Found on Tyneside. I suspect that the W H & Co is William Harriman and the H A may be one of the Allen/Allan family who seem to have had a connection with Harriman's business. Photo by Steven Tait.
Hadcroft Brick Works, Pedmore Road, Lye, Stourbridge,
Worcestershire. 1845-1974, by Michael Raybould.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
In 1901 Joseph Holroyd Hadfield was a brick manufacturer at Birstall, West Yorkshire. Previous to this he was a greengrocer and by 1911 he had retired. Photo by David Fox.
Bricks were made from a carbonaceous shale from mining waste, so
no marl holes, only surface workings. In June 1967 they were
making 25 bricks per minute, 50,000 per day. Bricks were fired in
two 18 chamber Hoffman kilns with continuous firing, one built in
1935, the second in 1958. It was a private limited company
established in 1935 and employing 55 people. Photo and info
by Ray Martin.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Angel Rose.
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Hadleys started making bricks in 1876, in 1950 they were making 150,000 bricks per week. Morris seems to have left the business sometime between 1932 and 1936. In 1949 there were three works involved. Hadley Bros & Taylor Ltd., Great Bridge, Hadleys (Wednesbury) Ltd and Hadley’s Metallic Bricks Ltd, Willenhall. The business closed about 1960. Photos and info by Ray Martin.
Photo by Angel Rose. Martyn Fretwell suggests the following explanation to the manufacturer.
Ezra Hadley (senior) whose main job was a Draper & Clothier was first in partnership with Richard Mason at the Globe Brickworks, Rounds Green, Oldbury in Kellys 1876 & 84 editions before being listed as sole owner in Kellys 1888 edition. Ezra Hadley also owned two collieries in the late 1800’s. Richard Mason is also listed on his own at Alston colliery & brickworks in Oldbury in Kelly’s 1884 edition. Ezra Hadley seems to have died before 1901 and in that year his son Ezra junior was only 18 years of age although he is listed as a brick manufacturer in the census of that year. Thomas Rathbone was married into the Hadley family and both he and his son Joseph are in the census as labourers at a brick yard in Oldbury in the 1901 census. The 1911 census gives Thomas Rathbone aged 61 as a bricklayer at a brick yard. It is possible that Thomas Rathbone was assisting in the running of the brickyard until Ezra junior was of age and experience to run it himself.
Photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.
George & John Haigh, New Lodge Colliery, Ossett, W.Yorks - found in Wakefield. Photos by Frank Lawson.
G and J Haigh had a colliery, and a works for making fire bricks and sanitary pipes at Ravens Lodge in Dewsbury - there was also a second brick works there too. Ravens Lodge is more commonly known nowadays as Scout Hill. The Ravens Lodge brick works was sold to Edward Theodore Ingham of Blake Hall, Mirfield, after the death of William Haigh in 1902. The works was closed by 1915. Photos and info from Chris Shaw.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photo by Martin Fretwell
