br />
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<a href="http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12041/1/196964_201%20Barnes%20Publisher.pdf" target="_blank">http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12041/1/196964_201%20Barnes%20Publisher.pdf</a><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">1899 map showing the location of The Beacon Hill Brick Company's works which had previously been owned by the Belvoir & Newark Plaster Company. The 1915 map shows this former brickworks now as a Cement Works which was gone by the 1938 map. Today a steel fabrication works & houses now occupy part of this site with the rest being covered in trees.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">William Cafferata a stocks & shares broker in Liverpool purchased The Newark Plaster Co. in June 1862. The company comprised of a gypsum quarry, a plaster mill, a brickworks & a boiler works which where all situated on Beacon Hill in Newark & I have used the 1899 map below to show their location. The works was known as the Great Northern Works. </span><br />
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first trade directory entry that I have found for the Beacon Hill brickworks appears in White's 1864 edition as Cafferata & Co. Great Northern Plaster Works, Beacon Hill, Newark. However the entry in Kelly's 1864 edition is William Cafferata, Beacon Hill, Newark & I have found this WC N quarry tile in my collection (2022) photographed at a reclamation yard in Newark (2017), so there's a good chance this quarry tile will be William Cafferata, especially with the reversed N, an indication mould makers were not reversing some of the letters correctly for the mould plate in the 1860's. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP82-BItoZnVIWlTM6ZVi7AkeP4ZEgVZtipLKE6627WMWERxjW-eE3he6Xvf-w4SqQdJTCR8YHLdvUVcF6OQezUcMbhLwO1d_zPElXfnzasP_azjBPhT8N0jJFa_3pGR3fK2nysAjf_a_5eh_eph-ZpbgDqZK2s_qIty2YZe2IKvZQ5yw3auaFzfk75Q/s640/P1110578_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP82-BItoZnVIWlTM6ZVi7AkeP4ZEgVZtipLKE6627WMWERxjW-eE3he6Xvf-w4SqQdJTCR8YHLdvUVcF6OQezUcMbhLwO1d_zPElXfnzasP_azjBPhT8N0jJFa_3pGR3fK2nysAjf_a_5eh_eph-ZpbgDqZK2s_qIty2YZe2IKvZQ5yw3auaFzfk75Q/w640-h428/P1110578_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">At first William concentrated on producing large industrial Cornish & Lancashire boilers rather than bricks & plaster, but after a problem with a boiler exploding under pressure which resulted in several deaths in 1866, William then reduced production on that side of the business & concentrated more on quarrying gypsum & producing plaster & bricks.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In 1867 the brickyard was producing 30,000 bricks per week. The quality of which unless burnt very hard would not withstand severe weather conditions & would soon crumble. On saying that houses built of these bricks still stand in Newark today.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">William Cafferata died on the 5th September 1874 with his wife taking control of the Company with the help of her son Redmond Parker Cafferata. In 1881 Redmond purchased his mother's interests in the company for £12,000 pounds, which is equivalent to over one million pounds today. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With the reserves at the Beacon Hill quarry starting to deplete, Redmond then established a new gypsum quarry & brickworks at Hawton in 1874 & this new works can be seen on the 1899 map above. This Hawton works is shown on the 1875 map, but the quality of this map is not as good as the one used. The red coloured road is Bowbridge Road & the village of Hawton is just to the north-west of this map, with Newark town centre to the north.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Between 1892 & 1894 three of Redmond Parker's sons joined him at the company & in 1908 control of the company was passed over to his sons with Redmond Parker retiring. Financial problems hit the company as well as quality issues in their plaster production & it was not until 1922 that the company was re-organized & new cash was injected into the new company of Cafferata & Company Limited, which now included five of Redmond Parker's seven sons. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The first Directors of this new Limited Company were Louis William Cafferata (Chairman and Managing Director), Hubert Marie Cafferata, Redmond Barton Cafferata and Bernard Joseph Cafferata, with Cyril Francis Cafferata as Secretary. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">By 1926 the family were enjoying large profits from the fruits of their labours. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In 1928 Gerald Cafferata son of Redmond Barton joined the company straight from London University at the age of 22 & showed a keen interest in improving the quality of the companies plasters. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Beacon Hill brickworks had been closed during WW1 & when it reopened afterwards it was producing 100,000 bricks per week. Whether the Hawton brickworks was still in production after WW1 is unknown as the last trade directory entry for the Hawton brickworks is 1900 & the 1915 map only shows this works as gypsum quarries. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">1935 sees the opening of a new plaster & brickworks on 400 acres of land next to Jericho Lodge & this brick & plaster works can be seen on the 1950 map below & coloured green. Kelly's 1936 edition lists this new brickworks at New Balderton on Bowbridge Lane. The Hawton works continues to be shown only as gypsum quarries at this date. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Also i</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">n 1935 Redmond Barton Cafferata retires to France & in 1936 the whole of the share capital in Cafferata & Co. Ltd. was acquired by The British Plaster Board Limited with both Hubert & Louis retiring. Although being taken over the company continued to operate under it's original name & C</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">yril Francis Cafferata</span><span style="background-color: white;"> was appointed chairman and joint managing director with Bernard Joseph Cafferata. Cyril retired in 1943 and Bernard left in 1946. Gerald Cafferata son of Redmond Barton & grandson of Redmond Parker Cafferata was subsequently appointed chairman and managing director & was the last of the family to work at the company.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have now found that this S.R. Co. fire brick was more than likely made by Swann Radcliffe & Co. in Derbyshire & the company are listed in the Fire Brick Manufacturers section in these Kelly's editions,</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> 1912, 25, 32, & 41 at Brassington, Wirksworth, Derbys. Cope’s 1937 edition also lists Swann Radcliffe & Co. (Brassington) Ltd. at Brassington, Wirksworth, Derbys. Info from the Brassington website records that the brickworks was actually at Hopton near Brassington & was employing 16 men in 1962. It goes on to say that the brickworks closed in 1971. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/clayton-co-brick-making-machine/" target="_blank">http://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/clayton-co-brick-making-machine/</a></span><br />
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</div></div></div></div>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-13485173723246310502017-04-01T17:10:00.011+01:002023-02-05T16:56:36.598+00:00Sutton-in-Ashfield Brickmakers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So after listing these "new" brickmakers I have then added the possible timeline to each of these works which are shown on the 1877 map, with information just gathered or previously wrote about. Please note that the orange coloured yard was not started until 1904 & in most cases each of these brickworks expanded in size over the years. I have also listed the timeline for two other yards which are not shown on this map.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My first "new brickmaker" is Aaron Knighton & his listed in Kelly's 1876 edition at Skegby, Mansfield. Then John Lane is listed at Skegby, Mansfield in Kelly's 1885 edition. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As to Skegby, Mansfield in these entries & in subsequent entries, Skegby at this date was a parish within the district of Mansfield, today it forms part of Sutton in Ashfield/Ashfield District. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">I then found that George Vallance is recorded at Skegby in Kelly's 1876 & 81 editions & he was the son (b.1832) to the George Vallance (b.1808) who is recorded in directories dating from 1853 to 1872 first as George Vallance then Vallance & Sons, builders & brickmakers in Mansfield. There are two yards shown on this 1877 map which fall into the Parish of Skegby & these are the purple & green yards, but I have note because dates clash with other brickmakers operating at Skegby at this time, some of these Skegby entries may refer to the two brickworks which where in another part of Skegby & I write about these yards later.</span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1876 edition lists Robert Boot at Eastfield Side, S-in-A. & this may have been the red works, but this cannot be confirmed. Robert Boot may have been the father or brother to George Boot who was a brickmaker from 1904 in Sutton, but again this cannot be confirmed.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1853 edition records brickmaker John Miller as living at Dalestorth House, Sutton & White's 1853 edition actually records his works address as Eastfield Side, Sutton, so this could be the red coloured works. John Miller is then listed in Kelly's 1855 edition at Dalestorth, Skegby. Further investigation has revealed that John Miller a farmer & maltster acquired Dalestorth House in the early 1900's. It was then his nephew, also John Miller together with his wife who were to open a "An Establishment for Young Ladies' in 1852 at their 18th century built Dalestorth House. For the sum of 20 guineas per annum young ladies of the area would </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">receive instruction on plain and ornamental needlework, reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, composition, history, geography and French. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So it appears from the trade directory dates that this second John Miller is our brickmaker. Today the house is a B & B together with a garden centre set within it's grounds.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I now write about two brickmakers who worked at a brickworks which was at the side of Blackmires Farm & is not shown on the map above. The yard was situated about half a mile south off the bottom of this map on Coxmoor Road & next to Sutton Reservoir. By the way Coxmoor Road joins Eastfield Side road (which is shown on this map going south) at the junction with Garden Lane. So Charles Lindley is listed at Blackmires in White's 1844 edition with John Baines as Manager. Then Charles Lindley is next listed in White's 1853 edition again at Blackmires. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I originally thought George Boot operated this yard, but I now have a March 1901 newspaper advert recording his brickworks as being on Dalestorth Road (Pale Yellow works) & builders yard on Mansfield Road (precise location of which is unknown). If I establish who owned this works I will update the post. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Aaron is then recorded at Skegby in 1904 & 1908, followed by his sons George & John who are recorded as Barke Brothers in 1912 to 1916 at Skegby. See Green Yard.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">After finding a 1872 trade directory entry for the Skegby Colliery Lime & Brick Company I then delved into the web to find information & the location of this colliery as I had not come across it before. So I first slightly digress to tell you about this colliery & Skegby/Stanton Hill. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I first use the 1876 map above to show the location of Skegby Colliery (coloured yellow), then the 1898 map below shows that Skegby Colliery was at the end of Wharf Road in what we now know as Stanton Hill, but why was it called Skegby Colliery. Further investigation has revealed that the village of Stanton Hill did not exist in 1876 & this area where the colliery had been sunk was in the Parish of Skegby, hence it's name. The Dodsley family of Skegby Hall were the Lords of the Manor & owners of this land & they sunk Skegby Colliery sometime in the early 1800's, the actual date is unknown. Local Historian Bill Clay-Dove wrote in his book that in 1847 coal production was recorded as only being small compared to modern outputs with an average output of 500 tons per month. Some of the coal was used by Dodsley himself to operate his colliery, lime kilns & brickworks. The Stanton Ironworks Co. then sunk Butcherwood Colliery (Teversal) in 1867 & Silverhill Colliery in 1878 with the Company then building houses for it's workers at Cooperative Street, Institute Street & Cross Row starting in 1877. These streets were to be later known as Stanton Hill in the Parish of Skegby in 1881. The first entry for Stanton Hill appears in the 1871 Census, but only as the name of a street in the Parish of Skegby. Further houses were then built by the Stanton Ironworks Co. at Meden Bank in 1880, but these houses have since been replaced with Council built houses, possibly around the 1970's. Bill records these 1880 Meden Bank houses as being demolished around 1963. It is also thought that Stanton Hill was named after the Stanton Ironworks Company with them building these houses. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">You will see another colliery which I have coloured red on these maps & this pit was sunk in 1873, again by the Dodsley's who first named it New Skegby Colliery. This pit then took on the name of Brierley Colliery as it was sunk by miners who had come from Brierley Hill in Staffordshire. By the time the Blackwell Colliery Co. had taken over this pit it had been renamed Sutton Colliery & had been named after Sutton Colliery Limited which had been formed from the Skegby Colliery Lime & Brick Co., but this pit was always affectionally known as Brierley. The original Skegby Colliery which I have coloured yellow closed in 1887. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Now back to the brickworks at Skegby Colliery & the first trade directory entry that I have found for this brickworks is in Morris's 1869 edition & the entry is Skegby Colliery Co., coal owners, lime & brick manufacturers, Skegby with Richard B. Henson as Manager. Then the entry in White's 1872 edition is Skegby Colliery Lime & Brick Co., Skegby. Although both these two maps do not indicate which are the brickyard buildings, the clay pit is shown next to the colliery (yellow). I have also coloured Wharf Road yellow on the 1898 map below to show you the distance this colliery was from Stanton Hill, it was almost in Huthwaite. As to the Lime kilns owned by Skegby Colliery these may have been the lime kins that I have coloured green on the 1876 map above & where situated on Stoneyford Lane (now Road). Some small holdings & Fisher Close now occupies this former lime producing works. I have also found that there are some lime kilns & quarry marked on the 1875 map nearly opposite Skegby Hall on Mansfield Road, so more than likely these lime kilns were also owned by John Dodsley.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So as previously wrote I was unable to allot a yard to Aaron Knighton who is listed at Skegby in Kelly's 1876 edition & this blue coloured yard may have been his works as the criteria of Skegby in 1876 fits, with this area of Skegby then becoming known as Stanton Hill after 1881. As said earlier in the post Aaron Knighton may have worked at one of the yards which was on the Sutton side of Skegby & it might have been George Vallance that was at this blue coloured yard in 1876 & 1881 ? Both these two brickyards are no longer shown on the 1898 map.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In this post I cover the brickworks that where in Eastwood, Newthorpe, Giltbrook, Kimberley, Awsworth, Cossall, Watnall & Brinsley & I first start with the aptly named Jesse Ward Clay.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have found that today, Greasley is only the name of a civil parish which includes Beauvale, Giltbrook, Moorgreen, Newthorpe, Watnall & parts of Eastwood, Kimberley & Nutnall & the settlement originally known as Greasley does not exist today as it is thought the Earl of Rutland destroyed the village so he could have a better view. There is however the remains of Greasley Castle, a fortified manor house which was incorporated into a range of farm buildings, the 15th century Church of St. Mary's & few houses situated on the B600 between Moorgreen & Watnall which are classed as Greasley. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As said from trade directories I have found two more brickmakers listed at Hill Top & I have established that Samuel Hickling owned the green coloured yard on the 1879 map above as he is listed at Lynncroft, Greasley in Kelly's 1885 edition, then in Kelly's 1888 edition at Lynncroft, Eastwood & then Kelly's 91 & 94 editions lists him at Lynncroft, Newthorpe. I am taking it that the marked Lynncroft House on this map was his home. Today this former brickyard site is occupied by a large bungalow & what appears to have been a garden nursery (Goggle Maps) with the site being accessed off Percy Street. Also listed in Kelly's 1855 edition is J. Hickling, Eastwood, so he may be connected to Samuel Hickling, possibly Samuel's father. </span><br />
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Although I do not have 100% proof, I believe he owned the yellow coloured yard. </span><br /><br /><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple;"><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">Lodge Colliery Brickworks</span></u></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xq_DI3pO85o/WLVoge5YQYI/AAAAAAAAEl8/U69g-9Ce8uo2iiBTW_J8I3w4OxBScZ9wwCPcB/s1600/Eastwood%2B%2526%2BErewash%2B1900_edited-1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xq_DI3pO85o/WLVoge5YQYI/AAAAAAAAEl8/U69g-9Ce8uo2iiBTW_J8I3w4OxBScZ9wwCPcB/s640/Eastwood%2B%2526%2BErewash%2B1900_edited-1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: purple;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced by permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1900.</i></b></div><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Lodge Colliery Brickworks was owned by William Hall (known as Billy) & this purple coloured brickworks was accessed via Halls Lane & was possibly named after Billy. Halls Lane also splits into two with the second leg going down to the canal, (both coloured brown on the map above). The other brickworks on this 1900 map were owned by The Erewash Valley Brick Co. (green & red) & were also accessed via Halls Lane. The yellow works was owned by the Eastwood Brick Co & I write about these two companies later. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Lodge Colliery brickworks is first listed in Kelly's 1881 edition as William Hall, Lodge Colliery, Newthorpe. The entry in Kelly's 1885 edition reads William Hall, Gilt Hill, Kimberley. Kelly's 1888 & 91 editions is the same listing as in the 1881 entry. White's 1894 listing is William Hall, Kimberley. Then the last two listings are William Hall (exors. of), Lodge Colliery, Newthorpe in Kelly's 1899 & 1900 editions. Lodge Colliery was sunk in 1877 & together with it's brick kilns they are shown on the 1879 map, so it appears that the brick yard had just been established at this 1879 date & it coincides with the first trade directory listing for this yard in 1881. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_j2b7A-4aRM/YSudNPkmOZI/AAAAAAAAMfg/ise2opoza-kv5uSdP51l_stgJr7-sSp-ACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_6851.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_j2b7A-4aRM/YSudNPkmOZI/AAAAAAAAMfg/ise2opoza-kv5uSdP51l_stgJr7-sSp-ACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_6851.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u703mkoOZIQ/YSudNJIsMWI/AAAAAAAAMfc/XdeIGfwBFYw6_G658QjSx7Jqwm7tbX6xQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_6820.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u703mkoOZIQ/YSudNJIsMWI/AAAAAAAAMfc/XdeIGfwBFYw6_G658QjSx7Jqwm7tbX6xQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_6820.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Documents held at Nottingham Archives has revealed William Hall leased the land Newthorpe Lodge Colliery, pottery & brickworks were built on from Earl Cowper & a second document dated Oct. 1899 reveals that Johnstone & Williams, solicitors to William Hall (William passed away in 1899) asked W.G. to "let us know if Earl Cowper would be disposed to grant a lease," (extension to the original lease). It appears that W.G. may have been William Hall's right hand man & in-charge of the brickworks as another document dated 27th April 1893 held at the Archives from William Hall to W.G. says "I want particularly to see you respecting the proposed tramway connection with our No. 2 works." </span><span style="font-size: large;">A new find in a newspaper article dated May 1898 has revealed Billy Hall's second works was on the south side of the railway line & is the green coloured works on the 1900 OS map above. This newspaper article also reveals this green coloured works was acquired in May 1898 by the newly formed Erewash Valley Brick, Pipe & Pottery Co. Ltd. hence it being named as the Erewash Valley Brick Works on the 1900 map. Billy Hall's Lodge Brickworks & Colliery (purple) was not taken over by the Erewash Valley Brick Co. & t</span><span style="font-size: large;">he 1913 map no longer shows neither the colliery or brickworks (purple) & trees are shown planted on most of this site. However a new Lodge Colliery was built on the same site & was operational in 1915 & was owned by the Manners Colliery Co., running it till 1930. Then the Ilkeston Colliery Co. owned Lodge Colliery between 1935 & 1946. Today the Birch Industrial Estate has been established next to the A610 on the part of the site where the two collieries & Billy Hall's brickworks had once stood. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1gghDxEOu5U/WLWs5FCAJCI/AAAAAAAAEmY/QsMQeO-qHyIVWj5nan66GWgniP-kj9szQCLcB/s1600/P1080420.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1gghDxEOu5U/WLWs5FCAJCI/AAAAAAAAEmY/QsMQeO-qHyIVWj5nan66GWgniP-kj9szQCLcB/s640/P1080420.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have added this Gilt 10 brick to this entry as a possibility that it was made at the Lodge Colliery Brickworks with Kelly's 1885 edition listing William Hall at Gilt Hill, Kimberley. I photographed this brick along with other colliery bricks at Pleasley Mining Museum, so if it was made at this works, it had not gone too far. A fellow collector photographed a Gilt 11 brick in Belper & again not too far from where it was made, but a Gilt 1 brick has turned up in Northamptonshire & is shown on Brocross Old Bricks/Penmorfa, so this one must have been transported along with thousands of other bricks by rail to it's destination in Northamptonshire. That's of course that these bricks where made at the Lodge Colliery Brickworks.</span></div><br /><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I start with the Eastwood Brick Company which was formed in May 1897 & this company is first listed in the 1901 edition of the Directory of Clayworkers in Eastwood, then Kelly's 1912 & 16 editions at Newthorpe. Their 20 acres site is coloured yellow on the 1900 map above next to <span face=""\22 \\22 arial\\22 \22 " , "\22 \\22 helvetica\\22 \22 " , sans-serif" style="text-align: center;">Newthorpe & Greasley Railway Station on Newmanleys Road. The company had constructed a <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US472404A/en" target="_blank">William Sercombe continuous kiln</a> with 14 chambers which had the capacity to produce 100,000 bricks per week, the chimney was over 100ft tall. Two further clamp kilns could produce 20,000 bricks per week & plans were in place to build more round ovens. The Nottingham Journal in it's 24th May 1898 reports on the evening meal at the Moon & Stars Inn provided by the directors of the Eastwood Brick Company, were all it's forty workers were invited to celebrate the company's first year. The Directors of the company are listed as Mr. E. Lindley, also Chairman, Mr. G.H. Cullen, Mr. J. Bentley & Mr. H. Saxton. </span>The company is also listed as the Eastwood Brick & Pottery Co. in the 1901 Clayworkers Directory & Kelly's 1916 edition with the pottery being situated on Lynncroft Road, Hill Top, Eastwood, opposite the former brickyard owned by Samuel Hickling. This pottery is shown on the 1899 map in the Jesse Clay entry. Today this former pottery works site is occupied by the houses which are built on The Crescent. In 1920 the Eastwood Brick Co. was taken over by the Manners Colliery Co. which then became the Manners Brick Co. & I write about this company later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Found by Dave Wall in Skegby Notts. Photo by MF. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">An article in the Nottingham Journal dated 24th of May 1898 reports the Erewash Brick, Pipe & Pottery Co. Ltd. had been formed to purchase the Freehold brickworks & it's minerals thereunder previously run by the Exors. of the Late Billy Hall. This was the green coloured brickyard shown on the 1900 OS map above & it covered 17 acres. It appears this company did not purchase Billy Hall's Lodge brickworks (purple) or Lodge colliery situated on the north side of the railway line, which had been demolished by 1913. However the Prospectus outlining the takeover does tell you the company had purchased the Freehold to a further 17 acres of land for it's minerals situated on the north side of the railway line near to Newthorpe Station. A further 3 acres of Freehold land had been purchased on the south side of the railway line to build a second brickworks & this is the red coloured works shown on the 1900 OS map above. This 1898 newspaper article records the Company Directors as Thomas Gascoigne JP , also Chairman, James Crossley, Henry Saxon, Henry Cullen & John Carter Berry. The company had been formed with a Share Capital of £25,000 in two types of £1 shares. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The Erewash Brick, Pipe & Pottery Co. Ltd. are first listed at Newthorpe in Kelly's 1900 edition with Chas Martin as secretary & this entry continues up to the 1916 edition. A find in a 1904 newspaper article now records the green coloured brickworks as the Giltbrook Brick & Pottery Works which was previously shown on the 1900 map as the Erewash Valley Brick Works. The red works is not named on the 1900 map, but is shown as the Erewash Works on the 1913 map. The Erewash Brick Co. was operational from 1898 to 1920 & both works at this time were accessed via Halls Lane (brown) which split into two. Today both these lanes are only footpaths. </span></div><div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The 1913 map below now shows the original main works (green) as disused & a May 1915 newspaper article reveals the Erewash Co. was selling at auction on the 1st of June their Giltbrook Brick & Pottery Works as a going concern. I then found with the reserve not being met, Lot one was withdrawn & the freehold land was then sold as Lot Two & was purchased by the Manners Colliery Co. for it's minerals. Lot Three consisted of all the buildings, kilns, boilers, plant, machinery, tools, surplus bricks on site & these were sold to individual buyers & the buildings were then demolished. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In January 2024 Richard Bull sent me these two images of his recently found Erewash white glazed brick & in the 1915 Sale Notice of the Giltbrook Works these white glazed bricks are listed with the many other types of bricks, flue bricks, terra-cotta & chimney pots which were being sold. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnGOmPLPWtyj0SYCA6SPO_Qq5Keme4WZw2I4AbYnDyazwgVmLhwGGR2YCUJ2TomTUPiMRfDR4-bUsqQfCb8GfbWHky93x2yi-hMjWPEyVJ6dx6t-CdOLfcRiVX16B_IZkIt8Y9chv_aSeexnApfdVt-gI88gFlpPH4NfRHTm50R7nMz3qamg2mwFO7cz-/s800/Erewash%20Glazed%20by%20Richard%20Bull.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnGOmPLPWtyj0SYCA6SPO_Qq5Keme4WZw2I4AbYnDyazwgVmLhwGGR2YCUJ2TomTUPiMRfDR4-bUsqQfCb8GfbWHky93x2yi-hMjWPEyVJ6dx6t-CdOLfcRiVX16B_IZkIt8Y9chv_aSeexnApfdVt-gI88gFlpPH4NfRHTm50R7nMz3qamg2mwFO7cz-/w640-h360/Erewash%20Glazed%20by%20Richard%20Bull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFi3mZqPjHa0ZDUUAQoxa8pFINMk8DsUJ7NgoFby0thhIzgYHod7kkMWpetbRcXm1yJIksX85Sskk1xtPLNNU7GC75wQaGrEgub0cIR5RnQpWf-FGN8MxxfjAtiZaojvhehLok9QN6RHSUfwrsWkAxxG92_0f9xK3pbdHTsRijSQAOOa-IdE_9zETeTmY/s640/Erewash%20glazed%20face%20by%20Richard%20Bull.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFi3mZqPjHa0ZDUUAQoxa8pFINMk8DsUJ7NgoFby0thhIzgYHod7kkMWpetbRcXm1yJIksX85Sskk1xtPLNNU7GC75wQaGrEgub0cIR5RnQpWf-FGN8MxxfjAtiZaojvhehLok9QN6RHSUfwrsWkAxxG92_0f9xK3pbdHTsRijSQAOOa-IdE_9zETeTmY/w640-h360/Erewash%20glazed%20face%20by%20Richard%20Bull.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Photos by Richard Bull.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The 1913 map now shows the red works as the main works & marked as the Erewash Brick Works. In 1920 the Erewash Brick Co. was taken over by the Manners Colliery Co. which then became the Manners Brick Co. & I write about this company next. </span></div><div><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In 1920 (reference the Eastwood Advertiser) The Manners Colliery Co. of Ilkeston purchased both the Eastwood Brick Co. & the Erewash Valley Brick, Pipe & Pottery Co. Another source reveals that the Manners Colliery Co. had acquired the Erewash Valley Brick & Pottery Co. before they purchased the Eastwood Brick Co. which was on the 1st January 1920. I next found the Sheffield Independent dated 13th of June 1921 records the Manners Brick Co. had been registered on the 8th of June with a share capital of £30,000 in £1 shares to take over the two brick & tile works at Greasley owned by the Manners Colliery Co. The subscribers of this new company were Messers. H. Potter, W. Adlington, W.A. Potter & F. Chambers. The first directors had not been named at this point. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Nottingham Archives has two letterheads for the company dated 1934 & 36. The 1934 letterhead records the company as the Manners Brick Co. Eastwood. Directors, H.D. Bishop JP & Managing Director, F. Chambers JP, G.A. Eastwood JP & G. Lomax. Works, Newthorpe, own railway sidings on L & NER. Then the 1936 letterhead is almost as identical, with the differences of the Manners Brick Co. New Eastwood, Notts. & works, Eastwood instead of Newthorpe plus the same directors. Below is a 1935 advert for the company, please note the red works is now called the Erewash Valley yard.</span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFE13Bfl8saMoryHCJ1Zod_jly_2ZbA1ImLik-rZoseCcWyK-TJVlGwSyADszvFEC3byLSU0oliv07LCL525sA-c3mVWSo9oOsopPkPM9OC_nK8wo9CkoNhS7uYSN789kcTPv02HcIkM0LJsVjv88rFtCZ-9PFSzw4XAMACgfEuk0s_UWxG7M3QIn2yUX/s800/Manners%20Brick%20Co.%201935.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="607" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqFE13Bfl8saMoryHCJ1Zod_jly_2ZbA1ImLik-rZoseCcWyK-TJVlGwSyADszvFEC3byLSU0oliv07LCL525sA-c3mVWSo9oOsopPkPM9OC_nK8wo9CkoNhS7uYSN789kcTPv02HcIkM0LJsVjv88rFtCZ-9PFSzw4XAMACgfEuk0s_UWxG7M3QIn2yUX/w486-h640/Manners%20Brick%20Co.%201935.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="h3" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(36, 32, 72); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.3; margin: 20px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="newspaperTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box;">West Bridgford Times & Echo</span> - <span id="newspaperDate" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Friday 01 November 1935 </span>Image © Successor rightsholder unknown. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</span></h1></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuN3Wj9lTM4_JhsKk19KWlBaVLvMqwMTpxEI72R1H0uo9ZQqNexfZGldQTP1yj2eAlOeuRYt8EPu3R8gOH14sTMEMqTi2MWu7oNyvh9C_b_GJWB1sxYhLApvjxrTL1T3c0XQaeLuA5IwVR15DaI37X81sooHrXMnOQti1mFzyEXd0x9nSLSBvune0ymg/s640/P1100805_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="640" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuN3Wj9lTM4_JhsKk19KWlBaVLvMqwMTpxEI72R1H0uo9ZQqNexfZGldQTP1yj2eAlOeuRYt8EPu3R8gOH14sTMEMqTi2MWu7oNyvh9C_b_GJWB1sxYhLApvjxrTL1T3c0XQaeLuA5IwVR15DaI37X81sooHrXMnOQti1mFzyEXd0x9nSLSBvune0ymg/w640-h422/P1100805_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJJAxkekR6GAPzrG-fA6ftgwVelUQee2hkpqSqt8U85xuqRYDiCRjzC-RbWfKmvMAh9ps3EmX80KXRISua4zhu-SUtJecF5GIAliaQG3M6RMf3SoksOK7UdnVH0iIneNY1l52FjeLlNBzYmRKzcYLjgWaNfUQB01fd1x5F5XZxFraSTk8dzJvScDopz5U/s800/Manners%202%20works%201938%20OS%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEJJAxkekR6GAPzrG-fA6ftgwVelUQee2hkpqSqt8U85xuqRYDiCRjzC-RbWfKmvMAh9ps3EmX80KXRISua4zhu-SUtJecF5GIAliaQG3M6RMf3SoksOK7UdnVH0iIneNY1l52FjeLlNBzYmRKzcYLjgWaNfUQB01fd1x5F5XZxFraSTk8dzJvScDopz5U/w640-h426/Manners%202%20works%201938%20OS%20map.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: purple;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced by permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1938.</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With new info turning up it has revealed Manners closed their Erewash Valley Works (red) in 1956.</span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The link below shows two photos of Manners brickworks. The one taken from the other side of the Nottingham Canal will be the Erewash works, with it being the nearest. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Manners Brick Co. closed their Eastwood Works (yellow) in 1977 & this closure date came from the Eastwood Advertiser. A June 1978 newspaper article records the owners of this former brickworks site as Leigh Interests of Birmingham, who filled in the old claypits with household rubbish. </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I then found Martin Hammond had wrote this in the May 1985 edition of British Brick Society journal - "On the current letterhead of Messrs. Barnett & Beddows Ltd, Atlas Works, Aldridge, Walsall, it says "incorporating Hamblet's Blue Brick Co. & Manners Brick Co.". I suspect Barnett & Beddows had only purchased the Manners company name & may have been producing bricks with the Eastwood name stamped in them at their Aldridge Works at this 1995 date, we know they were producing bricks stamped Hamblet at their Aldridge Works. </span><br /></span>
<span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Today the Eastwood/Manners brickworks & the former Newthorpe & Greasley Railway Station on Newmanleys Road which in more recent times had been occupied by industrial units is now void of all buildings & is waiting to be developed. Of the two Erewash/Manners sites further down the Erewash Valley, the green coloured works has been restored for farming & the red coloured works is now under the A610 Bypass. Also to note is that the Nottingham Canal which served the two brickworks has now been filled in & today part of it is a public footpath.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBz2PMGj6-eXW4N1ZGEr53vIHbRax7EwxbJNxqDsIMUmYtBPl3ODcqQuszku7qwKag6j_tx_jDrNpO9sPQZZTxiHeTGZgYdit4rgqhmZQm0oB7E1CO_56bhiSv8lNmKDIupLhJGw8LKtDuqaISjqhIrSBJ2klYy3U9GJzMxsZIGWTap0nUoPocLjdzTQ/s640/IMG_8815.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBz2PMGj6-eXW4N1ZGEr53vIHbRax7EwxbJNxqDsIMUmYtBPl3ODcqQuszku7qwKag6j_tx_jDrNpO9sPQZZTxiHeTGZgYdit4rgqhmZQm0oB7E1CO_56bhiSv8lNmKDIupLhJGw8LKtDuqaISjqhIrSBJ2klYy3U9GJzMxsZIGWTap0nUoPocLjdzTQ/w640-h428/IMG_8815.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The first bit of information for this brickworks comes from Kelly's 1876 edition & instead of the entry listing the Newthorpe Brick Company, it lists it's owners. So the entry is Sellman, Bircumshaw, Rowbottom & Lowe, Newthorpe, Greasley. I have to point out that the name of Sellman in this entry should read Salmon.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This brickworks was only short lived as I found a</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> notice which appeared in the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper which stated that Mr. John Peet had received instructions from the Newthorpe Brick & Tile Co. (through the dissolution of partnership), to sell by auction on Monday, the 23rd December 1878 at the Old White Bull, Newthorpe at 4 o'clock precisely, the whole of the valuable Brickyard Plant situated on Baker Lane. There is then a list of the buildings & their contents. It then states that the Vertical Engine would be put into motion between 2 & 4 o'clock & that the whole of this property which had only been in use for four years would be sold as One Lot.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This 1879 map also shows that there was a brickworks (coloured green) next to Newthorpe Colliery & this yard may have been associated with this colliery which was sunk in 1863 by the Digby Colliery Co. & closed in 1888.</span><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Digby Colliery at Giltbrook was sunk in 1866 & a brickworks had been established by 1879, as it is shown next to the colliery on the 1879 map in the same location as it is shown on the 1900 map above (yellow). The green coloured yard was in Kimberley & I write about that works later. Both the 1879 &1900 maps show that Digby Colliery & Brickworks had it's own wharf on the Nottingham Canal & it's own railway sidings connecting to the Great Northern Line to distribute the company's coal & bricks.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The Alfreton Journal dated 14th of September 1894 reports on the history of Digby Colliery recording Mr. T. Potter as Managing Partner & Mr. Granville Chambers as Certificated Manager. The article finishes with some information on the brickworks in which 120,000 bricks are turned out each week consisting of common, pressed & firebricks. The common bricks being largely used for railway work. The present plant was made by Wootton Brothers of Coalville which had been in operation for a year. <br /></span>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have established that W. & J. Buxton / William Buxton owned the green coloured yard as William's last entry is in Kelly's 1904 edition & this brickworks is the only one shown on the 1900 map in Kimberley at this date. (see Digby entry for this green coloured works on the 1900 map). The red & purple works are no longer shown on the 1900 map. So the trade directory entries for the Buxtons are W. Buxton, Kimberley, Kelly's 1855 edition; William & J. Buxton (same as the brick below) Kimberley, Kelly's 1876 edition; William Buxton, Kimberley, Kelly's 1881, 85, 88 & 91 editions; White's 1894 edition now records William Buxton at two works, Kimberley & Wollaton. Kelly's 1895, 1900 & 1904 editions only list William Buxton at Kimberley.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have two more trade directory entries for brickmakers in Kimberley, J. Shaw is listed in Kelly's 1855 edition & Edwin Higdon is listed in Kelly's 1888 edition. Which of the two works red/purple these brickmakers worked at as shown on the 1879 map above is unknown. I have added the J. Shaw brick which is in the Silk Mill Museum's collection in Derby as a possibility of it being made by this J. Shaw of Kimberley, but I have to note that the lettering indicates to me a slightly later date than 1855, unless this maker was producing bricks say five years later. No other J. Shaw's have been found listed in trade directories covering Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire, so this 1855 J. Shaw of Kimberley is my only candidate as the maker of this brick. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple;"><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">Awsworth Patent Brick Co.</span></u></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple;"><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">Nottingham & Awsworth Brick Co.</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ljqE0IvHWQ/XXjfDLWd5_I/AAAAAAAAIAU/9BHBaCuNKGwdJlDyFlHA-cHMbqc5DqNkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_1901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--ljqE0IvHWQ/XXjfDLWd5_I/AAAAAAAAIAU/9BHBaCuNKGwdJlDyFlHA-cHMbqc5DqNkwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_1901.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo by MF courtesy of Nottingham City Museums & Galleries.</i></div><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The first reference found to the Awsworth Patent Brick Company comes from an advert in the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper dated</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> 16th of July 1874 - Awsworth Patent Brickworks, moulders wanted. A later find reveals the Awsworth Patent Brick Co. was established in May 1874. </span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Then an advert in the Nottingham Guardian dated 30th of April 1875 reads - Bricks For Sale & delivered in canal boats to Radford & Lenton or alongside any wharf in Nottingham. Apply to Mr. Gadsden, Awsworth Patent Brick Co. Ilkeston. Further adverts for the sale of the company's bricks in November 1875 record James Sanders as General Manager. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl1rfgNf3ANt9iJs14vhXbos8FZ3X1bM0mDs0dJ8Ycr0fv86-4_-a1oVbUWY6Pe4K9kffGJJEAOhM4AWXnCW24HkP8_pbD5rdpQfLfeCeps1PiMxFo4lyx6Km5bd_IeWtIwliJ1lyotuLZA8irZQZqWB7vS0XIGQ5MhlhDT4WY6qhvHDdT1NfKk8ipMQ/s640/20230523_115053.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl1rfgNf3ANt9iJs14vhXbos8FZ3X1bM0mDs0dJ8Ycr0fv86-4_-a1oVbUWY6Pe4K9kffGJJEAOhM4AWXnCW24HkP8_pbD5rdpQfLfeCeps1PiMxFo4lyx6Km5bd_IeWtIwliJ1lyotuLZA8irZQZqWB7vS0XIGQ5MhlhDT4WY6qhvHDdT1NfKk8ipMQ/w640-h360/20230523_115053.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Photo by Richard Bull.</i></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Richard found these Awsworth Patent Brick Co. bricks near Cossall Colliery. Originally fused together with others due to a kiln meltdown they dropped apart on removal from site.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My next article comes from a Nottingham Daily Express notice dated 18th of December 1875 & I have selected the juicy bits which records the share issue in a new company called the Nottingham & Awsworth Brick Co. operating at the former Awsworth Patent Brick Co's works.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Notice of Prospectus, Shares available in the Nottingham & Awsworth Brick Company.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Directors - Messrs. Ralph Firbank, Finsbury Park, London. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">G.R. Turner, Vulcan Engineering Works, Langley Mill, John Hassell, Firebrick Works, Woodville, Burton on Trent, John Farnsworth, Eastwood, Notts. R.E. Cooper, Campden Grove, Kensington. Bankers - The Nottingham & Notts. Banking Co. Nottingham. </span></div><div>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Company has been formed for the purpose of purchasing & working the brick manufactory on the banks of the Great Northern Company's Canal at Awsworth, known as the Awsworth Patent Brick Company with that company in May 1874 having acquired a 14 year lease on the land. The new Company (N & A) for a sum of £3,200 & 50 in shares had purchased all of the plant, a Pickwell's Patent Kiln, capable of burning 60 thousand bricks per week, a scotch kiln capable of holding 40 thousand bricks, buildings, clay mills, brick press, one foreman's & two workmen's dwellings. drying shed, horse & cart, wheel barrows & tools, landing stage at canal. The list is endless.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Expected profit of 20% return on investment. The Directors invite applications for shares. It then lists who to contact & how to obtain the prospectus. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">This new company is listed in Kelly's 1876 & the entry is<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span>The Nottingham & Awsworth Brick Co., Awsworth, with James Sanders as secretary. So it appears James Sanders had taken up a new roll within this new company with him previously being the General Manager at the Awsworth Patent Brick Co.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Although a little hard to read this brick says N (reversed) & A Bk Co. for Nottingham & Awsworth Brick Co. I have now added another example of this stamp mark sent to me by Richard Bull. </span><div>
