A product of the Redheugh Brick Company, their
works on the Teams, a tributary of the Tyne near Dunston on the
outskirts of Gateshead, ceased production around 1915, the
company having only been in existence for some 35 years. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photos by Steven Tait.
Photo by Mike Graham.
Photos by Chris Graham.
Photo by David Kitching.
Found around the Hayling Island / Langstone Harbour shoreline in
Hampshire by Tony Russell.
Photo by Mark Howard.
James Redrobe was advertising his bricks in the local papers in 1877 although his main trade was as a slater. This paver was photographed by Mike Shaw.
The Rill Park Brick & Tile Works
was producing from 1863 - 1900. It was situated on land near to
Marpool Hill, purchased from the Rill estate. Photo and information by Simon Fogg.
Photographed at Beamish Museum. This may be connected to William Reed in the entry below. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
William Reed, St Helen Auckland, is listed in trade directories as a brick manufacturer in 1879 and 1890 and also in the 1891 census. In the 1881 census he is listed as a grocer and draper. The 1891 Kelly directory lists two more brickmakers with the name William Reed at Eldon Lane and Fylands Bridge, both close to Bishops Auckland. In the absence of any other information I believe that these are probably both the same man and that the St Helen listing is his home address. Photo by Chris Tilney who found this in Bishop Auckland.
Spotted in a wall in Southsea, Hampshire by Nigel Furniss.
Regis Brick Company, Blackheath, Staffordshire. The works was close to Rowley Regis and Blackheath Station and was trading under the name Regis Brick Co Ltd by 1933. The works was closed in 1964 and demolished over the next five years.
Found on Tyneside, photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Monkhill Lane Brickworks, Pontefract. Photo by David Kitching.
Thomas Rhodes had fingers in many pies, his main business was in the production of galvanised iron buckets & caustic soda drums etc at his Providential Foundry & Sheet Metal Works in Lye, Stourbridge, which he took over from Richard Rhodes in 1865. He also owned a grocers shop which his wife ran & he was also a Publican. His brickworks was situated between Dark Lane (now Chapel Street) & Pedmore Road in Lye & from newspaper articles was operational roughly between 1874 & 1891 producing fire-clay bricks then later red, white & blue bricks.
It appears from several newspaper adverts that Thomas Rhodes venture into brick making was not that successful as he was constantly advertising for brick makers & brick burners or letting his brickworks. Samuel Warr of Cradley leased the works between 1879 to 1882, (Warr had previously operated a brickworks at Holmer Hill). In 1883 Rhodes tried to sell his brickworks as a going concern, but this appears not to have happened as we find a July 1888 advert records Rhodes was selling 70,000 common red bricks at the Lye Cross Red Brick Works, which was then be Let. Another advert & the last dated July 1891 records Rhodes was once again letting his brickworks. I am assuming this works closed in the early 1890’s.
This works is also recorded as the Dark Lane Fireclay & Brick Works. Rhodes' galvanised bucket & sheet metal works closed in 1906 & this business together with all it’s machinery were moved to Belgium with Rhodes taking up the position of manager.
Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Charles Richardson's brickfield was at Teynham, Kent with his cement works at nearby Conyer. Using his own barges to transport his goods, he owned wharves at Vauxhall and Conyer. In the early 1880’s Richardson joined forces with John Francis Eastwood and four others to form Eastwoods Co. Ltd. supplying bricks to London, Kent and Essex by barge. An ever expanding Eastwoods went on to own many brickworks in Eastern and South-Eastern Counties of England including making Fletton bricks at Peterborough. See entry for Eastwoods. Photo by Tim Richardson.
Herbert John Richardson is listed in Kellys 1899 edition at the
Danbury Brickworks, Danbury, Chelmsford, Essex. The entry in Kellys 1902 to 1910 editions is Richardson Brick & Tile Co. (Danbury) Ltd. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
John Hunter & T Richardson, Rabbit Banks, Gateshead and Dent's Hole - Ward's Newcastle Directory 1850. In 1856 Richardson was still occupying the Rabbit Banks firebrick works. The business at Dents Hole was originally run in partnership between J H Richardson and John White until this was dissolved in April 1832. Photo by Tony Gray.
I believe this to be an incorrectly stamped Richardson brick where the 'H' has been replaced with 'M'. Photo by Chris Graham.
Photos by Steven Tait.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
It appears Riddings bricks where made in Jacksdale, Notts, by James Oakes & Co. (Riddings Collieries) Ltd. He owned several collieries, a very large iron works, situated next to the Cromford Canal and on another site next to Pye Hill Colliery, he manufactured clay pipes and bricks. The Oakes family lived at nearby Riddings House, an 80 acre estate in Riddings, Derbyshire. Nothing is left to see, on either site, to remind us of these glory days of manufacturing, only his bricks! Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Frank Lawson