East Midlands Named Bricks

S.D.H. - S.  Samuel Daubney Hibbert - Sutton. My first trade directory entry that I have found for Samuel Daubney Hibbert as brickmake...

A fellow brick collector in Ironville, told me about this wall on West Street, Riddings, Derbys. After asking the owner for permission to t...

Henry Shaw was born in 1842 in Greasley, Notts., his father Joseph was a brickmaker & later a builder & Henry aged 19 was a miner ...

Samuel Hibbert Beeley & Fredrick William Beeley are recorded as Builders, Contractors & Farmers on High Pavement, Sutton in Ashfi...

I first found in the 1871 census that Thomas Slack b.1831 in Sutton in Ashfield is listed as a Journeyman Brickmaker & was living wi...

With new information coming to light, I have now re-written this entry. The Straw family started as earthenware potters branching out a...

  © Crown Copyright. Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey 1898. In the 1912 & 1916 editions of Kelly's Trade Directory...

Photo by Frank Lawson. Benjamin Holmes was born in 1835 at Bagthorpe, Selston, Notts.   In the 1851 census Benjamin is recorded as a...