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<br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Nottingham Guardian dated the 16th of March 1877 records the Nottingham & Awsworth Brick Co. had gone into Liquidation. Then a Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper notice records - "</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Land for Sale - 4 acre field & cottage along side Great Northern Canal at Awsworth, recently occupied by the Awsworth Brick Co. This site is up for sale or to be let up to Lady's Day 1888 & is suitable for brickmaking, market gardening - contact Mr. G.R. Turner, Langley Mill." </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Lady's Day is March 25th. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have three more brickmakers listed in trade directories as brickmaking in Awsworth & this will have been at the green coloured brick yard - W. Truman Kelly's 1855 edition, Lynch & Cadogan Kelly's 1876 edition & John Richards Kelly's 1876 edition. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Both these two Awsworth brick yards are no longer shown on the 1899 map.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Cossall Colliery Co. is listed in Kelly’s 1916 & 22 editions with three railway siding depots in Nottingham, but no works address. The brickworks was next to the colliery in the village of Cossall, Notts, which is just east of Ilkeston. A mining reference records the Cossall Colliery Co. brickworks as making 10,000 bricks per day in 1923 & by 1940 the output was 15,000 bricks per day.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">1899 map showing location of the Cossall Colliery brickworks situated next to the Nottingham Canal & a 1950 photo of the works from the canal can be seen at this link. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This brickworks is shown on maps from 1879 through to the 1938 & I have a reference that the brickworks closed in the late 1950's with the colliery closing in 1966. Below is a CCC brick made by the Cossall Colliery Co. which I photographed at the Silk Mill Museum in Derby. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Many thanks to Courtney Higgins & Lloyd Henshaw who found this pre-NCB Watnall brick while they were exploring Brinsley Headstocks park. After being contacted by Will Moss this brick is now proudly displayed alongside my other Nottinghamshire bricks. An example of one of these bricks had eluded me for such a long time. Update 8.8.18 - I now have a full example. Many thanks to Will Moss who found it, again in Brinsley Headstocks Park.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So on to the history of this works. Watnall Colliery was sunk in 1873 by Barber Walker & Co. The 1900 map below shows that a brickworks was in production by this date. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The colliery & brickworks had it's own railway siding to transport it's coal & bricks.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Nationalisation in 1947 saw both the colliery & brickworks being transferred over to the National Coal Board. The colliery closed in 1950, but the brickworks remained open & continued to produce bricks from the large reserves of clay shale & coal which had been stock piled. Then when these reserves dwindled new materials were brought in from other pits, mainly from nearby Moorgreen. According to Martin Hammond's account of the brickworks, it closed in 1969. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This view was taken from the entrance on the west side. The kilns are numbered 1, 2 and 3 (left to right). No. 4 kiln is situated behind no. 3. At the rear of no. 1 is the puddle-shop, where the bricks were made. Behind are the remains of Watnall Colliery. On the left is the railway embankment of the branch line from the Great Northern Railway which served the colliery and the brickworks, both of which were nationalised in 1947. The brickworks were closed in the spring of 1975. From Martin Hammond's account were now know the brickworks actually closed in 1969.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">After the brickworks had closed the buildings were demolished, but the four chimneys remained & were highly visible from the M1 motorway. When I was heading north on the M1 & saw the chimneys I knew that I was nearly home & would soon be having a nice cup of tea.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Originally named The Watnall Brick & Tile Company this brickworks was owned by Barber, Walker & Co. Ltd. who owned many collieries in Nottinghamshire & South Yorkshire with it's head office located in Eastwood.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This article records the building of the brickworks at Watnall as 1920 & not by 1900 as previously found & shown on the 1900 map above.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Further investigation has revealed that this brickworks is shown next to the colliery on a 1875 O.S. map two years after the pit was sunk & the brickworks continues to be shown on subsequent maps. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So the 1920 date may come from Barber Walker building a new replacement brickworks at that date next to the colliery ? The article then goes on to say that production started in 1922 & the works used coal & clay shale from it's colliery with electricity being supplied from Moorgreen Colliery. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Bricks were produced in a 18 chamber Manchester type kiln with a second kiln of the same design being built in 1923. A 18 chamber Staffordshire kiln was added in 1926 resulting in the production of 9 million bricks per year. 1934 saw the addition a 20 chamber Staffordshire type kiln & the total production from the four kilns rose to 16 million bricks per year in 1935.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The brickworks closed between April 1942 to December 1945 during WW2 with the kilns being requisitioned by the Government for storage purposes.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Production resumed in 1946 with the colliery & brickworks being Nationalised in 1947. As previously wrote the colliery closed in 1950 with brick production carrying on using the large stocks of clay shale & coal which had been stock piled. Then when these reserves dwindled new materials were brought in from other pits. As previously wrote Martin Hammond records Watnall brickworks closed in 1969. </span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Beardsley sunk Clinton Colliery in 1872 & it was operational by 1875. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1875 map shows that the colliery had a tramway to transport it's coal to nearby Clinton Wharf on the Cromford Canal & the map also</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> reveals that a brickworks had not been establish at this date.The first reference to the brickworks is in</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> a book by Brinsley's local historian, Stan Smith. Stan who sadly passed away in 2017 wrote that John Beardsley is recorded in </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">White's 1885 edition as owning an extensive brickworks at Brinsley. The exact date when this brickworks opened is not known. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A mining article records that Clinton Colliery closed on Lady's Day (25th March) 1887 with The Brinsley Brick & Tile Co. given as it's owners, thus confirming that the Brinsley B.&T Co. were the makers of this brick. It is unknown if the brickworks also closed in 1887 as the 1887 map shows only the colliery was disused & the brickworks looks like it was still in operation. The brickworks may have continued to be operated by the Brinsley Brick & Tile Co. to around 1890 as we then find Isaac Riley is recorded as brickmaker in Brinsley in 1891. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This Brinsley "Blue" brick which is in Phil Sparham's collection in Derbyshire was photographed by fellow brick collector Frank Lawson. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have to note blue bricks are normally made with Etruria clay which is mostly found in the West Midlands & this type of clay is not found in Nottinghamshire. I have photographed several Nottinghamshire "blue" bricks & these were made by Sherwood Colliery, Riddings, Butterley Brick Co. Kirkby, Eastwood Brick Co, Manners Eastwood & one came from nearby Shipley Colliery, Derbys. So I have come to the conclusion that the Brinsley Brick Co. & these other local brick companies experimented in making blue bricks from their local clay, firing them at a higher temperature to achieve a blue brick. On examination these bluish bricks are only blue on the surface & damage bricks reveal they are red clay underneath. So with finding only the odd East Midlands blue brick scattered here & there, I can only conclude that these bluish bricks did not match the quality of their West Midlands counterparts, therefore not taking over their share of blue brick sales market. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As a footnote a mining article has revealed that Arthur Lawrence father of the famous author, D.H. Lawrence moved from Brinsley Colliery to be a sinker at Clifton Colliery in 1872 at the aged 28. Arthur had worked at Brinsley Colliery since the age of 7. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As previously wrote Isaac Riley may have taken over the Stoney Lane brickworks from the Brinsley Brick & Tile Co. around 1890 as we find in Kelly's 1891 & White's 1894 editions the listing of Isaac Riley as brickmaker in Brinsley. With no other brick yards shown on maps in Brinsley, Isaac may have owned the Stoney Lane yard between 1890 & 1894. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I then found that Stan Smith writes in his book that George Clark was the owner the Stoney Lane brickworks in 1894. Stan then continues to say that in 1896</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> Peter Newton became the new owner of this works & I write about the Stoney Lane Brick Co. next.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stan Smith writes in his book that local Derby man Peter Newton became the new owner of the Stoney Lane brickworks in 1896, calling his company the Stoney Lane Brick Co. I then found that a mining article records </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Peter Newton as the owner of the New Clinton Colliery in Brinsley, with him sinking a new pit next to the brickworks in 1902. The 1912 map reveals that this New Clinton Colliery was now situated on the northern side of the brickworks. The first colliery had been sunk on the southern side of the brickworks next to Stoney Lane. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">From another mining article this New Clinton Colliery closed in 1909 & The Stoney Lane Brick Co. is recorded as it's owners, so I expect Peter Newton was still in charge. It is unknown if</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> the brickworks also closed in 1909, but the brickyard is still shown as operational on the 1913 map. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There is the option that the brickworks may have closed at the start of WW1 & then re-opened afterwards as Stan Smith writes in his book that the brickworks had closed by 1930 & t</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">he 1938 map confirms this by only showing the outlines of the clay pit. None of the many trade directories that I have access to do not list either the Stoney Lane Brick Co. or Peter Newton which I find quite strange bearing in mind that the works could have been operational for around 34 years ? </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This blue Stoney Lane example is in a display of locally made bricks at St. Ann's Allotments in Nottingham & I have photographed another one of these bricks in Phil Sparham's collection in Derbyshire. T</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">hese </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stoney Lane "blues" show signs of red clay where they are damaged, hence me coming to the conclusion as previously wrote in the Brinsley entry that Nottinghamshire brickworks tried to emulate their West Midland's "cousins" in producing blue bricks. My conclusion is also back up</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> with the fact that the Brinsley Brick & Tile Co. also made "blue" bricks at this same works in the 1880's. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">To double confirm my theory I have received an image of one of these Stoney Lane bricks from Will Moss who tells me that the brick is in the collection of a man living in Brinsley, so I think I can now say for certain that these Stoney Lane blue bricks were made by the Stoney Lane Brick Co. in Brinsley & not as first thought made at a brickworks in West Bromwich which coincidentally was also situated near a road called Stoney Lane. There is a West Bromwich connection to the Stoney Lane Brickworks as Stan Smith writes in his book that the manager of the works at the time came from West Bromwich & I am thinking that it may have been this un-named manager who brought his knowledge to the works in the making of these "blue' bricks ? Stan also writes that the Stoney Lane Brick Company brought brickmakers to their works from Stoke & other Potteries towns, housing them in the nearby terrace houses on Wharf Row which where basic 2 up 2 down houses of poor standard & they were cold in winter, had no electricity, gas or running water installed & the toilets were outdoor earth closets. I would like to say the money was great, but I expect it wasn't. So I expect these brickmakers were glad to have a roof over their heads & being employed earning a wage in these dark times. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have formulated this timeline of events for the Stoney Lane colliery & brickworks, which may or may not be correct, but I have to say that all the dates fit. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Clinton Colliery sunk by John Beardsley in 1872, opened 1875.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Brickworks opened by 1885 as per White's entry for John Beardsley & with him being the owner of the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Brinsley Brick & Tile Co. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Clinton Colliery closed 25th March 1887. Brickworks may have also closed at the same time, but there is the option that the works continued under the Brinsley Brick & Tile Co. until 1890. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Isaac Riley at this yard as recorded in Kelly's 1891 & White's 1894 editions as brickmaker in Brinsley. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stan Smith writes in his book that George Clark owned the brickworks in 1894 with Peter Newton taking over in 1896. Then a mining article records Peter Newton as sinking the "New" Clinton Colliery in 1902 on the northern side of the brickworks & that he was the owner of the brickyard & his company was called the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stoney Lane Brick Co.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Clinton Colliery closed 1909.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stoney Lane brick yard still shown as operational on the 1913 map. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There is the option that the brickworks may have closed at the start of WW1 & then re-opened afterwards ? </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stan Smith writes in his book that the brickworks had closed by 1930 & I think he got this date from a lady he interviewed for his book who recollects that as a young girl living on Stoney Lane, she remembers only seeing the open claypit & no works buildings in the early 1930's. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1938 map confirms this as it only shows the disused clay pits.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1880 map above shows that there where two brickworks in Heanor in that year with one situated on Nelson Street & one on Thorpes Road & recorded as Commonside in trade directories. I first start with the two brickmakers who are just listed as brickmaking in Heanor & these two makers could have been at either of these two yards at the dates that they are recorded in trade directories, so R. Marshall is listed in Kelly's 1855, White's 1857 & Kelly's 1864 edition & Ebenezer Howitt is just listed in Kelly's 1876 edition. I then found in White's 1857 edition that Gould, Checkland & Marshall are recorded as colliery proprietors at Marpool, so the brickmaker R. Marshall above could be the same Marshall in this partnership of owning a colliery at Marpool.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I now move on to the Nelson Street works in Heanor & Charles C. Fidler is listed at this yard in Kelly's 1881, 87 & 91 editions. Up to yet no bricks have turned up bearing his name. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We then find the listing of Rigley & Claxton in Kelly's 1895 edition through to it's 1900 edition at Nelson Street. Kelly's 1904 edition just lists Alfred William Claxton at Nelson Street & two bricks made by R. & C. are shown below. The year this yard closed is unknown, but the 1913 map shows that Claxton Street is now built on the site of this brickworks. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A family website has revealed that Alfred William Claxton in the 1901 Census was aged 50 & born in Wrighton, Norfolk, trade</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> - brickmaker/employer & was residing at 28 Nelson Road together with his 2nd wife Hannah, one son & 6 daughters. At number 27 Nelson Street his son Arthur W. Claxton, aged 27, also born in Wrighton, Norfolk is recorded as a brickmaker & living at this address with his wife & daughter aged 1. The 1891 Census reveals that Arthur then aged 17 was living with his father Alfred, Alfred's second wife Hannah & their children at Station Street, Kirkby in Ashfield & Alfred is listed as brickmaker. There was a brickworks on Station Street next to the railway station which I have not been able to find who worked there & it strongly looks like Alfred may have been the owner or just the brickmaker at this Kirkby yard. The 1881 Census records Alfred as a labourer aged 30 & living on New Street, Kirkby with his first wife Ann, Arthur aged 7 & two daughters. Alfred's first wife Ann died in 1881 & he then married Hannah in 1882. I have established that Alfred & Ann had moved to Kirkby in 1875/6 because Arthur had been born in Norfolk in 1874 & their daughter Frances was born in Kirkby in 1876. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I next found that A. Claxton & Sons are listed as brickmakers in Greenwich, Ripley as recorded in Kelly's 1916 edition, so could this A. Claxton be our Heanor duo Alfred William Claxton or his son Arthur William Claxton now with sons. I expect the 1921 Census would reveal this if Alfred (aged 66) & Arthur (aged 47) were still brickmaking at this date. Alfred's great grand-daughter, Jean Hill has informed me that Alfred died on the 29th of September 1916 aged 66, so with the trade directory being published at the beginning of the year there is the option that it could still have been Alfred in this Ripley entry. Jean continues to tell me that Arthur died in 1972 aged 98. We will have to wait until the 1921 Census is published to resolve this one. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I first have note that the spelling of Milhay as stamped on this brick is actually Milnhay today & the 1879 map & White's 1857 trade directory both record this hamlet as Mill Hay. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">White's 1857 edition lists the Patent Brickworks, Mill Hay with J.F. Milnes as manager & fellow collector Frank Lawson has obtained this information from the Heanor Local History Society - Millhay brickworks was associated with Millhay Colliery at Langley Mill & was owned by Smith & Goodwin, with the colliery closing in 1856. Further digging around on the web has revealed that Smith & Goodwin owned the Langley Mill Pottery on Station Road & Mill Hay Colliery was next to the pottery from 1847 to 1856. So this brick could have been made at S & G's pottery works, but I cannot rule out the option that there could have been a brickworks at the side of the colliery as well, also owned by Smith & Goodwin. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So it appears that this brickworks/colliery was not in Mill Hay, but actually in Langley Mill & just named after that hamlet with the colliery being situated opposite the road which went to Millhay. I have used the 1879 map below to show the location of the Langley Mill Pottery/colliery site. Today this former pottery/colliery site is occupied by the Acorn shopping centre. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">After writing the last paragraph a new discovery on the web from a list of mines which closed in 1857 records that the Mill Hay Colliery closed in that year & the owners are listed as McAlum & Allen. Now I have brick </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(shown in the Langley Mill entry) </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">stamped McCallum & Co. & this company is listed as McCallum & Allen in the 1855 & 57 trade directories. So this new info now disagrees with the information Frank obtained from the Heanor History Society. I am not saying that this information Frank received is incorrect as there is the option that Smith & Goodwin owned the colliery before McCallum & Allen in 1855 with the colliery being sunk in 1847. Only more research will resolve this </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">quandary</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I now believe I have now found the Smith & Goodwin connection of them owning Mill Hay Colliery. There was a second pit on this site next to pottery in 1874. It must have been short lived as the pit is not shown as such on the 1879 map. The mining reference that I found it in states that "the pit (not named) was near the Pottery offices" & Smith & Goodwin's names are given as owners of the pit. So hopefully that has sorted this quandary & the information given to Frank by the Heanor Local History Society is correct. I have just got to establish who made the Milhay brick, Smith & Goodwin or McCallum & Allen & if it was S & G was it at their Pottery Works or was there brickworks at the side of the pit in 1874 - Simples !!!</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Old maps show that there where two brickworks in Langley Mill & I have found many brickmakers listed in trade directories, but only with Langley Mill as the location of their works, so I am unsure in some cases who worked at which yard. There was a third brickworks next to Langley Mill Pottery on Station Road, but this works is not shown as such on any of the maps that I have access to - (coloured red on the 1879 map below). </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Beardsley is listed at Aldercar Lane, so I am certain that he owned the works which was accessed off Cromford Road (yellow on map below). I have also attributed this same works as later being owned by the Langley Mill Brick Co. The 1899 map shows this works (yellow) was the larger in size of the two & I am then taking it that the smaller works (green) was being run by Charles Hardy, who was working on his own.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have had to use two 1879 maps to show both of these Langley Mill brickworks & the bottom of the first map joins the top of the second. I was hoping that I could line these two maps together, but they do not quite match.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As said, because I have two works & several brickmakers & I do not known for certain who operated which yard, I have listed each of the brickmakers/companies in date order with the yard that they may have owned if known. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As I only have one photo of a brick made by any of these makers I start with McCallum & Allen who are listed in Kelly's 1855 & White's 1857 editions at the Patent Steam Brick, Pipe & Terra Cotta Works, Langley Mill. Searching the web has revealed that in a list of mines which closed in 1857, Mill Hay Colliery is in that list & the owners are recorded as McAlum & Allen. I am taking it that McCallum's name had been just been mis-spelt. Mill Hay Colliery was situated on Station Road next to Langley Mill Pottery, the location of which can be seen on the 1879 map above (coloured red). White's 1857 edition also records that </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">J.F. Milnes is listed as manager at the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Patent Brickworks, Mill Hay & this ties in with the McCallum & Allen 1857 trade directory entry as owners of the Patent Steam Brickworks. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1855 edition records Woodward & Horsefield at Heanor, then the couple are listed at Langley Mill in White's 1857 edition. I think that this Heanor listing is still their Langley Mill yard as I have found in many trade directory listings that Langley Mill is listed first then Heanor second in the addresses of trades persons working in Langley Mill.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">From the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper I have a notice & an advert for the Erewash Valley Patent Brick, Pipe & Tile Co. The notice from June 1853 states that a new brickworks was going to open in Langley Mill with the capacity to produce 20,000 bricks per day when in full production. The May 1854 advert states "On sale & ready for delivery, common bricks, first rate pressed frontage bricks, hexagonal & square floor bricks, pantiles of all types & drainage pipes of all sizes. All orders executed on the shortest of notice. Any amounts delivered to Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield & any intermediate Stations at advantageous rates". Apply Joseph Tomlinson, Manager of the Works, Langley Mill Station. Neither the notice or the advert actually states which of the two brick works it was in Langley Mill as both works had there own sidings, but I am favouring the one nearest the railway station off North Street (coloured green on the 1879 map below). There are no listings for the Erewash Valley Patent B. P. & T Co. at Langley Mill in trade directories & how long this company operated in Langley Mill is unknown, but I have found another company called the Erewash Valley Brick, Pipe & Pottery Co. Ltd. & is listed in Kelly's Notts. 1900 edition at Newthorpe, however there is no connection between these two companies. This Langley Mill works was then taken over by Charles Hardy in 1899 & I write about Charles a little further down this entry. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Beardsley is listed at Aldercar Lane, Heanor (again Aldercar Lane is in Langley Mill) in Kelly's 1876 edition. Then John is listed in Kelly's 1881 & 87 editions at Langley Mill. The London Gazette & a newspaper article records John Beardsley went bankrupt in April 1887. So I am crediting the yellow works to John Beardsley who also owned a coal mine leased from the Duke of Newcastle in Brinsley. As of yet, no bricks stamped J. Beardsley have turned up. There were two brickmakers with the name of Beardsley operating in Ilkeston & although I have not found any connections, John may have been related to one of them.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1899 to 1912 editions lists the Langley Mill Brick Co. Ltd. Langley Mill. I have credited the yellow works to this company.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Charles Hardy is listed in Kelly's 1899 to 1900 editions at Langley Mill, then the 1904 & 1912 editions list C.W. Hardy at Langley Mill. I have credited the green works situated off North Street as being owned by Charles.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This 1900 map now shows that both brickworks have expanded in size. Today the green yard accessed via North Street is an industrial estate & the yellow yard is now housing on Crown Way.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I now write about the two brickmakers who are listed at Langley, Heanor & these are W. Spray in Kelly's 1864 & White's 1857 edition, then Levi Spray in White's 1857 edition. I do not have any maps covering these dates to show you their yard & the 1879 map does not show any brickyards in Langley.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My first trade directory listing for a brickmaker working in Sandiacre is R. Salt who appears in Kelly's 1855 edition & Salt's yard was more than likely the one on Bostocks Lane (coloured yellow on the 1880 map above). This Bostocks Lane yard was then owned by the Sandiacre Brick Co., then John Saunders & finally T. Sellars before closing in the mid 1890's & I write about each brickmaker in turn.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The brick kilns (coloured green) on the 1880 map above where at the Sandiacre Wagon Works. It appears from this map that the brickworks was established to produced the bricks needed for the building of this wagon works which was designed & laid out by Daniel Macnee in 1877 & may have been owned by Edward Eastwood who is listed as waggon builder at Sandiacre in Kelly's 1891 edition.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This brick was made by the Sandiacre Brick Co. & although not named as such in Wright's 1874 trade directory, the making of bricks, lace & starch products are listed </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">as being produced in the village</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">. This brick yard is coloured yellow on the 1880 map above & my next reference to the Sandiacre Brick Co. comes from the London Gazette dated 28th May 1875 when the company was voluntarily wound up. We next find that John Saunders was the next owner of this works, possibly not long after 1875 & featured below is one of his bricks which was produced using the latest patented steam machinery. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This Bostock Lane works under the ownership of John Saunders did not last very long as we next find in a notice which appeared in the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper in 1882, declars the Sale of the Brick & Tile Works at Sandiacre & reads - This works is being sold by Mr. Thomas Neale at his mart on Wheelergate, Nottingham on Wednesday 9th August 1882 at four o’clock precisely on behalf of the Mortgagee. The notice then goes on to list all the Plant that was for sale & this included three kilns, extensive steam-heated drying sheds, stable, office, steam engine & boiler, complete steam brickmaking machinery, an elevated tramway to the mill giving easy access to the Erewash Canal (the canal at this point was actually the Derby Canal according to the 1880 map above). The machinery has been put down (purchased & set up) at great cost by Mr. John Saunders & is in good working order & of best of it's kind. The bed of clay is practically inexhaustible & best in the neighbourhood. Bricks made are much sought after. I think the person who wrote this notice would make an excellent spin doctor today ! The notice continues with the listing of land which has been divided into 56 plots & to be sold for housing, each plot varying from 800 to 1000 square yards. The proximity to the brickworks would materially cheapen the cost of building the houses. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So it appears that from this notice of the sale of the works, John Saunders had not kept up on the repayments on his mortgage & the Mortgagee was selling the works to recoup their losses. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1898 map below shows this works is now disused, so Sellars was only at this yard for a few short years also. The in-exhaustable clay reserves as recorded in the 1882 Sale of the Works Notice appears not to have been used. Also the plan to build 56 houses next to the brickworks does not appear to have materialised either. Bostock Lane in places now follows a slightly different route today to the one shown on the 1898 map below & houses have now been built on this former brickworks site with the traffic on the M1 gently roaring-by sandwiched in-between these houses & Wilsthorpe Lodge Farm. This farm house & buildings are shown as being in the same location on the 1898 map below & today the farm has access off Bostock Lane via it's own bridge over the M1.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There are no trade directory entries for this brickworks which was located next to the Nuthall Canal at Shipley Wharf. With it being situated very close to Shipley Hall, this brickworks I believe was an estate brickworks owned by the Miller-Mundy family who lived at the Hall. The family are recorded as owning Shipley Colliery which consisted of two pits - Coppice & Woodside. I have found on the web that this brickworks was operational between 1880 & 1914 & this is backed up with the works being shown on the 1879 map as a brick yard & then not shown at all on the 1913 map. Not even the outline of the clay pit is shown on the 1913 map which can be clearly seen on the 1899 map above, so the clay pit must have been filled in by 1913.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The lettering on this Shipley brick indicates that this is a pre 1900 brick. Frank photographed this brick in situ on top of a wall in Marpool, so only a stones throw from where it was made.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I photographed this blue brick on a farm in Sutton in Ashfield & I expect that the company with finding that there was another brick company in Shipley, Yorkshire making bricks they decided to add Derby to their bricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">With Mick finding this one in his garden, it certainly will have been made in Derbyshire & more than likely pre-dates the brick above.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ulysses Poundall is listed as brickmaker at Cotmanhay in Kelly's 1855 edition. I also have a reference to Ulysses owning a beerhouse called the Brick & Tile Inn in Cotmanhay in White's 1857 edition. I have found on several occasions that brickmaking & being a beerhouse owner/seller of beer went hand in hand. The location of his yard is unknown, but the 1879 map as shown in the Horridge entry shows two yards (yellow & blue) on the edge of Cotmanhay & he may have owned the yellow coloured yard as William Horridge owned the blue coloured yard in 1855. This yellow coloured yard was then owned by William Beardsley in 1876 & I write about him later.</span></span></div>
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<br /><div><span style="font-size: large;">With the help of Matt Horridge we have established there were 8 brickmakers with the name Horridge in the Cotmanhay/Ilkeston area & I have created a Horridge Tree to show their family connection. As Jonathan senior died before the 1841 census I have not been able to ascertain his profession. By following the rest of Jonathan's descendants in the census I have found if they were not brickmaking they worked as lace makers, cloth weavers or coopers.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-luAU7A9lMH4/X7U5iOqfpgI/AAAAAAAAKCg/IJHtw3NBLz0ZYOapRBL042RPYzQp-A-xQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Horridge%2BTree.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="2048" height="414" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-luAU7A9lMH4/X7U5iOqfpgI/AAAAAAAAKCg/IJHtw3NBLz0ZYOapRBL042RPYzQp-A-xQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h414/Horridge%2BTree.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So I start with William Horridge & his three sons James, Samuel & Joseph & the W H C brick above may have been made by William Horridge of Cotmanhay, but I have to note since photographing a West Hallam Colliery brick (4.7.17) this initialled WHC brick could have been made at the colliery instead. </span><br /></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;">William Horridge b.1879 married Hannah Barton & they had 4 sons & 5 daughters. William is listed in Glover's 1827 edition as brickmaker & farmer. The 1841 census records William, sons James b.1811, Samuel b.1819 & Joseph b.1824 all as brickmakers in Ilkeston. I am assuming William's three sons were all working alongside him at his Cotmanhay yard.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;">In the 1851 census William is listed only as a brickmaker aged 71 & living at Middle Common.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> In August 1855 </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">the Horridge family are recorded as living at 6, Horridge Street & Kelly's 1855 </span><span style="font-size: large;">edition </span><span style="font-size: large;">records William was still brickmaking at Cotmanhay. The 1861 census reveals</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">William was still a brickmaker </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">so he must have been made of stern stuff to still be brickmaking at the age of 81. William died on the 21st of May 1863. We also find son James had died in 1859.</span></div><div>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;">In the 1851 Census at the same address his son Samuel b.1819 aged 30 is also listed as a brickmaker. Samuel is still listed as a brickmaker in the 1861 census & living with his wife Elizabeth at his mother-in-laws house on Heanor Road. Kelly's 1864 edition records Samuel as a brickmaker in Cotmanhay, therefore we know from this entry that Samuel had taken over the running of his father's brick yard after his death in 1863 & more than likely Joseph was still working alongside him. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In the 1871 census Samuel is again listed as a brickmaker, but now a widower. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have coloured Horridge's brickworks blue on the 1879 OS map below. I have deduced the yellow coloured works was operated by the Beardsley</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> family because this yard is no longer shown on the 1899 map & the Beardsley's last trade directory entry is 1887. However the blue coloured yard is still shown on the 1899 map & this ties in with trade directory entries for Joseph Horridge still operating this blue coloured yard in 1900. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Now on to William's son, Joseph Horridge b.1824 & he is recorded as brickmaker aged 37, a widower & living with his father William in the 1861 census. As wrote Joseph's brother Samuel is listed in the 1864 directory as operating the Cotmanhay yard & in Kelly's 1876 to 1900 editions we find Joseph is now recorded as the owner of this yard. Further investigation has revealed William died on the 4th of August 1873 aged 54 & it will have been at this date Joseph took over the running of the Cotmanhay yard. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I believe this Cotmanhay yard closed shortly after 1900 with Joseph now 76 retiring from brickmaking. Joseph died in January 1909. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FRaJ4zfM_T8/X6AtsYuaA6I/AAAAAAAAJzg/coO1ZCreb-Q--LrxD6rZFXcYJtQyAStEQCPcBGAYYCw/s640/IMG_4743.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FRaJ4zfM_T8/X6AtsYuaA6I/AAAAAAAAJzg/coO1ZCreb-Q--LrxD6rZFXcYJtQyAStEQCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h428/IMG_4743.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">It appears the W for William has been removed from the plate which made this Horridge brick so I expect it was made by Samuel or Joseph after 1863.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Now on to the second branch of Jonathan Horridge senior's brickmaking family lead by Jonathan junior b.1799, who was followed into the trade by his sons William b.1823 & Thomas b.1828 & then by Thomas' son Arthur who joined his father in the late 1870's. It is unknown which brickyard Johnathan junior worked at as there are no trade directory entries for him actually running his own yard. Then after being employed at different yards in Ilkeston sons William & Thomas then operated three yards of their own, one was situated on Ilkeston Common/Awsworth Road, the second was just off Nottingham Road near the Gallows Inn & the third was in Heanor. Up to yet no Horridge bricks have been found stamped with these four brickmakers first names.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Jonathan junior married Martha Bamford b.1800 on the 24th of May 1818 & they produced 2 boys & 5 girls before Martha's untimely death in May 1833. Johnathan then married Elizabeth Buxton nee Henshaw in 1833 & the couple produce three more children. In the 1841 census Jonathan aged 42, William aged 18 & Thomas aged 15 are all listed as brickmakers. Where they were all brickmaking at this date is unknown. Jonathan died aged 46 in 1845. From Matt Horridge's research I have to note that Jonathan junior's brother John born 1781, a hand loom weaver was married to another Martha Bamford who was born in 1786 & they had one son & three daughters. I bring this to your attention because several family website trees have mixed these two Martha's up & added some of Jonathan's children to John's branch, which is wrong.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I now move on to William Horridge b.1823 who is recorded in the 1851 census as a Brickmaker & Beer Seller living on Chapel Street, Ilkeston. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">A notice in the Ilkeston Pioneer dated 18th February 1858 records that William Horridge who had been manager at Potters brickyard for many years had purchased James Tomlinson's yard at Ilkeston Common & he was advertising that he could </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">manufacture & supply high quality bricks from this works. William is recorded in Slater's 1863 edition at Ilkeston Common. From information found I have established that Ilkeston Common lay along side the Erewash Canal between Ilkeston & Cotmanhay. This Ilkeston Common yard was to be later run by his brother Thomas Horridge & I have coloured this yard green on the 1879 map below which was situated off Awsworth Road & next to the canal.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> I have to note that I have pieced this information of the location of Ilkeston Common & this yard from several sources, so I hope that what I have written is correct as there are no more brick yards shown on old maps which match up to being situated on Ilkeston Common.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-size: large;">William continues to be listed as a brickmaker in the 61, 71, 81 & 91 census. I now bring his brother Thomas into play & Thomas b.1828 is listed in the 1851 census as a brickmaker & lodging with his future mother-in-law Mrs. Mary Sisson (b.1797) in Ilkeston. Where Thomas was brickmaking in 1851 is unknown, but I am assuming that Thomas joined his brother William at the Ilkeston Common brick yard after William had purchased it in 1858. The 1861 census now records Thomas had married Phoebe Sisson & they were living on the Twitchell, Ilkeston. The couple went on to have three daughters & one son Arthur, who was born in 1863. Phoebe died in 1864 & Thomas then married Mary Sisson (b.1834) in 1865. Thomas & Mary are listed in the 1871 census with Thomas' children & one new son Thomas junior. I checked to see if Phoebe Sisson & Mary Sisson were sisters, but found no connection of them being sisters, so they may have been cousins. <br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I next found an advert in the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper dated 23rd of February 1871 giving notice of "Sale of Plant" by W. & T. Horridge, so I am assuming William & Thomas were going their separate ways. However trade directories reveal Thomas continued to run the Ilkeston Common brickworks with him being listed in </span></span>Kelly's 1876 & 1881 editions as owning a brickworks on Awsworth Road (Ilkeston Common). The 1881 census records brickmaker Thomas, wife Mary & their 6 children were living on Awsworth Road & son Arthur aged 18 was now a brickmaker, so I am assuming he was working alongside his father. Kelly's 1887 & 1891 editions now record that the Horridge's were running a second works on Nottingham Road (Gallows Inn, Ilkeston) as well as their Awsworth Road works. The 1891 census records the Horridge family still living on Awsworth Road with Thomas & Arthur (still single) listed as brickmakers. The exact year Thomas & Arthur finished brickmaking is unknown, but it may have been just before 1895 when Thomas Benniston is recorded as owning the Nottingham Road Works. It is unknown what year the Awsworth Road works closed, but may have also been in 1895. With the 1901 census recording Thomas' wife Mary as a Widow, Matt Horridge has informed me that Thomas died on the 6th of July 1897. My next search was for the whereabouts of Arthur & what he was doing in 1901 & I have found a Arthur Horridge of the right age born in 1863 & listed as a Cemetery Superintendent living in Ilkeston with his wife Sarah, 2 boys & 2 girls ranging from 1 to 7. Matt Horridge has confirmed I have found the correct Arthur & he had married Sarah in 1891 after the 1891 census which records him still at home & single. </div></div></span>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The 1880 OS map above shows three brickworks off Nottingham Road at Gallows Inn & I have established that the blue coloured yard was owned by the Erewash Ironworks Co. & was operational between 1880 & 1900. The green coloured works was owned by Isaac Wilson & John Wilson & then by the Cordon Brothers. So this leaves the yellow works as being owned by Thomas Horridge as recorded in Kelly's 1887 & 1891 editions. This yellow works had been owned by Mathew Hobson in 1882 & listed as Hallam Fields. I write about Mathew Hobson next. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">After Thomas Horridge had finished at this yellow coloured yard trade directories record </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Benniston had taken over this works by 1895 & he was the proprietor of the Gallows Inn Brick & Tile Company & write about him later in the post. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Going back to Thomas' brother William Horridge & after they had gone their separate ways in the early 1870's William continues to be a listed as a brickmaker in the 1881 & 1891 census. I then found an advert in the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper dated 28th August 1879 which </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">exclaims with the heading of<span face=""> Bricks! Bricks! & the announcement that William Horridge now rents Tutin's brickyard, Ilkeston & is preparing to supply bricks by rail or land & these bricks were to be sold at market prices. So where was Tutin's brickyard situated in Ilkeston ? The 1881 census records William was living on Awsworth Road, but by the 1891 census he was living on Lacey Fields Road, Heanor with his daughter Georgina aged 28. A search for Lacey Fields Road has revealed this road was in Langley, Heanor, north of Ilkeston. Maps also show Lacey Fields Farm & near to this farm on the 1899 OS map there is a disused clay pit which was accessed from Lacey Fields Road, so with these findings they indicate Tutin's yard was in Langley, Heanor & not Ilkeston & William was running it up to </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">& shortly after the 1891 census with him still being recorded as a brickmaker aged 67. I have not been able to find William in the 1901 census, but Matt Horridge has informed me that he died in July 1904. Many Thanks Matt for the info you have sent me which fills in many blanks. Matt is a descendant of another of Jonathan senior's sons, Thomas born 1793. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Wright's 1882 edition records Mathew Hobson as farmer & brick maker at Hallam Fields & his yard is the one which I have coloured yellow on the 1880 map below. White's 1857 edition records Mathew as farmer & living</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> at Field House, Ilkeston, (also shown on the map below in yellow). So it appears that Mathew took up brickmaking around 1882 &</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> his yard was not to far from where he lived & farmed. This yard was then taken over by Thomas Horridge in 1887.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Finding info for this Tomlinson/Ilkeston brick had eluded me as I had found no trade directory entries in this name at Ilkeston, Tomlinson's in Derby yes, but none in Ilkeston. I then found the answer in a Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper at Ilkeston Library dated 18.2.1858. It was a notice by William Horridge announcing that he had taken over James Tomlinson's yard at Ilkeston Common & he </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">was advertising that he could </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">manufacture & supply high quality bricks from this works. It was then a case of establishing the location of Ilkeston Common. It was from a very old map that revealed that Ilkeston Common was situated between Cotmanhay & Ilkeston with Bennerley Bridge over the canal on the northern edge of the Common. So on the 1879 map below, I have coloured James yard green & Bennerley bridge is where it says Bridge Street near to the top of the map with Bennerley Colliery on the other side of the canal. A second reference to the location of this works comes from Thomas Horridge's 1876 listing as owning the same brick yard, but listed as Awsworth Road. So with all this information, I have established that James Tomlinson made his bricks at this yard on the Common before 1858, but not as early as 1855 because James is not listed in Kelly's 1855 trade directory.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have a choice of two brickmakers by the name of Wilson who made this brick. Isaac Wilson is listed in Kelly's 1849 & 1855 editions at Nottingham Road, Ilkeston, then in White's 1857 edition Isaac is listed at Gallows Inn. Harrison's 1860 edition also lists Isaac at Gallows Inn. Kelly's 1864 edition then lists John Wilson on Nottingham Road. So John could be Isaac's son or brother. I have established from a 1875 newspaper advert that the Wilson's owned the green coloured yard on Nottingham Road & named as the Gallows Inn Works (brick) on the 1880 map below.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sLDdqeqTC3A/YK0mPH5HvbI/AAAAAAAALzQ/EvkbZNE6Cbw7cfncvu-HoIVEL9AyXUj1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1054/IMG_5573.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="1054" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sLDdqeqTC3A/YK0mPH5HvbI/AAAAAAAALzQ/EvkbZNE6Cbw7cfncvu-HoIVEL9AyXUj1QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/IMG_5573.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Found this tile at Fletcher's Reclamation yard in Spondon in May 2021. There was only this one example, hence me having to stick it together with super-glue. Below is a smooth faced paver made by Isaac or John Wilson which is in Dean Fletcher's collection at Spondon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7r3K_Z9Ym_UV_clThY6YCHf-QxTbSPcGsvOGlbYe44dVZxPeP9y7JemeV-qvqFtzCHcGstHpmhnQ7MydGSgrfA1G4P0tNd6dnkTDEO7_wbBQsqqZW2n5SH2f1zEUQfIpKqlwOZd2lTNLEljh1DQ8TEvlF8f-zDo9pmP3mYRBfQh3aekynRCQLfgZ66lJf/s640/IMG_0843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7r3K_Z9Ym_UV_clThY6YCHf-QxTbSPcGsvOGlbYe44dVZxPeP9y7JemeV-qvqFtzCHcGstHpmhnQ7MydGSgrfA1G4P0tNd6dnkTDEO7_wbBQsqqZW2n5SH2f1zEUQfIpKqlwOZd2lTNLEljh1DQ8TEvlF8f-zDo9pmP3mYRBfQh3aekynRCQLfgZ66lJf/w640-h428/IMG_0843.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div></span>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So this Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper article mentioned earlier dated 28.10.1875 states that the Cordon Brothers had taken over the Gallows Inn brickyard from John Wilson & this yard had been established some 50 years previous by the Wilsons. The advert then goes on to say that the Cordon Brothers would like to inform their customers & friends that after very extensive alterations as to enable them to make all classes of brick to meet the requirements of the trade & they hope to merit a fair share of public patronage. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1876 edition records the Cordon Brothers as brickmaking on Nottingham Road & then Wright's 1879 edition lists the Cordon Brothers at Gallows Inn, but this brick works did not last for very long under the Cordon Brothers as we next find in another Ilkeston Pioneer article dated 13.3.1882 that states "Clearance Sale Thursday 28th, late Wilson, Gallows Inn Brickworks. The notice continues with the Works is to be Let, signed I. Attenborough & dated 13.3.1882. We then find on the 1899 map the buildings are still there but not marked as a brickworks. Then the 1913 map shows an empty field. Today this former brickworks is an industrial estate & houses have been built on Gallows Inn Close. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">In September 2022 I had the great pleasure in finding a Cordon Bros paver at Fletcher's reclamation yard in Langley Mill, it was the only one. Although this paver had been burn to produce a blue brick on the outside, it's well worn surfaces clearly shows the red clay it was made of.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMonsiWh8vMo2EqT-vTGkVaKgkAobWDWXjsjfE6WlpBE2etkG7URXf3GdGtyKf9eaFdjrn9On4gtEsCrl-8Tsp5AT0oOzPzJs9F_l3w-VRbp7ViQCwCqq_JCx3WkU4Of1wejvH3ewSDSK3c9T37_iTIAgivh3f76VR_M6LCYn6rKq809AbKEEcMhO-Zg/s640/IMG_8889.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMonsiWh8vMo2EqT-vTGkVaKgkAobWDWXjsjfE6WlpBE2etkG7URXf3GdGtyKf9eaFdjrn9On4gtEsCrl-8Tsp5AT0oOzPzJs9F_l3w-VRbp7ViQCwCqq_JCx3WkU4Of1wejvH3ewSDSK3c9T37_iTIAgivh3f76VR_M6LCYn6rKq809AbKEEcMhO-Zg/w640-h428/IMG_8889.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrTDLF--WK_t1CLd3rRs2WM8PnkQSUvlK4uKoskX1akfFunrvqWbVN4zobuSBNjiQmnv6bKsQCy1eOkRXxmmANBb4GTMO4sTh3KHl0J5lr2rZ9SFAJgn3GZozkfpugGRXvmPF7_C4NNbzV81Iiu7DYOv4DR5q4yFhZ5pVC_B3xMSPLILHD_Ihk1JaBg/s640/IMG_8893.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrTDLF--WK_t1CLd3rRs2WM8PnkQSUvlK4uKoskX1akfFunrvqWbVN4zobuSBNjiQmnv6bKsQCy1eOkRXxmmANBb4GTMO4sTh3KHl0J5lr2rZ9SFAJgn3GZozkfpugGRXvmPF7_C4NNbzV81Iiu7DYOv4DR5q4yFhZ5pVC_B3xMSPLILHD_Ihk1JaBg/w640-h428/IMG_8893.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Please note that there were two works called Gallows Inn on Nottingham Road at different dates. The first was the one which I have coloured green on the 1880 map above & then on the same map, the yellow coloured yard was to become the Gallows Inn Brick & Tile Works in 1895 & I write about that works next. