In 1876 the business was listed as George Warburton Lewis, Rosemary Hill, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall. Later it bexame G W Lewis Tileries Ltd., Rosemary Brick & Tile Works & Walkmill Tileries, Cannock, Staffs. This was followed by Rosemary Brick and Tile Co Ltd. of Rosemary, Coppice Lane, Cannock, Staffordshire. Manufacturers of clay products (bricks and roofing tiles). In 1984 Redland acquired the company. Photo by John Elliott.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell
Rose Vale works was on Apedale Road in Chesterton which has origins before 1860 when run by Pointon. In 1875 it's Rose Vale Tile Company with James Downing as Managing Director. Pre-1883 - 1892 Rose Vale Brick and Tile Company. Frederick Hall, James Downing the younger, William Rowley, and Samuel Cork, carrying on business as Brick and Tile Manufacturers and Builders at Chesterton, under the style or firm of the Rose Vale Brick and Tile Company. 1892 business insolvent, receiving order was made January 14th, 1892 on debtor's own petition. Debts were £7,891 17s 10d. Creditors had lost 19s in of every £1 owned. Debtors had not kept proper books of account and had continued to trade after knowing themselves to be insolvent. By 1900 the site had been cleared. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Jase Fox.
Found by Simon Patterson in Barlborough, Derbyshire and Harthill, South Yorkshire - only 2 miles apart. R V stands for Rothervale, the brickworks was at Thurcroft near Rotherham and was associated with Thurcroft Colliery which was owned by the Rothervale Company. Thanks to Frank Lawson for the info. Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
This brickworks at Battlies Green, Rougham was an estate brickworks belonging to Rougham Hall & was operational between 1890 & 1939. Info & Photographed at the Museum of East Anglian Life by Martyn Fretwell.
Photographed on the seashore at Crosby, Merseyside. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Roughdales Brick & Coal Co. Ltd., Sutton, St.Helens. Slater's St Helens Directory 1885. Info from Frank Lawson, photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Probably Henry Rowbotham, Preston Street, West Gorton is listed in Slater's Manchester Directory for 1877. In 1879 he is listed at Wilton Terrace, Moston Lane, Harpurhey. The exact location of the brickworks is unknown. Henry Holt collected examples of this brick in Chadderton and Ellenbrook Street, Gorton. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo and info by Richard Symonds: Brickfield south of the former railway at Rowfant, nr Worth, Sussex. NGR TQ 330 365. In existence by 1875; marked as Rowfant Brick Works from 1912 onwards and said to have closed in the early 1960s, although it was referred to as Hundred Acres Brickworks, Turners Hill in 1972. James Terry advertised from 1875 to 1907. George Wells, who had another brickyard south of the former railway at Grange Road Station, Crawley Down, took over the yard. After WWII it was run by W. Harbour & Sons, of Copthorne. The map of 1910 shows a railway line into the works and 7 kilns: three circular and four rectangular.
William Rowland was operating a brickyard at Birch Lane, Dukinfield
in 1857. The letters I R D refer to John
Rowland, Dukinfield, his father, who died in 1856. Photos and info by David Kitching.
Rowland, Stapenhill. Found in Kellys Derby edition of 1876 only. Info by Martin Fretwell, photographed at Cawarden by Nigel Furniss.
