Photo by Chris Graham.
Eagle Gill Colliery and Brickworks, Maryport. Info & photo by Mark Cranston.
Photo by Greg Julian.
Found at Spittal on the south side of the River Tweed by Ian Suddaby. Steven Tay has also found examples at Sunderland and believes they may well have been made at the Earl of Durham's works at New Lambton.
Photo by Steven Tait.
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North Luffenham Brick & Tile Works, Rutland was owned by Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster (from 1892). He also had the title of 2nd Baron Aveland from 1867, so the A could stand for either Ancaster or Aveland. This works produced the bricks needed for his vast Grimsthorpe Castle estate & I have been told that one of these A crown stamped bricks was built into every one of his estate buildings, not showing of course. The farmer who told me this story found his while renovating the old barn in which he now lives & he has set the brick showing near his front door. The other brick with the writing on & may be the makers mark was found by the builders who are renovating the farmer's former farm house & it is going to be reset into the house. With this works being an Estate brickworks it is not listed in trade directories, but I have found that Samuel Walker is recorded as manager at the works & living in North Luffenham in Kelly's 1881 edition. Near to the works there is a row of three cottages & after talking to one of the owners they told me that the houses were built around 1900 by the Earl for his works manager & under managers. Photos & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Earl of Derby's Brick Works, Bootle, Liverpool. Gore's Liverpool Directory 1900. Originally found in Liverpool. Info by Frank Lawson.
Seen at Cheshire Demolition, Macclesfield, the brick has Clayton's Patent on the reverse. Photos by David Kitching.
Thanks to George for the photo. David Oliver writes: this Brickyard was at New Lambton near Chester le Street and closed in 1947.
Image by Mitch Richardson.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Found in in the wall of a house at Hulcote, on the Easton Neston estate by Nigel Furniss. Nigel writes: The Earl of Pomfret (1815), I believe refers to the the 3rd Earl, George Fermor born 1768, died 1830. The seat of the Fermors was Easton Neston house and he became Provincial Grand Master of Northamptonshire in 1798. He therefore would have had control of the brickworks that were on this site, in the north of the parish. This brick therefore pre-dates the Easton Estates & Mineral Co. Ltd. Towcester example previously shown. In 1849 this brick works were producing 107,000 common bricks, 25,000 plain roofing tiles, 294,500 pipes of various sizes, as well as special bricks, flooring tiles, drain pipes and chimney pots.
Discovered during restoration work at Croxteth Hall, Liverpool. These are from a wing of the Hall built in 1702 ' but subsequently extensively damaged by a fire in 1952 and repaired (quite possibly the bricks date from then). The owners of Croxteth Hall at the time, the Earls of Sefton, owned large areas of South Lancashire, including (at one time) a brickworks. Photo and info by Chris Lines.
Eastbourne, East Sussex. Photo by Dave Askew.
Photo by Nick Litton.
East Cowes Park Brick Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight. (Richard Langley, agent). Harrod & Co's Directory of Hampshire & Isle of Wight 1865. Found by David Ashford.
1869 East Howle Coal & Firebrick Co, 1870 East Howle Coal Co. This company operated East Howle Colliery just north of Ferryhill in Durham. East Howle firebricks were being advertised in 1910. Photos by Steven Tait.
BK stands for the Brockwell seam worked at East Howle Colliery. Photos by Mike Graham.
OEHC = Owners of East Howle Colliery.
Photos by Steven Tait.
HY stands for the Harvey seam worked at East Howle Colliery. Photo by Carla van Beveren.
This company was formed by Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh in 1873 but only lasted 10 years until 1883. Note the similarity of the lettering style to the Towcester Mineral & Brick co ltd, of which the Easton Estates was the forerunner to that company. Photo and information by Nigel Furniss.
In 1920 the Eastwood Brick Company amalgamated with the Erewash Brick & Pipe Company to form the Manners Brick Company. Photo & Information by Martyn Fretwell. Also see entries for Erewash & Manners.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell & found by Will Moss in Brinsley.
Found near Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Ken Evans. Made in the Peterborough area. Info for Eastwoods: http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Eastwoods_Group:_1934_Review
The Eastwood Brick Works first appears in the North Staffordshire trade directories in 1873 and is last seen in 1892. The proprietor was Charles Adams and the Eastwood Mill Company seems to have been his business name. I have concluded that the E C on this brick represents "Eastwood Company".