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I think this brick was made by Thomas Beniston & he is listed as owning the Gallows Inn Brick & Tile Works, Nottingham Road, Ilkeston in Kelly's 1895 edition. This brick & tile works is shown on the 1899 map below & the 1879 map had only shown this works as a brick yard. My earliest reference to Thomas Benniston as being at this works comes from a planning application for the building of a tramway to cross Corporation Road, dated 25.1.1894. This application was approved by the local council. The Beniston listing in Kelly's 1895 edition records his brick & tile works on Nottingham Road, but on the 1899 map below the access road to the works which had only been a track from Nottingham Road on the 1879 map has now been named Corporation Road & had been called this from at least 1894. There are no more trade directory entries for this company & the 1913 map no longer shows the works, only the outline of the claypit & this 1913 map can be seen in the next entry for the Ilkeston Brick Co.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The timeline for a brickworks on this site (from dates found) is - </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Mathew Hobson 1882 - 1887.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Ilkeston Brick Co. is listed at Shaw Street, Ilkeston in Kelly's 1908 & 1912 editions & is shown on the 1913 map below. The National Archives records this company as being incorporated in 1907 & dissolved sometime between 1916 & 1932. A Notice in the Ilkeston Pioneer dated 24.1.1923 records that the Ilkeston Brick Co. had gone into Voluntary Liquidation & all claims were to be sent to the Liquidator, Mr. A.C.W. Rogers by the 10th of March 1923. Also to note on this 1913 map is that the Gallows Inn B. & T. Works had disappeared & only the outline of the claypit is shown.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The 1879 map above shows two brick yards in Cotmanhay & I have established that William Beardsley owned the yellow coloured works. So from Beardsley's last trade directory entry in 1887 & with this yard no longer shown on the 1899 map I have matched Beardsley to this yard. The blue coloured yard is still shown on the 1899 map & the</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> last trade directory entry for the Horridge family was 1900, so those dates match up for that yard.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Samuel & Philip Potter are listed as brickmakers & coal masters at Rutland Wharf with George Blount as agent in White's 1857 edition. This is the only trade directory entry for the brothers as brickmakers, but I suspect that they were making bricks for many years. Also in this directory Samuel is listed as living at Ilkeston Park & Philip at Larklands, these two large houses where situated just off the bottom of the map below near to Ilkestonmill Lock. Today Monks Close is built on the site of Ilkeston Park & the houses on the corner of Park Road & Heathfield Avenue are built on the Larkfields house site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">As said the Potter's brickworks is listed in White's trade directory as being at Rutland Wharf, </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">the location of which was at the end of Rutland Street/Slack Road, but not shown as such on the 1879 map above. Next to the canal we find marked the Wash Meadow Brickworks & this was the works owned by Samuel & Philip Potter. The information on the location of Rutland Wharf came from a web article which describes the location of Rutland Wharf as being next to a brickworks (Wash Meadow B/W's) owned by Samuel & Philip Potter. Then on the opposite bank of the canal from Rutland Wharf there was a tramway which brought coal from Mr. North's Babbington Colliery in Nottingham which was then transported via barge along the canal. I then found that the wharf on the tramway side of the canal was known as Babbington Wharf. I have marked all these features on the 1879 map above. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have coloured Rutland Street/Slack Road red. Rutland Road only went from the town to the railway line & then I found in a newspaper article that the road which carried on from the railway line to the canal was called Slack Road. Today Slack Road is only a footpath to the canal & Millership Way now follows the course of the railway line over the canal towards Awsworth.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Ilkeston Library have also confirmed from their records that Rutland Wharf was next to the Wash Meadows Brickworks. They also had a 1882 map showing the wharf in detail which I duly photographed & is shown below. Again the wharf is not named on this map, but is shown just above the brickworks. The green line represents the path of Thomas North's tramway to Babbington Wharf which was on this side of the canal.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">As said the Potter family were also coal masters & there are many trade directory entries from 1827 through to 1878 recording them owning the Rutland Colliery which from the 1879 map consisted of four pits. So from 1827 I have found that Samuel & Thomas were brothers. Then Samuel's son was Philip. Philip's son was called Thomas & he is the last Potter to be listed as Coal Master in 1878. There is also a listing for Samuel Street Potter in 1876, so he could be another one of Philip's sons. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">One last bit of info about Potter's brickworks is that I found an article in the Ilkeston Pioneer dated 14.3.1861 which told you about a boiler explosion in Potter's brickyard & the boiler ended up in Whitehead's brickyard & I write about the Whitehead's later in the post.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have added this T.P. & Co. brick to this entry as it is thought to have been made by Thomas Potter of Ilkeston. As previously written there were two Potters with the name Thomas. The first is recorded in Pigot 1927 edition together with his brother Samuel as coal owners, but this date is too early for names in bricks. There is the entry in Harrison's 1860 edition for Potters & Co. at Rutland Colliery, so this date </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">corresponds to the making of stamped bricks & I think this was when it was made. The style of the lettering fits this period also. The second Thomas was grandson of Samuel, Samuel being the first Thomas' brother & this second Thomas is recorded as Coal Master in 1878, but I think this date is to late for this style of brick. As said I an fairly confident that this T.P. & Co brick is from 1860.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="background-color: white;">With finding this Beardsley & Pounder brick I naturally thought that Solomon Beardsley was the son of William Beardsley of Cotmanhay, but I have found that Solomon's father was named John & was a grocer/baker & draper on Bath Street. It appears that Solomon took over the family business as baker & grocer from his father in the 1850's, but also went on to become the owner of a brickworks, a corn dealer & a keeper of pigs. </span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">My first reference to Beardsley & Pounder comes from a planning application dated 12.5.1876 by B. & P. for the building of a Engine House at the Wash Meadows brickworks. This application was approved by the local council. The first trade directory entry for Beardsley & Pounder appears in Wright's 1882 edition at Rutland Wharf, Ilkeston. Solomon Beardsley is then listed on his own in Kelly's 1887 edition at St. Mary's Street, Ilkeston & this was his home address, no works address is given in this entry. The Beardsley's had just moved to St. Mary Street in 1887, previously living at 5, Bath Street. </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Kelly's 1891 edition now lists the partnership of Beardsley & Pounder again with the works address given just as Ilkeston.</span> </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yV_7fXtHw44/X4QrlqKWddI/AAAAAAAAJq4/2LsliXv0iY8_GleGvo1BwNFxuL7JOgGPACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_4272.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yV_7fXtHw44/X4QrlqKWddI/AAAAAAAAJq4/2LsliXv0iY8_GleGvo1BwNFxuL7JOgGPACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/IMG_4272.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWMoLrftfQk/X4Qwb2pHjVI/AAAAAAAAJrE/a5plJk0SBWMFf9gOCkgSAxjYFBpqJVicQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1120138_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jWMoLrftfQk/X4Qwb2pHjVI/AAAAAAAAJrE/a5plJk0SBWMFf9gOCkgSAxjYFBpqJVicQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1120138_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;"><b style="color: purple; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal;"><i style="color: #111111; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px;"><i style="color: black;">Photo by MF courtesy of Erewash Museum, Ilkeston.</i></i></b></i></b></div></div>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">This mis-spelt version of a B & P brick is in Erewash Museum's collection in Ilkeston & may be a rare example, as I expect the spelling mistake was soon rectified.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Beardsley & Pounder had taken over the Wash Meadows brickworks from the Potter family some time around 1876 & this brickworks</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> was located next to Rutland Wharf, but the wharf is not marked as such on the 1879 map below. (See Potter entry for 1882 map actually showing Rutland Wharf). I have coloured Rutland Street/Slack Road red. Rutland Road only went from the town to the railway line & then I found in a newspaper article that the road which carried on from the railway line to the canal was called Slack Road. Today Slack Road is only a footpath to the canal & Millership Way now follows the course of the railway line over the canal towards Awsworth. The green line on this map </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">represents the path of Thomas North's tramway to Babbington Wharf which was on this side of the canal, (as wrote about in the Potter entry).</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">We next find in an article in the London Gazette dated 1892, that it states that Solomon Beardsley and William Pounder, brickmakers of Ilkeston, were dissolving their Company by mutual consent</span><span face=""> from the 29th day of January, 1892. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Solomon Beardsley. Dated this 29th day of January 1892. <br /></span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Solomon continues brickmaking as he is then listed as S. Beardsley & Son at 2, St. Mary's Street in Kelly's 1895 edition & this entry is repeated in the 1899 & 1900 editions. So I am taking it that this was still at the Wash Meadows Brickworks (confirmation of which can be read in the last paragraph in this entry). I then find that Solomon had died in 1895 & it was his son John who was running the yard & operating as S. Beardsley & Son. I have also found that another of Solomon's sons William, joined his brother John at the yard. This was until William's death at the age of 40 in 1899 & was </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">due to bronchitis</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">. John also continued to run the family's bakery on St. Mary Street as well as brickmaking after his fathers death. I then found that John retired from brickmaking around 1900 taking up residence at Hildene on Longfield Lane. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">An article which appeared in the 4th October 1901 edition of the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper, states that James Northwood had purchased the Wash Meadow Brickyard formerly belonging to the late Solomon Beardsley. So this confirms that Solomon Beardsley had continued at the Wash Meadows brickworks after his partnership with William Pounder had been dissolved in 1892. Checking the 1913 map (next available) has revealed that only the clay pit is shown & houses have been built on the rest of the brickworks site.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4YEP5cNGxc/X0p4ohLN5aI/AAAAAAAAJiw/CHZKzlrtDiIo9excra8unzza063dfDpuACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_3855.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z4YEP5cNGxc/X0p4ohLN5aI/AAAAAAAAJiw/CHZKzlrtDiIo9excra8unzza063dfDpuACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/IMG_3855.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Added. 29.8.20. Recently found in a reclamation yard this Beardsley brick appears to have had the "& Pounder" removed from the metal stamp plate leaving a faint outline, therefore we know this brick was made after B & P's partnership had been dissolved in 1892. It has now been established that the Beardsley & Son brick below was made by Samuel Beardsley or his son John Beardsley after 1892 when they were operating as S. Beardsley & Son.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JO1ff7L1L74/X4Qwsp1Kf_I/AAAAAAAAJrM/bL4uBma9rCMA3YUk-fP2FdJCx1khlujZgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1090070.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JO1ff7L1L74/X4Qwsp1Kf_I/AAAAAAAAJrM/bL4uBma9rCMA3YUk-fP2FdJCx1khlujZgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1090070.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">My first reference to John Whitehead as brickmaker in Ilkeston comes from an article in the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper dated 23.5.1854. A Mr. A. Higgler had sent a letter to the newspaper voicing his concerns about the state of repair & asking who was responsible for repairing Slack Road which according to Mr. Higgler was the principal road to Babbington & Rutland Wharfs, Burgin's Lime Kilns & Potter's & Whitehead's brickyards. Potters as we know owned the Wash Meadows brickworks next to Rutland Wharf & with studying the 1879 map I have found that the brick yard which I have coloured green on the map below was more than likely the one owned by John Whitehead, as it can be accessed off Slack Road, coloured red on this map. Rutland Street & Potter's brickworks are coloured yellow. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Information from another newspaper article which I write about later & trade directory entries for John Whitehead also point to this yard as being owned by him.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">John Whitehead is listed in these trade directories - </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">White's 1857 edition as brickmaker with the address of Bath Street, Ilkeston, but this was his home address. Harrison's 1860 edition as brickmaker & carrier at Spring Gardens. Slater's 1863 edition as brickmaker at Springfield & finally White's 1865 edition records him as brickmaker, Bath Street. With Slater's 1863 edition recording John's yard as Springfield I have noticed on the map above that Springfield Terrace is shown nearby & all of this area which included the yard may have been known as Springfield, hence John's yard being recorded as such.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">As said earlier another Pioneer newspaper article records Whitehead's yard & the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">14.3.1861 edition reports that there had been a boiler explosion at Potter's brickyard & the boiler had ended up in Whitehead's brickyard. As you can see on the map above these two yards </span><span face="">weren't</span><span face=""> that close together, so it must have been some explosion ! Unless the reporter had got the location wrong & the boiler explosion had taken place next door at the colliery (see map) rather than at Potters brickyard ? This would make more sense as this location is nearer & there is a marked boiler house at the colliery on the map. The newspaper article was headed with Explosion at Potter's Brickworks, so I may be barking up the wrong tree with the colliery theory.</span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have also found a newspaper article which tells you of a dissolved partnership which appeared in the Ilkeston Pioneer dated 3.5.1860. It states that the partnership of John, Richard & James Whitehead in the business of brickmaking in Ilkeston had been dissolved by mutual consent, so far as relates to the said James Whitehead & the said business henceforth will be carried on by John & Richard Whitehead, who will settle any accounts of money due or owing. A x appears against James name, so it appears that he could not write.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have established that Samuel Shaw then Samuel junior owned the brickworks which I have coloured purple on the 1879 map above. Recorded as being situated on Station Road (red) in trade directories this yard was also accessed by a track which continued from the end of Chapel Street (yellow). </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">As of yet no stamped bricks have been found made by either Samuel or Samuel junior.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Samuel Shaw is listed in Kelly's 1876 edition as brickmaker on Station Road through to Wright's 1892/3 edition. Slater's 1884 edition records Samuel's works as the Norman Brickworks. Also i</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">n 1884 Samuel applied to build two circular kilns & a 70ft. high chimney at his Station Road brickworks & this application was approved on the 21st of March by the local council. I then found this January 1890 article in the Pioneer newspaper which recorded that while Samuel Shaw was attempting to get coal from his land, he dug down & may have damaged a sewer which ran through his Chapel Street brickyard. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Samuel then passed his works over to his son, Samuel junior & Junior is listed in Kelly's 1895 edition through to Kelly's 1912 edition at the Station Road brickworks. We then find that Samuel jnr. is listed in Wright's 1892/3 edition as living at Ferns Hollow on Station Road & he is also listed as grocer in several directories between 1881 & 1890. Samuel jnr. is then recorded as opening a laundry on Rupert Street in 1906. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Samuel senior (born 1830) died in 1904 & a newspaper notice records that he had been a contractor at an Ironstone pit, later Bennerley Ironworks, then worked his land for coal & had been a brickmaker for 30 years at his Station Road brickworks.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Back to Samuel jnr. & as well as being an Alderman he became Mayor of Ilkeston in 1910/11. His brickworks closed some time after 1912 & by 1920 the clay pit had become a refuse tip. Today a car park on Gordon Street is built on the former buildings of the brickworks & two football pitches now occupy the land which had been the clay/refuse pit. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have also found that Rupert Street is off Station Road & was the location for Samuel Junior's laundry. Rupert Street is shown on an 1900 map between the brickworks access lane & the Erewash Canal. Today the access lane to the works is gone & Rupert Street now joins Gordon Road at the entrance to the football pitches car park.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Many Thanks to :-</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Matt Horridge<br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Old Ilkeston Website - info</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Ilkeston & District Local History Society - info</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Ilkeston Library - much, much info, Extra Thanks ! Many loose ends were tied up with the library's info.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Erewash Museum, Ilkeston</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Matlock Archives</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">NLS/ Ordnance Survey - maps</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Silk Mill Museum, Derby</span><br />
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</div>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-73103422823603578082017-01-25T15:05:00.003+00:002023-09-28T16:55:32.398+01:00Oakwell Brickworks, Ilkeston<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In this entry I cover the several companies who owned The Oakwell Brickworks on Derby Road. Started around 1874 t</span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif">his works was the largest & longest in time to operate in Ilkeston. After </span>several changes in ownership, name changes & temporary closures in between, the works finally closed in mid-December 1966 due to the lack of demand for bricks. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I first start with some info on the sinking of a pit on this Derby Road site. Harry Bostock & William Sudbury leased this land from the Rt. Hon. Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper in 1872 & in doing so formed the Oakwell Colliery Co. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">to extract coal from the Furnace seam. This company only operated for a short while as we find that in 1874 the two owners together with new investors & backers formed the Ilkeston (Oakwell) Colliery Co. to extract coal from the much deeper Kilburn seam. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The precise year the brickworks was started is unknown, but the brickworks is shown next to the colliery on the 1879 map below. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There are no trade directory entries for the Ilkeston Colliery Co. operating the brickworks, but I have found three bricks stamped I.C. Co. This first one was found on some waste land next to the former Bentinck Colliery site in Kirkby which is now an industrial estate. </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Came across this nearly mint brick in 2023 with the same imprint.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-kdRpgtwZ_N0HxqvX8iDbGvxxz9yQavUwLOqDhoxG3jWpmI_Ly_P83B53__uzp2DLuTbqQCLskVYPSLa_eLPOep2Utt_IUy1gYSXholpbZY768BOt4_Oz9Z-3omxkUPTK69Bi7YQQ-i8cB5NFb_hcxl_pRXPsf7Qs7Gu3ByegXk4GZi-DbO3t7rwFXfBM/s640/IMG_1687.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-kdRpgtwZ_N0HxqvX8iDbGvxxz9yQavUwLOqDhoxG3jWpmI_Ly_P83B53__uzp2DLuTbqQCLskVYPSLa_eLPOep2Utt_IUy1gYSXholpbZY768BOt4_Oz9Z-3omxkUPTK69Bi7YQQ-i8cB5NFb_hcxl_pRXPsf7Qs7Gu3ByegXk4GZi-DbO3t7rwFXfBM/w640-h424/IMG_1687.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The brick below came from the demolished terrace houses which had stood on Pleasley Road in Mansfield. So the manufacture of this brick can be dated to between 1897 & 1914 because the houses are not shown on the 1897 map, but are shown built on the 1914 map.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This 1899 map shows the colliery & the brickworks site had been split into two with the laying of the G.N.R. Stanton branch line. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This next Ilkeston brick came from a reclamation yard at Spondon & was more than likely made at this brickworks. It is a very heavy brick, slightly larger than a normal imperial sized brick & it may have been hand made using a wooden mould.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Up to 1913 this works consisted of four downdraught kilns, a drying shed in which they also produce hand made bricks, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">a brickmaking shed, a</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> boiler house plus other associated buildings & offices. By 1913 a Hoffmann kiln had been built over the site of one of the kilns & a colour photograph of the Hoffmann kiln can be seen later in the post. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Ilkeston Colliery closed in 1910 (see 1913 map above) & after The Ilkeston Colliery Co. had gone into liquidation the brickworks was sold to Henry M. Worthington forming The Oakwell Red & Blue Brick Co. Ltd. in February 1916. Kelly's 1916 edition lists the company in the brick & tile makers section with H.M. Worthington as Managing Director. Later that year Henry died & his brother William became manager of the works & two years later was appointed to the board. William had started at the brickworks in 1913.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Below are three bricks made by the Oakwell Red & Blue Brick Co. As to the Blue Brick in the title of the company, no blue bricks have been found so far by anyone on the Derby Road site & I have not come across any on my travels in reclamation yards. True blue bricks are made of Etruria clay which is normally found in the West Midlands, but the clay found at Oakwell could be burnt to a greyish-blue or purple colour at high temperatures above 1100 degrees centigrade, but as said none have been found on site or otherwise.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In February 1942 the Oakwell brickworks temporary closed due to wartime economics & the risk of light coming from the kilns showing their location to German bomber planes. The brickworks re-opened in November 1945 with the potential of producing over three million bricks annually & by 1950 this potential figure had increased to four million per year, but due to the inconsistent nature of the Oakwell clay measures & the lack of demand for bricks these figures were never achieved & the brickworks finally closed in mid December 1966. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Viewing maps of the area has revealed that in the late 1800's there were two brick works in Ashbourne Green, which is about a mile north-east from the centre of Ashbourne. On this first map dated 1879 the works was opposite Ashbourne Green Hall & the track which passes between the two is now the B5035 road to Carsington. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have found five entries for brickmakers who are listed at Ashbourne Green, Offcote & Underwood, Ashbourne, Derbys. in Kelly's directories, with the first four working at this first site as shown on the 1879 map above. They are W. Tunstall, Kelly's 1855. A January1864 notice in the Staffordshire Recorder reports William Tunstall had passed away & the Trustees of his Will was selling the brickworks as a going concern. The notice goes on to say William had successfully worked the yard for the last 30 years & had produced high class bricks which had been well favoured by builders in Ashbourne. R. Archer is listed in Kelly's 1864 edition, so was the purchaser of the works. Kelly's 1887 edition records W.N. Archer, possibly R. Archer's son. A notice in the Derbyshire Advertiser dated </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">23rd November 1888 records William N. Archer was selling the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">brickworks by Tender. Then it's W. Mason in Kelly’s 1895 edition, so </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">it </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">appears</span><span> </span><span>W. Mason won the Tender in 1888. The fifth listing is for the Ashbourne Brick, Tile & Pipe Co. Ltd in Kelly’s 1899 to 1904 editions with William Hart as secretary & these dates then match up to the second site which was not very far from the first & can be seen on the second map dated 1898 below. It appears between 1904 & 1908 the company got into financial difficulties with the London Gazette dated 21st November 1908 reporting the Ashbourne Brick, Tile & Pipe Co. Ltd. had been struck off the Joint Stock Register. This normally happens when a company goes bankrupt & is not wound up by a liquidator. So why the company was not wound up by the owner is a bit of a mystery. My next find was in the Derbyshire Advertiser dated 16th of July 1909 when the brickworks was being Auctioned as a going concern on the 24th of July. Who was selling the works is not recorded, it may have been the owner ??? It then appears the brickworks was not sold on the 24th with a notice in the Ashbourne News Telegraph dated 15th October 1909 advertising the Dismantling Sale of all Fixed & Loose Brickmaking Plant, Machinery & Stock at the Ashbourne Green Brickyard, also the sale of all of the buildings in suitable lots. Again no mention of who had instigated the sale. So in a nutshell that was the end of brickmaking in Ashbourne Green. </span></span><div><div><br /></div><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I photographed the Ashbourne Green & Grange bricks at the Silk Mill Museum Derby in October 2015, but since then Dave Penney has sent me a much better image of the Green brick. More than likely the Green brick was made at the first works & the Grange brick may have been made at the second. With the trade directory entries recording Offcote in the address, I have found that located near to the second works today there is a house called Offcote Grange, so there could be some connection to the naming of this Ashbourne Grange brick, but I have to note that on the 1898 map this large house is shown as The Grove. The Grove/Offcote Grange may have been where the owner of the Ashbourne Brick & Tile Co. lived ? If I get confirmation on this theory I will update the post. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">When originally studying maps of Buxton for brickworks I spotted a wooded area called Brickyard Plantation just off St. Johns Road (see map below) which I was unable to find any information about, but with now talking to Buxton local historian, Colin Wells I can now reveal the answer.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Colin tells me that the brickyard was owned in the 1860's by Robert Rippon-Duke, a Buxton architect who was in partnership with builder Samuel Turner, designing & building/re-building many properties in Buxton. So it appears that the duo made bricks for their own projects. Robert </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">Rippon-Duke is first associated in the building of the Royal Hotel in 1851, then he designed the dome for the Concert Hall, Pavilion Gardens & then the dome for the Devonshire Royal Hospital. Whether Rippon-Duke stamped his bricks is unknown, so if you come across any please let me know.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My first reference to this brickworks comes from Kelly's 1936 & 41 editions when John Greenwood (Brickworks) Co. Ltd. is listed at Railway Street, Glossop & works Monslow, Dinting, Glossop. From other information found I have established that the brickworks was at Mouselow Quarry although not marked as such on the 1938 map above. The 1879 map just shows a quarry with no buildings, then the 1897 map shows one building then the 1919 & 38 maps show two buildings & a tramway to the quarry face. Could these buildings be the brickworks ?</span></div>
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<br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I first start with some pre James Woodward history for the marked Brick Works site. In Glovers 1827 edition John Hunt is recorded as brickmaker & farmer producing firebricks at his Coppice Side works which was known as the Fair Brickworks (marked as the Brick Works on the 1900 OS map above). Coppice Side road is shown on the map above & it runs north /south between the two sites. Glover's 1838 entry only lists John Hunt as farmer. Then a valuation of Church Gresley dated 1838 records John Hunt as owner of the property, but occupied by Thomas Woodward. The property included a brick-yard, kilns & buildings, a house & garden occupying 12 perches & a croft occupying 2 acres, 1 rood & 20 perches. So it appears John Hunt had retired from brickmaking & was leasing his premises to Thomas Woodward. After John Hunt's death in 1839 Thomas Woodward continues to lease the works off his widow Susannah Hunt. </span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Now on to James Woodward b.1828 & the earliest reference to him occupying the Fair Brickworks leased from the Hunt family is the November 1855 Leicestershire Mercury Notice of the Sale of the Freehold Estate belonging to the late John Hunt. James Woodward is listed as occupying many of the individual lots, therefore I can only assume James Woodward / his father Thomas Woodward purchased all of these lots. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Info from the archeology report states that White's 1857 trade directory records Mr. Woodward as owning the largest works in Swadlincote producing bricks, tiles, firebricks & fire clay. That was up to 1859 when sewage pipes & terra cotta chimney pots & vases were made & the works was then known as the Swadlincote Fire Brick & Terra Cotta Works. The first two trade directory entries that I have for James Woodward are in Kelly's 1864 & 76 editions at Church Gresley, Burton upon Trent. It is unknown in which year the Anchor Works was built, but it is shown on the 1879 OS map. The advert below from Kelly's 1880 edition shows Woodward had registered the rope & anchor as his trade mark, hence the Anchor name for his pipe works. This advert also records the "Wash-Out Closet" which Woodward Patented in 1878.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjredjJxvg_x3SqZ6mrpgI117YSLOih7xauCLOqxp-IcBMXLDNuqYaVIO7Q-STnZwPUOYzgnbXhtMGUIxNZuAyWW8RZ5lFI4P7ekdUXhpo4RpXGACikqFTrZCYVvnc2CQEzz0e0d0FnR341XS1O--fMUzszoG36y896yqOpYVi7CrsgdVH3cPGF_v5ogA/s800/Woodward%20K.1880.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="499" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjredjJxvg_x3SqZ6mrpgI117YSLOih7xauCLOqxp-IcBMXLDNuqYaVIO7Q-STnZwPUOYzgnbXhtMGUIxNZuAyWW8RZ5lFI4P7ekdUXhpo4RpXGACikqFTrZCYVvnc2CQEzz0e0d0FnR341XS1O--fMUzszoG36y896yqOpYVi7CrsgdVH3cPGF_v5ogA/w400-h640/Woodward%20K.1880.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A railway branch line was built in 1882 connecting the works to Swadlicote Station & this line brought coal in & took finished goods out. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiBII8QmqO04ahUsJEhC33WK_P6SJpFSmpUlk7_ycCFyAP-bv9KU2g_fuhjzPo1qML7rzBLIAhZA4zfh3Xh7M89SrskMi7SJb0NfSNay0kQJ0YjMa4dQOZoAeed9rmOfIVn3jtAArvCw6wXAouH-X81drQOVLZdSUNElVTJUf1tDc6VT-fE8ZkxFmyhg=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="640" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiBII8QmqO04ahUsJEhC33WK_P6SJpFSmpUlk7_ycCFyAP-bv9KU2g_fuhjzPo1qML7rzBLIAhZA4zfh3Xh7M89SrskMi7SJb0NfSNay0kQJ0YjMa4dQOZoAeed9rmOfIVn3jtAArvCw6wXAouH-X81drQOVLZdSUNElVTJUf1tDc6VT-fE8ZkxFmyhg=w640-h333" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;">Woodward, Swadlincote fire-brick by Shane Harvey, courtesy of the "Old Bricks" website.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><br /></i></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">James Woodward unexpectedly died at his home on the 28th of April 1886 after attending his works all day. Leaving his wife Mary & several young children, with James junior b.1876 being the eldest. I then found Mary Woodward took over the running of the business. By July 1887 Mary Woodward had gone into partnership with Samuel B. Rowley as James Woodward & Rowley, Sanitary Ware Manufacturers. From adverts by this company it appears to only cover the Patented "Wash-Out Closet" & the manufacture of other closets, urinals, sinks & lavatories. James Woodward had patented his "Wash-Out Closet" in 1878. The production of fire-bricks, earthenware pipes & terra cotta continued to operate as James Woodward under Mary with this company name being listed in Kelly's 1887 edition at Swadlincote & several company adverts. Ten years later in February 1897 Mary Woodward & Samuel Rowley dissolved their partnership as sanitary ware manufacturers & the whole business was once again trading as James Woodward under Mary Woodward. I mentioned James Woodward junior earlier & by February 1899 James is now managing the day to day activities of James Woodward. This info comes from an advert dated 1st of February in the Burton Daily Mail - Wanted Journeymen & Apprentice Pressers. Apply James Woodward, Anchor Sanitary Potteries, Swadlincote. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Glazed bricks were produced by the company from 1899 of which many examples have been found & three are shown in this post.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7VSjGgZNgQA/WEwqli9DSXI/AAAAAAAAEN4/zvb46QjVqI8KZrPLHGR0Jbn-9UF3X4i-ACLcB/s1600/P1120103_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7VSjGgZNgQA/WEwqli9DSXI/AAAAAAAAEN4/zvb46QjVqI8KZrPLHGR0Jbn-9UF3X4i-ACLcB/w640-h426/P1120103_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The company of James Woodward is listed Kelly's 1900 edition at Swadlincote, however an article in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph dated 15th of February 1901 now records Woodward's were operating as James Woodward Limited & this limited company is listed in Kelly's 1904 edition. I then found in the Birmingham Daily Post dated 25th of May 1900 that the public limited company of James Woodward had been registered with a capital of £100,000 in £100 shares. Subscribers to these shares being Mrs. Mary Woodward; Robert Ewing, engineer; James Woodward (governing director), William Percy Woodward, Harold Woodward, Manufacturers; Ernest Woodward & Mabel Woodward. So all the Woodward family plus Robert Ewing. Below is an advert by this new limited company which appeared in the </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Field magazine dated Saturday 25 May 1901. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The </span><span style="font-size: large;">archeology excavation report I mentioned at the beginning of this entry records my next bit of information as taking place in 1904, but I have two newspaper articles recording the date as 1905 or certainly by October 1906. This event being the acquisition of James Woodward Ltd by T. Wragg & Sons, who then ran Woodward Ltd as a subsidiary company & still under that name. The 1905 acquisition date comes from the Burton Observer dated 15th of February 1956 which reports on the death of Sir Herbert Wragg, managing director of Wragg's & Woodward's. Then the by October 1906 comes from an article in the Burton Chronicle dated the 11th of October 1906 recording a tour lead by Alderman Wragg of his pipe works & I quote, "After his party had examined the variety of wares made by the company, the works of James Woodward Limited, which have been acquired, were also visited." After writing this, I then found a 6th of July 1906 newspaper article recording Alderman J.D. Wragg as principal of T. Wragg & Sons, & chairman of directors in James Woodward Limited. So bring the acquisition date forward by at least three more months. If I find the actual acquisition date I will update the post.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Listings in Kelly's 1908 & 12 editions are James Woodward Ltd. (glazed). The 1912 edition is the last entry in the Brickmakers Section, but the company is then listed in the Fire Clay Goods Manufactures Section in Kelly's 1925, 32 & 41 edition. 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The Anchor Works then appears to have closed in 1978. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dAXwjiA6oy8/WEwqlybXjcI/AAAAAAAAENw/fvQKXx_VF-4-UOw5hm-bjiAGGt7UvyuGwCLcB/s1600/P1050823_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dAXwjiA6oy8/WEwqlybXjcI/AAAAAAAAENw/fvQKXx_VF-4-UOw5hm-bjiAGGt7UvyuGwCLcB/w640-h422/P1050823_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I have found several of these white glazed W bricks in Derbyshire & some turned up during the excavation of the Woodward's Anchor Works & they are strongly thought to have been made at the James Woodward works when owned by T. Wragg & Sons, so the W could stand for Woodward & Wragg.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">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.</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">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 </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">Further research has revealed that Thomas started his business at Loxley first as I have found that in 1865 he is recorded as living at Storrs Hall, Loxley & owning a fire clay & fire brick works at Storrs Bridge. From a compensation insurance article in 1865, it states that Thomas received £560 pounds for the loss of brick moulds, bricks, dug clay etc after the Great Sheffield Flood in March 1864 which destroyed his works. Thomas may have just started out in 1864 as his listed as farmer, clay dealer & fire brick maker. Thomas Wragg & Sons are also listed in Kelly's Sheffield editions at Loxley in it's 1879 to 1919 editions with the addition of the Swadlincote works in the 1879 & 1901 editions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;">As previously wrote in the Woodward entry Thomas Wragg & Sons purchased the controlling interest in Woodward Ltd in 1904 & Woodward's continued to trade under that name as a subsidiary of T. Wragg & Sons. Woodward's Anchor Works is marked Sanitary Works on the map above to the left of the blue coloured area</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"> Some of Wragg's production was then transferred to the Anchor Works.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;">In December 1960 the directors of Wragg & Sons took steps to regroup the company & the decision was made to close their Hillside Works with this works being in need of being updated with new machinery & under the present climate this was not viable, so production & staff were then transferred to their other modern works. The article that it came from states the works would not be sold, but mothballed just incase there was a need to reopen the works. A Derbyshire Council <a href="https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR7936" target="_blank">web page</a> has revealed the Hillside Works was in fact the Hill Top Works which I have coloured yellow on the 1900 OS map above. The 1879 OS map also records this works as the Hillside Brick Yard. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;">In February 1969 T. Wragg & Sons purchased the share capital of Moore & Sons, Glazed Pipe Manufacturers in Overseal & production was transferred to Wraggs works. In this merger some redundancies were expected. Another article reveals Moore's had the largest reserves of fire clay in the Swadlincote area, so this may have been the reason for the take over. It appears Wragg's used this clay reserve for their own use & to sell to other manufacturers. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">Wragg & Sons sold their interests in the Anchor Works, their last remaining works to Hepworth Pipe Co. in 1976 & this was more than likely the end of Wragg & Sons in Swadlincote.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple; font-family: "\"arial\"", "\"helvetica\"", sans-serif;"><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">Joseph Walker Bourne, Church Gresley</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple; font-family: "\"arial\"", "\"helvetica\"", sans-serif;"><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">Edward Ensor, Ensor Brothers, Ensor & Co. Ltd.</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HS2cjnlASjQ/YOXiUo5I1YI/AAAAAAAAMEs/RMvFBnqBZes5Xajh7L1qKZ7l8tQP-5lAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Joseph%2BWalker%2BBourne%2Bby%2BJohn%2BGoodman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="640" height="328" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HS2cjnlASjQ/YOXiUo5I1YI/AAAAAAAAMEs/RMvFBnqBZes5Xajh7L1qKZ7l8tQP-5lAgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h328/Joseph%2BWalker%2BBourne%2Bby%2BJohn%2BGoodman.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>Photo by John Goodman.</i></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-size: large;">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 </span></span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">is recorded as a Earthenware Manufacturer in Church Gresley, Parish of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">During my research several juicy bits of information have turned up. The July 1850 document recording the marriage of Joseph Walker Bourne's second daughter, </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: large;">Adelaide Anne</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Bourne of Woodville to William Henry Hooke of Lyme Regis, records Edward Ensor (senior) & son Henry Loader Ensor, both fire brick makers in Church Gresley were witnesses. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have now established why they were at this 1850 wedding. I first tell you that Joseph Bourne's wife Louisa nee England died in 1839 a year earlier than Joseph & Edward Ensor b.1798, a woollen manufacturer in Dorchester, after the loss of his wife married Louisa's mother Ann England of Lyme Regis, who's husband had also died. Ann's maiden name was Stanton. So through this July 1835 marriage to Ann England, Edward Ensor was Louisa's stepfather & Edward's sons Edward (junior) & Henry Loader Ensor became Louisa's half brothers. I next found after the death's of Louisa & Joseph Bourne the 1841 census records their son William England Bourne aged 7 & daughter Ophelia Hannah Bourne aged 5 went to live with Edward & Ann Ensor in Dorchester & the two eldest girls Emma Louisa Bourne aged 12 & </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Adelaide Anne Bourne</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> aged 11 went to live with Louisa's sister Mary Ann Hooke (nee England) & her husband John Hooke, a Draper in Lyme Regis for a few years. It appears love later blossomed between Mary & John's son William Henry Hooke & Adelaide Bourne with them getting married in 1850. I briefly tell you as I write more later that Edward Ensor had moved to Church Gresley to run Joseph Bourne's Pool fire-brick works by 1846 & was living in Church Gresley Cottage, Joseph's former abode.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">There is another Ensor connection with Joseph Bourne's third daughter </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ophelia Hannah</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Bourne marrying Charles Ensor of Milborne Port, Somerset, a glove manufacturer in June 1862. I have not been able to make the full family connection of Charles Ensor, his father Thomas & Thomas' brother Edward, owners of the glove manufactory before Charles to Edward Ensor senior & his two sons, our fire brick makers in Church Gresley, but Edward & Thomas Ensor of Milborne Port may have been cousins to Edward Ensor of Dorchester/Church Gresley. </span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rwhuw9-9ms8/YOmwp--1Q2I/AAAAAAAAMFI/mgbPi3w6hGoPm54eet0IiGJ73zpkgX3WACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Church%2BGresley%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1879.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rwhuw9-9ms8/YOmwp--1Q2I/AAAAAAAAMFI/mgbPi3w6hGoPm54eet0IiGJ73zpkgX3WACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Church%2BGresley%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1879.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1879.</i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">There are no actual listings or trade directory entries naming Joseph Bourne's fire-brick works in Church Gresley, but with finding Edward </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;">Ensor & then the Ensor Brothers owned the Pool Works, coloured orange on the 1879 OS map above & knowing that Edward Ensor went to live in Joseph's home Gresley Cottage (green) in the early 1840's I think I can safely say Joseph Bourne operated the Pool Works which I expect will have been smaller in size in the 1830's. Also to note is the lane which I have coloured yellow which ran between Gresley Cottage & the Pool Works, so a quick walk to work each morning for Joseph Bourne then the Ensor's.</span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">With Edward Ensor b.1798 now running Joseph Bourne's brickworks by 1846 Edward is recorded in several trade directories as a fire brick maker, brick & tile maker, & clay dealer in Church Gresley, the first of which is Kelly's 1849 edition. Then in Wright's 1874 edition Edward is listed as a fireclay merchant, sewerage pipe, chimney pipe & firebrick manufacturer at the Pool Works, Church Gresley, home Gresley Cottage. We know from Bagshaws 1846 trade directory that Edward had moved into Joseph Bourne's Gresley Cottage when he took over Bourne' brickworks. The last trade directory entry for Edward Ensor is White's 1877 edition in which he is listed as a manufacturer of firebricks, sanitary tubes, chimney tops, white & coloured enamelled bricks at the Pool Works, Church Gresley. The 1881 census records Edward Ensor as still living at Gresley Cottage, but he is now listed as a Retired Manufacturer aged 83. Edward died in July 1884, aged 86.</span></span></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 1891 census again records Henry Loader Ensor as a Manager of a Fire Brick Works with the additional listing of "Employed". </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Kelly's 1899 edition & the 1901 census records Henry Loader Ensor as the Secretary of Ensor & Co. Ltd. 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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.</span></span></p></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Fireclay bricks stamped either Edward Ensor, the Ensor Brothers or Ensor & Co. Ltd have still yet to turn up, so if you have images of any of the above names please get in touch via email, the address of which is on the Contacts Tab at the top of this page. It was with John Goodman contacting me with his Bourne brick that it resulted me in adding Joseph Walker Bourne to this post. Many Thanks, John.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Knowles. Mount Pleasant Works, Woodville in 1996, all of which is now demolished, A stationary steam engine from the works is in store at Snibston and the wood panelling from the building that it was in, is now on display at the side of another engine that is on show. A Lancashire boiler went to Pleasley Colliery and is on display in the compound. The site was largely disused, but a security man in a van found us and requested that we leave.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In 1872 </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 tahoma\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 freesans\22 " , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">Hosea Tugby is recorded as giving notice regarding his improvements to kilns for burning bricks, pipes & tiles i</span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 tahoma\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 freesans\22 " , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;">n the London Gazette dated 16th October 1872 & t</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif">his 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 </span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif">nowhere </span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif">next to the railway & it is accessed via small open lanes from Littleworth. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">After 1877 there</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> 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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We then find that The Albion Clay Co. is first listed as owning the Albion Works in Kelly's 1891 edition by which time Tugby & Co. are listed at Moira. The Albion Clay Co. continue to be listed as brickmakers at the Albion Works until Kelly's 1899 edition. Kelly's 1912 to 1932 editions now records A.C.Co. in the Fire Clay Manufactures section & Fire Clay Merchants section, so brick production for buildings & the making of fireclay bricks must have finished by 1899 ? with the company only then producing sanitarywares. A.C.Co. & the Albion Works are recorded as closing around 1935. A newspaper article dated December 1932 reports at the time of his death Robert Lawton was Managing Director of the Albion Clay Co. </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As of yet no bricks have been found stamped Albion Clay Co. unless the company produced the brick which I have found with Woodville stamped in it & I write about that name next. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 tahoma\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 freesans\22 " , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"> In a 1900 web mining reference, Briton Colliery is recorded as being owned by Hosea Tugby & managed by</span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 tahoma\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 freesans\22 " , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"> S. Wheatley.</span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"> 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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have three options for the maker of this Woodville brick. I originally credited it to Hosea Tugby during his time at the Albion Works, but it may have been made by the Albion Clay Co. who followed Tugby at the Albion Works as no house bricks have been found with Albion or A.C. Co. stamped in them.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My third option goes back to an entry in Wright's 1874 edition when the entry is Charles Adcock, manager, Woodville Company, brick yard, Smallthorns. Also at the time of this entry Charles Adcock was a trustee at John Knowles & Co. & during a special J. K & Co. meeting between Adcock, John Hassell & the companies solicitor which took place on the 9th May 1874, Mr Adcock stated his intentions to sell his shares in the Woodville Co. & he also produced a letter from Mr Cull, his partner in the Woodville Co. which stated that he should relinquish his ties with the Company as </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #010202; font-family: "times";"><i>‘the restrictions they had been subject to had much
