William Hallatt, West Melton, S.Yorks. listed in Kellys 1897 edition, then the entry is Henry Hallatt, West Melton, S.Yorks. in Kellys 1901 & 1912 editions. Photo & info by Frank Lawson.
James William Halliwell, Waverley Brickworks, Sandal Magna, Wakefield - Kelly's Directory for the West Riding, 1881. Found at Wintersett near Wakefield, this particular example is a sill brick. Photo by Zoe Elizabeth Hunter.
Halmer Tileries was owned by F. Warwood & E.M. Heald. The works was located at Hayes Wood to the south-west of Halmer
End. This brickyard was erected c1935 using second-hand machinery.
It made only bricks and lasted until the 1970s. Photos and
info by David Kitching.
T H Halsall Ltd., Walmersley Brickworks, Lowes Road, Bury, Lancs. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Martin Fretwell.
Photos by David Kitching.
T H Halsall & Sons, Summit Brickworks, Calderbrook, Littleborough, Lancs. T H Halsall & Sons of Bury took over the Summit Brickworks sometime between 1939 & 1945 and continued to produce bricks there until closure in 1973. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Found in Southampton, the rope and anchor was one trademark used by Joseph Hamblet. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Joseph Hamblet, Piercy Brickworks, Oak Road, West Bromwich, listed in Kelly's directory 1860 - 1896. From 1900 onwards the company is listed as Hamblet's Blue Brick Co Ltd. The largest of the brickworks in the West Bromwich area was started in 1851 after Joseph Hamblet had acquired part of J. E. Piercy's estate. The Piercy Brickworks was run by Hamblet in partnership with a Mr Parkes until at least the early 1860s. Later, however, Hamblet became sole proprietor as well as manager and in the 1870s and 1880s Hamblet was making blue and red bricks, flooring and roofing tiles, pavings, copings, kerbings, channel and sough bricks, and machine-made brindled bricks. Blue bricks, however, were the firm's speciality. In 1898, four years after Hamblet's death, the business became a limited company and traded as the Hamblet Blue Brick Co. Ltd. The company was trading as recently as 1961 as HAMBLET'S BLUE BRICK CO. at the Atlas brickworks, Walsall. Photos & info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Emma Robinson.
Photo by Nigel Furniss.
A blue/black Hamblet pavior (c.2" thick) which came to light during maintenance work at Claymills Pumping Station. Photo by Alan Murray-Rust.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Spotted by Geoff Spink on a bridge over a disused railway in
Northamptonshire.
Photo by William Whitehead, who writes: The Hamblet marl
hole was near to where the Hamblets lived - at the Oak House in
West Bromwich. The marl hole (clay pit) became a park
when the pit was filled in. I recovered many of the
blue bricks from a garden near my allotment close
to the parish church (All Saints).
A brick used as a paver at the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. Photos by David Kitching.
Kerb brick on Grove Road, Beccles. Photo by Martin Dutch.
Two faces of the same brick. Photos by Andrew Morley.