"Old Bricks - history at your feet"

England page 10-4, Letter: H

Hancock to Harding

Hancock & Son, Exeter

J Hancock & Son operated the formerly Corporation owned Workhouse brickworks at Clifton Hill, Exeter from 1860 to 1939. Photo by Ian Williams.

Mis-spelled example. Photo by Simon Fogg.

W H Hancox, Garrison Farm

Photo by Ray Martin.

Photo by Angel Rose.

William Henry Hancox is listed as brickmaker at Garrison Farm Brickworks, Garrison Street, Birmingham in Kelly's 1878, 79 & 83 editions. Hancox went bankrupt due to poor sales and the administators ran the works until the Midland Brick Co. took over the works. The Midland Brick Co. is listed in Kelly's 1890 edition at this yard. With this brick saying late W. Riddell, I have found that Hancox had succeeded Riddell at this works and Riddell had purchased this yard off William Mansfield in 1869. Also see bricks for Riddell & Midland Brick Co. Birmingham. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

Handley, Lincoln

Edward Handley was managing the Patent Brickworks, Burton Road, Lincoln in 1876. He was owner of his own business by 1900 and also amanager of the Willesden & Acton Brick Company in Middlesex. Edward Handley & Sons, Albion Brickworks, Long Leys Road, Lincoln. Kelly's Lincolnshire Directory 1900 - 1905. He died in February 1906. His sons Willaim and Edward junior seem to have carried on the business until it passed into the ownership of the Lincoln Brick Co. Ltd. Handleys also owned a brickworks at Woodside, Croydon, Surrey. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.

Found at Fledborough. Photo by Ian Armstrong.

Photo by Jim Stevens.

Handley, Woodside : see Woodside Brick Co, Croydon

Hanford: see also Glover

Hanford Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent. This business was run by the Glover family from the 1830s until c1870 when it passed to William Adams Peake through his marriage to Emily Glover. This example is likely to be a Glover product. Photo by David KItching.

Hange

Hange Blue Brick Works, Tividale, Staffs. Martyn Fretwell writes :- The Hange Blue Brick Works at Tividale, Tipton was owned by Septimus John Sadler & this works is recorded in Kelly's 1904 edition. This is the only listing for the Hange Brick Works. Septimus John Sadler b.1849 together with his son Septimus James Sadler b.1872 also ran another brickworks on Portway Road, Oldbury which Septimus John operated under his own name & he is recorded in Kelly's 1876 to Kelly's 1924 editions. Going back to Kelly's 1860 edition through to Kelly's 1870 edition we find that brothers Samuel Sadler b.1807 & James Sadler b.1817 had owned this Portway Road works & another brickworks at Langley Green, Langley, before James’ son Septimus John Sadler took over the Portway Road works. Photo by Ian Round.

Hangingwater Brick Co. Sheffield

Hangingwater Brick Co., Hangingwater Road, Sheffield, Kelly's Sheffield Directory 1905. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Hanks Pocklington

Pocklington is a village near York. Hanks were making bricks & tiles there in the 1880's. Thanks to Andrew Boyce and the Pocklington History website for the photos and information.

Found in a now demolished building in Pocklington. Photo by Leslie Waby.

Hanley

Unknown maker from the Potteries. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.

Hannington

Manufactured and found at Swalwell, near the junction of the river Derwent and the river Tyne. Hannington's were owners of the Axwell Park Colliery, in the vicinity of Swalwell, between the 1880's and 1903. Photos and info by Chris Tilney.

Photo by Juan Valdivia.

Photos by Chris Graham.

Photo by Steven Tait.

W Hanson

W Hanson, 27 Little Portland Street, Sheffield. Photo and info by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Hanwood

Made in Hanwood near Shrewsbury.

Hapton

Hapton Brick Co. Ltd., Hapton, Accrington, Lancs 1897-8 - Hapton Brick Company Limited built a brick works near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, south of Castle Clough. 1902 - Hapton Brick Company ceased trading. Info by Brian Hartley.

Photos by Frank Lawson.

Photo by David Fox.

Hardaxe - see Burn Fireclay Co

Harding

William Harding was described in a trade directory of 1830 as a brickmaker and limeburner of Fisherton, near Salisbury, and from 1832 to his death in 1861 he was rated on brickyards, up to a maximum of four at one time. The RCHM date the building that the brick is in to the first quarter of the 19th century. The stamp is unusual as it on the stretcher and so must have been embossed after moulding but before firing. William was succeeded by his son Robert Curtis Harding who continued making bricks until probably 1907. They dominated brickmaking in the two villages of Fisherton and Bemerton employing over half the brickmakers recorded by the census between 1841 and 1901. Photo and info by Jamie Wright.

See Fisherton and Bemerton Brickyards by Jamie Wright, to be published by South Wiltshire Industrial Archaeology Society.

Charles Harding

Charles Harding, Moorfields Brick & Tile Works, Bath. Photo by Johnny Branston.