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have just received some information from Swadlincote Library some of which may be relevant to the brickworks at Smallthorns. First there is a reference to the Small Thorn Inn, possibly a beer house kept by Edward Mee as recorded in the 1871 & 1881 Census. The Small Thorn Inn was situated near another Inn called the Rising Sun which today is still on Sun Street. Then info from Stuart Allen's book "Once the Wooden Box" has two references of the Small Thorn Blue Brickworks both from the Burton Chronicle. The first article dated 25th April 1878 features an advert for the </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Small Thorn Blue Brickworks </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">advertising bricks for sale at the works & examples can be seen at Mr. Tunnicliffe's, No.3 Midland Wharf, Burton. The second dated 27th May 1878 records that Benjamin Thompson broke his leg in an accident at the brickworks. The next find by the library is a Notice for the Sale or Let of the Small Thorn Pottery Works & it's adjacent land in 1889. So all this info ties in with the brickworks which was on Chapel Street coloured yellow on the 1879 map above & with the 1899 map now showing this works as a pottery. This Chapel Street brickworks has since been confirmed by a local history society, based at the Magic Attic in Swadlincote as being owned by the Woodville Co. / Small Thorn Blue Brick Co. With receiving all this information it would be nice to think that the Woodville brick shown at the top of this entry was made by the Woodville Company, but more than likely it was made at a later date either by Hosea Tugby or the Albion Clay Co. at the Albion Brickworks.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">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. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">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.</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">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. </span></span><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Updated 4.5.22. Ellis Partridge & Co. Boothorpe Brickworks notice now found in the British Newspaper Archives & is dated 15th March 1888, Burton Chronicle. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqgUrHW0hjLiyOnafObvPzekd0319bMN-vUBunPiaVNg3zOdakZp56tt754K7X7mq6dtzSoK0ECjS6Yies3BwFbWb9cTCdQPgQ0n4_Nch52ltIe2oW0nM_BUCPv1M4WDD6iVds1CTNjiyjAAHtiDV2N_JtZCSvNPVgw7ZorefGy15Se8juEZfqMj2rfQ/s444/Burton%20Chronicle%20-%20Thursday%2015%20March%201888%20Image%20%C2%A9%20THE%20BRITISH%20LIBRARY%20BOARD.%20ALL%20RIGHTS%20RESERVED.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="444" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqgUrHW0hjLiyOnafObvPzekd0319bMN-vUBunPiaVNg3zOdakZp56tt754K7X7mq6dtzSoK0ECjS6Yies3BwFbWb9cTCdQPgQ0n4_Nch52ltIe2oW0nM_BUCPv1M4WDD6iVds1CTNjiyjAAHtiDV2N_JtZCSvNPVgw7ZorefGy15Se8juEZfqMj2rfQ/w400-h339/Burton%20Chronicle%20-%20Thursday%2015%20March%201888%20Image%20%C2%A9%20THE%20BRITISH%20LIBRARY%20BOARD.%20ALL%20RIGHTS%20RESERVED.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</span></i></div><br /></div><div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">E & P's brickworks is shown on the 1921 map, but may have closed around 1925 as the company are not listed in Kelly's Derbyshire 1925 edition at Woodville. The 1938 map only shows the outline of the clay pits.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Also to note on the 1900 map above is the marked Boothorpe Works (sanitary pipes) owned by the Boothorpe Sanitary Pipe Co. & as far as I know this works had no connection to E.P. Co.'s Boothorpe Brick Works. As well as making sanitary pipes B.S.P. Co. are listed in Kelly's 1881 edition to Kelly's 1912 edition as making fireclay bricks.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">4.5.1893 edition - E.P. & Co. Woodville, brickmakers, summoned for employing a child under age. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Then in the 18.1.1898 edition, the company is charged for employing William Dark aged 16 without a certificate of fitness. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">More info on Ellis Partridge operating other brickworks in Leicestershire can be read at this <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2022/05/leicestershire-brickworks-part-3.html" target="_blank">Link.</a><br /></span>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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,</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> J. & N. Nadin & Co. (glazed) are listed at Stanton, Burton on Trent. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Bretby Colliery was also known as Newhall Colliery & was sunk in 1872 - 76. So I expect his brick was p</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">roduced 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.</span><br />
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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.</span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SAHI3PkTV54/YVMv5MTW6BI/AAAAAAAAMr0/VBu7NuEAaJMglbh91lupJ3WGenuLeISLACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Swains%2BPark%2BBWs%2B1900%2BOS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SAHI3PkTV54/YVMv5MTW6BI/AAAAAAAAMr0/VBu7NuEAaJMglbh91lupJ3WGenuLeISLACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Swains%2BPark%2BBWs%2B1900%2BOS.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1900.</i></div><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Samuel & Eliza produced six sons & three daughters, eldest son James b.1859 was an engine driver at a colliery most of his working life. </span></span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">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.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">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 t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he 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. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xAv8FfIkC8g/WEwqmEBR3sI/AAAAAAAAEN8/d73IXnaONcoB1hgFK9k02ypPjYsZ9PuvgCLcB/s1600/stamped%2Bbricks%2Bdigipics%2B015_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xAv8FfIkC8g/WEwqmEBR3sI/AAAAAAAAEN8/d73IXnaONcoB1hgFK9k02ypPjYsZ9PuvgCLcB/s640/stamped%2Bbricks%2Bdigipics%2B015_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Photo courtesy of AOC Archaeology, London.</i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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."</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-NO058GBZZX5PYF5U_RK8BkJhw8EWX0DWzz-CCUjLn_kGhbVD2OJIA2l9DVmA-2zhJeTAmYlQpFw_GP77duoNzCcuG7RZhIPNcyHj-vORFJLd1h3hEPm27OE0A5xsWP4gkKzxuyZum2i762Ueu4IJMvtP1AodoATvIUaFggzeOC7rir1aFoNstgaqA/s800/Turner%20&%20Lisney%201926%20Elephant%20mark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="800" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-NO058GBZZX5PYF5U_RK8BkJhw8EWX0DWzz-CCUjLn_kGhbVD2OJIA2l9DVmA-2zhJeTAmYlQpFw_GP77duoNzCcuG7RZhIPNcyHj-vORFJLd1h3hEPm27OE0A5xsWP4gkKzxuyZum2i762Ueu4IJMvtP1AodoATvIUaFggzeOC7rir1aFoNstgaqA/w400-h335/Turner%20&%20Lisney%201926%20Elephant%20mark.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Thanet Advertiser - Saturday 20 March 1926 Image © Successor rightsholder unknown. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</i></p></i><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_OSmPKBqtoyMIJU7QPSXRWDQBb6VGjUUAsmvPdFmjqdlIcIJj1RQktD0RqoWfv0fTrkEjfbbrYtvaWFH1lAYWjAMjT_wT2NWfElGbyzF5dHwbn9IngLJFjsbt6lCddDIflKX1Nr8RLf7aM4Jl9qaScA4UhNBF76WLlwfTgwlXWXb45DHZa4OBbfJp0A/s640/Elephant%20Pipe%20Paperweight%20by%20George%20Denny.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_OSmPKBqtoyMIJU7QPSXRWDQBb6VGjUUAsmvPdFmjqdlIcIJj1RQktD0RqoWfv0fTrkEjfbbrYtvaWFH1lAYWjAMjT_wT2NWfElGbyzF5dHwbn9IngLJFjsbt6lCddDIflKX1Nr8RLf7aM4Jl9qaScA4UhNBF76WLlwfTgwlXWXb45DHZa4OBbfJp0A/w640-h426/Elephant%20Pipe%20Paperweight%20by%20George%20Denny.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo by & courtesy of George Denny.</i> </div></i><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLCF9aA9fEBulPjuyu4lUj8XBTkRphomf4vinFvlKjIH5wgxYbwPYxz-CTF_XVrLVjI82r5V5FynPC3HjJochDcEFina6Pt0cmeXF8iiwIZ60XKcXuKiWfGcT-joLos8ORhPISs1Z-52TmgIDEXWSe9kZkTMYKSPmDgqHbH-JWu4jYXfObJPmDbfEtQ/s800/IMG_3380.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="800" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLCF9aA9fEBulPjuyu4lUj8XBTkRphomf4vinFvlKjIH5wgxYbwPYxz-CTF_XVrLVjI82r5V5FynPC3HjJochDcEFina6Pt0cmeXF8iiwIZ60XKcXuKiWfGcT-joLos8ORhPISs1Z-52TmgIDEXWSe9kZkTMYKSPmDgqHbH-JWu4jYXfObJPmDbfEtQ/w400-h164/IMG_3380.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">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. </span></p><p style="font-size: large;"><br /></p><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><br /></span>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">A notice in the Derbyshire Times newspaper dated 31st August 1898 reveals W.B. Hodgson was selling the Leasehold Property known as the Coton Park & Linton Colliery & Brickworks as a going concern. The under-managers house, offices, fixed plant, machinery, railway sidings, all mineral rights & seams of coal & the brickworks were included in the sale. The brickworks consisted of four kilns, fixed plant, drying sheds & a good bed of clay. It appears with the Coton Park company not being listed in anymore trade directories or another company operating the colliery & brickworks this sale failed to find a buyer & I am assuming the colliery & brickworks then closed. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Evans is listed in White's 1857 edition as brickmaker at The Common, Melbourne. As I do not have a map from that period showing John's yard, I have used a 1881 map to indicate the location of his yard in yellow & the road called The Common in red. Today this former brick yard is now a coal yard owned by John Smith. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With Richard Bennett also stamping the reverse of his bricks Melbourne & being recorded in Kelly's 1881 edition at Melbourne, I thought Richard had taken over John Evans' yard, but as you can see no brickworks existed at this location in 1881 (see map above) & there are no more brickworks marked on maps in Melbourne at this date. I have found that Richard Bennett's brickworks was actually in nearby Kings Newton which was in the parish of Melbourne & I cover that works next. So it appears that after John Evans had finished brickmaking this yard closed for good.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The brickworks at Ticknall shown on the 1881 map above was an estate brickworks owned by the lord of the manor, John Harpur-Crewe, 9th Baronet of Calke Abbey, so there are no trade directory entries for this works. You will have noticed that I have put a red circle on this 1881 map, this was the new location of the brickworks as shown the 1899 OS map & it consisted of a Scotch kiln, drying shed, a gin circle & loading bay. I have also coloured the horse drawn tramway purple. This tramway was built in 1802 by the Ashby Canal Company to connect the potteries in the village, the brickworks & the lime works to the Ashby Canal. Pottery & lime was transported to the canal for distribution to all over the country & coal travelled in the opposite direction to the brickworks. The horseshoe shaped arched bridge which carried the tramway over the main road to the brickworks & was in use until 1915 can still be seen today. I have added this link so you can view this arch & read more about the history of Ticknall & it's horse drawn tramway.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With just visiting Calke Abbey, I have now added a photo of a JHC brick found in the kitchen gardens, the 1899 map showing the new location of the works & a photo of the arched tramway bridge. The 1920 OS map no longer shows the tramway tracks. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Entry updated July 2022 with information & photos received from Jim Marbrow, Gt, Gt, Grandson of John Marbrow. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This brickworks known as Brick Yard Farm was started in 1811 by William Hopkins b.1778 at Newton Solney, near Burton upon Trent. William Hopkins was primarily a farmer & maltster & was assisted by his daughter Ann on the farm & in the brickworks. The farm & brick works was then taken over by his son-in-law John Marbrow after his death in November 1838. John Marbrow was born at Brook End Farm, Repton in 1801. John's profession at the time of his marriage in 1827 to Ann Hopkins is given as a butcher. White's 1857 trade directory is the first listing found for John Marbrow as brick maker at the Newton Yard producing bricks, tiles, drain pipes & kiln tiles. John is also listed as a farmer in this directory. Jim tells me John then expanded his business by buying land in Newton Solney & Burton to build houses on, he also built the Brick Makers Arms in Newton Solney & the cottages next to it using his own bricks. </span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">The 1861 census records John Marbrow as a Brick & Tile Maker at Newton Solney. Also in this entry is John's son John junior b.1841 single, aged 20 & a Brick & Tile Maker, so working alongside his father. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">John's wife Ann died in August 1862 & John then married Elizabeth Watson three months later with the couple moving to Rugby before the end of the year. This move to Rugby was so that John snr could continue to expand his house building side of the business, building some of the houses on William Street & in doing so </span><span style="background-color: white;">John snr passed over the running of his farm & brick yard to his eldest son, William Hopkins Marbrow b.1834. Jim tells me John junior then continued to work at the brick yard alongside his brother. I next found White's 1864 edition still lists John Marbrow as brick maker at Newton, so it appears the brickmaking side of the business run by William was still operating under John senior's name. Going back to the 1861 census for son William & he is listed as a</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Proprietor of Houses - a person who rents out properties, so I am assuming William was renting out the houses built by his father.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Jim tells me John snr died in April 1868 aged 67 in Rugby & shortly after his father's death John jnr moved to Derby to become the publican of the Wheel Inn while William continued to run the farm & brickworks. I am also assuming William was still renting his father's properties out. The 1871 census records William as a Farmer & a Brick Manufacturer employing 6 men & 1 boy. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Trade directories record William Hopkin Marbrow as the brickmaker/owner of the Newton Solney works in Kelly's 1876 to 1891 editions. Jim tells me William closed the brickworks around 1892 to concentrate on running the farm. William died in 1910. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Jim has sent me three images of a kiln tile in his possession stamped John Marbrow, Newton Solney & the following newspaper info. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In a July 1955 edition of the Burton Observer and Chronicle an article on a Eliza Salt who was celebrating her 100th birthday describes how she came to work for William Hopkins Marbrow at Brick Yard Farm, Newton Solney in the 1870s. She describes waking at 5 am, then trudging to work with 2 of her children in a clothes basket to make Kiln Tiles. She was paid 1 shilling per 100 tiles and was lucky if she made 10 shillings per week.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNERsrYf-8MTm6xbymZiycitHH0QLaSuVvM6rtu_hgdqftd-tU69UBDYrgh8wt3PT7Uxzl7Qg_7TqM4MSplu5fYPn5ZcAE5oOuj6jWFh9Oi21Wkjfw0bbgDHwvrUxjSjItasFCA0NRUfQ0WOJ6V5VDosHyn5X9NB5es5G7T2gJd4xZxZv3tTftQ5pNg/s640/J.%20Marbrow%20air%20drying%20floor%20tile%20face%20by%20Jim%20Marbrow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="602" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNERsrYf-8MTm6xbymZiycitHH0QLaSuVvM6rtu_hgdqftd-tU69UBDYrgh8wt3PT7Uxzl7Qg_7TqM4MSplu5fYPn5ZcAE5oOuj6jWFh9Oi21Wkjfw0bbgDHwvrUxjSjItasFCA0NRUfQ0WOJ6V5VDosHyn5X9NB5es5G7T2gJd4xZxZv3tTftQ5pNg/w376-h400/J.%20Marbrow%20air%20drying%20floor%20tile%20face%20by%20Jim%20Marbrow.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuMTsaU_Pxdh7zRxJ0F1H4DoOzzwR5SNzKM4r6Re-nDrPxCafdbC6RYOZtIciuDZL8q7DdOHLuepuvC4pIN5xCsVcC2bTPuKMQ_w9jvRdatN5FhaCkmAtyZWlzNw_C-SiJQrWGVz2VBlxzo0K4GUS0cV4bKMsbAPCKqMaqUj9O-bO3U_jf1PkBPW9pQ/s640/J.%20Marbrow%20air%20drying%20floor%20tile%20reverse%20by%20Jim%20Marbrow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="640" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuMTsaU_Pxdh7zRxJ0F1H4DoOzzwR5SNzKM4r6Re-nDrPxCafdbC6RYOZtIciuDZL8q7DdOHLuepuvC4pIN5xCsVcC2bTPuKMQ_w9jvRdatN5FhaCkmAtyZWlzNw_C-SiJQrWGVz2VBlxzo0K4GUS0cV4bKMsbAPCKqMaqUj9O-bO3U_jf1PkBPW9pQ/w400-h370/J.%20Marbrow%20air%20drying%20floor%20tile%20reverse%20by%20Jim%20Marbrow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">These floor tiles were manufactured to allow warm air from a fire to circulate through them to the room above to dry grain.</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PXn6CWGZ_HliUr0AW74YYt8d33-DdNadqKeXdd66AKc4B7z-iXbTkOsacaJaHmfqFEYICYZXu479V-Kqljrlvb9tNuGyEpVK-U0HR2L_16kP8fmLjbTOucA_E3qo2xBUbpX_IQmhr6D8MF0rCEmka8OumBFMHFBJjQj7nobC88GQWZ-XzPrpgIE-xQ/s640/J.%20Marbrow%20air%20drying%20floor%20tile%20name%20by%20Jim%20Marbrow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="640" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1PXn6CWGZ_HliUr0AW74YYt8d33-DdNadqKeXdd66AKc4B7z-iXbTkOsacaJaHmfqFEYICYZXu479V-Kqljrlvb9tNuGyEpVK-U0HR2L_16kP8fmLjbTOucA_E3qo2xBUbpX_IQmhr6D8MF0rCEmka8OumBFMHFBJjQj7nobC88GQWZ-XzPrpgIE-xQ/w400-h248/J.%20Marbrow%20air%20drying%20floor%20tile%20name%20by%20Jim%20Marbrow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Kiln Tile photos by Jim Marbrow.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More can be read on kiln tiles at these 2 links. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/5296626/A_catalogue_of_perforated_tiles_from_grain_drying_kilns_and_malt_kilns_v_8_2021_" target="_blank">Link 1</a>. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://gsia.org.uk/sites/reprints/2011/gi201119.pdf" target="_blank">Link 2</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Smart is listed in Kelly's 1888 edition through to it's 1891 edition at the Ludlow Brickworks, West Bridgford, Nottingham. It is recorded in a web article that his works on Melton Road was started in 1885, the location of which is shown on the 1912 OS map above. Kelly's 1895 edition to the last available edition in 1941 now records the company as T. & J. Smart at the same address. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">T & J Smart were also Contractors & Excavators in connection with building roads & sewers. Their father William also operated as a Contractor & he is recorded in the 1861 census as employing 28 men & living on London Road at Trent Bridge. I am assuming this was a large house near the bridge & it was the family home for William & his family, with Thomas still recorded as still living there in 1910. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">So who was the J in T & J Smart, brickmakers & contractors when Thomas' brother was William Richard Smart & there were no other brothers. Both Thomas & William Richard are only listed in the census as Contractors, so it appears they were primary Contractors first with brickmaking being another side of their business & this is the only answer I can come up with & it maybe stretching the truth. William Richard would have also been known as William junior & my thoughts are that he was normally called Junior hence the brothers company being called Thomas & Junior Smart. Backing up my theory is the entry in Wright's 1899 edition when William Richard Smart is listed as living at 32 Stratford Road & having "of T & J Smart" in brackets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Smarts brickworks provided the majority of the bricks needed for the ever expanding West Bridgford both for housing & industrial use. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The exact date when the works closed is unknown, but it is recorded in a web article that it was sometime during the 2nd World War. This was due to the glow from the kilns which compromised the blackout regulations. It appears that the works did not reopened after the war as the works is marked disused on a 1952 map & houses have now been built all round the edge of the site. The kilns were demolished in the early 1950's & today this former brickworks site is an industrial estate.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I first start with the pre-Baldwin history for this works. Thomas Walker is listed as brickmaker in Kelly's 1876 edition at this works in Bunny, Notts. This village is situated south of Nottingham & very close to the Leicestershire border. Thomas Walker is then followed by his son Thomas junior at the works & he is listed in Kelly's 1894 edition. A map dated 1887 shows this works as being only half the size as the one on the 1946 map above. This yard is shown again on the 1900 map, but is then marked as disused on the 1912 map.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">H.J. Baldwin then establishes a new brickworks on this former brickworks site in 1936. I have three trade directory entries for H.J. Baldwin & Co. Ltd. in Kelly's 1941, 53 & 56 editions & they only give the office address of 132, Arkwright Street, Nottm. & no listing for the location of their works.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">These four photos of the works were taken by Mike Chapman in 1994 shortly after the works had closed. This first one shows the kiln & chimney. Mike tells me while he was taking these photos, scrap men were hovering to take what metal that they could find. A sorry end to a once thriving works. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Today this former brickworks site is a recycling & landfill site.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">A closer inspection of this photo shows that these are pallets of the underground electricity cable covers which Baldwins produced in five different sizes & two examples can be seen below. Theses covers were placed in the ground to indicate that live electricity cables where buried below. This was at a time before the Cat Scan had been invented to show the location of buried electrical cables to workers digging up the ground.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Up to yet I have found no info relating to this brickworks ever being called the Wollaton Brick Co. as you would suppose with the brick below being stamped Wollaton. This works is shown on maps dating 1875 through to 1938, but I have only found two trade directory entries for brickmakers working at this yard & one web reference to another brickmaker being at the yard. I have used the word yard as this brickworks according to the several maps viewed never expanded in size compaired to other works in the Nottingham area operating over the same length of time.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">James Clayton is recorded at Wollaton in Whites 1885 edition with James also owning another works on Carlton Road, Nottm. The London Gazette in 1886 records James Clayton, Wollaton Brick & Pipe Works, Nottm. as ceased trading & going into voluntary liquidation. So he may have only been at the Wollaton works for a couple of years.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The next trade directory is for William Buxton & he is listed in Kelly's 1894 edition at Wollaton & Kimberley, Nottingham. This is the only entry for the Wollaton works, but William is listed at Kimberley in Kelly's 1876 to 1904 editions. Yet again a short tenancy at this yard.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I then have this web info from a family website :- </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">"<a class="H6H" href="http://www.curiousfox.com/uk/mail/sendMessage.lasso?eid=150188&-nothing" style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;">Cliffords brick yard</a>.<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span></span><br />
<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">In 1901 Henry Clifford, age 69 was at the brickyard in Wollaton with his wife Maria (Nee Woodward.) and his children. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">It would seem that a Thomas Brooks born Milford now owns the brick yard.... So. Any information ???? and where was the brickyard in Wollaton???"</span><br />
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">No trade directory entries for Henry Clifford, but I can reveal the location of the works for the person who posted this request in 2009. Just hope they do a fresh search so they can see my results. Then that begs the question of how long did Thomas Brooks own the yard ? As said the yard is still shown on a 1938 map. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: large;">Update 27.4.19.</span><br />
<span face="" style="color: #333333; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I have received some info relating to the Wollaton brickworks from Ray in Nottingham, who writes: "</span></span><span face=""><span style="font-size: large;">My Grandfather and Great Grandfather purchased the Wollaton Brick Yard in 1925, one of the lots in the Wollaton Estate sell off to cover death duties. I have a copy of the original sales book. </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">My father was born there late 1925. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The family did not make bricks, but used the land as a small holding, in the 1930's they sunk a drift mine to mine coal until it caved in. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I was born in 1956 and lived there until 1957 when Nottingham City Council acquired the property by compulsory purchase & we moved to another location in Wollaton. Since then my parents had a bungalow built and there is an "old" Wollaton brick in one of the garden walls." Many Thanks Ray for your family's info of the works. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I can only assume why the brickworks was still shown on the 1938 map was because the buildings were still standing & being used for other purposes. As to when Wollaton named bricks were made & by whom is still unknown.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> James Clayton & William Buxton listed in trade directories will have leased the brickworks from the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">during their tenancy & could have stamped their bricks Wollaton to signify this brickworks with them both operating other brickworks in Nottingham at the same time. </span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Added 22.3.17.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">With finding a new trade directory entry & using the 1879 map above, I can reveal a second brickworks at Wollaton. Kelly's 1881 edition lists brickmaker Clement Tate, office, 13 Middle Pavement, Nottingham & works at Wollaton. I am favouring the red coloured yard as being owned by Clement Tate as this yard is no longer shown on the 1887 map. Also to note is that this yard (red) is also shown on the 1875 map. With this yard not being shown on the 1887 map or the 1899 map we can discount Henry Clifford owning this smaller Wollaton yard in 1901, however the 1913 map reveals that a new clay pit (no yard) is shown to the left of this former brick yard & was more than likely worked by whoever owned the Wollaton Brick Yard at the time as their clay pit on the other side of the railway line is shown as disused.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I will update the Post if I get any new evidence regarding this works or the maker of bricks stamped "Wollaton."</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">John Piggin is listed in Kelly's 1895 to 1904 edition in owning the Pasture Road brickworks coloured yellow on the 1900 map above in Stapleford. The blue coloured works at Stanton Gate was in Derbyshire & I cover that works in a future post.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Stapleford Real Estate Co. Ltd are next listed as owning the Pasture Road works in Kelly's 1908 & 12 editions with A.G. Phillips as Manager. The works are still shown operational on a 1913 map, but only the clay pit remains on a 1938 map.</span><br /><br />
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<b style="color: purple;"><u><span face="" style="font-size: x-large;">Thompson, Chilwell.</span></u></b></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">This brickworks had been worked by several generations of the Thompson family & was operational for over 100 years. The earliest date so far found for the Thompson family at the works is 1865, but I expect from the information found that the yard had been started up to twenty years earlier at least.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So I start with the E.T. brick above & a London Gazette article dated 2nd January 1866 states that </span><span face=""> </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Edward Thompson of Breaston had taken over the Chilwell brickworks on the 31st of December 1865 which had previously operated as J.G. Thompson & Company. This company had been owned by himself, John Garton Thompson of Chilwell & Richard Thompson of Chellaston. The latter two of this partnership had retired from brickmaking. As a normal time span for a brickmaker was up to twenty years, I expect John Garton Thompson started this yard around 1845. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">So with Edward taking over the yard in 1866 & then finding a trade directory entry for Henry Thompson at this works in 1976, it appears that Edward owned this yard for around twenty years.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The first trade directory entry that I have for the owner of this works is for Henry Thompson in Kelly's 1876 edition. This entry continues until the 1908 when the entry reads Henry Thompson (exors of), so Henry had passed away. Kelly's 1912 edition then records William Thompson at the works. More that likely William was Henry's son. William continues to be listed in Kelly's until the last available directory in 1941.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The exact year this brickworks closed is unknown, but it may have been operational into the 1960's. I have pasted a link below which shows two 1960/70's photos of the clay pit just after the chimney had been demolished. Houses have since been built on the site.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">John Sheldon is listed in Kelly's 1876 edition as brickmaking at Chilwell, Attenborough & at Long Eaton. Then in the 1881 edition it only lists the Chilwell, Nottingham works. I am taking it that with photographing the Sheldon brick above at the Derby Silk Mill Museum it was made at John's Long Eaton works.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I then have a dilemma as to where John Sheldon's yard was in Chilwell as I have only found one brickworks marked on maps in Chilwell & this was owned by the Thompson family at the dates of 1876 & 1881. So I have two options, first John shared Henry Thompson's Chilwell yard or secondly Chilwell was where John lived & his works was at Long Eaton, but with the 1876 entry saying Chilwell & at Long Eaton it infers that John owned two works. I'll keep you updated if I find the answer to these questions.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">At this moment in time a brick stamped Wilford Brick Co. has still to be found, but I expect they stamped their bricks as they are listed in Kelly's 1900 to 1916 editions with Arthur Robert Bennett recorded as manager in the 1900 edition & Henry Turner as Managing Director in the 1904 edition to the 1916 edition. The 1922 edition now lists Capt. H.C. Cutts as Managing Director & entry continues to the 1941 edition. Kelly's 1953 & 56 editions lists the company as The Wilford Brick Co. Ruddington Lane, Wilford. Nottingham. The works is shown on a 1952 map & from a web article it states the works opened in 1895 & closed in 1967. The closure of the works was due to clay stocks getting low & what was left would be uneconomical to extract. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Link to a photograph taken in 1964 by a steam train enthusiast as a steam train was passing the Wilford works.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Radcliffe on Trent Brick Co. owned the blue coloured brickworks marked on this 1900 OS map & was located just outside the main part of Radcliffe in Harlequin. The yellow coloured works at Saxondale was owned by William Hill & I write about him next.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1881 edition lists the works as The Radcliffe on Trent Brick & Tile Co. with George John Willey as manager. The 1888 edition now lists George John Willey, Simon Barratt & Henry Parr as proprietors. Kelly's 1891 & 95 editions only list Willey & Parr as joint proprietors. The company is then not listed in Kelly's until the 1928 edition & the entry reads Radcliffe on Trent Brick Co. Ltd. Harlequin, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottm. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">So whether the works had closed for the period between 1895 & 1928 is unknown but the 1900 map above shows it as operational. I then find that the 1928 entry is also the last for the company in trade directories, but works had not closed at that date as I have found several letters of correspondence in the Nottingham Archives.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">These letters were to & from the Radcliffe Brick Co. & </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Bennett & Sayers, Brick Machine Manufactures & Engineers in Nun Street, Derby</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The letterhead on the first from Radcliffe dated 14th Jan 1930 records the company as the Radcliffe Brick Co. registered offices; 33, Castlegate, Nottm. - office & works, Radcliffe on Trent with George Morton as manager & W.A. Norris owner. It continues with a list of bricks that they supply - Pressed Facing Bricks, Wire Cut Common, Ornamental Red Bricks, Sand Stocks, Sills & Strings. This letter from N.A. Norris states that</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> the yard had been let to C.E. Marrows of Nuthall Lodge, Nuthall, Nottm. for five years from 21st October 1929 & all materials purchased are to be paid for by Marrows. Another letter dated 30th April 1930 states that arrangements had been made by Norris for Marrows (the Tenant) to buy the yard. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The next letter dated 12th June 1930 states that George Morton previously manager of the works was now the Works new owner with Marrows & now A. Oswin recorded as tenants of the yard. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The arrangement for Marrows to purchase the yard must have fell through as well as the Works being owned by Morton because a letter dated 15th May 1931 to B. & S. states that N.A. Norris had put the yard up for sale.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The final letter dated 9th December 1931 from B. & S. to Radcliffe Brick Co. & it's new owner Joseph Onions (works & yard), contains arrangements for Mr. Needham of B. & S. to visit Radcliffe to discuss future requirements & for Joseph Onions to visit B. & S.'s brick works on Slack Lane to view their brick machinery in action. How long Joseph Onions owned the Radcliffe B. Co. & the year the works closed is unknown but it is not shown on the 1950 OS map only the remains of the clay pit. Today the houses on Covert Crescent now occupy the site of this former brickworks.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Research has revealed that William Hill first owned the yellow coloured brickworks at Saxondale before relocating to a new works coloured red at Harlequin in Radcliffe on Trent. The blue works belonged to the Radcliffe Brick Co.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1876 trade directory records William Hill brickmaking at Saxondale, Bingham. A second works at Woodborough is added in the 1881 edition & this entry for the two works continues to the 1891 edition. The 1895 edition just lists the Saxondale works. The 1900 edition records the opening of his Harlequin works (coloured red) along with his existing Saxondale works. Then the 1904 edition to the 1922 editions just records the Harlequin (red) works. The year his Harlequin works closed is unknown & the next map available dated 1950 only shows the disused clay pit. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The house & adjoining barn which today front the former yellow coloured brickworks on Grantham Road is Hill Farm & are the same buildings which where owned/occupied by William Hill, then later his son John. Today the farm house & the former brickworks site is occupied by a dog grooming business. The houses on Woodland Close now occupy the former red coloured brickworks site.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Fellow collector Nigel Furniss has just photographed this W. Hill brick at Warwick Reclamation Yard & there is an outside chance that it was made by William Hill at one of his three brickworks in Nottinghamshire as the colour & texture of the clay in this brick matches bricks that have been made in the Radcliffe & Woodborough areas. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(107, 109, 116);"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Lord Belper of Kingston Hall who owned gypsum mines on his land at Kingston on Soar opened a brickyard at New Kingston in 1886 (coloured yellow on the 1899 OS map below) & it was operational until 1913. The works is listed in Kelly's 1895 & 1900 editions as the Kingston Gypsum Mines & Brick Works, R. Woodfield manager, Kingston on Soar. The works consisted of a boiler house, chimney stack and three clamp kilns. The yard manufactured bricks stamped with the letter ‘B’ (for Belper) & they were mainly used at Lord Belper's gypsum mine at New Kingston. Old maps show that the Kingston mineral railway line connected Lord Belper's gypsum mine & brick works to the Midland Mainline, situated on the west side of Kingston on Soar. The brickworks is shown as disused on the 1919 OS map. In 1979 the clay pit was filled in & by 1987 the site was levelled and all trace of the works removed. </span></span></div>
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Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-28880953161939620442016-11-17T17:38:00.004+00:002024-02-21T16:24:34.398+00:00Nottingham Brickworks - part 3 - Bulwell, Babbington, Bestwood, Linby & Hucknall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: purple;"><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;">Bulwell Brick Co.</span></u></b></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Bulwell Brick Co. is listed in Kelly's 1876 edition through to it's 1932 edition at Kett Street, Bulwell with the works closing around 1940. The company had a second works on The Wells Road & that works is listed in Kelly's from 1891 to 1916. An example of a brick made at the Wells Road works & a map showing the works location can be seen at the end of this entry. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have coloured Bulwell's brickworks yellow on this 1875 map & Kett Street green. So from this map it looks like the Bulwell Brick Company was in production before the 1876 trade directory entry. The purple marked brickworks was Sankey's which was on Hemphill Lane (coloured red) & I write about that company later in the post.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This 1900 OS map shows that Bulwell at this date had incorporated Sankey's brickworks into their site & it also shows the extent of it's clay reserves on the other side of the railway line. The clay was brought to the works via a tramway which runs under the Midland railway line. Today the course of the former Midland railway line is now Sellars Wood Drive. Bulwell Potteries marked blue on this map was owned by Sankey's & as said this company features later in the post.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Made at Bulwell's Well's Road Works & was also photographed at the Wollaton Industrial Museum, Nottingham.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have now found the location of Linby brickworks which was on Wighay Road, Linby, but at this moment in time who owned the works is unknown - please see 1875 map below. <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Available trade directories have also drawn a blank to it's owners. </span>The works does not appear on the 1887 map, only the clay pit is shown. A search on the web has revealed that the underground water reservoir at Papplewick from where this brick came was built in 1879 by the Nottingham Waterworks Co. to store water from it's Bestwood Waterworks. It was also in 1879 that the Corporation of Nottingham purchased this underground reservoir & then set about the building of Papplewick Pumping Station near to the reservoir between 1881 & 1884. Therefore we can now date this Linby brick as to have been made before 1879. One could speculate that Linby Brickworks was set up by the Bulwell Brick Co. to supplement the many bricks needed for this vast undergound reservoir project with Linby Brickworks closing on it's completion. The reason why I have put forward the Bulwell Brick Co. as owning the Linby Brickworks is that the clay found at Linby is identical to Bulwell's in both colour & texture & both works used Clayton's Brick Making Machinery to make these reservoir bricks.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have coloured Wighay Road red & the land to the north of it which includes the brickworks is within the boundaries of Linby village. The land to the south of Wighay Road up to the railway line is in Hucknall. The village of Linby is where it says St. Michael's Church & Linby Colliery is in the bottom right hand corner of this map. <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Today, the houses on Peverel Road have just been built on this former brickworks site & they are situated next to the former clay pit & occupy land which had not been used for brickmaking or the buildings of the works. Peverel Road </span>was named after William Peverell the younger who granted Linby to the Church of Holy Trinity at Lenton in 1105.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My first reference found to Sankey's Bulwell Brick Co. appears in the Nottingham Guardian dated 7th June 1877 when an individual (name not given) was selling their 25 shares in the company & were to apply to Mr. Martin, Solicitor, Low Pavement, Nottingham. Sankey’s Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. Hempshill Lane, Bulwell is listed in Kelly’s 1881 to 1885 editions with George Kemp as manager. Bricks may have only been produced between the mid 1870's & 1885 at Hempshill Lane as Sankey’s were more well known for producing clay flower pots which they made at their Bulwell Pottery works which was situated a little further north of their brickworks on the other side of the railway line. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Sellars Wood Drive now follows the course of this former Midland railway line.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> The year the brickworks closed is unknown, but was before 1900 as an OS map dated 1900 shows that Sankey's yard was part of Bulwell Brick Company's yard by this date.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Sankey’s continued to produce clay flower pots until 1976 at their Pottery Works, when they then made them of plastic. The pottery/plastic works relocated to Bennerley Road</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> & the site of their original pottery works is now Sankey Drive. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">Sankey’s</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> became part of the Fiskars Group in 1999. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The story of this brickworks all starts in the village of Babbington in 1839 when Thomas North who owned the Babbington Coal Company was sinking shallow pits around Babbington to extract it's coal. This successful venture lead Thomas to move to nearby Cinderhill to sink two 7ft mine shafts on land owned by the Duke of Newcastle in 1842, calling his new pit Babbington Colliery. A brickworks was established next to the colliery in 1851 & from a </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">1853 list of brick outputs in Nottinghamshire, it lists Thomas North as producing 6 million bricks in that year at Cinderhill. Thomas North was well revered by his workers for providing them with housing & other amenities. He built Cinderhill Church on land given by the Duke of Newcastle & with the fruits of his hard labour he moved into Basford Hall. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This 1900 OS map shows the size of the Babbington's brickworks which was located next to Babbington colliery (also known as Cinderhill Colliery as shown on this map). Also to note on this map is the railway line which connected the colliery & it's brickworks to the Great Northern Railway line which opened in 1870. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">This example of a Babbington brick was photographed at the Wollaton Industrial Museum, Nottingham.</span></span>
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<span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Wright's 1866 & 68 editions - Thomas North, Low Pavement, Nottm. (offices).</span><br />
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<span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1908 edition - ditto plus Cinder Hill Road (works), Hayden Rd, Marmion Rd & Wells Rd, Nottm. I have been told that these three addresses are railway sidings on the Nottingham Suburban Railway line from where Babbington Coal Company may have sold it's coal from. This is the only entry listing these addresses.</span><br />
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<span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1912 edition to Kelly's 1928 edition - Babbington Coal Co. offices, 5 Low Pavement, works, Cinder Hill Road, Cinder Hill, Nottm.</span><br />
