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...

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...

George Boot is first recorded as builder & contractor on Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. in Kelly's 1886 edition, the...

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