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<span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1928 to Kelly's 1936 edition - Babbington Coal Co. offices & works, </span><span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Cinder Hill Road, Cinder Hill, Nottm.</span><br />
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<span face=""\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So with the last trade directory entry being 1936 for the brickworks one can assume that it closed before 1941 as it does not appear in that directory. Today the site of the former colliery & brickworks is the Phoenix Business Park & it includes ample parking at the tram station which takes you to the centre of Nottingham.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">McCarthy's brickworks was at the end of Thames Street in Bulwell, on the opposite side of the then Midland Railway line to Sankey's Pottery works. Today the course of the former Midland railway line is Sellers Wood Drive. </span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">As far as I know McCarthy's only made internal house bricks & they were stamped either McCarthy (one is still to be found) or MAC. A bricklayer friend has told me that because these internal bricks were very absorbent he had to soak them overnight before he could lay them the next day. If not the bricks would draw the moisture out of the mortar and the wall would fall down. Gary has also told me that when he was a nipper, he & his friends would play in McCarthy's brickyard where they stacked the cooling bricks. These cooling bricks had their use in the winter, first they kept the gang warm & secondly they use to take their jacket potatoes & place them in-between the bricks until they were cooked, Lovely Jubbly ! I expect that while he was playing in this brickyard with his chums at this tender age, he did not think that one day he would be laying McCarthy's bricks for a living !</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This Bestwood Coal & Iron Company brick is set into the wall of the winding engine house at Bestwood Colliery Museum. Bestwood pit was sunk between 1872 & 1878 & the building of an ironworks next door had been completed by 1881. Just over a mile to the north of the colliery a brickworks at Cobler's Hill had been built & is shown on the 1875 map below. As found with the sinking of other coal pits a brickworks will have been established to provide the bricks needed to line the pit's shaft as it was being built & these bricks will have been made at the Moor Road yard starting around 1870 using the on-site clay. A tramway was built alongside Moor Road to take coal to & bricks from the brickworks. This tramway also serviced a gravel quarry which was slightly to the north of the brickworks. A web article records that bricks made at this works were used to build the original 64 dwellings & colliery buildings in the village, whether all of these bricks were stamped with the colliery's name is unknown, as the few bricks that I have found in the village have been not been stamped with any makers name. Another web article records that the terrace houses on Park Road, St Albans Road & The Square were these houses built by the Bestwood Coal & Iron Co. & with viewing street view on Google Maps the houses on Park Road have stone wall plaques dated 1876 & the Company's logo. Checking the web has revealed that coal production at Bestwood started in 1876, so the bricks used to build these houses were made with clay shale from the pit after 1876 & not from the clay which was readily available at the brickyard. The use of clay shale produced a much harder & weather resistant brick.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have coloured the tramway yellow to indicate it's route between the brickworks at Cobbler's Hill & the Colliery on this 1875 map.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Added 3.8.20. Just found this Bestwood C & I Coy Ltd brick which is stamped both sides close to the village & it's made of pure clay rather than clay shale from the pit, so my thoughts are that this brick was one of the first ones made at the yard in the early 1870's before they started using clay shale to make a more hard wearing durable brick. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">William Granger, brickmaker, is listed at Hucknall Torkard, Nottingham in Kelly's 1855 & 1864 editions. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1881 Census records William aged 52/3 as brickmaker, farmer & maltster employing 10 at his brickworks called the Brick Yard, situated on Wood Lane, Hucknall Torkard & is shown on the 1878 map above. The next trade directory entry for William Granger records him brickmaking at The Common, Hucknall Torkard in Kelly's 1885 edition & this will have been the Wood Lane works with Common Lane meeting Wood Lane near to the brickworks entrance. The 1891 Census only records William Granger as farmer & maltster. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Wood Lane brickworks continues to be shown on maps up to 1938, but I have no trade directory entries or web info on who worked or owned this brickworks up to this date. If anyone has this information, please get in touch.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Update 28.11.16. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I can now add that I have found information of another brickmaker working in Hucknall Torkard. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">John Wilmott is listed in Kelly's 1876 & 81 editions at Hucknall Torkard. There is then a gap in trade directory entries until John Wilmott is listed again in Kelly's 1888 & 91 editions with the address of High Street, Hucknall Torkard. The location of his brick yard is unknown.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I can now add this information just received in an email from a resident who lives in "The Brickyard" Butler's Hill. It was with them doing research into their house's history that they found that John Wilmott is recorded as owning the land their 1897 house is built on & I have deduced from the location of their house that John Wilmott's yard was the one which I have coloured yellow on the 1879 OS map below. There is also the option that Wilmott may have also owned the other yard. Today this former brickworks site now called The Limes is accessed via a railway crossing with barriers, but I expect back then access was still over the tracks but without any barriers. Bricks stamped Wilmott have still to be found.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As wrote in Derby Brickmakers - part 1 John Holmes had been in the partnership of Bennett, Holmes & Kay at Stockbrook Lane up to early 1878. John then went on to open up a new brickworks at Melbourne Junction, naming it the Junction Brickworks as recorded in the Derbyshire Advertiser newspaper dated 26th of July 1878 - shown below. This brickworks site which contained a very deep & extensive bed of superior brick clay situated next to the Birmingham to Derby Railway had been originally advertised "To Let" by Mr. John Shaw of College Place, Derby in a newspaper advert dated 21st of August 1872. So it appears that this site was not let until John Holmes came along in 1878. I do not have any trade directory entries for John Holmes at this works only the census listing in 1881 recording him as a brickmaker & as wrote in Derby Brickmakers - part 1, he may have taken up brickmaking with Thomas Bennett as early as 1872, because in the 1871 census he is recorded as grocer & flour dealer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUH2NonYh7UWhfA8ADVkEnblfntAR1qlSdlfrxIvYyY2N3LMxRHGMzOwnuzeahl93mek_Hd61vqMFnDT0qcDOOKRgJMM1ttcJB1azEv30Rd-9ry2qmvClFYVQf5KdwoIF3Rwc6Q1ITD6OMxNsr11IQJXio0motMFY0J3P6jw08KzkDayk8kDvMf9K4Zw/s800/%20Holmes,%20John%20Derby%20-%20Derbyshire%20Advertiser%20and%20Journal%20-%20Friday%2026%20July%201878%20Image%20%C2%A9%20Reach%20PLC.%20Image%20created%20courtesy%20of%20THE%20BRITISH%20LIBRARY%20BOARD.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="694" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUH2NonYh7UWhfA8ADVkEnblfntAR1qlSdlfrxIvYyY2N3LMxRHGMzOwnuzeahl93mek_Hd61vqMFnDT0qcDOOKRgJMM1ttcJB1azEv30Rd-9ry2qmvClFYVQf5KdwoIF3Rwc6Q1ITD6OMxNsr11IQJXio0motMFY0J3P6jw08KzkDayk8kDvMf9K4Zw/w348-h400/%20Holmes,%20John%20Derby%20-%20Derbyshire%20Advertiser%20and%20Journal%20-%20Friday%2026%20July%201878%20Image%20%C2%A9%20Reach%20PLC.%20Image%20created%20courtesy%20of%20THE%20BRITISH%20LIBRARY%20BOARD.jpg" width="348" /></a></div> <i style="font-family: times;"> Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kP54BvGBWIE/XXZnRTIQuoI/AAAAAAAAH90/qILayHYPytk-QPU3kgCv72etbBe98Y3FACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_1747.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kP54BvGBWIE/XXZnRTIQuoI/AAAAAAAAH90/qILayHYPytk-QPU3kgCv72etbBe98Y3FACLcBGAs/s640/IMG_1747.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mx4ww6u8tNk/XXZnRThKtYI/AAAAAAAAH9w/jnXoN_p7uRQLxApbe5whIB4uwZILM_kUgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_1750.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mx4ww6u8tNk/XXZnRThKtYI/AAAAAAAAH9w/jnXoN_p7uRQLxApbe5whIB4uwZILM_kUgCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_1750.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My next newspaper find in the Derbyshire Advertiser dated 5th of January 1883 advertises John Holmes of the Melbourne Junction Brickworks was selling 30,000 assorted drain pipes, a Schofield's brick making machine, a Schofield brick press & other brick making plant. Apply at the Works or J. Holmes, Victoria Villas, Uttoxeter New Road, Derby. Then another notice in the Derby Daily Telegraph dated 27th January 1883 reports Mr. Miles was auctioning the previously listed drain pipes & machinery at the Melbourne Junction Brickworks. So in conclusion John had decided to close the brickworks. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It then appears Thomas Bennett, the Bennett in Bennett, Holmes & Kay, after working at the Parcel Terrace Brickworks, then takes over this Melbourne Junction works on Sinfin Lane. Kelly's 1887 edition lists Thomas Bennett as brickmaking at Sinfin Lane, Derby. According to his descendant Thomas died in 1891 while still working as a brickmaker. As yet no bricks have turned up made by Thomas at this works.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The London Gazette dated 2nd October 1877 records James Reading, builder & brickmaker of Burton Road, Derby; brickworks, Normanton, had declared himself bankrupt & any debts not yet proven were to be declared before the 12th of October 1877 to William Holbrook, Auctioneer & Accountant of Full Street, Derby. Dated 29th of September 1877. The 1880 OS map above shows two brick yards to the north-west of the village, one of which is marked as disused (coloured green) & it is this works which I am favouring was owned by James Reading. It is unknown who owned the purple coloured works. The 1899 OS map shows no trace of either of these two brickworks.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">On the Spondon O.S. map above dated 1881 I have coloured the three brickworks which are on this map, of which one is marked disused. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Although I do not have proof of the ownership of these yards, I think that the yellow works was owned in 1881 by Richard Bennett then by Richard Bennett & Co. after his death in 1885, closing around 1897. The blue disused works may have been owned by Richard's father Thomas Bennett. This leaves the red works & I have two entries in Kelly's 1876 & 1881 editions for the Antill Brothers brickmaking at Spondon & this may have been their yard.</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As yet no bricks have been found with Antill Brothers stamped in them.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This Chaddesden brick, photographed at the Silk Mill Museum, Derby has Dyche stamped on the other side, but unfortunately I did turn the brick over to photograph it. Then a fellow collector photographed the same brick & this has revealed that it has got the same stamp mark as the Dyche brick above which I have got in my collection, but mine has not got Chaddesden on the reverse.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The 1900 map above shows the distance the tramway travelled from the Footrill's drift mine near Stanley village to Chaddesden Hill. It must have been a feat of engineering to build this tramway. Also coloured yellow is Stanley Kilburn Colliery. If you wish to study this map in more detail I have pasted the link below.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My first reference to a brick-yard at Chellaston comes in the form of a "For Sale" advert which appeared in the Derbyshire Advertiser dated 27th of March 1863. "To be Sold or Let with immediate possession, excellent brick-yard standing on 6 acres of land, with first-rate bed of clay, dwelling house, kiln, sheds, stables, outbuildings & plant etc. Apply Mr. Pool, Auctioneer, Derby. Birch & Ryde are listed in Kelly's 1876 edition as brickmakers at Chellaston, so had this duo purchased this works from Mr. Pool in 1863 ?</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In Wright's 1874 edition Birch & Ryde are listed as plaster pit owners & may have owned the California gypsum mine marked just to the right of the brickworks on the 1879 map above. It is in Kelly's 1876 edition that we find that Birch & Ryde are listed as brick & tile manufacturers at Chellaston. As you can see on the map above there is no clay pit next to the works, so as well as bringing coal to the works via their tramway, B & R must have also brought clay to the works via road & then their tramway. As to where the clay came from whether it was from their gypsum mine or a 2nd option is the unmarked (at this date) clay pit with tramway which I have coloured blue, is unknown. If they did own the blue coloured area, it appears that they did not own the land between the clay pit & the brickworks, so therefore they had transport the clay by road & then by their tramway to the works. A later map does show that the next owners of the works did have direct access to this clay pit.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Porter Stableford b.1821 is listed in Kelly's 1881 edition to it's 1904 edition as brick making in Chellaston. Then son John Thomas Stableford b.1862 is listed at this works in Kelly's 1908 to 1916 editions. A <a href="http://www.chellastonhistorygroup.co.uk/publications/extras/chellaston-brickworks.pdf" target="_blank">web article</a> has revealed that John Thomas Stableford after the war modernised the works building a Hoffman kiln & replacing the steam engine with a gas fired one. In doing all these changes John got into financial trouble & to ease his situation he accepted a loan from F.W. Gilbert, however John soon got deeper into trouble & the the loan was foreclosed. F.W. Gilbert then took over the brickworks & John was made works manager, hence there being no more trade directory listings for John after 1916. In 1922 John Stableford was made redundant & the brickworks was closed by Gilbert. If you look at the 1899 map above you will see a house marked Woodlands next to the brickworks & this is where Thomas Stableford & John Stableford lived. These clay pits where also known as Woodlands Brickpits. As of yet, no bricks stamped John Stableford, Chellaston have turned up, unless he carried on stamping his bricks with his father's name on. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Bricks were in great demand during both World Wars from this works especially the 2nd, because the Company (Chellaston Minerals) had to keep a sufficient stock of bricks to rebuild Rolls Royce in case of major damage by </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">enemy bombs. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">While digging for clay, gypsum was also dug & was sold to produced plaster by the company. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The company continues to be listed in the brick & tile makers section of Kelly's Directory up to it's 1941 edition, the last available directory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Situated next to the Derby Canal I have coloured this Shelton Lock brickyard yellow on the 1879 map above. Thomas Cooper is recorded as brickmaker in White's 1857 edition at Shelton Lock, Chellaston with George Shelton listed as manager. However the Derbyshire Advertiser date 5th of September 1856 records Thomas Cooper as a Bankrupt & the Assignee had been charged to sell the Brick Yard & it's contents which included 150,000 common & pressed bricks on the 17th of September 1856. So I can only assume the trade directory had not been informed of Cooper's bankruptcy before it went to print. Cooper may have only operated this yard for a short time with him not being listed in Kelly's 1855 edition. </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A search in old newspapers has revealed </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Tomlinson & Harper next owned this Shelton Lock brickworks in the early 1860's & after their partnership was dissolved in 1863 it the took until May 1867 for the stock & equipment at this works to be sold at Auction as per a Notice in the Derbyshire Advertiser. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thomas Clews, a farmer is next recorded as leasing this brick yard for a term of 10 years from the 25th of March 1876 at the minimum aggregate rents of £76 5s. 6d. According to this notice Thomas Clews also occupied the house which came with the brickyard. However as you will see the brick below is stamped A. Clews & Co. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Thomas had a son called Arthur L. Clews & he is recorded as a brewers clerk, aged 17 in the 1871 census & it appears Thomas had leased the brickyard for Arthur to run. However A. Clews & Co. did not last long because in June 1880 the lease on the brickyard was once again being offered as a going concern & I found Arthur had moved to Wales as a Travelling Salesman in the brewery trade. There is another twist to tell you that in November 1880 Thomas Clews & Sons were advertising in the Derby Telegraph first class bricks for sale at reduced prices, so it appears Thomas had another son & they were running the brickyard together. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIEoJev3LMs/V7goo9jdTFI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/qr4hqDRYFFAL0F2c5JwcL5W5FdFbgjiagCLcB/s1600/15057328596_4fd9bd7f5a_o_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="435" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zIEoJev3LMs/V7goo9jdTFI/AAAAAAAAD2Q/qr4hqDRYFFAL0F2c5JwcL5W5FdFbgjiagCLcB/w640-h435/15057328596_4fd9bd7f5a_o_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wInOD3CyoOY/V7goon2llQI/AAAAAAAAD2M/DD8AW4Qhzwo7z_MCONODIsU5mjMz_fwBwCLcB/s1600/15080002042_9b2ef50cec_o_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="429" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wInOD3CyoOY/V7goon2llQI/AAAAAAAAD2M/DD8AW4Qhzwo7z_MCONODIsU5mjMz_fwBwCLcB/w640-h429/15080002042_9b2ef50cec_o_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A. Clewes/Chellaston brick was photographed at the Silk Mill Museum, Derby by Frank Lawson.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYk-FWcIPKw4ZgNxU115IAkiOtNDnYG1KQWwKkD6l7vNThJnyFtFDttn0nUBnazFxDcqJAUGkfAXRFEVqIQIm5YUWqHKN0d-oPsla9BeO67VZE0SoT-7zmz2zyfHdrnOH-8XDJIGYwJHwLXhScyU7vWfJM7FO_I7BQlwLSoo0Y2SdHCDwfpsqc4XgFMw/s640/IMG_0680.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYk-FWcIPKw4ZgNxU115IAkiOtNDnYG1KQWwKkD6l7vNThJnyFtFDttn0nUBnazFxDcqJAUGkfAXRFEVqIQIm5YUWqHKN0d-oPsla9BeO67VZE0SoT-7zmz2zyfHdrnOH-8XDJIGYwJHwLXhScyU7vWfJM7FO_I7BQlwLSoo0Y2SdHCDwfpsqc4XgFMw/w640-h429/IMG_0680.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16w_VCbuhlKjQX2wGYiEI00aYFm91cP3qpoA2bZBe7Z0WUZPOkzaIxU1iShPkHC6RVCJUADyqmG49jTRh1i-2yK3ucPhXVFQYd1KkCvLlp-2ovHK3u-I8aOVC7tYE5MeWLbNAJb4GDepMOxCl8nwS4QcDk8ZBS1OyiA3rVuFUFjgQ-2_FmHoNoN8_BQ/s640/IMG_0686.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16w_VCbuhlKjQX2wGYiEI00aYFm91cP3qpoA2bZBe7Z0WUZPOkzaIxU1iShPkHC6RVCJUADyqmG49jTRh1i-2yK3ucPhXVFQYd1KkCvLlp-2ovHK3u-I8aOVC7tYE5MeWLbNAJb4GDepMOxCl8nwS4QcDk8ZBS1OyiA3rVuFUFjgQ-2_FmHoNoN8_BQ/w640-h429/IMG_0686.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As just wrote in June 1880 the Shelton Lock brickworks was advertised in the Derbyshire Advertiser to be Let as a going concern & it appears the lease was not taken up because in May 1885 the works was advertised again in the same newspaper, but this time to be Sold as a going concern, so I am thinking it was in May 1885 when the Shelton Brick Co. purchased the works. 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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">More can be read at the link below about James, his family & his brickworks in this blog written by one of his descendants Brett Payne who lives in New Zealand. A very interesting blog which requires more time to read his many posts about Derbyshire towns & it's inhabitants. The posts include many old photographs which is his passion. </span><br />
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Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-20529448113815456732016-08-14T18:59:00.100+01:002023-05-31T16:19:10.043+01:00Derby Brickworks - part 1<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In part 1 of Derby Brickworks I concentrate on the brickmakers who operated in the Uttoxeter Road area of Derby. On the 1882 surveyed O.S. map below, I have numbered each of the brickworks that I will write about in this post. Then I conclude the post with information on the Derby Brick Co. which took over five of these yards in 1906. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Slack Lane brickworks was owned by the Bennett family & I have wrote about this family who worked at various brickworks across the Midlands in my Bennett post, so a more detailed account of the Bennett family can be read at the link below.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So in this entry I concentrate on the Bennett's that worked at Slack Lane. This brickworks had it's access via Slack Lane which connected to Uttoxeter Old Road & in some trade directories this brickworks address is given</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> as Uttoxeter Old Road & with the works also having access through Yard 2, Rowditch on to Uttoxeter New Road, there are some trade directory entries giving the address Uttoxeter New Road or Uttoxeter Road. I have to note that all of these address' refer to the Slack Lane Works coloured yellow on the map above. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Bennett died in October 1871 & his brickworks was then run by his son Richard who is named in his Will as a brickmaker & Executor. Also named in Thomas's Will as an Executor is Thomas's son-in-law Henry Leese who had married his eldest daughter Mary in 1853. Richard Bennett & Henry Leese then went into partnership as Bennett & Leese around 1872 with brickworks at Slack Lane, Derby; Spondon; Melbourne & Stoke. This Melbourne works was actually in Kings Newton which was in the Parish of Melbourne. In 1881 Henry Leese as well as being in this partnership </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">establish his own brickmaking business at the Rowditch Brickworks (Yard 2) next door to the Slack Lane Works, but this venture was short lived as Henry died in 1882. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">We then find in Kelly's 1891 edition that the entry for this works is now Richard Bennett & Co. & was run by his Executors; wife, Elizabeth Bennett; farmer, Henry Boam & Engineer, William Sayer. In the 1901 census Richard's son Richard Charles Bennett, aged 24 is recorded as Brick Manufacturer & will have been running </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Richard Bennett & Co. at this date. Kelly's 1904 edition is the last entry for Richard Bennett & Co. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The London Gazette dated 28th of August 1906 (</span><span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27944/page/5901/data.pdf" target="_blank">page1</a>, <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27944/page/5902/data.pdf" target="_blank">page 2</a></span><span>) reveals Richard Bennett & Co. was voluntarily wound up on the 2nd of July 1906 by it's members & on the 24th of July an agreement was signed for the Derby Brick Co. to purchase the brickworks previously owned by Richard Bennett & Co. Shares & debentures in the Derby Brick Co. were then distributed to the share holders of the former company. This notice was signed by Chairman William Sayer. The formation of the Derby Brick Co. Ltd. had all come about with an amalgamation of five local Derby brick companies in 1906 with the common interest in saving unnecessary expense & to stop the under-cutting of the price of their bricks between themselves. With William Sayer being Chairman of Richard Bennett & Co. he then took up a position within this new company of the Derby Brick Co. At the time of his death in 1918 William Sayer was the Chairman of the Derby Brick Co. It is unknown if Richard Bennett's son Richard Charles Bennett, brick manufacturer in 1901 took up a position within the Derby Brick Co. after 1906, but by the 1911 census Richard is recorded as a "Engineer Disengaged" & still living with his mother Elizabeth in Derby, who is listed as "Living on her own means".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For some unknown reason the Slack Lane brickworks is not listed in trade directories as being owned by the Derby Brick Co. until Kelly's 1925 edition, but after that date it continues to be listed</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> until the last available Kelly's directory in 1941. When the Slack Lane works closed is unknown & today this former brickworks site forms part of the Kingsway Retail Park. I write more about the Derby Brick Co. later.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Rowditch brickworks had been started by Joseph Harpur who is recorded in the 1841 census as brickmaker at Rowditch Farm on Uttoxeter Road. The works had been built on land next to the Harpur family's 18th century farmhouse. Joseph is then recorded in Bagshaw's 1846 edition at the works. After Joseph had passed away in 1853, his son John took over the works & John is listed in Kelly's 1855 edition & White's 1857 edition as being in the partnership of Tomlinson & Harpur at the Rowditch works.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Joseph Tomlinson b.1836 is next listed as brickmaker at the Uttoxeter Road works (Rowditch) in Kelly's 1891 edition. Joseph Tomlinson may had been a descendant of the Tomlinson who had been in the partnership of Tomlinson & Harpur at the Rowditch works as recorded in 1855 & 1857. Joseph's works entry in Kelly's 1895 edition is now given as Rowditch, Uttoxeter Road. There is also the addition of Duke Street. I have found that Duke Street is next to the river & on an 1882 map it shows coal wharfs are located on this street, so it looks like Joseph owned one of these wharfs in 1895. Joseph continues to be listed in Kelly's up to it's 1904 edition at Rowditch & Duke Street. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1908 edition only records Joseph at Duke Street & we next find in the same directory that the Rowditch works along with the California brickworks on Stockbrook Street are now owned by the newly formed Derby Brick Company which was established in 1906 by five local Derby brickmakers & that included Joseph Tomlinson. As yet no bricks have been found with Tomlinson of Derby stamped in them. As previously wrote in the Slack Lane Works entry the Derby Brick Co. was formed in March 1906 to take over the running of this works & four others in Derby. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">From information received I can now add that Joseph Tomlinson's principle job was as a General Contractor in Derby which included working for the railways, so I expect having the capacity to supply bricks from his own brickworks was a bonus in obtaining new contracts. Joseph Tomlinson around 1891 also took over the running of the Mansfield Stone & Brick Works situated at the end of Moor Lane, Mansfield. After new streets had been laid in 1898/9 this works was accessed off Princess Street & from 1916 this works was run by his grandson, Francis Joseph Tomlinson. Joseph's son John Drabble Tomlinson is recorded as a brickworks foreman in the 1911 census, so three generations worked at the Mansfield works, father, son & grandson. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Stockbrook Street as we know it as today was previously called Stockbrook Lane & Lane appears in trade directories up to 1887. Research has revealed that Yards 3 & 4 as shown on the 1882 OS map above started as one yard called the California Brickworks - Yard 3. It then changed hands between 1876 & 1878 & was converted into two yards with Yard 3 being run by the owner & with Yard 4 being leased or sold to another brickmaker. Both yards were then taken over by the Derby Brick Co. in 1906 & Yard 4 was demolished between 1908 & 1913 to make way for an extension to Yard 3's clay pit. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Also to note is that the Stockbrook Street works in 1937 was also accessible from Spring Street as shown on an 1937 aerial photograph from Britain From Above which I show later in the post under the Derby Brick Co. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1fdVfr84-kw/V6yblZNtNTI/AAAAAAAADxo/7Lb9kLe7SYIDOu2LmEZIfmgAIeV74j9BgCPcB/s1600/P1090501_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1fdVfr84-kw/V6yblZNtNTI/AAAAAAAADxo/7Lb9kLe7SYIDOu2LmEZIfmgAIeV74j9BgCPcB/w640-h422/P1090501_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9pKBAITeeTA/V6yblXt-11I/AAAAAAAADxo/oaTGH1I3vhI4GxQJi_AZM2OZgmmeAgyJQCPcB/s1600/P1090500_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9pKBAITeeTA/V6yblXt-11I/AAAAAAAADxo/oaTGH1I3vhI4GxQJi_AZM2OZgmmeAgyJQCPcB/w640-h426/P1090500_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Bennett/California brick, photos taken at the Silk Mill Museum, Derby.</i></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">First of all I have to say that this Thomas Bennett b.1823 is a different Thomas Bennett to the Thomas Bennett b.1806 - d. October 1871 that owned the Slack Lane Works - Yard 1.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">As previously wrote this Stockbrook Lane site started as one brickworks & was known as the California Brickworks, so Yard 3 on the 1882 map above. The first entry for this works appears in Wright's 1874 edition when Thomas Bennett (b.1823) is listed as brickmaker on Stockbrook Lane, Derby. We then find Thomas Bennett went into partnership with John Holmes & William Nicholson Kay at this brickworks as Bennett, Holmes & Kay & they are listed</span> at the California Brickworks, Stockbrook Lane in Kelly's 1876 edition. </span><br /><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">There is the only directory entry for the trio as the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24609/page/4391/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> reveals that on the 30th of June 1878 the partnership of Bennett, Holmes & Kay was dissolved by mutual consent & all debts due by or to the said late company would be paid & received by the said Thomas Bennett. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">A Derbyshire Advertiser advert dated 26th of July 1878 regarding John Holmes reveals Bennett, Holmes & Kay had sold their "Business" to the Trustees of the Late Mr. Dusautoy (died September 1874) who were operating as Dusautoy & Co. after his death.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have found from a family website that John Holmes is recorded in the 1871 census as Grocer & Flour Dealer. Then in the 1881 census John is recorded as brickmaker & living at 81, Uttoxeter New Road. So I take it that John had taken up brickmaking before 1876 & it may have been as early as 1874 when he joined Bennett & Kay in their partnership at Stockbrook Lane. After the break up of their partnership John Holmes then established a new yard at Melbourne Junction</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> (Sinfin Lane, Normanton) in 1878 & I write about that works in my next post, <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/08/derby-brickworks-part-2.html" target="_blank">Derby Brickworks - part 2.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I next received this information from John & Shirley Bennett who live in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada which confirms that their Thomas Bennett is a different Thomas to the Thomas Bennett at Slack Lane. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">My 2nd Great Grandfather, Thomas Bennett, was a part owner of the California Brickworks located on Stockbrook Street in Derby from 1874 to 1878, then continuing as a brickmaker until his death in 1891. The three partners in this company are listed as Bennett, Holmes and Kay. Stockbrook Field House was the home of the Bennett family. Thomas Bennett was born in Burton on Trent and moved to Derby around 1840. When he was married in 1843, the father of the bride, Thomas Green, was described as a brick maker. Thomas Bennett was a boot maker and grocer prior to delving in to the brick industry. I do not believe that my Thomas Bennett was connected to Thomas/Richard Bennett on Uttoxeter Road.<br /><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With delved into Ancestry myself I have found some more info on this Thomas Bennett, so here are my findings.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Bennett was born in Burton on Trent in 1823. His father John was born in Tutbury & was shoe & boot maker all his life. Thomas Bennett, a shoe maker, aged 20 then marries Sarah Elizabeth Green aged 19 on the 17th April 1843 & they go on to produce 2 boys & 5 girls. Sarah's father, Thomas Green, born Littleover was a Brick Master at the time of the wedding, but later censuses record him as a brick labourer.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Sarah dies & widow Thomas then marries Esther Jackson who was born in 1831 in Mickleover. The marriage of Thomas a shoemaker & Esther took place on the 21st October 1860. The couple went on to have 3 boys & 1 girl. The 1861 census records Thomas as a Boot Maker & Grocer living in Sadler Gate, Derby with his family. The 1871 census records Thomas as Grocer & living with his family at Morley Street, Derby. From John & Shirley's info Thomas became a brickmaker in 1874. I have him in the partnership of Bennett, Holmes & Kay in Kelly's 1876 edition at the California Works, Stockbrook Street. Thomas is then recorded at another yard on Parcels Terrace (Yard 5) in Kelly's 1881 edition & I write about Thomas & this yard later. The 1881 census records Thomas as a retired brickmaker living with his family at Stockbrook House, however I have one one trade directory recording Thomas as a brickmaker on Sinfin Lane in Kelly's 1887 edition & I write about Thomas at this works in <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/08/derby-brickworks-part-2.html" target="_blank">Derby Brickmakers - part 2.</a> Thomas dies in 1891 before the 1891 census, as there is no entry for him.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Back to Stockbrook Street & now in the hands of Dusautoy & Co. from 1878 we find as per 1882 map a second brickworks - Yard 4 had been built alongside the California Works - Yard 3 & this new works was being run by James Kent, a Derby, Miller, Corn Merchant & Maltster & I write about him after I have wrote about Dusautoy & Co. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I have not been able to establish if Dusautoy & Co. sold or leased the land Yard 4 was built on to James Kent.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-27E3IO-sJeU/V6xmvXvTcdI/AAAAAAAADw0/4KfMtJAk0EkdkAYNN39ckrZ6vaAzG1dbwCPcB/s1600/P1090313_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-27E3IO-sJeU/V6xmvXvTcdI/AAAAAAAADw0/4KfMtJAk0EkdkAYNN39ckrZ6vaAzG1dbwCPcB/w640-h422/P1090313_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3L7q5kwdbIM/V6xmvWMwChI/AAAAAAAADw0/CsBuBz7YgYEv3flf6VPmvj_zN1URFFymACPcB/s1600/P1090314_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="419" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3L7q5kwdbIM/V6xmvWMwChI/AAAAAAAADw0/CsBuBz7YgYEv3flf6VPmvj_zN1URFFymACPcB/w640-h419/P1090314_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I next write about the California Works, Stockbrook Street (Yard 3) purchased by the Trustees of Edward Dusautoy's Estate in 1878 from Bennett, Holmes & Kay, but first I tell you Edward Dusautoy owned a brickworks in 1874 on land situated off Parcel Terrace, Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby & was known as the Parcel Fields Works - Yard 5 & I write about that yard later. As wrote Edward Dusautoy died in September 1874 & his business was then operated by the Trustees of his Estate as Dusautoy & Co. His only son George was only 15 when he died & the 1881 census reveals Edward's wife Jane is listed as a Brick Manufacturer employing 58 men & 17 boys. In Edward's will, Edward is recorded as a builder & his wife Jane was the sole Executor. Kelly's 1881 edition list Dusautoy & Co. as operating two works, the California Works on Stockbrook Lane & a works situated off Parcel Terrace, Uttoxeter Old Road. Kelly's 1887 edition now only lists the California Works which was now classed as being on Stockbrook Street. There's a strong case for the Dusautoy brick above being made by Dusautoy & Co. with it not having E for Edward stamped in it. From 1881 to 1887 Thomas Bennett either leased or purchased the Parcel Terrace Works from Dusautoy & Co., after which I think this brickworks closed. In the 1891 census George Dusautoy is recorded as a Brickyard Manager, so Jane was still running Dusautoy & Co's California Works in 1891. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I have found a reference on the web stating in 1900 George Dusautoy, a Brick & Tile Manufacturer along with local solicitor, William Hollis Briggs purchased some land from the executors of George Wheeldon's <a href="https://www.sixstreetsderby.org/local-history/parkfields-estate" target="_blank">Estate</a> to build the houses which is now Wheeldon Avenue, Statham Street & White Street. So with this information I take it that George had taken over the running of Dusautoy & Co. by 1900. Jane Dusautoy died in December 1904. Trade directories continue to list Dusautoy & Co. at Stockbrook Street up to Kelly's 1904 edition.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We then find in 1906 the Derby Brick Co. was formed by five Derby brickmakers including George Dusautoy & George was elected Managing Director of this company, a position he held until his death in 1927. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTgLznAXxF8/V6xXmGHeD0I/AAAAAAAADwY/Tq5019ZT39otEbPHiVs50GCKsyGChmFqQCPcB/s1600/IMG_7486_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RTgLznAXxF8/V6xXmGHeD0I/AAAAAAAADwY/Tq5019ZT39otEbPHiVs50GCKsyGChmFqQCPcB/w640-h426/IMG_7486_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo taken at the Silk Mill Museum, Derby.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bOrDh6YG1pM/V6xXj4OxKpI/AAAAAAAADwY/fzUluh2XDYUzewnh2NfDaP6yfYDrxImNwCPcB/s1600/P1070510_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bOrDh6YG1pM/V6xXj4OxKpI/AAAAAAAADwY/fzUluh2XDYUzewnh2NfDaP6yfYDrxImNwCPcB/w640-h426/P1070510_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Now on to Yard 4 which was known as being situated at Stockbrook Fields. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">James Kent is first listed in Kelly's 1876 edition at 5 & 6 Ashbourne Road, home address. At this 1876 date it is unknown were James Kent was brickmaking, however Kelly's 1881 edition lists James with the works address of Stockbrook Lane, this being Yard 4. As wrote I have been unable to establish if James Kent leased or purchased the land this brickworks was built on from Dusautoy & Co. James Kent in the census is listed as a Miller, Corn Merchant & Maltster, so I am assuming he was running the brickworks as an owner rather than as a brickmaker, he would not had had time to make bricks !</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU6QwiR1QDdWclISRHQ9BogXwyMVwfNj8xPvWVs46JQWHBTSgpLY5Pp9jSgiQWtjriq4yTUGaOaBq9pdJzSw9TJgnpnh8NaWTvOqNfubQJeRUQpBsz3XMiM4F09W7emD8P23lfCw1tEyQkrrO2oeQIKxY2xqk2eIEzytjgen8S2GqlqPtb8V7wSytIw/s640/IMG_0330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU6QwiR1QDdWclISRHQ9BogXwyMVwfNj8xPvWVs46JQWHBTSgpLY5Pp9jSgiQWtjriq4yTUGaOaBq9pdJzSw9TJgnpnh8NaWTvOqNfubQJeRUQpBsz3XMiM4F09W7emD8P23lfCw1tEyQkrrO2oeQIKxY2xqk2eIEzytjgen8S2GqlqPtb8V7wSytIw/w640-h428/IMG_0330.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">After 1881 there are no more Kelly's trade directories for James Kent, however I have found a 1895 newspaper advert referring to Kent's Brickworks in 1895. I then checked out the 1901 Clayworkers Directory which lists James Kent as brickmaking at Stockbrook Fields, Derby, so James had continued to operate this works. However I then found James died on the 6th of January 1894 & after more searching I found son Samuel Squire Kent was now running his father's brickworks & still operating it under the name of James Kent. In the 1901 census Samuel Squire Kent is listed as a Maltster, Corn Merchant & Brick Manufacturer. The 1901 Clayworkers Directory also lists S.S. Kent with the address of 10, Ashbourne Road, Derby. However before his father's death Samuel in the 1891 census is only listed as a Maltster & Corn Factor Manager (a person who sells grains produced by another company using their own name & usually for money). There's a strong case for the Kent brick below being made when Samuel was running the brickworks with it not having the letter J stamped in it.<br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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The 1882 OS map shows this works was accessible from both Slack Lane & Uttoxeter Old Road via Parcel Terrace. In the 1861 census Edward Dasautoy is listed as a Farmer in Derby & from Harrods 1870 edition he is listed as the President of the Builders Association situated on Irongate, Derby, hence finding references to him being recorded as a Builder. As previously wrote Edward Dusautoy died in 1874 & his business was then run by his wife Jane as Dusautoy & Co. Kelly's 1881 lists this company as owning the Parcel Terrace Brickworks as well as the California Brickworks, Stockbrook Lane. However in this 1881 directory there is the entry for Thomas Bennett at the Parcel Fields Works, Slack Lane, Derby & I have come to the conclusion Thomas had been leasing this brickworks from Dusautoy & Co. since 1878. This was t</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he year when Thomas Bennett dissolved the partnership of Bennett, Holmes & Kay & Jane Dusautoy as a Trustee of Edward Dausautoy's Estate purchased their </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">California Brickworks on Stockbrook Lane.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Regarding the name of this Parcel Fields brickworks I have found from the web that Parcel Terrace is shown on a 1852 map as an unmarked road locally known as Peg's Row with twenty cottages built along it's north side. At the end of these cottages Parcel Fields is marked on the map. Thus confirming the name of this brickworks. The 1882 OS map above also shows that this works had access from Slack Lane. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">As yet no bricks have been found made by Thomas Bennett at this yard. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thomas is then recorded as operating another works at Sinfin Lane, Normanton from 1887 & I write about that works in my next post, <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/08/derby-brickworks-part-2.html" target="_blank">Derby Brickworks - part 2.</a> I have therefore come to the conclusion with this Parcel Fields brickworks being no longer shown on the 1900 map it must have closed around 1887 when Thomas Bennett moved to Sinfin Lane. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Today the former Parcel Terrace brickworks is part of the Kingsway Retail Park.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Before I leave Yard 5 I have an entry in White's 1857 edition for Joseph Gascoyne & Son & they are listed as working on Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby. Then Drake's 1862 edition records Joseph Gascoyne at the Brookfield Brickworks, Uttoxeter Old Road, Derby. These entries could refer to this brickworks as I do not have anyone working at Yard 5 at these dates. With the earliest map available online being 1882, I am unable to check if Yard 5 was known as the Brookfield Brickworks, but with Yard 5 being accessible via Parcel Terrace onto Uttoxeter Old Road, I think I can safely say the Brookfield Brickworks was Yard 5.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Bemrose & Son are listed on Slack Lane in Kelly's 1881 edition with Thomas Cooper as manager. There is only this one entry for company & with me finding that the 1900 O.S. map shows houses fully built on this site, this finding has drawn the conclusion that Bemrose owned Yard 6. There is the possibility that this Bemrose & Son are the same company as the well known printing firm Bemrose & Son of Derby. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So I am putting Yard 7 as being owned by the Slater Brothers, William, Henry & Joseph. The brothers are listed in Kelly's & White's directories in the brick & tile manufacturers section from 1857 at Slack Lane & these entries continue up to the 1895 edition. With this works closing shortly after 1895 this date coincides with the 1900 O.S. map which shows that the works still has some buildings standing, but is marked disused. Therefore resulting in my conclusion that the Slater Brothers owned Yard 7. No bricks have been found with Slater of Derby stamped in them only bricks made at their other works in Denby which are stamped Slater Denby. The Slater Brothers were primarily sanitary pipe & wares manufacturerers at both their works & only produced bricks for their own & local use. The Brothers also operated a builders yard on Uttoxeter Old Road from where they did general house repairs & some new build, more than likely using there own bricks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Before I leave Yards 6 & 7 I have an entry in Kelly's 1876 edition for the Derby Brick Co. Ltd. on Slack Lane with George Freeborough as manager. There is the option that DBC may have been at Yard 6 occupying this site before Bemrose & Son in 1881. </span>A 1879 newspaper article records Ripley brickmaker Henry Bowman had previously worked for this Derby Brick Co. Ltd. before setting up his own brickworks in Ripley. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaswELuSi9C43mE5LkGkRdjfVDk21or8mNspBZ1xJcKtBENauuoaO7JXmAPwPlT10yKaS9S6x85XilGBIEXK8AnfqBUUCmv2RYoMsqwMUOq-Cx-XqeUnPkF-CwrDzysMvnw7JXxV5OBmK-5eZCRlJ2NTt7bnMHO3rKaSyWOJhxd2--sV-ASKAcaO5hcQ/s640/P1120564.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaswELuSi9C43mE5LkGkRdjfVDk21or8mNspBZ1xJcKtBENauuoaO7JXmAPwPlT10yKaS9S6x85XilGBIEXK8AnfqBUUCmv2RYoMsqwMUOq-Cx-XqeUnPkF-CwrDzysMvnw7JXxV5OBmK-5eZCRlJ2NTt7bnMHO3rKaSyWOJhxd2--sV-ASKAcaO5hcQ/w640-h429/P1120564.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There is a strong case for this Derby Brick Co. brick to have been made by this 1876 Derby Brick Co., with this style of frog being used in the 1870's & 80's. Also with Henry Bowman then using this style of frog to make his bricks at Ripley, I think the Bowman brick below confirms my case. As far as I know this shape of frog was not used after 1900, so this brick will not have been made by the 1906 Derby Brick Co. who appear at first to only stamp their bricks DBC. Then wi</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">th t</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">here only being this one entry for DBC at this 1876 date</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> I believe there is no connection to the 1906 Derby Brick Co. Ltd. which I am going to write about next.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The formation of the Derby Brick Co.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Ltd.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">had all come about with an amalgamation of five local brickmaking companies in March 1906 with the common interest in saving unnecessary expense & to stop the under-cutting of the price of their bricks between themselves. These brick manufacturers/makers being Messrs. Richard Bennett & Co. Ltd. - Slack Lane Works; Mr. Joseph Tomlinson - Rowditch Works; Mr. Samuel Squire Kent - Stockbrook Fields Works, Stockbrook Street; Mr. William Eaton - Normanton Works & Mr. George Dusautoy - California Works, Stockbrook Street. Mr. George Dusautoy was to be the Company's Managing Director & Mr. F. McIntyre, secretary. There was to be no initial public issue of shares, therefore I am assuming the Company's shares were divided between these five companies. 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Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I next found t</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>he London Gazette dated 28th of August 1906 (</span><span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27944/page/5901/data.pdf" target="_blank">page1</a>, <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27944/page/5902/data.pdf" target="_blank">page 2</a></span><span>) reveals Richard Bennett & Co. Ltd. was voluntarily wound up on the 2nd of July 1906 by it's members & on the 24th of July 1906 an agreement was signed for the Derby Brick Co. Ltd. to purchase the brickworks previously owned by Richard Bennett & Co. Ltd. Shares & debentures in the Derby Brick Co. were then distributed to the share holders of the former company. This notice was signed by William Sayer, Chairman of Richard Bennett & Co. Ltd. Thought I would mention that after the death of Richard Bennett in 1885 both Bennett & Co. & Bennett & Sayer (Engineers) were primarily run by William Sayer. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M1K56jCzRsc/V68MVJGOVdI/AAAAAAAADzE/fXmMoRVCW4kFteSI6dyyxwJStpG6L4NTgCPcB/s1600/P1090106_edited-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M1K56jCzRsc/V68MVJGOVdI/AAAAAAAADzE/fXmMoRVCW4kFteSI6dyyxwJStpG6L4NTgCPcB/w640-h426/P1090106_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Derby Brick Company is first listed in Kelly's 1908 edition at the California Brickworks, Stockbrook Street & the Rowditch Works, Uttoxeter Road, Derby. For some unknown reason the company's Slack Lane Works is not listed until Kelly's 1925 edition & the two works previously owned by Kent & Eaton are also not listed. Further research has revealed sometime before the 1913 OS map Samuel Kent's Stockbrook Fields Works had been demolished & clay was then extracted from the land it had stood on, creating a larger clay pit to the California Works. Then the Normanton Works previously owned by William Eaton appears to have closed by 1907 with a newspaper article in the Derby Daily Telegraph dated the 7th of November 1907 reporting the Corporation (Derby Council) had made arrangements to tip into the disused clay pit at Normanton belonging to the Derby Brick Co. on payment of 3d per load, 3 old pennies = 1p today. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DWl72o9l3Ts/V685bqwKGKI/AAAAAAAADzQ/xbPaRVJsb24ct9QcPFzJ-cZwFtUrZ2ZCgCPcB/s1600/W%2527s%2B1913-%2B1%2Bworks_edited-1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DWl72o9l3Ts/V685bqwKGKI/AAAAAAAADzQ/xbPaRVJsb24ct9QcPFzJ-cZwFtUrZ2ZCgCPcB/w640-h426/W%2527s%2B1913-%2B1%2Bworks_edited-1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1913.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 1913 map above shows how the California Works, Stockbrook Street (green) had altered since the 1885 map. Buildings which had been in Yard 4 had now been replaced by an extension to the works clay pit, which can be seen in the 1937 Britain From Above photograph later in the post. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">From my research I have only found references to George Dusautoy, William Eaton & William Sayer being involved in the management of the Derby Brick Co. after 1906, whether Samuel Squire Kent or Joseph Tomlinson took an active roll in the operation of the company is unknown. They may have sold their shares in DBC with Tomlinson concentrating on running his business's as brickmaker in Mansfield & as a Contractor in Derby. Then the 1911 census records Samuel Squire Kent was now living in Blackpool with his family & listed as a Garage Proprietor. So if I find any new info regarding DBC & these two men, I will update the post. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">At the time of his death in December 1918 William Sayer is recorded as an Engineer & the Chairman of the Derby Brick Co. Ltd., leaving an estate to the value of £34,727 1s. 10d. 1000 ordinary shares were left to each of his daughters in the Derby Brick Co. with the remainder & all the shares in Bennett & Sayer (Engineers) left to his son, Norman William Sayer. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 1921 edition of the Derby & District trade directory lists George Dusautoy as manager of Derby Brick Co, Stockbrook Street & residing at Warwick Avenue, Littleover. 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<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This 1937 "Britain From Above" photo shows the Stockbrook Street works was also </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">accessible via Spring Street. Also check out the depth of the clay pit in 1937, it's really deep. I would have not wanted to walk around the edge of this clay pit in the dark ! </span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">DBC continues to be listed in Kelly's trade directories until the last edition in 1941 at Rowditch, Slack Lane & Aston on Trent. Kelly's 1936 edition was the last entry for the California B/W's on Stockbrook Street. This works appears to have closed by 1940 & the last remains of the works were demolished in 1961.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I have added this link to Picture the Past - </span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php" target="_blank">http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php</a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> & if you enter Stockbrook Street in the search box you will get 5 photos of when they demolished the works chimney in 1961.</span></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Rowditch & Aston on Trent works closed for the duration of WW2, reopening in 1946. The Slack Lane works stayed open for most of the war years, but did close for the most of 1945 for alterations & was working again by January 1946. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Message received via the comments box which I assuming was a journey through the Rowditch Works or possibly the Slack Lane Works to the school. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">When Brackensdale School was under construction - 1953? - my father was the Deputy Head-elect. The Head lived in Lonsdale Place and the three of us once walked from there to the school via the brickworks which was still in operation, and I was shown inside a kiln still warm and full of bricks." So from this snippet of info we now know either the Rowditch Works or Slack Lane Works was still going strong around 1953.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>It is unknown in which year the Derby Brick Co. actually closed it's Slack Lane, Rowditch & Aston works, but the company as a whole went into Liquidation on the 6th of March 1968 as recorded in the </span><span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44544/page/3005/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a>.</span><span> This notice was signed by Chairman Norman William Sayer, son of William Sayer (as in Bennett & Sayer). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">he Slack Lane & Rowditch sites are now the Kingsway Retail Park & the Aston on Trent site is now being used for the extraction of aggregates by Hanson's.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have one last entry for Derby to tell you about, but I have not been able to establish if this company had a brickworks in Derby. The entry in Kelly's 1864 & 1876 editions is for T. Roe & Son, Siddals Road, Morledge & Exeter Street, Derby & Hanford, Stoke on Trent. From old maps I have established that the buildings & yards which where on Siddals Road backed on to Derby Canal & it was to here that T. Roe delivered his Hanford Stoke on Trent made bricks by barge for distribution around Derby. Exeter Street was more than likely his Derby office where bricks could be ordered from. So in conclusion T. Roe only sold & distributed his bricks in Derby. If any evidence of him owning a brickworks in Derby does turns up, it will be added to the post at a later date.</span><br />
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Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-10679175773048412482016-07-15T19:01:00.020+01:002024-02-21T17:04:11.999+00:00Nottingham Brickworks - part 2 - Carlton, St. Ann's, Beacon Hill & Sneinton <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In this post I am covering brickmakers that operated in the Carlton, St. Ann's, Beacon Hill & Sneinton areas of Nottingham. I have found many trade directory entries for brickmakers working in this area & even found the location of their yards on maps, but their named bricks have so far not turned up & only a handful are shown in this post. We will only know if they stamped their bricks when examples are found, so the search continues & if their bricks do turn up, photos will be added as & when.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have used two 1900 OS maps to show the locations of the ten yards which are covered in this post. Most of the yards had more than one owner, so I have numbered each yard & will write about each in turn. I have to say that from trade directory descriptions, the name of their works differers in each entry, but hopefully I have assigned each of these makers to the correct works. Brickmakers which I am not sure of the location of their yards I have listed at the end of the post. I have already covered William Burgass/NPBC's two yards (located off Carlton Road & coloured cream) in my first Nottingham post. <a href="http://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/nottingham-brickworks-mapperley.html" target="_blank">http://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/nottingham-brickworks-mapperley.html</a></span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">After establishing Dale Road was previously called Star Lane the brickmakers & companies who worked on this site fell into place. I have found that this yard is shown on maps dated 1875 to 1946, but was not in constant operation & is marked as disused on several old maps between each owner. So the first trade directory entry I have found for this yard in Kelly's 1885 edition is for the Star Brick Co. Carlton Hill, Carlton. The 1891 entry is the same with the addition of Benjamin Gregory as manager. This yard is then marked disused on the 1900 OS map, so taking into account that maps were surveyed two years earlier the Star Brick Co. closed between 1891 & 1898. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This yard then reopened as the Carlton Hill Brick Co. with Albert Vass as proprietor & is listed in Kelly's 1904 & 08 editions on Star Lane, Carlton. Around 1910 sees the renaming of Star Lane & Kelly's 1912 edition & the 1912 OS map below now records that this works is now on Dale Road. We then find that this yard is once again marked disused on a revised map dated 1919, so the Carlton Hill Co. may have closed not long after 1912, as the company does not appear in Kelly's 1916 edition.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The next trade directory listing for this yard is for The Gotham Co. Ltd. offices, Bentinck Buildings, Wheelergate, Nottingham, works, Dale Road, Carlton & this company is recorded in Kelly's 1922 edition through to the last available directory in 1956. The company is also listed in the 1949 Directory of the British Clayworks at The Star Brickworks, Dale Road, Carlton. The year the works closed is unknown & this company may have been the last owners of this yard. New information received from Mike Chapman has revealed that the Gotham Co. purchased the freehold to the Dale Road brickworks in 1919. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Now The Gotham Co. Ltd. is first listed in the Brick & Tile Makers section in Kelly's 1912 edition & then in the 1916 edition with offices at Bentinck Buildings & depot, Castle Boulevard, Nottingham, but with no reference to the location of it's works. They were not at the Dale Road works at this date as the Carlton Hill Brick Co. were still operating this yard in 1912. So further investigation & information received has revealed that the Gotham Company founded by Job Nightingale Derbyshire were primarily gypsum producers with three mines. The Company was incorporated in December 1897 after taking over the Victoria Mineral & Plaster Co. Their </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Gotham & Thrumpton mines extracted gypsum & the Cropwell Bishop mine extracted gypsum & marl. Now there are two brick yards in Cropwell Bishop marked on a map dated 1899, so the Gotham Company could have owned one of these yards & produced bricks at Cropwell Bishop as recorded in Kelly's 1912 & 1916 editions before purchasing the Dale Road, Carlton works in 1919. This theory is plausible, but I still have to find firm evidence for the company owning a brickworks in Cropwell Bishop. If only the 1912 & 16 trade directories had named the location of the company's brick works then we would have had the answer !</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Lorna Ellans sent me this Dale brick which she photographed in Basford, Nottingham. More than likely it will be a brickmaker by the name of Dale, but I have found no reference to him in trade directories. It may have some connection to this Dale Road brickworks, but that has yet to be proven. If anyone has any information on this brick, please get in touch. Thanks. </span><br />
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<b style="color: purple;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Yard 2 - Standhill Brick Works.</span></b><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This yard is shown in operation on a 1875 OS map, but my first trade directory listing for this works is in Kelly's 1888 edition & it was owned by Buxton & Walker. I have found that Buxton & Walker had owned yard 3 in 1885 & write about that works next. Going back to Standhill we find that in Kelly's 1891 edition the entry is now Edward Christopher Buxton, Standhill Road, Carlton, so the partnership of Buxton & Walker must have ended. We then find that the 1900 edition records Mrs. Ruth Buxton as owner of the yard, so one can assume that Edward had passed away. There is another change of ownership at this works as Kelly's 1904 edition now lists W & J Broughton as owners at Standhill Road. I have found that William Broughton is recorded as previously owning another Carlton brick works (yard 4) on his own in Kelly's 1888 to 1900 editions before moving to Standhill & I write about that works later in the post. How long the Broughton family produced bricks at the Standhill works is unknown as there are no more trade directory entries after 1904 & the works is shown disused on the 1912 OS map.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I photograph this J. & W. B brick at Wollaton Hall Industrial Museum so there is the possibility that it could have been made by J. & William Broughton at Standhill in 1904, but I have also found another trade directory listing in Kelly's 1876 edition for J. & William Buxton at Kimberley. The Museum has been unable to identify the maker of this brick, s</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">o it could have been made by either of these two makers.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This brick yard was located just off Main Street West / Carlton Hill. The 1887 map above shows this yard had it's entrance off Carlton Hill, but on the 1875 map it show this section of road as Main Street West & this road address ties in with one of the brickmakers that worked this site. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So I first start in 1876 when Henry Bunting is listed in Kelly's 1876 & 1881 editions as being a brickmaker in Carlton. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The reason why I have put Henry Bunting to this yard is that when this works finally closed the access road to this works was named Buntings Lane & houses were built along it. Buxton & Walker are next listed in Kelly's 1885 edition at Main Street West, Carlton & I am also taking this address as this works. Buxton & Walker only worked this yard for about three years as we then find in Kelly's 1888 edition that the pair are now listed as owning the Standhill Brickworks (yard 2). Buntings yard was also accessible from Southcliffe Road & we next find in Kelly's 1891 edition that James Rouse Lacy is recorded as brickmaker at Southcliffe Road, Carlton & I am again matching this maker to this yard. I have found on an old map from this date that their were only a few houses built on Southcliffe Road, so there is the option of Southcliffe Road being James home address, but in the main the address given in trade directories is normally the works address. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have found that there are no more trade directory entries relating to this yard after 1891 & the 1912 OS map no longer shows this brickworks. Also the entrance road into this yard is now shown as Buntings Lane named after Henry Bunting.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Church Street was formerly known as Newgate Steet & it is the red coloured brickworks shown on the 1912 map above. This works appears on maps dating from 1875 to 1937 & the first trade directory entry that I have for this yard is William Brookes, Newgate Street, Carlton in Kelly's 1885 edition. The next entry for this yard is William Broughton, Mount Pleasant </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Road, Carlton in Kelly's 1888 edition. I am taking Mount Pleasant Road (next street to the yard) as William's home address because in Kelly's 1891 edition it now records him at Newgate Lane brickworks. To slightly confuse the matter Kelly's 1895 edition records William at Carlton Hill, but I am still taking this to be the same yard, however Kelly's 1900 edition now lists William brickmaking at Standhill Brickworks (yard 2) under the company name of W. & J. Broughton.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With William Broughton leaving the Newgate/Church Street yard sometime just before 1900 this yard or its owners are now no longer directly named in anymore trade directories but the works is still shown on the 1937 OS map & on the 1912 map above it looks that it is going strong & in full production. </span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So who was operating this yard ? I have formed this theory, but I do not have any firm evidence to back it up as yet. From Kelly's 1900 edition there is an additional works of '& Carlton' added to the entry for the Nottingham Patent Brick Co. This Carlton works appears separate to the Thorneywood Works, so I am reading this as another yard in Carlton, hence my thoughts on NPBC being the new owners of the Church Street works. NPBC's Carlton works entry last appears in Kelly's 1925 edition, but as said this works is still shown on the 1937 OS map & it may have still remained opened after this date ? Another clue to the ownership of this works comes in 1969 when Charles Leslie Bennett was managing director of NPBC & it was under his guidance that five of NPBC's works were closed & all production was moved to Dorket Head, Arnold works. So I am taking Carlton along with Mapperley x2, Thorneywood & Radford as the works which closed. If I do find any firm evidence for my theory on this Church Street works, it will be added at a later date.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Coloured green on the 1912 map above this works is first recorded in Kelly's 1900 edition as being owned by t</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">he Mar Hill Brick Co. & being situated just off Urban Road, Carlton, Nottingham with Arthur Morris recorded as owner. On the following line there is Arthur Morris’s name & the address of Station Street, Carlton which may have have been his office. </span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1904 edition now records T. Clarke & Son as owners of this works, then the 1908 & 12 editions records the owner as John George Deabill. This works is shown on OS maps from 1887 to 1937, so who owned this works before & after the named brickmakers above is unknown.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Shown as disused on the 1885 map above I have recorded this yard off Stonepit Road (now Cavendish Road) because from trade directories I have found several brickmakers listed as making bricks at Carlton but with no reference to their yards, so any of the following could have owned this small yard. J. Taylor, New Carlton Kelly's 1855, Thomas Norman, Carlton, Kelly's 1876 & Edward Reach, Carlton, Kelly's 1876. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I also have to add that any of the other Carlton yards that I have already written about may have been the location their yards. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">Edgar Rise brickworks is shown on maps dated 1875, 1885 & </span><span style="background-color: white;">1900, but is not shown on the 1912 map. The first trade directory entry that I have is for Edward Watts, Pease Hill Road which I believe is this yard as Edgar Rise runs off Pease Hill Road. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The next entry in Kelly's 1904 edition is for Enoch Hind & he is listed as brickmaker at Edgar Rise, so we know that this yard was still operational around 1904/5. Edgar Rise & part of Pease Hill Road no longer exists & this area of land is now the playing field & grounds to Sycamore Primary School. </span><span style="background-color: white;">I do have an entry for Daniel Crosby in White's 1864 edition at St, Ann's Road, Nottingham, but I am unsure if this entry is the Edgar Rise brickworks. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The first trade directory reference to this site is in Kelly's 1881 edition when The Wells Road is given as the office address of the Bulwell Brick Co. with it's works listed as Bulwell (Kett Street), but with the 1875 map showing an operational brickworks on The Wells Road, I expect the Bulwell Brick Co. was producing bricks on this site in 1881. We next find in Kelly's 1885 edition that BBCo's listing is The Wells Road & Kett Street, Bulwell, so bricks were definitely being produced on the Wells Road site by 1885.</span><br />
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<b style="color: purple;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The Nottingham Builders Brick Company was established by Edwin Gauntley Loverseed (b.1830) around 1867/68. Trade directories have revealed that Edwin was in partnership with his father John & brother Frederick, trading as J, F & EG Loverseed, Builders & Contractors on Union Road, Nottingham. I am assuming John & Frederick were also involved in the running of the brickworks, hence the company's name. The earliest trade directory entry that I have found for the Loverseed's as builders & contractors is Wright's 1862 edition & at this date Edwin was living on Ferrers Street. </span><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Before setting up NBB Co. Edwin had owned a brick yard on Mapperley Road which he purchased the Freehold of from Samuel Cartledge in 1862 or 1863. He then proceeded to run this yard until 1865 or 1866 before selling his yard to Edward Gripper who is listed in Wright's 1866 edition as owning this Mapperley Road works. This works was actually accessed off Mapperley Place/Plains Road. Gripper had also purchased two more yards which lay between Loverseed's yard & Woodborough Road & these three combined yards became Gripper's Top Yard. In this deal between Gripper & Loverseed for this Mapperley yard, Edward Gripper granted Edwin Loverseed a licence to build a Hoffman type kiln at his new brickworks on Carlton Road. Gripper had just negotiated a licence with Friedrick Hoffman to solely operate his Patented Hoffman kilns within a radius of 10 miles around Nottingham. Gripper was then in a position to issue further licences at his own discretion. The granting of this licence to Edwin Loverseed comes from a book wrote in 1924 by Robert Mellors, Joint Managing Director with Edward Gripper, then MD of the Nottingham Patent Brick Co. after Gripper's death. The Loverseed brick below will have been made at his Mapperley yard.</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Now back to the Nottingham Builders Brick Co. & after building his round Hoffman type kiln at his Carlton Road works, Edwin Loverseed set about building another continuous type kiln to an alternative design by Herbert Guthrie to boost production, with Gripper only granting Loverseed a licence to only build one Hoffman type kiln. This Guthrie designed kiln was patented in 1877 & it was the first fender-fired continuous kiln of this type to be built.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Wright's 1874 edition is the first trade directory listing the Nottingham Builders' Brick Co., works, Carlton Road; office Poultry Arcade, Nottingham. Kelly's 1876 edition Brick Makers section lists Edwin as now living at 86, St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham & on another line it lists the</span> Nottingham Builders' Brick Co., works, Sneinton Hill, Sneinton with James Whitehouse as manager; office Poultry Arcade with Frederick Goddard as secretary & George Marsh as office manager. Kelly's 1881 edition also lists NBB Co. with the address of Sneinton Hill & James Whitehouse as manager. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1885 edition now records the works as being on Carlton Road. Kelly's 1891 edition records the Company as having a railway siding connecting the works to GNR line at Thorneywood. This entry continues until the 1904 edition when the works are </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">referred to as Sneinton Hill again. Then from Kelly's 1908 through to the 1941 edition the works address is given as Carlton Road. From a 1933 article in the Nottingham Archives, NBB Co. Ltd. is recorded with offices & works on Carlton Road, Nottingham & with sidings at Thorneywood LNER. The Directors are listed as J. Phillipps (chairman), J. Stafford, J.T. Rayson & H. Stafford. The works closed sometime in the late 1950's / early 1960's.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">This Whitehouse, Nottingham brick was photographed together with the first red NBB Co. brick in this entry at Wollaton Hall Industrial Museum & the only candidate I have found for the maker of this brick is James Whitehouse who is recorded as manager of Nottingham Builders Brick Co. between 1881 & 1900. It is unknown if this brick was made during James' time at NBB Co., but it is my best option as I do not have any trade directory entries or other references for a Whitehouse brickmaking in Nottingham. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">With just photographing a F.G. Sharpe brick which is in Nottingham Museums collection I have now added it to this post.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Fredrick G. Sharpe is listed at Queens Road, Nottingham in Wright's 1862 & 64 editions. This will have been his office or home address. Meanwhile White's 1864 edition records F.G. Sharpe at </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Carlton Hill, then Wright's 1866 & 68 editions records him at St. Ann's Hill Road, Nottingham. This St. Ann's Hill Road address may be the yard which Jeff Sheard has been identified as being on Cranmer Street / St. Anns Hill Road. I have coloured these roads yellow & red respectively on the 1880 OS map below which does not show a brickworks at this date, but there is land not built on where a brick yard may have existed.</span><br />
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</div></div>Martyn Fretwell / Gingerbennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18068421135354952842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6493407900242649881.post-31624680648555519632016-05-26T15:47:00.042+01:002023-10-02T17:54:33.424+01:00Nottingham Brickworks - part 1 - Mapperley & Thorneywood<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I normally only write about the bricks which I have found or photographed, but my research into Nottingham brickmakers & information sent by fellow enthusiasts has revealed more brickmakers than I have bricks. So I have decided to include some of these "extra" brickmakers in my Nottingham Posts as their history ties in with the brickmakers to which I do have bricks for. If bricks do turn up for these "extra" brickmakers I will add the photos at a later date. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Also, as some of the information found has been very sketchy some theories have been formed, but as ever if any new information comes to light or evidence to contradicted what has already been written this will also be added or changed. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So in this post I am covering William Burgass & Edward Gripper & then their partnership in the Nottingham Patent Brick Co. plus the smaller brickmakers who's yards were taken over by Gripper or the NPBC. I have also added brickmakers who are listed in Trade Directories as working in Mapperley & Thorneywood.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I would like thank Jeff Sheard, author of the book, Claystealers to St. Pancras Station (the building of the station with NPBC bricks & information on other Nottm. brickmakers) & Mike Chapman, Chairman of the British Brick Society & former Works Manager at Nottingham Brick Co. Arnold Works (NPBC) for supplying me information for this post & giving me permission to use extracts from their work.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I start with William Burgass who was born in 1816 in the Sneinton area of Nottingham. William is recorded as a Coal Merchant in the 1841 Census aged 24 & living with his father who was a joiner by trade. Both William & his father are listed as living & working at the same premises just off London Road at Irongate Wharf in Nottingham. William used the Nottingham Canal to bring his coal in by narrow boat to Irongate Wharf from collieries which where situated to the west of Nottingham in the Erewash Valley. The coal was then distributed around the city by horse & wagon from the wharf. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">By 1852 William had started his brick making company with two yards at Carlton & two yards on Mapperley Common. The Carlton yards consisted of the Thorneywood Works & the second yard was situated on the opposite side of Carlton Road as shown on the 1887 map below. The exact location of William's Mapperley Common yards are unknown. Mapperley Common was a strip of land which was situated on the east side of Woodborough Road & stretched from Alexandra Park to Porchester Road. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">In an article called Brickmaking in Nottingham the author M.J. Gorman records William Burgass in 1844 as operating his coal yard on London Road & his brick yard at Mapperley. Gorman then goes on to say that Carlton Hill was the location where William dug his clay. Then in the 1858 edition of Hunt's Mining Statistics William Burgass is recorded as freeholder & brick manufacturer at Brentcliffe (Thorneywood yard), Description of clay, New Red Marl & producing 2,000,000 bricks in that year. William is recorded as building Brentcliffe House around 1861 & it is shown on the 1887 map below. The house was sadly demolished in the 1960's. William is also listed in Hunts 1858 mineral list at Mapperley Hill as freeholder & manufacturer & producing bricks, tiles, drain pipes & flower pots with an estimated annual production of 2,000,000.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">William managed his coal & brick businesses until 1869 when he then only concentrated on his brickmaking interests.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">1887 OS map showing the locations of William Burgass's Thorneywood Works, Carlton Hill & his Carlton Road Works (coloured green). J</span></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">ust to note that the green coloured yard on this map is shown as being in operation on a 1875 map.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="color: #111111; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">It was in 1866 that William Burgass took his Thorneywood brickyard into the partnership with Edward Gripper forming the Nottingham Patent Brick Co. in 1867 & more can be read about NPBC after I have </span>covered Edward Gripper & seven more Mapperley brick makers.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Now on to Edward Gripper, a Quaker & ex-farmer from Essex who came to Nottingham around 1852 & established himself as a brickmaker. The reason why he turned to brickmaking & sellected Nottingham as his base is unclear, but within a few years he had mastered the trade & in an article</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""> called Brickmaking in Nottingham, it's author M.J. Gorman states that Edward Gripper due to the </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">abolition of the Brick Tax in 1850 was</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""> extremely busy in 1853 purchasing vast amounts of land in Mapperley & adopting steam power & mechanised processes which increased the amount of bricks produced. Edward's company first appears in local trade directories dated 1853 as the 'Gripper Steam Brick Company'. </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Edward is next listed in Kelly's 1855 edition as Edward Gripper & Co. Mapperley Hill, Nottingham. Wright's 1858 listing is Edward Gripper (Patent), Mapperley Works, Nottm. Around this time Edward Gripper was trialling & operating Beart's Patented brickmaking machines, so I expect Patent refers to these machines. These machines made a solid brick then 21 holes were created by punching out the clay. This process of creating these holes made the brick very light & allowed mortar to key the bricks together. White's 1864 edition also records Edward Gripper at Mapperley Hill. Then Wright's 1866 edition records Edward Gripper at Mapperley Plains Road. This was Gripper's second yard which later became NPBC's Top Yard. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Jeff Sheard has established that Gripper's</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> first yard equated to 46 acres & was on land which became the Nottingham Patent Brick Co.'s Middle Yard. Jeff's findings are from Alfred Stapleton's account of Gripper's yard as being in the area worked by several brickmakers who's combined yards were called the 'Brickyard Estate' situated on the north-west side of Woodborough Road, between today's Mapperley Rise & Woodthorpe Road.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> As wrote </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Edward Gripper purchased many of these small yards situated in this "Brickyard Estate" in 1853 as their owners either packed up brick making or exhausted the top layer of clay on their land using the old fashioned methods of only making bricks during the summer months by hand. There were no metalled or macadam roads at this date & the hilly tracks in Mapperley soon turned boggy during wet winter weather making it impossible to transport clay to the works from the brickfields or to take the finished bricks to market. From a later find it appears some of these 46 acres worked by Edward Gripper were owned by local land owner John Green Hine.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">As just wrote, John Green Hine a local land owner together with his brother Thomas Chambers Hine, </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">an architect</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> were to play a major part in helping Edward Gripper establish his brickmaking business in Nottingham, how</span> Edward Gripper & the Hine brothers met is unknown. I can only assume they met while Edward Gripper was purchasing land in 1853 to expand his brickworks with John Green Hine being a local landowner. At this 1853 date Edward Gripper's company was called the Gripper Steam Brick Co. but shortly afterwards Edward Gripper went into partnership with John Green Hine & Thomas Chambers Hine, operating under the style of Edward Gripper & Co. I came across </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">this partnership information in a Notice in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21792/page/3667/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 2nd of October 1855 when Thomas C. Hine, an architect was dissolved from this partnership on the 10th of September 1855. From Christine Drew's account of the Hine Brothers, Christine writes that because Thomas C. Hine was inundated with his architecture commissions in 1853 his brother John purchased his share in the brothers partnership of designing & building houses. I can therefore only assume that Thomas Hine left the Gripper & Co. partnership in 1855 for the same reasons to concentrate on his architectural commissions. The London Gazette has also revealed that Thomas C. Hine between 1854 & 1858 made several applications for Patents in the improvements to lighting & ventilation in gas.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The<a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22106/page/1224/data.pdf" target="_blank"> London Gazette</a> dated 2nd March 1858 records that on the 1st of January 1858 the partnership of Edward Gripper & John G. Hine was dissolved. So from this date Edward Gripper was sole owner of Gripper & Co. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The following extract is from Hunt's 1858 </span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Mining Statistics sent to me by Jeff.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Yard - Mapperley Hill, New Red Marl. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Name of </span><span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Freeholder J.G. Hine</span><span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Name of Manufacturer Ed. Gripper, Bricks, tiles and drain pipes, 4,000,000 per annum.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br /><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;">It appears from this Hunt's listing J.G. Hine only sold his interest in Gripper & Co. to Edward Gripper & not the Freehold to the land he owned, which formed part of the Mapperley Yard. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Apparently John Hind was having financial difficulties so selling his share in Gripper & Co. to Edward Gripper released cash enabling him to continue to build four grand houses on Mapperley Common which had commenced in 1857. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Mike Chapman has a NPBC minutes book saying that in 1868 J.G. Hine sold 17 acres of land to the newly formed NPBC. So it appears it was not until 1868 that J.G. Hine relinquished the Freehold of his 17 acres in the Mapperley Yard which totalled 46 acres in all. </span></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Between 1864 & 1866 Edward Gripper purchased Edwin Loverseed's brick yard which had previously been owned by Samuel Cartledge. This yard was accessed off Mapperley Place (road coloured yellow on the map below) & it was to later become part of NPBC's Top Yard which is coloured blue on the 1881 map below. Edward Gripper is listed at this former Loverseed/Cartledge's works in Wright's 1866 edition with the works address of Plains Road & I have coloured Plains Road green on the 1881 OS map below. Please note that this green coloured Plains Road & the yellow coloured Mapperley Place are now called Private Road. Edward Gripper </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">also purchased two more yards which formed part of the later NPBC Top Yard & these two yards had been worked by Mr. Clay & Mr. Lee, with both mens yards being positioned between Cartledge's yard at the end of Mapperley Place & Woodborough Road. So in a nutshell the blue area on the 1881 map below originally consisted of three yards before Edward Gripper built his new works there. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">We next find it was in 1866 that Edward Gripper & William </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">Burgass formed a partnership bringing their two companies together</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> & creating the Nottingham Patent Brick Co. in the following year. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Before I move on to NPBC. I first write about seven brickmakers who were making bricks at the same time as Burgass & Gripper & who's yards were to later become NPBCo's Top Yard & Bottom Yard. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So I start with </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">the blue coloured brick yard on the 1881 OS map above which at this 1881 date was N.P.B.Co's Top Yard. Woodborough Road is coloured red & todays Private Road is coloured yellow & green (formerly Mapperley Place & Plains Road respectively). In 1848 Samuel Cartledge owned & worked a yard at the end of Mapperley Place (yellow)</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">, but I expect his yard only occupied a fraction of this blue coloured site at the end of Mapperley Place. Samuel Cartledge is listed as a brickmaker in Lascelles & Hagar's 1848 Commercial Directory of Nottingham with the address of Mapperley Place, Sherwood. Samuel Cartledge is next recorded in a 1852 article by E. Dobson as being in the partnership of Cartledge & Goddard at Mapperley & producing 1.5 million bricks in that year. We then find Samuel Cartledge is next listed on his own in White's 1853 edition at Mapperley & then again on his own in Kelly's 1855 edition at Sherwood. As Sherwood is just a short distance away from this site, Samuel's 1855 Sherwood entry is more than likely the same yard. However I found in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/21863/page/1176/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 25th of March 1856 that the partnership of Samuel Cartledge & Henry Goddard was dissolved on the 22nd of March 1856 & Samuel Cartledge would receive & settle all debts from this partnership. It is unknown why trade directories did not record this partnership. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This brick yard on Scout Lane (now Woodthorpe Drive, Mapperley) coloured purple on the 1875 OS map above was to become N.P.B.Co's Bottom Yard. </span><span face="" style="color: black; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">F</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">rom Kelly's 1876 edition C.L. Huthwaite is listed as brickmaker in Mapperley. My</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> next find is a Liquidation Notice in the <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24796/page/7662/data.pdf" target="_blank">London Gazette</a> dated 30th of December 1879 & i</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">t states that one Charles Lechevalier Huthwaite, Brick Manufacturer of 69 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham & formerly residing at Alma Cottage, Scout Lane, Basford (Woodthorpe Drive) formally carrying on the business as Brick & Tile Manufacturer under the style of the Mapperley Brick Company on Scout Lane, Basford & as Farmer on the Mapperley Plains Road in the Borough of Nottingham was declaring himself bankrupt to his creditors on the 22nd of December 1879. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">So it appears that Edward Gripper could not resist purchasing this yard, possibly at a reduced price from Huthwaite's creditors, as we next find that this yard was owned by NPBC & being operated as their Bottom Yard. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I now move on to The Nottingham Patent Brick Company which was established on the 3rd June 1867. This new Company had been formed from the 1866 merger of the two brickmaking businesses owned by Edward Gripper & William Burgass. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The provisional Board of Directors of this new Company consisted of </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Edward Gripper, William Burgass, (joint Managing Directors), Thomas Nicholson, Arnold </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Goodcliffe, William Musham & Robert Mellors with Arthur Wells as Secretary & Joseph Whitaker as Auditor. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Works owned by the NPBC in 1867 consisted of Gripper's two Mapperley works (Top & Middle) & Burgass's Thorneywood works. A third Mapperley yard called the Bottom Yard was added around 1879. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;">For the location of the Thorneywood works please </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">refer to my map in the Burgass entry at the beginning of this post. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Mapperley yards on Woodborough Road were locally known as Top, Middle & Bottom. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Top Yard had been established by Edward Gripper by 1866 after he had purchased the yards previously owned by Edwin Loverseed/Samuel Cartledge, Mr. Lee & Mr. Clay. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Middle Yard had evolved from Edward Gripper purchasing the several yards which had occupied this site & had previously been locally known as the 'Brickyard Estate' occupying land on the north-west side of Woodborough Road stretching from Private Road to Scout Lane (Woodthorpe Drive).</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> Then as previously wrote </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Mike Chapman has a NPBC minutes book saying that in 1868 J.G. Hine sold 17 acres of land to the newly formed NPBC </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">which formed part of the Middle Yard.</span> T</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">he Bottom Yard was more than likely purchased from C.L. Huthwaite's creditors in 1879/80 & this brick company owned by Huthwaite was called the Mapperley Brick Company. I have therefore formed this theory that NPBC also purchased the Mapperley Brick Company name because on two maps dated 1875 & 1881 NPBC's Middle Yard is just shown as Brick Works, but then on the 1887 map it is shown as the Mapperley Brick Works.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">During a very productive three year period from 1865 to 1868 Gripper had joined forces with William Burgass, formed NPBC, won many contracts to supply millions of bricks to several London railway companies & had installed Hoffmann kilns & the latest brickmaking machinery at the company's three yards. The licence to solely build & use the more productive Hoffmann kilns within an area of 10 miles around Nottingham had been negotiated by Gripper & his managers before Edward's merger with William Burgass. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">It's been found that the first of these H</span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">offmann kilns was built at Thorneywood with the construction of the Mapperley Hoffmann kilns following shortly afterwards. This 'new' process dramatically increased NPBC's production to around 27 million bricks per year & in honour of this achievement bricks were produced with Gripper's name stamped in them & an example of which can be seen below. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>NPBC as main brick contractors then went on to produce the majority of the 60 million facing bricks that were needed for the building of St. Pancras Station & Hotel in London. </span><span>The Nottingham Patent Brick Company at this time used the semi-dry process to make their bricks, but in later years they changed over to producing wire-cut bricks.</span></span></div><div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Jeff Sheard writes in his book that in 1866 Gripper had a constant struggle to deliver a steady flow of bricks to the St. Pancras contract as his Hoffmann kilns had not all been built & all of the bricks had to be moved by hand & then transported by horse & cart to the main railway depot in Nottingham for delivery to London, no mechanical brick loaders & large lorries in those days. Gripper also employed local coal delivery merchants during the summer months to supplement his own transport in getting his bricks to the railway depot which was located just off Carrington Street. Each dray could carry around a 1000 bricks & divide this into the 10 million bricks required at this point & it's a lot of journeys to & from the railway depot for just this one contract. It was not to be until 1889 that NPBC's bricks were directly transport from it's two works via rail on the Nottingham Suburban Railway. The company also had other contracts to fulfil, so you can see why Gripper turned to other brick manufacturers notably Butterley Brick Co. & Tuckers of Loughborough to help him in keeping a flow of facing bricks to the St. Pancras contract. Common bricks for the internal walls in this contract were made in London at a temporary brickworks which had been set up north of the station next to the Regent's Canal. Clay used in the making of these common bricks came from the diggings of the massive foundations of St Pancras Station itself & from the excavation of the Belsize Tunnel & it's approaches. Two of Henry Clayton's Patented brickmaking machines were used to produce the 20,000 wire cut bricks which were needed each day before being fired in a Hoffmann kiln on this temporary site.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The year the Bottom Yard's kilns ceased producing bricks is unknown, but I have found that the buildings of this works are still shown on maps dated 1887 & 1900, but the site is unnamed as a brick yard & is just shown as two clay pits with one of the clay pits being accessed by tramway from NPBC's Middle Yard. The Bottom Yard was then the main source of clay for the Middle Yard. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The 1871 Census shows Edward Gripper living at 54, Welbeck Terrace but by the 1881 Census Edward had move into a grand three-storey Victorian town house called Ivy Bank on Mansfield Road. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">In 1891 Edward Gripper was still joint Managing Director of NPBC, but sadly died at the age of 79 on the 23rd of December 1894 & he is buried in Quaker Cemetery on Clarendon Street, Nottingham. Robert Mellors is then recorded as NPBC sole Managing Director in Kelly's 1900 edition.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Transportation of NPBC's bricks was made easier by the opening of the Nottingham Suburban Railway on the 2nd of December 1889, with the company having direct connections to this railway line at Sherwood & Thorneywood. These two railway extensions can be seen on the 1900 Mapperley & Thorneywood maps.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Thorneywood brickworks in 1938. The road coming into the works from the bottom of this photo is Burgass Road. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">This Patent brick which is in Nottingham Museum's collection is recorded as coming from a demolished house on Hall Street, Sherwood. I first thought that the Patent name had been used to signify the first use of the patented Hoffmann process licensed to NPBC, hence the Patent name in the Company's name, but I have come across several trade directory entries for The Patent Brick Company, manager, John Walker then Alfred Walker at Burgass Road, Sneinton Hill, Nottingham in Kelly's 1891, 95 & 1900 editions. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Now during this same period of time NPBC are also listed in Kelly's at Carlton Hill or Thorneywood Lane. So this begs the question why are there two separate entries for the same works situated at the junction of Burgass Road & Thorneywood Lane ? I have found from maps dated 1900, 1912 & 1937 that Thorneywood Lane is todays Porchester Road & ran roughly from Daisy Road to it's junction with Carlton Road. The rest of this road into Mapperley is shown as Porchester Road on these maps & the renaming of the full length of this road to Porchester Road took place sometime after 1937. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Back to Kelly's 1908 trade directory when there is only the NPBC entry, it records, offices 14, George Street, Works - Mapperley Hill, Nottingham; Thorneywood Lane & Burgass Road, Nottingham; & at Arnold & Carlton. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So I then ask why are there two separate companies recorded on the same site between 1891 & 1900, then two road names referring to the Thorneywood Works in NPBC's 1908 entry ? </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">If the 1908 entry had said Burgass Road, Thorneywood Lane, Nottingham then that would be correct as the works was accessed via Burgass Road from Thorneywood Lane, but a</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">t this moment in time I do not have the answers. All I can say is that the Patent brick above could have been made by this 1891 to 1900 Patent Brick Co. ?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;">A few changes have taken place since the 1900 map at Mapperley & the 1912 map above shows again the Middle Yard (yellow), Bottom Yard (purple). The Company had acquired land on Woodthorpe Drive (green) by this date & this was to become the Company's reserve clay pit until it closed in 1969. </span><span face="" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Also to note on this 1912 map is that a factory has been built & Morley Avenue now runs through the centre of the former Top Yard site. Apparently NPBC were involved in the planning & naming of these roads which where to be built on the site of the former Top Yard & yet again in later years when the Middle & Bottom yards closed.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">It was from the top of this bridge on Sherwood Vale that the photo in the above link was taken. The incline railway from the Mapperley works passed through this arch meeting up with a branch line of the Suburban Railway just behind me. NPBC's bricks were then loaded into railway </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">wagons for transportation to the rest of the country.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> The </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">rope-hauled incline line, transfer yard & the branch railway line can been seen on the 1912 map above near to Sherwood Station.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I now move on to Charles Bennett who took over the running of the Company after Edward Gripper & Robert Mellors. Charles had a hard start to his life, starting work at the age of 9 at the family's brickyard in Spondon & with him having no formal education, he quickly learnt the art of brickmaking. Charles after marrying Mary Ann Holloway in 1854 & producing their first child Francis, moved to Nottingham to take up the position of foreman at Edward Gripper's yard. Charles then transferred over to NPBC where he progressed his way up in management, eventually becoming Works Manager.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Charles then moved to 752 Woodborough Road, a house which he had built for himself & his family opposite the works. He also built the row of cottages which are to the left of this house for his workers on Woodborough Road. Charles was to marry three times & produce nine children. Charles was a generous man who also gave land for the building of the Wesleyan Chapel on Woodborough Road. He was held in high esteem in the local community, becoming a town councillor & was elected Alderman in 1880. He also was a magistrate. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Charles died in 1909 at the age of 77 & in his honour Bennett Road & Bennett Street (next to his Woodborough Road house) where named after him.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Charles was the first of four generations of this Bennett family to run NPBC & be directors or MD of the Company. Charles was followed by his son Charles Lawrence, who had worked alongside his father for many years before taking over the reins. Charles Lawrence Bennett is recorded as Managing Director in Kelly's 1925 edition taking over from Robert Mellors who is last recorded as MD in the 1922 edition. The Works in these two Kelly's editions are listed as Burgass Road (Thorneywood), Woodborough Road (Mapperley), Arnold (Dorket Head) & Carlton. As to which of the several Carlton brickworks that are shown on old maps was owned by NPBC at this time is unknown, but my best option is the works on Church Street (previously called Newgate Street & coloured red). The last brickmaker or company attributed to this works was in 1900 the same year that Carlton appears in NPBC's Kelly's TD listing. So NPBC could have owned this works into the 1930's as it is last shown on a OS map dated 1937 ?</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Back to the Bennett family & Charles Lawrence's son Leslie Charles followed his father at NPBC & after moving up the ranks he became MD in 1950. <span face="">Leslie was involved in the designing of new hydraulic machinery (of which he had great knowledge of) to move unfired bricks onto cars (type of pallet) before the bricks went into the kilns for firing & these machines were still in use when the Mapperley yards closed. More</span> can be read about Leslie Charles Bennett later in the post.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">There have been other members of this Bennett family who have also worked for NPBC. Charles's (senior) first son, Francis Thomas after being a clerk at NPBC moved to Lincoln in 1885 to take over the Bracebridge Brick Co. which was later amalgamated into the Lincoln Brick Company with Francis being made the Managing Director of this new company. Frank Barnes, NPBC manager who was married to Georgiana Bennett (born 1863) & John Raymond Bennett NPBC director born 1908. I am afraid I cannot tell you how these family members are connected because I do not have the full Bennett family tree. Jeff Sheard has also the name of Jack Bennett unless he is John Raymond Bennett & Jack was his nickname as you sometimes find with the name of John.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Top Yard must have closed by the mid 1880's as the buildings on this site are no longer shown on a 1887 OS map, but in Jeff Sheard's book there is an account of a 'great crowd gathering' to witness the demolition of the high chimney of the disused kiln belonging to a disused brickyard situated between Private Road & Mapperley Rise (Top Yard's location). My only explanation is that although the chimney still stood until 1901, it was not shown on maps dated 1887 & 1899. Then that begs the question of why this site was left unused for such a long time, unless they were still extracting clay for the Middle Yard ? If answers turn up I will add them to the post. It was between 1895 & 1900 that NPBC had purchased a brick yard in Arnold as a replacement for the Top Yard & I cover that works a little further down the post.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">My next two photos are of a brick which is now housed at Wollaton Hall's Industrial Museum & is self-explanatory. You won't find another one !</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Reusing the Middle Yard's land for housing started on part of the site in 1965 well before the works had closed in 1969. Jeff writes in his book that brick demolition from the yards & bricks from the demolition of the houses in St. Ann's area where used to level the ground in an area of the former Middle Yard which is now a car sales site. The Bottom Yard was also used for housing after it had closed in 1969 & the l</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">ast kiln at Mapperley was demolished in 1970.</span> <span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Woodthorpe Drive clay reserve site was later used as a landfill site then restored in the 1970's to form Breckhill Recreation Ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">It was under the guidance of Leslie Charles Bennett that the </span><span face="">transition took place with the</span><span face=""> closure of the Thorneywood & Mapperley works & the total modernisation of the Dorket Head, Arnold works. With Leslie retiring he was then followed by his son, Peter who later became works manager at Dorket Head & more can be read about Peter later in the post.</span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So now on to NPBC's Dorket Head, Lime Lane, Arnold site as shown on the 1900 map above. I first go back to the 1870's when Samuel Robinson is listed as brickmaker in Arnold in Kelly's 1876, 81, 85 editions. Then in Kelly's 1885, 88 & 91 editions there is the entry for Robinson, Sykes & Co. Dorket Head, Arnold. I am taking this Robinson to be the same man in both these entries & it being the same yard at Dorket Head as this is the only brick yard that I can find marked on old maps in Arnold. Kelly's 1895 edition next records the Dorket Head works as being run by Samuel Robinson & Co. Arnold. Jeff Sheard has told me that it was the same Robinson family (John Robinson) that founded the Home Brewery Co. in Daybrook in 1875.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">So it looks like Charles Bennett of NPBC had also been a partner in this company possibly from 1885 when Robinson, Sykes & Co. had been formed. The reason for Charles leaving this partnership as we now know was so that NPBC could later purchase the Dorket Head brickworks from Samuel Robinson & Co. who had run it since May 1892. This acquisition by the NPB Co. took place in 1897 as we find in Kelly's 1900 Trade Directory there is the addition of the Arnold works in NPBC's entry.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have also found in Jeff Sheard's book that</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> Charles Bennett, Samuel Robinson & another gentleman by the name of David Whittingham were partners in another venture to provide allotments in the Porchester area of Nottingham & this development was called the Porchester Freehold Garden Estate. Looking on a modern street map we find that three roads running off the Plains Road where later named after the trio on this former allotment estate.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">A pre-1963 photo of the circular kiln at the Dorket Head Works, Arnold.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Dorket Head works in 1963 & this photo shows the newly constructed "brick factory" which was built around a new type of kiln, called the continuous "tunnel kiln". </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">With the Company being run successfully by several members of the Bennett family we now fast forward to the late 1960s & with NPBC closing their yards at Thorneywood (1967) & Mapperley (1969) all brick production by 1969 had been transferred to the Dorket Head works where updated machinery had been installed. </span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Nottm. Patent Brick Co. lorry with "Hulo" pack load and self offloading crane.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The next change to report is the dropping of the name Patent from the company's name in 1976 & the company was then register as Nottingham Brick plc. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Nottingham Brick then purchased the Maltby Brick Co., Maltby, Yorks. around 1985 & a new range of pressed bricks was introduced called the Oldcotes Range at this works. At the time of the take over the Maltby Brick Company were only producing wire cut bricks. Please note that the Maltby Brick Co. did manufacture pressed named bricks before moving over to the wire-cut method.</span><br /><br />
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<i><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Nottingham Brick Co. Maltby Brickworks making Oldcotes bricks - photo from Oldcotes Catalogue, courtesy of the Mike Chapman Collection.</span></i><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Mike Chapman informs me that this Maltby stamped brick was made at Nottingham Brick Co.'s Maltby Works before the decision was made to make these sand stock bricks under the Oldcotes brand name as per example above.</span><br />
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<span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">With Leslie Bennett now </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">retired, the running of the Company was in the hands of</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> his son Peter, who became works manager.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> It was while </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Peter was in charge of the Dorket Head works, that it was taken over by Marley Building Products in 1987. Peter was then appointed Technical Manager at Maltby, a works which the company had taken over in 1985. Peter left the Company in 1991 & NPBC's long association with the Bennett family had ended. </span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Nottingham Brick plc as said found themselves taken over by Marley Building Products in 1987 which in turn became part of the Tarmac Group in 1993. Ibstock then acquired Tarmac's brick making assets in 1995 & finally in 1999 CRH, an Irish based multinational purchased Ibstock but retained the Ibstock brand. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Dorket Head brickworks are still going strong under CRH/Ibstock & if you look at the 1900 Dorket Head map above you will see that the area which I have coloured yellow is now the extent of this works, with a roadway under Calverton Road connecting the two sites. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">George Green is listed in Hunt's list as J & G Green, brick manufacturers at Mapperley with the freeholder of the land given as Thomas Morley. Estimated annual make at this yard was 500,000 red bricks & tiles in 1858. George Green is next listed on his own in Wrights 1862 & Whites 1864 editions at Mapperley & this entry is followed in Wright's 1868 edition at Huntingdon Street, this could be his office or home address ? </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">My next brickmakers from Hunt's list are Pettinger & Wilkinson who operated at yard in Mapperley on land owned by Thomas North Esq. & produced an estimated 1,200,000 bricks in 1858. Thomas North was a wealthy land owner who lived at Basford Hall & also owned Babbington Colliery & brickworks & I cover Thomas North in <a href="https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2016/07/nottingham-brickworks-part-2-carlton-st.html" target="_blank">Nottingham Brickworks - Part 2.</a> I also have to note that Mapperley at this time fell within the parish of Basford. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">John Scattergood, 1852 stats from Nottingham Library, location of yard, Goosewong Hill, Nottingham. Jeff Sheard has identified this yard as being where Cranmer Street is today.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I would like to thank the following people for their help in bringing my story of Nottingham brickmakers to the web.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Jeff Sheard - Jeff tells me that his book, Clay Stealers to St. Pancras Station is available to take out on loan from most of the local libraries in Nottingham. If you would like to own a copy of this book, Jeff still has a few copies available, so send me an e-mail & I will pass it on to him. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Christine Drew - article on Alexandra Park. <a href="http://mapperleyandsherwoodhistorygroup.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-alexandra-park" target="_blank">http://mapperleyandsherwoodhistorygroup.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-alexandra-park</a></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Nottingham Museums & Galleries for allowing me to photograph their local bricks & put them on the web.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Nottingham C.C. Insight Mapping</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">National Library of Scotland - maps</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Britain From Above</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have established from several old maps that there were four brickworks or yards at Walkeringham. Two of them being owned by the Cowling family until they were sold in 1880 as two individual yards & I have marked the four yards on the 1900 map below in different colours.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Brickmakers in Walkeringham & nearby Gringley on the Hill made distinct white bricks as well as the standard red clay bricks & tiles with t</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">hese first two Walkeringham bricks in this post being made by Cocking & Sons. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">If you are wondering why one says Notts & the other Gainsborough. Walkeringham is in Nottinghamshire & the nearest large town to the village is Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Thus indicating the village's location if these bricks were sold further afield. Nottinghamshire's nearest large town Retford is eleven miles away. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The two yellow yards were primarily owned by the Cowling family & the green yard by the Cocking family & as a group are show as the Walkeringham Brickworks on this 1900 OS map. The access to the green brickworks was first via the main road & then after Cowlings east bank yard had closed, access was then through this old yard because the original access had become an extension to the clay pit & this is shown on a 1912 OS map. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">T</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">he Fountain Hill brickworks coloured purple on this map was owned by Aaron Cooper who's family owned another brickworks in nearby Misterton & I write about this branch of the Cooper family later in the post. </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">So I start with the two yellow coloured yards owned by the Cowling family, with one yard on the west bank of the canal & the other on the east bank & they were known locally as the old & new yards. Most of the information about the Cowling family has been taken from an article </span><span face="">written by Chris Page who has kindly given me permission to use extracts from his work & I have pasted his full article after my Cowling entry. </span><span face=""> </span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">John William Cowling was a bricklayer in 1835 & by 1851 he is recorded as a master builder, then a few years later he is also recorded as a farmer at Walkeringham. John may have first started as a dealer in bricks in the 1840's because in 1849 he advertised that he had a quantity of ‘White Sands Stocks" for sale & was asking 30 shillings per thousand. He is first recorded as a brickmaker in White's 1853 edition at Walkeringham & then in Whites 1856 Lincs. edition lists John as a brickmaker, living at Spital Terrace, Gainsborough from were he ran his brickworks. In 1857 John was selling his crops, livestock & farm equipment to concentrate on the running of his brickworks, his building company & his artificial manure works. His son William Chamber Cowling in the 1861 Census aged 24 is now recorded as running the brickworks & I have an entry from Kelly's Lincs. 1868 edition as him living at Crowgarth, Gainsborough with his works at Walkeringham.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> John Cowling died in 1870 aged 60. </span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">As well as white & red bricks Cowlings produced red floor quarry tiles & red roof tiles. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">William Cowling continued to run the works until May 1871 when tragedy struck. He had been ill for short time & on Saturday 13th of May in the afternoon he died without a murmur in his office at the brickworks. William was only 35 years old. Unable to sell the works his wife Maria took over the running of the yards & in 1872 advertised for more brickmakers. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1876 edition</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> records the works as Cowling & Co. Walkeringham same as the floor quarry tile above. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">It was also in 1876 that Maria re-married & continued to run the works until 1880 when she successfully sold the business. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">From Chris Page's article Charles Hill is recorded as purchasing the works on the western bank of the canal & F.M. Cousins purchasing the east bank yard. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Charles Hill is listed in Kelly's T.D. as brickmaker in it's 1881 & 1891 editions at Walkeringham & I have not found any listings for F.M. Cousins. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">From the several maps that I have access to, the east bank yard (dark yellow) had closed & is no longer shown on the 1912 map. The west bank yard (light yellow) which is actually in the parish of Gringley on the Hill is still shown as a brickworks on the 1946 map. I do not have any more maps after this date. So when the west bank yard exactly closed & who continued to run this brickworks after Charles Hill is unknown, but from my recent visit to this brickyard & talking to a lady who lives in one of the houses which now occupies this site, she told me that she had found several Cocking bricks in her garden. I also came across several Cocking bricks myself on this side of the canal & I have added examples to the Cocking entry later in the post. So along with their main works (green) on the east bank of the canal, Cocking's may have also run the west bank yard (light yellow) until 1946 ?</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The B.B.S. article tells us that these former brickyards were next used to dry silt collected from rivers & after several processes was used in the cleaning of silver. One gentleman is mentioned as having worked there for 36 years making this fine silver cleaning powder, so brick production may have finished around 1946 on the west bank works, the same date the map records this site still as a brickworks. This processing works was owned by Mr. P. Hanson & due to the lack of demand for this product closed in 1982. Houses now occupy the west bank site along with the chimney belonging to the former steam engine house, photo below. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bmvIEWptRKM/VtMy0nc7ohI/AAAAAAAADdE/EVHApNAOxf8/s1600/P1120914.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bmvIEWptRKM/VtMy0nc7ohI/AAAAAAAADdE/EVHApNAOxf8/w426-h640/P1120914.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The east bank yard on the other hand has remained overgrown & derelict & is awaiting redevelopment, but as I found from my visit (Feb 2016) the site is now in the process of being cleared.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">William Chambers Cowling was a brick, tile and drainage pipe maker at Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire. He was born in Gainsborough to John William and Elizabeth Cowling, being baptised at All Saints church on 21 August 1835. John was described in the Parish Register as a bricklayer, but at this time this could also mean builder. John had been born at Gainsborough in 1811 whilst his wife came from Walkeringham, born 1816.</span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">By 1851 the family were living in Hickman Street, Gainsborough and John was now in a more substantial way, being listed as a master builder employing four joiners, two bricklayers and four labourers. He also seems to have had interests in the brick works at Walkeringham as in 1840s he was advertising bricks from the ‘Walkeringham brick fields’. In his advertisement, which appeared on 2 March 1849, he described himself as a ‘contractor’. He announced that he had a quantity of ‘White Sands Stocks’ for which he was asking 30 shillings per thousand.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> <i>White’s </i>trade directory for 1853 listed him as a brick maker in the village.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> He also seems to have held a farm in Walkeringham as a few years later, on 11 March 1857, there was a John Cowling selling up and auctioning all his crops, machinery and livestock.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> The link with Walkeringham no doubt being stimulated by his wife’s family connections with that village.</span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">By 1858 John was living in Spital Terrace in Gainsborough where he not only operated his building business but also he was running his own artificial manure works, taking regular advertising space to promote his wares.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> John William Cowling died in the village of Morton on 17 November 1870, at the age of 60. His Will referred to him as a brick manufacturer, late of Walkeringham, but also a farmer. His estate came to under £600, with his son William Chamber Cowling as his executor.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">William Cowling was running the Walkeringham brick works by the time of the 1861 census. He was now 24 years old and married with a growing family. He is listed in that census not only as a ‘master brick maker’ but also as a forage merchant with a small 24 acre farm. At this time he was employing 30 men, 10 boys and 10 women in his enterprises. Earlier he had been in partnership with William Hawksley who, in the 1851 census was living in the New Brickyard, Walkeringham, as a journeyman carpenter. They were making bricks and tiles under the title of ‘Cowling and Hawksley Ltd’ but the partnership seems to have ended acrimoniously. William dissolving this partnership on 5 October 1859 and he stated that William Hawksley ‘has no right henceforth to use my name in the said trade’.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> However by 23 November the split was formally recognised and now described as by being by mutual consent, with William Cowling carrying on the business on his own. By the next census, 1861, William Hawksley had set up on his own brickworks at Misterton.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In 1860 and 1861 William Cowling was regularly advertising for moulders and in 1863 he wanted ‘a fine stuff maker’ showing that he was making more fancy products than just stock brick. His address at this time was ‘W. C. Cowling, Steam brick and tile works, Walkeringham’.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> This brickyard was in fact two yards set each side of the Chesterfield canal, with one being the ‘Old Works’ and the other the ‘New Works’. By 1871 William was not only running the brick works but his farm had now developed, extending to 112 acres, with 33 men being employed on both enterprises. </span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Williams wife Maria (nee Baker, born Gainsborough 1839), whom he had married at Gainsborough in April/June 1859, now had to support their seven young children. William’s estate was valued at under £5,000, but much of that was no doubt in the two brick yards and the farm. On 1 June 1871 these yards were put up for sale. They included the brick yards, lands, cottages and premises in the parishes of Walkeringham and in Gringlay. The advertisement went on to state that this was ‘a very large and profitable business’ which had been carried on for many years by William and his father. Both yards were in full operation and well supplied with machinery and plant. The auction was to take place on 10 July 1871, however it seems that this either did not go ahead or that the price offered was unacceptable, as on 7 June 1872 Mrs Cowling of Walkeringham was advertising to employ more brick makers at her works.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The 1876 <i>Kelly’s</i> directory for Nottinghamshire shows that the works was still operating under the name of Cowling and Co.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> However in that year Maria married John Archer Pawley at Gainsborough in January/March 1876.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> In 1880 the brick yards were again up for auction. The one on the western side of the Chesterfield canal, in the Parish of Gringley was being operated by the Hill brothers, although <i>Kelly’s</i> 1881 directory lists Charles Hill as operating it.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> This had four kilns, two engine houses an engine, and three large (drying) sheds. The second yard on the east bank in the Parish of Walkeringham was run by Mr F M Cousins. It had two kilns, a drying shed with a furnace and heating apparatus, an engine house with engine and boiler, millwright works, rollers and crushers.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup></sup></span></span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Now on to the Cocking family who were another major player as brick producers in Walkeringham (green coloured yard on map above). Thomas Cocking, born 1819 in North Wheatley, Notts is recorded in the 1851 census as Master Brickmaker aged 31 & living with his wife Ann & one year old John in Walkeringham. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The 1861 census lists Thomas now 41 as a Brick & Tile Manufacturer in Walkeringham together with his wife Ann & their 4 children, two boys & two girls. The 1871 census still records Thomas as Brick & Tile Manufacturer & now with 6 children, eldest son John, aged 21 is listed as an Engine Driver, so was he operating a static steam driven engine at the brickworks or was it on the railways ? I prefer the brickworks option. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Kelly's 1876 edition is the first directory that I have found recording Thomas as a brickmaker. The 1881 census lists Thomas aged 61, a brick manufacturer employing 20 men at Walkeringham, then sons John Cocking b. 1850 & Frederick William Cocking b. 1867 are listed as Brick Manufacturers Sons & George Ellis Cocking b. 1857 is listed as a Brick Manufacturers Son & clerk. So it appears in 1881 </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">George Ellis was more than likely working as a clerk at his father's brickworks & John & Frederick may have been learning the trade in becoming brickmakers. Thomas is not listed in the 1891 census & his wife is recorded as a widow & head of the family, so Thomas had died by 1891. A new search has revealed he died on the 9th of January 1888. The 1891 census records Frederick is now a brickmaker & still living with his mother in Walkeringham. So it appears after his fathers death Frederick was brickmaking at his father's works, however by 1892 Frederick was brickmaking in Kirk Sandall, Doncaster & more can be read about Frederick later. In the 1891 census I found John Cocking is recorded as a brickmaker & living with his wife Maria at her uncle's house, John Naylor in Walkeringham & Maria is listed as a House Keeper. So it appears John was also still at his father's brickworks in 1891. John died on the 21st of September 1892 & his estate went to Probate with his brothers George Ellis Cocking & Frederick William Cocking being listed as beneficiaries. I next found in the 1891 census that </span>George Ellis Cocking is listed as Brick & Tile Manufacturer in Walkeringham & married to Sarah, so it appears George was now running the family business. George's entry is repeated in the 1901 census, but the 1911 census now records George Ellis Cocking as Managing Director of a Brickworks. George Ellis Cocking died on the 6th of April 1917. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">A British Brick Society article states that Thomas Cocking owned the Walkeringham yards until his Grand-daughter Eleanor married George Charles Cooper (b. 1881) who then took over the works. A Cocking family descendant has told me Eleanor was the daughter of George Ellis Cocking & she married George Charles Cooper in 1908. This BBS article does not take into account the running of the works by Thomas's son George Ellis Cocking, so I am assuming George Charles Cooper took over the running of the Cockings family business after the death of George Ellis Cocking in 1917. However there is the option that George's brother Frederick was running the Walkeringham works as well as his own Balby works after George's death with the company still being recorded as Cooking & Sons in Kelly's 1928 trade directory & George Charles Cooper did not take over the running of the Walkeringham works until 1932 when the company name changed to Cocking (Walkeringham) Ltd. George Charles Cooper is recorded as a Retired Draper aged 30 in the 1911 census living with his wife Eleanor at her father's house (George Ellis Cocking) in Walkeringham, so maybe Cooper did take over the Walkeringham works in 1917. If I get the answer to this conundrum I will update the post. As a footnote George Charles Cooper was the son of George Cooper & Grandson of Aaron Cooper who were both brickmakers at the Fountain Hill Brickworks in Walkeringham & I write more on these two men later in the post.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Information gathered from a B.B.S article states that coal was brought by narrow boat via the Chesterfield Canal from Shireoaks Colliery & the 22 tons of coal carried by each boat had to be unloaded by hand with shovel & wheelbarrow to supply the four kilns at the works. The four kilns had the capacity of producing 50,000 bricks & one kiln was fired each week. Finished bricks also had to be loaded into the narrow boats by hand with the aide of wheelbarrows. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Cocking 1876 to 1881 editions.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Cocking & Sons 1885 to 1928 editions.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">George Charles Cooper then sold the Walkeringham works to the Hill Brothers, brickmakers of Misterton & Gringley at a date unknown but after 1941. Due to stiff competition from LBC, Hill's reduced their staff at Walkeringham from 28 to 12 & then sold the works on to Smith & Co. of Stockport. Smith & Co. continued to run the Walkeringham works until it's closure in 1956. </span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I found the Cocking brick above near to some houses which are being renovated on the eastern bank of the canal & the Cocking & Sons quarry tile I found on the western bank.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The eastern bank site later became a timber yard & sawmill owned by Fred Wilkinson who apparently never threw anything away. The results of his hoardings can be seen at the 28 days later link which I have pasted at the end of the Cocking entry.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">I also have to add that there are now plans to convert this derelict land which was Cowlings eastern yard & Cockings brickyard into a marina (December 2015) & as previously said, the site is now in the process of being cleared (Feb. 2016).</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">The remains of Cockings brickworks/sawmills buildings before the start of the clear up (green & dark yellow yards) can be seen at this link. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Cocking & Sons rev. Walkeringham, Gainsborough by Chris Shaw.</i></span></div>
<br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Please note Gainsborough (Lincs.) on this brick only indicates the nearest large town to Cocking's Nottinghamshire brickworks. This next example does have Walkeringham, Notts stamped in it.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YxH9OW4SEvY/YBg7Lim1riI/AAAAAAAAKrs/3BrOWL51XP4Rz3WfmvOeVB_e2WoqKFeoACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1140050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YxH9OW4SEvY/YBg7Lim1riI/AAAAAAAAKrs/3BrOWL51XP4Rz3WfmvOeVB_e2WoqKFeoACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1140050.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZ0pC0oVZMw/YBg7Lp117QI/AAAAAAAAKro/gjaBBf5u4sYscfOXdPQ-J9RvI8GO2b3bwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/P1140049.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qZ0pC0oVZMw/YBg7Lp117QI/AAAAAAAAKro/gjaBBf5u4sYscfOXdPQ-J9RvI8GO2b3bwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/P1140049.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Cocking family also operated two more brickworks in the Doncaster area & it was Thomas Cocking's son Frederick William Cocking who moved to the area to operate these works. I am grateful to Graham Snowdon who is distantly related to the Cocking family for supplying me with the following info to which I have added some extra info, maps, trade directory dates & census info. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Frederick William Cocking, born 1867 first ran a brickworks at Kirk Sandall in the early 1890’s & Kelly's 1892 &1893 editions record Frederick as the brickmaker at the Sandall Brickyard, Kirk Sandall. The 1890 OS map below shows that the Sandall Brickyard was on Thorne Road & nearly 2 miles south of the village Kirk Sandall, but lay within the Parish of Kirk Sandall. Today Sandall Park occupies this former brick yard site.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YuztDTmW3jA/YCqskxj7aUI/AAAAAAAAKyg/Cw6ZSjC-94YHs390mgDZ5FBklLmRRjETACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Sandall%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1890.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YuztDTmW3jA/YCqskxj7aUI/AAAAAAAAKyg/Cw6ZSjC-94YHs390mgDZ5FBklLmRRjETACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Sandall%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1890.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1890.</i></i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">By 1897 as recorded in Kelly's 1897 trade directory, Frederick had moved to live & work at Balby establishing a new brickworks on Tickhill Road with Frederick now living at 1 Furnival Road. I am thinking the reason for this move was because the clay at Sandall was running out or had run out. The map above shows that many of the clay pits had already filled with water & there wasn't much more land on this site to work. The 1900 OS map shows this yard as disused.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Before continuing with Frederick at Balby I slightly digress in giving you information on two other brickworks at Balby in the 1890's which Frederick later took over, possibly in the early 1900's. The 1890 OS map below shows the two works were side by side & Kelly's 1892 & 93 editions record one works as being owned by the Doncaster Brick Co. & the other by Edward Gibson. Both these yards are recorded in Kelly's as being in operation in 1857.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zs0dbI_TmeU/YCuhh6YNMdI/AAAAAAAAKys/pmkZFVIG9N0MMXoH2ENty6IdV7Q3wiCrgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Balby%2BBWs%2B1890-92.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zs0dbI_TmeU/YCuhh6YNMdI/AAAAAAAAKys/pmkZFVIG9N0MMXoH2ENty6IdV7Q3wiCrgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h428/Balby%2BBWs%2B1890-92.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1890.</i></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;"><br /></i></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">So back to Frederick & the 1900 OS map below shows Frederick's new works which I have coloured green, later maps recording this works as the Balby Works. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">A photo of this works taken in 1900 can be seen in Doncaster Archives.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2UErk2WVzzE/YCuhh6d_6RI/AAAAAAAAKyw/RP9Kqrl45UI362He6SPYZ8K_C1Qo_S0sACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Balby%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1901-04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2UErk2WVzzE/YCuhh6d_6RI/AAAAAAAAKyw/RP9Kqrl45UI362He6SPYZ8K_C1Qo_S0sACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Balby%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1901-04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1900.</i></i></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Although I do not have written evidence of Frederick taking over these other two brickworks around 1900, trade directories only record Frederick Cocking as the only brickmaker in Balby from 1900 onwards. This 1900 map appears to now only show one works were there had been two, so I have coloured all this site yellow. </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">In the 1911 Census Frederick is listed as Brick Manufacturer & son John George Cocking b.1893 aged 18 is listed as a Brick Works Clerk. By 1915 Frederick and his family had moved to a large house nearby called Brookwood, number 12 Greenfield Lane (now a residential care home). </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The 1928 OS map below records this yellow works as the Doncaster Works & I am thinking this works was named after one of it's previous owners The Doncaster Brick Co. Both the green & yellow works are again shown on the 1952 map, so confirming to me that the Cocking family were still operating both works. In 1929 due to the trading pressures of remaining independent, Cocking & Sons in Balby became part of the newly formed </span>Yorkshire Amalgamated Products Ltd. with Cocking & Sons still operating under their own name. <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">Cocking & Sons continue to be listed at Balby in trade directories right up to the last available edition in 1936. After Frederick's death</span> in 1935 his son John George Cocking took over as manager of the brickworks until his retirement. He died in 1957.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D5hhopRgxg4/YCuhiFtKzrI/AAAAAAAAKy0/HChWbPZ6T98mqlh39kt4B6pJmI1VCwJjgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Balby%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1928-31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D5hhopRgxg4/YCuhiFtKzrI/AAAAAAAAKy0/HChWbPZ6T98mqlh39kt4B6pJmI1VCwJjgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Balby%2BBWs%2BOS%2B1928-31.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1928.</i></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;"><br /></i></i></div></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Much of Doncaster was built with Cocking bricks, but the business faced strong competition and was eventually closed down in the 1960s</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">. The company of Cockings & Sons (Member of the Yorkshire Brick Group Ltd.) is listed in The Clayworker / Clay Products Directory for 1961/2 & the final listing for the company appears in the 1966 edition of Chambers Trade Register covering Yorkshire, Durham & Northumberland. All that is left now is what is known as the Clayfield Industrial Estate, an apt name for a former brickyard. </span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">A portrait of Frederick in his position of Mayor of Doncaster can be seen at this link.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw177096/Frederick-William-Cocking?LinkID=mp98111&role=sit&rNo=0" target="_blank">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw177096/Frederick-William-Cocking?LinkID=mp98111&role=sit&rNo=0</a><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The two following Cocking bricks were photographed by Frank Lawson, one possibly made at the Balby Works & the other possibly at the Doncaster Works. The number 1 on this Doncaster brick will refer to the machine or production line it was made on with Frank photographing other bricks </span><span style="font-size: large;">stamped</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 2 to 5. Frank has also come to the conclusion that bricks just stamped Balby were made by Cockings when they were part of the </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yorkshire Amalgamated Products Group.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Cocking family, from artisan producers to major players this publicly-quoted company were manufacturers of bricks and floor tiles, first at Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire then later at Kirk Sandall and Balby, Doncaster, covering a period of more than a century.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Like many smaller producers, they fell victim to increasing rationalisation in the brick industry which today sees production dominated by one large conglomerate which owns leading brands such as London Brick Company and Butterley. Cocking (Walkeringham) Ltd after being sold on to a rival manufacturer closed in 1956 and it was largely due to stiff competition from LBC, meanwhile Cocking & Sons Ltd at Balby had been a subsidiary of a larger business for four decades when the yard finally closed in the late 1960s.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Cockings had already been in business long before firms such as London Brick came on the scene. Thomas Cocking was born in 1819 in the Nottinghamshire village of North Wheatley, and by the age of 32, in the 1851 census, was listed at Walkeringham as a brickmaker (master), probably signifying that he was already employing other men. Also listed were his wife Ann (neé Ellis), five years his junior, who had been born in the village of Bole, near Beckingham, and one-year-old John.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ten years later Thomas Cocking described himself as a ‘Brick & Tile Manufacturer,’ and adding to the family were Mary, seven, George, four, and Betsy, 11 months. </span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Thomas left no doubt about his status in the 1871 census when his description under ‘Rank, Profession or Occupation’ is given as ‘Brick & Tile Manufacturer, 12 men & 6 boys.’ Also now part of the growing family were Emma, eight, and Frederick William, four. By now John, 21, was presumably one of those dozen men and was described as an ‘engine driver at brickworks,’ which may have been a static steam driven engine rather than a locomotive.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In around 1876 the name Cocking & Sons started to appear. By the 1881 census the address at Walkeringham is narrowed down slightly as North Moor, and Thomas, by now 61, is listed as a ‘brick manufacturer 20 men’ along with wife Ann and their completed family ranging from 31-year-old John, himself also described as a brick manufacturer, via George, 24, a ‘brick manufacturer’s clerk’ to 14-year-old Frederick.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Thomas Cocking died at the age of 69 at the beginning of 1888, and in the 1891 census Anne (sic) is listed as a widow and head of the household at 34 North Moor ‘living on her means’ along with spinster daughters Mary and Emma and 24-year-old Frederick, a brick manufacturer.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">George Ellis Cocking, to give him his full name, had been married in 1882 to Sarah Anne Hudson, and by the 1891 census they were living at High View House, Walkeringham, along with daughters Eleanor, five, and Hilda, three. George was listed as a brick manufacturer.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also missing from the household at North Moor was John, who had been married in 1890 to Maria Tetley and was now living with Maria and her 70-year-old farmer uncle John Naylor at Naylor’s Grange, Walkeringham (along with two servants). He was still listed as a brick manufacturer, but sadly was to die to at the age of only 41 the following year.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Although Frederick William Cocking, a 24-year-old ‘brick manufacturer’ - and George Ellis Cocking’s younger (by ten years) brother - was still living at home in Walkeringham with his widowed mother Ann when the 1891 census was taken on the night of Sun 5</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> April, he had within weeks married Theresa Dook, from nearby village of Laughton.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">He was keen to branch out by himself, and soon after their marriage he and Theresa moved to Kirk Sandall, near Doncaster, where their children Florence Emma (1892) and John George (1893) were born. Kelly’s Directory (Yorkshire West Riding) for 1892 and 1893 listed ‘Cocking, Frederick William, brick maker, Sandall Brick yards.’ Frederick and Emy, as she was known, were living on site at the brickyard, possibly in one of the two cottages which would later become the café for Sandall Park and its boating lake, developed from the former workings.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Frederick and family did not stay at Kirk Sandall for long. By the time of the 1901 census they, plus a domestic servant, were living at Moraine Villas on the other side of Doncaster, at the junction of Balby Road and Furnival Road (their address was actually 1 Furnival Road), and Frederick was described as a ‘brick manufacturer (employer).’</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Precisely when Frederick made the move from Kirk Sandall to Balby is not known, but Doncaster Borough Archives has a photograph of the Tickhill Road brickyard in operation by 1900. Meanwhile, back at Walkeringham, in the 1901 census George Ellis Cocking (‘Brick & tile manufacturer -employer’) was at home at High View along with his wife Sarah and 16-year-old daughter Eleanor.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Living in nearby Main Street was 49-year-old George Cooper, ‘living on own means,’ his wife Maria and 20-year-old son George Charles Cooper, a ‘draper’s traveller and Wesleyan local preacher.’ Seven years later Eleanor Cocking and George C Cooper were married. Although George, Eleanor’s husband, was himself from a large local family of brickmakers which had started with his grandfather Aaron Cooper at Gringley on the Hill and spread to Walkeringham and Misterton, young George himself had obviously decided to follow a different career path.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">However, it would seem he maintained a vested interest in the brick business. He described himself as a ‘retired draper’ (at 30!) in the 1911 census, when he and his wife Eleanor were living with her parents, and his father-in-law George Ellis Cocking was listed as ‘Managing Director, Brick Works.’ Then, in 1931, when they were named as joint executors in the will of the unmarried Mary Cocking, both George Charles Cooper and his brother-in-law Frederick William Cocking were described as ‘brick manufacturers.’</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">In 1908, when Cocking & Sons had been incorporated as a limited company, there were still strong links between Balby and Walkeringham. The new business had a capital of £25,000 in £1 shares to ‘take over the business of manufacturers of bricks, tiles, pipes, pottery, earthenware, china, terracotta, stoneware, plastic materials or products, etc, carried out by G.E. Cocking and F.W. Cocking, at Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire, and at Balby, near Doncaster, together with all the real and personal property used in connection therewith.’</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Subscribers were G.E. Cocking and F.W. Cocking and their respective wives, as well as Alderman and Mrs Abner Carr, of 3 Victorian Crescent, Doncaster, and William T. Duckett, builder, of 33 Royal Avenue, Scarborough.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As early as the 1920s Cocking & Sons Ltd were having difficulty maintaining their independence in an increasingly competitive industry. F.W. Cocking remained as managing director, and he was also a director the Yorkshire Brick Co Ltd which, like Cockings and a handful of other related businesses, would in 1929 become part of a new company, Yorkshire Amalgamated Products Ltd, in an attempt to rationalise their operations. In 1933, the Yorkshire Brick Company, with F.W. Cocking still named as one of three directors, had a share issue on the London stock exchange.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">George Ellis Cocking had died in 1917 at the age of only 60, after which it is believed that George Cooper took charge at Walkeringham. Alderman Frederick William Cocking, who had been the Mayor of Doncaster in 1920, passed away in 1935, leaving the family represented by his son John George Cocking, who took over as manager of the Balby works until his retirement. He died in 1957.</span></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">George and Eleanor Cooper were listed in the 1939 England and Wales Register as living at High View, Fountain Hill, along with their 24-year-old son George junior, a fourth-year architectural student at Sheffield University. The Cocking operation at Walkeringham, being run by George Cooper, was sold some time after 1941 to the rival Hill Brothers, who had brickworks at Misterton and Gringley. Facing competition from London Brick, Hills halved the staff (from 28 to 14) in an attempt to survive, but sold the works to Smith & Co of Stockport, who continued to run the yard until its closure in 1956.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The post war years also proved problematical for the Tickhill Road brickyard at Balby, when there was a danger that they, too, would have to halve their workforce, which stood at 60 employees in 1948, when the firm was given a stay of execution as a result of the easing of restrictions on private building after the war.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Storage space had become a major problem after a 50 per cent fall in demand during the previous year, leaving Cockings with an estimated 2.75 million bricks on their hands, enough to build an estimated 2,000 houses.</span></span></p>
<p style="color: #050505; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">By the early 1950s a holding company known as Brick Investments controlled or had large interests in Yorkshire Amalgamated Products, Yorkshire Brick Co Ltd (and its subsidiary Cocking and Sons Ltd) and Flettons Ltd, another well-known manufacturer.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Cocking and Sons Ltd continued in business at Tickhill Road until the late 1960s, with one last appearance in the classified telephone directory of 1970. All that remains today is the aptly-named Clayfield Industrial Estate.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many Thanks Graham & Jonathan for your work.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As I have digressed in writing about the Cocking family interests in Doncaster, I now return to Nottinghamshire & write about the two brickworks which were situated at Fountain Hill, Walkeringham. Aaron Cooper operated the yellow coloured yard as shown on 1875 OS map below, then son George established a new works in the next field south of this & George's works is coloured purple on the following 1900 OS map. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n_W5ggACOEc/YB03gkIsBhI/AAAAAAAAKsQ/qHCj_YJ4UUYaaBaZrrP3yeXVfLkO3F2cQCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/Fountain%2BHill%2BBrickworks%2BOS%2B1875.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n_W5ggACOEc/YB03gkIsBhI/AAAAAAAAKsQ/qHCj_YJ4UUYaaBaZrrP3yeXVfLkO3F2cQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Fountain%2BHill%2BBrickworks%2BOS%2B1875.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px;">© Crown Copyright. 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Reproduced with permission of NLS/Ordnance Survey 1900.</i></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""><span>I first found in the 1841 census that Aaron b.1808, wife Mary & 7 children were living in Gringley on the Hill. The census index that I have access to does not give Aaron's trade, however the 1851 census does record him brickmaking & living in Gringley on the Hill. Whether Aaron operated his own yard in Gringley or worked for someone else is unknown. </span></span>Sons, John b.1829 & William b.1830 are also listed as brickmakers & living with Aaron & Ann together with 7 more siblings. John was to later run a brickworks in Misterton & I write about John later. </span></div><div><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""><span>The 1861 census now records Aaron & Ann had produced another son called George who was born in 1852, therefore totalling 10 children in all & George was also to become a brickmaker. This census also reveals that brickmaker Aaron & Ann together with 4 children were now living in Walkeringham & I am assuming from this date that Aaron was now operating the Fountains Hill Brick Yard coloured yellow on the 1875 OS map above. The 1871 census records </span></span>Aaron Cooper as a farmer, but he will still have been brickmaking with him being listed in Kelly's 1864 to 1885 editions as a brickmaker in Walkeringham. I have to note that if someone had two jobs only the main job is listed in the census, so in Aaron's case he was concentrating on being a farmer at this date. This 1871 census entry lists George aged 19 as a Tile Maker & still living at home, so I am assuming he was working at his father's works.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>The 1881 census records Aaron now aged 73 & a Brick Manufacturer employing 6 men. Meanwhile son George aged 29 was now married to Maria & living at Tophams Row, Walkeringham with their son George Charles, who was born in 1881. George is now listed as a Brickmaker in this census. Kelly's 1888 edition lists George as brickmaker in Walkeringham, so with Aaron's last trade directory being 1885 & then not finding Aaron in the 1891 census he must have passed away between 1885 & 1888. The 1887 OS map reveals that with George now in charge of the business he had established the new Fountain Hill Brickworks (coloured purple on the 1900 OS map above) by 1887. However we next find the </span><span>1891 census reveals that George was now a Retired Brickmaker aged 39, so who was running the Fountain Hill Works, his son was only 10 in 1891 & he went on to be a Draper. The 1901 census records George as "living on his own means" & the 1911 census records him as a Retired Brickmaker, so I turned to the trade directories & found that Richard Scholefield is listed as brickmaker in Walkeringham in Kelly's 1891 to 1904 editions & it appears George's </span><span>"living on his own means" was from the sale of the brickworks to Richard Scholefield. With Scholefield's last trade directory entry at this works being in 1904 it may have closed soon after with the </span><span>1912 map no longer showing this works only open fields. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""><span>I have just visited the house which stands in front of this former brickworks to see if the owner, Stan White knew anything about the yard. A keen local historian Stan has been unable to find any details about the works or anybody who worked there. He was able to tell me a little about the Hill's & Cooper's at Misterton. Stan then said to go to the bottom of his garden to see the few remains of the former yard & to see if there were any named bricks still lying about, but all I found where a few un-named bricks same as he had found when he landscaping the area, examples below. With now finding new trade directory entries there's a good chance that these bricks were made by Richard Scholefield. </span></span><br />
<span face=""><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""><span style="font-family: arial;">While I was at the bottom of Stan's garden standing in front of the canal I looked over into the field of the previous Fountain Hill yard as shown on the 1875 map & you clearly see a v shape down the length of the field from where they had dug the clay from. </span></span></span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An un-named brick found on the former site of the second Fountain Hill Brickworks. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sallie Green has contacted me with this info. "Cooper's certainly owned the "purple" brickyard in Walkeringham in the early 20th century. They lived in the big house at the top of Fountain Hill, not Stan's house which is much newer & further along Fountain Hill Road. Then in the mid 1950's possibly upon retiring they built a house in the village of Walkeringham and lived there until the 1970's." Thanks Sallie for this info.</span></div></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="">I now</span></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> move on to the makers who operated in nearby Misterton who also may have used the canal to bring in their coal & then transport their bricks. As shown on the map above there were two brickworks at Misterton, one of which consisted of two yards one either side of the canal & I have found six brickmakers recorded in trade directories & census records for this village.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">In trade directories there are two brickmakers with the name of Cooper working in Misterton & it would be nice to think that the brickworks marked on the 1900 O.S. map above at Cooper's Bridge was their works, but I have been told this site belong to the Hill family & Coopers works was the one marked Misterton Brick Works (coloured yellow).</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">John Cooper is listed in Kelly's 1876 to 1891 editions at Misterton followed by George Cooper possibly John's son & George is listed in Kelly's 1900 to 1936 editions. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The census has revealed that John Cooper born 1829 was the son of Aaron Cooper (b.1808) brickmaker at the Fountain Hill Brickworks in Walkeringham. John Cooper is recorded in the 1851 census as a brickmaker in Gringley on the Hill living with his father Aaron who is also recorded as a brickmaker in the village. More than likely father & son worked for someone else at this date. I have not been able to find anymore census records for John after 1851, so I have not been able to establish if George was his son, but I am assuming he was. The next written evidence for John are the trade directory entries listing him as a brickmaker at Misterton. If I find any more info on John & George I will update the post. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I visited Walkeringham on my brick trail local resident Stan White told me that he remembers going to school with George Cooper's daughter, Helen & he thinks there are still Cooper descendants living in Misterton. Maybe if one of the present family reads this post & they get in touch, then I may get the answers that I am after. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">With just having access to more maps, 1875 through to 1946 it has revealed that there were two yards at Coopers Bridge one either side of the canal with the light green marked yard being recorded on the 1875 map through to the 1900 map & the dark green yard recorded on the 1875 map through to the 1946 map. This together with information told to me by a fellow </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">brick enthusiast</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> has revealed that these two yards were owned the Hill family.</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> This is what Frank told me - He was looking at a wall made of Hill's bricks at Coopers Bridge when a gentleman came out of this house & told him that Mr Hill lived over there in that large house & that his works was just down there, confirming that the Coopers Bridge sites were owned by the Hill family & </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">the Misterton Brick Works were owned by the Cooper family. Stan White has since told me that the last Hill Brothers names were Tom & Bob & it was Tom who built & lived at the large house, Highfields which is just a stones throw away up the hill from the brickworks.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Thomas Hill senior is first listed as brickmaker at Misterton in Kelly's 1876 edition. He is followed by the entry for James & Thomas junior in Kelly's 1881 edition. The next entry is Hill Brothers in Kelly's 1885 edition & this entry continues right through to the last available edition in 1941 & it will have been Tom & Bob Hill at this date. When this works closed is unknown. The Hill Brothers also operated a second works at Gringley on the Hill & is covered in the next section & as previously wrote the Hill Brothers (Tom & Bob) briefly owned the Walkeringham Brickworks. There was also a Charles Hill making bricks at Walkeringham between 1881 to 1891 & he may have been a relation.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">George Henry Tomlinson is</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> recorded in the 1881 Census as living in Gringley on the Hill aged 37. Born in Gainsborough in 1844 his occupation is given as brick manufacturer employing 10 men & 1 boy. George is listed as brickmaker in Kelly's 1881 to 1904 editions at Gringley on the Hill.</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The Shaw Brick Works is recorded on the 1875 map right through to 1946 map & was owned by the Hill family </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">who are listed in Kelly's 1908 to 1916 editions at Gringley. There is also an entry for Hill Brothers, Gringley in the 1941 edition. One can only assume that the Hill family continued to operate their Gringley works between these dates unless the site was mothballed until 1941. The date when this works closed is unknown.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">As previously wrote the Hill Brothers also operated another brickworks in nearby Misterton & I have trade directories recording the Hill family at Misterton between 1881 & 1941. </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">As well as George Tomlinson & the Hill Brothers working in Gringley I have found that both Charles Barrowcliff & S. Marples are listed in trade directories in 1855 & I have a photo of one of Charles Barrowcliff's bricks. </span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Found in Gringley on the Hill by Frank this CB brick was made by </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Charles Barrowcliff junior who is listed as brickmaker in Gringley on the Hill in Kelly's 1855 edition. Charles junior was also a coal dealer & had followed in his father's footsteps in the two businesses with Charles senior also listed as a timber merchant & by 1853 Charles senior is recorded as "gentleman". </span></div>
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">The Chesterfield Canal also passes through Worksop & the Low Grounds Brickworks was built next to the canal. I have established from 1875 & 1885 maps that the Low Grounds Brickworks consisted of two yards with the purple coloured yard last shown on the 1900 OS map above & with it being incorporated into the yellow coloured yard in 1904. In 1925 the yellow marked yard also consisted of two yards & I will explain that later. I have also established that the Low Grounds yards where part of the hamlet of Haggonsfields.</span><br />
<span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: large;">For later reference, the road that I have marked in red is Sandy Lane & runs from Worksop town centre (off to the right of this map) & Shireoaks Road I coloured green. I have also coloured the access roads to these brickworks in the same colour as the road.</span></div>
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<span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">In Whites 1896 edition B. Garside & Son are listed as Brick Makers & Timber Merchants at Priorswell Road & Low Grounds Brickworks. This is the only entry for this company & I think that this company owned the purple marked yard at this date.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I next found two brickmakers by the name of Whittaker, Thomas & Edward in 1890's trade directories at Worksop & both are listed at either Low Grounds or Haggonsfield. Up to yet no bricks have been found with the Whittaker name stamped in them. I have established Thomas & Edward were brothers, but I start by telling you about their father William (b.1818) who in the 1851 census was a journeyman tile maker living in Worksop & married to Mary. They had one daughter & three boys, Thomas, Edward & George & all three boys were to become brickmakers in Worksop. In the 1861 census William is listed as a tile maker in Worksop residing in Haggonsfield, however the 1871 census records he is now a brick & tile maker aged 56. I am assuming William will have been working at a brickyard rather than owning a yard himself. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Eldest son, Thomas Newton Whittaker, (b.1845) in the 1861 census aged 16 is recorded as a brickmaker & still living with his father & mother. The entry in 1871 census is same as the 61 census, however the 1881 census records Thomas was now married & working as a brickmaker in Ecclesall Bierlow, South Yorkshire (now part of Sheffield). We next find the 1891 census records him back in Worksop brickmaking. I continue with Thomas' career a little later.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Second son Edward (b.1851) aged 20 in the 1871 census is listed as a brickmaker & also living with his father & mother. I have no more census listings for Edward, but we know from the 1890's trade directory entries he was still brickmaking in Worksop. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Third son George (b.1853) aged 18 in the 1871 census is also listed as living with his father & mother & being a brick & tile maker. Again with no more census listings on the website that I use or trade directory listings for George, the trail goes cold.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">So Edward Whittaker is listed as brickmaking with the address of High Grounds, Worksop in Kelly's 1891 edition & this may have been where he lived. Whites 1894 edition lists him at Haggonfields. A 1890 "For Sale Notice" for the two Low Grounds brick yards records Edward as tenant of the yard which I have coloured purple on the 1900 OS map above. The two brick yards at Low Grounds in the late 1800's lay in the hamlet of Haggonfields & the land they were situated on was owned by the owners of Worksop Manor. Today the hamlet of Haggonfields lies within the village of Rhodesia. </span></span><span face=""><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Thomas N. Whittaker in Kelly's 1891 edition is listed as brickmaking at Low Grounds, Worksop. Whites 1894 edition also records Thomas as brickmaking at Haggonfields. Kelly's 1900 & 1904 editions lists Thomas again at Low Grounds, Worksop & from the 1890 "For Sale Notice" Thomas is recorded as being the tenant of the yellow yard on the 1900 OS map above. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hleto6ZmCPo/X0vm8ZG33FI/AAAAAAAAJjQ/kk9AaxwEFSow9dns7iuHW2c-RgY38qzegCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/IMG_4022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Hleto6ZmCPo/X0vm8ZG33FI/AAAAAAAAJjQ/kk9AaxwEFSow9dns7iuHW2c-RgY38qzegCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_4022.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span>Many Thanks to Simon Patterson for allowing me to photograph this 1890 Sale Catalogue which records Thomas Whittaker was running the yellow yard & Edward Whittaker was running the purple yard. This Sales Catalogue also includes other buildings being sold </span>by the owners of Worksop Manor. This now begs the question on who purchased the land the brick yards were situated on & did they get sold ?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Now back to Thomas Whittaker & the 1901 census records him as a Brick Manufacturer in Worksop, so this begs the question did Thomas purchase the yard he worked ? It appears to me that this happen as we find Garside & Son were operating the purple coloured yard in 1896.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We next find Thomas aged 66 in the 1911 census was a widower & living with his married daughter Gertrude & his trade is given as a Brick Burner, so had Thomas' circumstances changed & he was once again an employee ? Thomas died on the 3rd of February 1915 aged 70.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">We next find that the two Low Grounds brick yards were combined & the purple yard had become the clay pit to the yellow works by the 1912 OS map. The Low Grounds Brickworks was now owned by the </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Worksop Brick Company & the company first appears in Kelly's 1904 edition listed at Shireoaks Road, Worksop. Graces Guide records that the company name of the Worksop Brick Co. had been registered in 1900. Kelly's 1904 entry for the company is repeated in subsequent editions until the 1916 entry when there is the addition of Charles James Saunders as Managing Director. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">C.J. Saunders also owned two brickworks in Chesterfield & I have written about these works in my Chesterfield post. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The next Kelly's trade directory in 1922 now lists George W.M. Turner as Managing Director. Then in the last two entries in Kelly's 1925 & 1928 editions it is just Worksop Brick Co. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">This is were things get a little bit complicated, but hopefully I can explain from the info found. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I next found entries in Kelly's 1925 & 1928 trade directories for The </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">General Refractories Ltd. Sandy Lane Brickworks, Shireoaks Road, Worksop with Frank Russell as Managing Director. G.R's Sandy Lane works is the same works as the works belonging to the Worksop Brick Co. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The 1912 OS map below shows the Low Grounds Brickworks had two entrances one on Shireoaks Road (coloured green) & the other Sandy Lane (coloured red) & new buildings are now shown on this site at this date, also the works was connected to the railway network. </span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I then found in Grace's Guide that General Refractories Limited of Sheffield, formed in 1913 became a major shareholder in the Worksop Brick Co. (possibly around 1922) & the production of red bricks & refractory bricks/products for the steel industry were produced side by side under the two company names until 1929 when the Company was rebranded just as General Refractories. Kelly's 1932 T.D. only lists General Refractories at the Low Grounds Brick Works, Shireoaks Road, Worksop with Frank Russell as M.D. The company was only producing refractory products from this date. General Refractories entry continues until the last available trade directory in 1941. In April 1967 </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">General Refractories Ltd acquired the shares of John Stein's refractory business based in Scotland & the new company was re-named GR Stein. Then in 1970 Hepworth's acquired GR Stein. After several more changes in ownership - Premier & then Cookson PLC in 2000. Cookson's then operated the Worksop works as part of it's Vesusvius Refractories division until it's closure in December 2005.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">A visit to Nottingham Archives last Thursday has revealed a document in the form of a Prospectus outlining the formation of a new company from The Worksop Brick Co. to The Worksop Tile & Refractories Ltd. Dated 29th February 1928. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">This very lengthy document contains everything about what the "New Company" is taking over from the "Old" & lists many activities the "New Company" will engage in. The core of which is bricks, tiles & refractory products, but the list is endless. Another main point is to acquire the land situated at Sandy Lane which is leased to Arthur Beardmore for a term of 21 years from the 30th november 1927, but then the document goes on to say that they are seeking permission to dig clay from the land leased to Mr. Beardmore who is recorded as living at James Street, Worksop. Mr. Beardmore's name later appears on the list of Shareholders which also includes Frank Russell, Brick & Refractory Manufacturer & M.D. living at Auldam House, Worksop, John Peter Ruault, London & John Gillies Shields, Isley Walton. All parties having 2,000 shares each. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The list of property included in the change over is one 16 chamber Hoffmann kiln, two down draught kilns, engine & boiler house, mill house, workshops, store house, drying sheds & 3 cottages. The site is served by a railway siding from the Great Central Railway Line & the kilns have the capacity of producing 6 million bricks & 500,000 tiles per year.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Please note that this "New Company" - Worksop Tile & Refractories Ltd; appears not to have been established with the Sandy Lane brickworks being recorded as being fully owned by General Refractories Ltd in 1929 with Frank Russell now recorded as Managing Director of General Refractories Ltd. </span></div>
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First it was found in December 2022 by Ian Suddaby while searching through the cinders & furnace debris at Dalzell Steelworks in Motherwell & although it's a standard imperial sized brick, it weighs 6kg. Then Mark Cranston found two newspaper articles revealing who made it & where it was made. A 10th of March 1930 Sheffield Daily Telegraph advert advertises General Refractories Ltd. of Sheffield were selling many types of refractory products of which Magnesia bricks was one of them & the company was using the British Commercial Monomark postal address of GX = Genefrax which was used by General Refractories of Genefrax House, Wicker Arches, Sheffield up to 1933/4, after which it was changed to Genefax House. British Commercial Monomark Ltd was a company based in London (established in 1925) which provided companies with a London postal address & from were the companies mail was sent to & then forwarded on. So in a nutshell the use of the BCM postal address was an early form of the Post Code that we used today for our letters & parcels. Now on to where these bricks were made & the answer was found in an article in the Sheffield Daily Independent newspaper dated 6th of September 1930. The article reveals that the Worksop Brick Co. which was associated with General Refractories Ltd of Sheffield had sent a whole tram of these specially manufactured magnesia bricks from the Worksop works to Tunis, where they were going to be used in the lining of Zinc Reduction Furnaces. Please note GR actual took over the Worksop Brick Co. in 1929, but may have continued to use the original name until 1932 when we do know the Sandy Lane Works was operating under the GR name. I have also found a May 1931 newspaper article which states GR exported more of these magnesia bricks to South Africa to be used in the erection of a Copper Smelting Plant, so these magnesia bricks may well have been made at Worksop. However I do have to note that GR had a brickworks in Sheffield making many types of refractory products as well being in association with another company in Ambergate, Derbys which operated under the name of Midland Refractories Ltd. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Found by Steven Tait in the River Tees in July 2023, this Coroma brick adds another BCM GX variation to the list of bricks made by General Refactories. It is unknown if this brick was made at Worksop, but with GR having two more works in Sheffield it is highly likely theses Coroma bricks were made in this area. The 1930 GR advert below lists the Coroma range of bricks, it also records the Trade Mark & monomark - BCM GX. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCwUcM7zvF8fWSP8B6EBgVAx5vN_awdKpA4zoiS_9--L80bPBzrXJQEO2P4GU7kQ8Wj2AQVObeU5pNllGZIS9KEapI9iF8JOGBKjl88xl3RzUl7BtW7QjrxKIVhuAFhXjXoMX197BuXi6Q_SREbWCgqTJF6mEjkIz9BSNJVvkHa1kwDzMmUn-JVI61VF8N/s640/BCM%20GR%20Coroma%20by%20Steven%20Tait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="640" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCwUcM7zvF8fWSP8B6EBgVAx5vN_awdKpA4zoiS_9--L80bPBzrXJQEO2P4GU7kQ8Wj2AQVObeU5pNllGZIS9KEapI9iF8JOGBKjl88xl3RzUl7BtW7QjrxKIVhuAFhXjXoMX197BuXi6Q_SREbWCgqTJF6mEjkIz9BSNJVvkHa1kwDzMmUn-JVI61VF8N/w640-h312/BCM%20GR%20Coroma%20by%20Steven%20Tait.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Photo by Steven Tait.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZv1ASY1pRsMMgpRt6H9icYW5lQk5c7k9sRZ1QjbUAd48PhF1G0tA8RMkWSCSqhpzch0-hl_yf39w35qukY1IRImDPz4eaU_1ipcdjGCASICBkytcLcm8XwBy6WFDTguYnmPkp8Ccpu0K0lMGdJ-aEqDbbVny10u8WI8O5MHtjLFycfqniFrbcDTripL1/s800/BCM%20GR%20Sheffield%2010%20March%201930.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="637" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZv1ASY1pRsMMgpRt6H9icYW5lQk5c7k9sRZ1QjbUAd48PhF1G0tA8RMkWSCSqhpzch0-hl_yf39w35qukY1IRImDPz4eaU_1ipcdjGCASICBkytcLcm8XwBy6WFDTguYnmPkp8Ccpu0K0lMGdJ-aEqDbbVny10u8WI8O5MHtjLFycfqniFrbcDTripL1/w319-h400/BCM%20GR%20Sheffield%2010%20March%201930.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Monday 10 March 1930 Image © National World Publishing Ltd. 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Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have also found in trade directories & an article at Retford Library that there were three more brickmakers working at the Haggonfields/Low Grounds/Sandy Lane brick yards before 1890. Haggonfields, Low Grounds & Sandy Lane being the different names for the same site. Daniel F. Anderson (purple marked yard) is listed in Kelly's 1881 edition at Sandy Lane & William Traunter (yellow marked yard) is first listed in Kelly's 1876 & 1881 editions at Haggonfields, then the entry in Kelly's 1885 edition reads William Traunter, Sandy Lane, Worksop. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Then from the article at Retford Library, William Traunter is recored as employing fifteen workers in 1851, thirty five in 1861 & twenty in 1871 at his Haggonfields Low Grounds yard. Traunter operated this yard between 1844 & 1888. In the same article G.M. Unwin is also recorded as owning a brick yard at Low Grounds (purple marked yard) between 1844 to 1872, employing seven workers in 1851.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Timeline for the two Low Grounds brickworks from trade directory entries & other sources. Please note these are not exact start & finish dates of each brickmaker or company. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The yellow marked yard on the 1900 map.</span><br /><span face="" style="font-size: large;">1844 to 1888 William Traunter.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">1890 to 1904 Thomas N. Whittaker.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">1904 Worksop Brick Co.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">1925 </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Worksop Brick Co. & General Refractories Ltd.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">1932 to 2000 </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">General Refractories Ltd., then G.R. Stein, then </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Hepworth, then Premier & Cookson.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">2000 </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Vesusvius.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">2005 Closed.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">The purple marked yard on the 1900 map.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">1844 to 1872 G.M. Unwin.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">1881 Daniel F. Anderson.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">1890 to 1894 Edward</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> Whittaker</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">1896 to 1904 B. Garside & Son.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;">The site of this yard was incorporated into Worksop Brick Company's works around 1904/5 as the Low Grounds Brickworks which is next shown as one works on the 1912 map above.</span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Although hard read this lightly stamped brick says Philips & Roberts, Retford. Although I have not found any trade directory entries for this company, I have found individual trade directory entries for these two brickmakers. William Phillips is first listed in Whites 1853 edition at Spital Hill, Retford, then in Whites 1864 edition at West Retford. The trade directories spell his name with two L's & the brick has only one, but you find many misspellings on bricks during this period of time. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">Retford Library where I viewed the trade directories told me that West Retford was a different location in Retford to Spital Hill, so I assume William had moved his works to West Retford by 1864. </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">William's partner on this brick, J. Roberts is listed at Carolgate, East Retford in Kelly's 1855 edition. </span><br />
<span face="" style="font-size: large;">On OS maps dated 1875 & 1887 I have found that the Spital Hill brick works is marked in a field called Balk Field at the top of Spital Hill opposite the Workhouse & not to far away on Bolham Lane just off Moorgate is marked a brick & tile works which I am taking to be in West Retford with the map saying West Retford just to the left of this site. I have used two 1887 maps to show the locations of William Phillips yards in 1853 Spital Hill & 1864 West Retford. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I have coloured Spital Hill & the brick yard both in yellow </span><span face="" style="font-size: large;">& William Phillips is recorded as being at this yard in 1853. Also to note this yard</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> had it's own wharf on the Chesterfield Canal in 1887. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Situated a little north of Spital Hill, just off Moorgate we find marked on the map above the Brick & Tile works on Bolham Lane which was owned by William Phillips in 1864. </span></div>
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<span face="" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">A mint example of a floor quarry tile made by Jesse Smith. Jesse is listed in Kelly's 1885 edition at Bolham Lane, Bolham, Retford & then at Moorgate in Kelly's 1891 edition. I am taking it that both these two locations are the same yard. The 1884 map below shows that there were two brickworks on Bolham Lane & I believe Jesse own the works which was nearest to Bolham village & I have coloured that yard green. This brickworks must have closed not long after 1891 as only the clay pit is shown on the 1897 map (see map in Ogle entry).</span><br /><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">George Ogle is listed as brick & tile maker at Moorgate/Bolham Lane in Kelly's 1881 edition to it's 1900 edition. George's works was the one which was nearest to Moorgate on Bolham Lane & I have coloured this yard yellow on the 1897 map below. Also to note on this map is that Jesse Smith's yard no longer shows only the clay pit (green).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWU4IjuvOXBheg0G6ZfUV33dFMOq4O6RwASLFOpez1S7yfeCz6ud0zeADiu3UvUwrI6Iav6CbxxD_yWAxEAfKiLJ5i8OeVnZ7mHZ5lj-R7hrPvNoUThJ-LU_OT6c2HBypnq5ys-_iG-h1QlLZzyGE6gEGPpGrB5yzPQyDZskdpZBRxgSWVPp1DuUThHA/s800/Ogle,%20Retford.%20Whites%201885.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="800" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWU4IjuvOXBheg0G6ZfUV33dFMOq4O6RwASLFOpez1S7yfeCz6ud0zeADiu3UvUwrI6Iav6CbxxD_yWAxEAfKiLJ5i8OeVnZ7mHZ5lj-R7hrPvNoUThJ-LU_OT6c2HBypnq5ys-_iG-h1QlLZzyGE6gEGPpGrB5yzPQyDZskdpZBRxgSWVPp1DuUThHA/w640-h256/Ogle,%20Retford.%20Whites%201885.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Advert from White's 1885 edition.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">I then find on the next map dated 1887 that his brick yard is no longer shown, hence the later trade directory listings for only Strawberry Terrace, Tom's home address. So that begs the question where was Tom brickmaking</span><span face="" style="font-size: large;"> with him being listed in trade directories dated 1891 & 1895 ? That question at this moment in time I cannot answer.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">What I can add is that today the darker green section of Pottery Lane is now Caledonian Road & the lighter green section up to the yard is Strawberry Road. Also the houses of Strawberry Terrace still stand & just after these houses there is a small cul-de-sac called Hind Street (coloured red on the 1875 map above). Hind Street is shown built on the 1887 map, so one can assume that this street was named after Tom. You can also speculate that Tom's bricks were used to build these houses ? </span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-size: large;">Shown on the 1900 map above this brickworks at Harworth was owned by Viscount Galway of Serlby Hall who was the primary land owner in Harworth & his initials are shown on the brick below with Harworth on the reverse. The year this brickworks had been established is unknown as there are no trade directory entries for this works. All we know is that it was in production around 1900 as shown on the map above. The brickworks must have closed before 1920 because Harworth Colliery was sunk on the same site replacing the brickworks in that year.</span><br /><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Thought I would clarify Hucknall under Huthwaite next. When you see the name Hucknall today you automatically think of Hucknall near Nottingham which is six miles north of the city, but this town is Hucknall Torkard. On the other hand Hucknall under Huthwaite today is just known as Huthwaite & this village is a part of Sutton in Ashfield in the District of Ashfield. When my dad lived in the village in the 1920's & 30's his postal address was Huthwaite, Mansfield. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Finding a named brick made by Samuel Oxley has so far eluded me, but it has not been for the lack of searching. Many of the houses in The Falls area were built between 1879 & 1917 as shown on the maps below & I suspect they were built using Samuel's bricks. My only conclusion is that Samuel did not stamp his bricks. On one of my foray's into Huthwaite I had gone at the right time when a house on New Fall Road was being renovated, but alas all the bricks which had come out of the house had no name stamped in them & the local builder who was doing the work said he had never seen any bricks marked Oxley. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">First I would like to thank Marg at Sutton Library for supplying me with information from various census records about Samuel Oxley & the different members of the Oxley family who were either brickmakers or brickmaker labourers who may have all worked at the yard. In 2021 I revisited the census records & added new info.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">I first start with info on Samuel's father Charles who was also a brickmaker. Charles Oxley b.1821 in the 1841 & 51 census is listed as a brickmaker in Conisborough, Yorkshire. By 1861 Charles & his family had relocated to Nether Moor, Tupton near Chesterfield & in the census he is listed as a Coal labourer with four sons, Joseph b.1847, Charles junior b.1849, Samuel b.1850 & Arthur b. 1855, the three eldest are listed as labourers with Arthur a scholar. The three eldest sons were born in Sandall near Doncaster & Arthur was born in Armthorpe, Doncaster. I mention these locations because later census record other towns for their birth which is incorrect. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the 1871 census with part of the Oxley family now living at Hagg Bridge, Tupton, Derbyshire. Charles now aged 50 together with sons Joseph 24 & Arthur 16 are all listed as brickmakers. By the 1871 census Charles' other sons Charles junior & Samuel were brickmaking in Huthwaite. Back in Tupton we then find Joseph continues to be a brickmaker, living in Grassmoor in the 1881 & 1891 census, then becoming a Coke Filler/Cooler in the 1901 & 1911 census & still living in Grasmoor. By 1881 Arthur had become a Draper. Their father Charles in the 1881 census is listed as a Timber Dealer & Inn Keeper on Chesterfield Road, Hasland. Charles died on the 14th February 1884. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So back to Samuel Oxley & in the 1871 Census aged 21 together with his brother </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Charles Oxley, aged 22, both are listed as brickmakers lodging with Henry Humphrey (miner) & his wife in Huthwaite, the exact address is not given. It is unknown at this date if the brothers were brickmaking at the brickworks shown on the 1879 OS map above because from receiving information on another brick making family in Huthwaite there may have been a brickworks at the New Hucknall Colliery on Common Road, so the brothers may have worked there first before setting up the brickworks on Newkiln Lane (Skegby Road) as per 1879 map. Another option is that someone else owned the Newkiln Lane works in the 1870's & the brothers just worked there. If I do find evidence the brothers did established Newkiln Lane brickworks around 1871, I will update the post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">These are the trade directory entries that I have for Samuel - </span>Samuel Oxley, brickmaker, Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, Mansfield in Kelly's 1885, 91, 94, 1900, 04 & 08 editions. Then the listing is Samuel Oxley, brickmaker, New Fall Street, Huthwaite, Mansfield in Kelly's 1912, 16, 22 & 25 editions. Samuel was also a Beer Seller between 1885 & 1904 & he is also recorded as a Boot Dealer in the early 1900's in trade directories.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Samuel's son Frederick Charles Oxley b.1879 in the 1901 census aged 22 is listed as a brick yard labourer living on Columbia Street, Huthwaite & the 1911 census records Frederick as a brickmaker (worker) at the same address, so Frederick had joined his father at the works. Samuel's other son Arthur is only listed as a brickmaker aged 18 in the 1901 census. The 1911 census records Arthur as an Engine Driver & living with his sister Elizabeth who had married George Featherstone, a Brick Setter, all living on Unwin Street, Huthwaite. I have been told houses on Unwin Street were built by Samuel for his family members to live in. I am assuming with George's trade he was working for Samuel & was Arthur's Engine Driver job operating a static steam engine at the brickworks rather than on the railways. I have come across this job description before & I associated it to a brickworks on that occasion also. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">As well as being listed in the 1891, 1901 & 1911 census as a brickmaker Samuel's brother Charles was also a baker. Some of Charles sons also became bakers, but two sons became brickmakers at Samuel's works. In the 1891 & 1901 census Charles was living on Sutton Road, Huthwaite, with him then living on Unwin Street in 1911. Charles' son Charles Edmund b.1874 in the 1891 census was a Brickmaker living with his father. He then became a Coke Drawer living in Hasland in the 1901 census with a return to Huthwaite by the 1911 census aged 37 & now a Brick Yard Labourer. Charles' other brickmaking son Harold b.1880 is listed as living with his father & a Brickmaker (worker) in the 1911 census aged 31.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">So from my findings it appears Samuel established his brickmaking business around 1885, was then joined by his brother Charles shortly afterwards. With Samuel still in charge he closed the works around 1925/6. Taking into account Samuel's age I am assuming Samuel's son's Frederick Charles & Arthur & his nephew's Charles Edmund & Harold (Charles' sons) played a part in helping Samuel run the brickworks in his later life. The 1921 census when released (early 2022) should provide me with info on who was still at the brickworks with Samuel. As previously written Samuel passed away in 1931 aged 81.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Another little bit of local history is the use of the vernacular term of Mucky Huckna'. This refers to the village of Hucknall under Huthwaite & not to Hucknall Torkard as a lot of people think & I have found on the web that a lot of "old timers" in Hucknall Torkard have claimed it as their own also, but I'm afraid it belongs to Hucknall under Huthwaite. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The term was used to describe the village as a coal mining village where most of it's miners worked at the New Hucknall Colliery & lived in the village in the 1870's. The men would come home from their shift covered in coal dust, hence the term mucky, no pit baths in those days. </span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Mucky Huckna' could have also been used to describe the foul or colourful language often used by some of the miners in their daily lives. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">You can read some readers remarks about Mucky Huckna' at this link.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have also found a 1707 reference to the village being called Dirty Hucknall & this name for the village may have been corrupted to Mucky Hucknall with the coming of the coal pits & it's miners.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The article which contains this information can be read at this <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rBc7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=%22Dirty+Hucknall%22&source=bl&ots=COU2GuV_SZ&sig=_SIKlXz27IyVmmWY83mO_oRRxZE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BPA_VIq6KJHtaKuygdgM#v=onepage&q=%22Dirty%20Hucknall%22&f=false" target="_blank">Link</a>. I have been told of another variation in Dotty Huckna' also meaning dirty. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So there you have it, I have not yet found a Oxley marked brick, but my research has unearthed a wealth of knowledge.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">If you have got or you find a Oxley marked brick, please let me know, my e-mail address is on the contact tab, as I would like to come along & photograph it for my post & if by chance you have one spare, I would dearly like to own one. Many Thanks Martyn.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Searching trade directories has revealed another brickmaker working in Huthwaite & the listing from Kelly's 1885 edition is Robert Wright, Hucknall under Huthwaite. The location of his yard is unknown unless he worked with Samuel Oxley ?</span></div>
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