Bon Lea Brickworks, Bon Lea, Thornaby on Tees, North Yorks. This brick may have been made by Richardson Johnson & Co (later A Bainbridge) of North Yorkshire Ironworks, Thornaby who also owned a brickworks. Photo and info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Both found at North Shropshire Recycling yard by Martyn
Fretwell. Martyn adds :-
John Bond owned three brickworks, operating them only during the
summer months & then being employed as a maltster &
brewing beer during the winter months. His three works where on
Watery Lane, Dark Lane & the one on Garrison Lane which he
operated from 1867 to 1875 & was called the Globe Brickworks
was then sold to a syndicate who formed the Globe Brick &
Tile Co.
Photographed at Cawarden Reclamation Yard by Martyn Fretwell.
Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell from the Chris Thornburn
Collection.
William Bones is listed in the 1881 census as a brickmaker living at Crook, County Durham, which is close to where this brick was found. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Found by Stanley Jones in Sandwell valley, West Bromwich
A Boorer, Crowhurst, near Oxted, Surrey. Photo by courtesy of the Richard Symonds collection.
History of the works can be found here. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Made at Sutton in Ashfield, photo by Simon Patterson.
Found near Mabgate in Leeds by John Pease. William David Boothman is listed in White's Clothing District Directory of 1870 as (exors. of) Beckett Street & Potternewton, Leeds. Info PRBCO.
Photo from a wall in Settle by Mike Chapman.
The Borough Brick Company, Railway Street, Nelson, Lancashire.
Listed in Kelly 1918 / 1924.
The site finally closed in the 1950s and was owned by the
Proctor family for several
generations in the 20th century. Makers of bricks marked NELSON
PLASTIC. Image PRBCO.
Photo by courtesy of Colin Driver.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Found at Elland by Jason Stott.
Several of these bricks were found on the Wm Sutcliffe, Armley, Leeds site. Found in Armley one would presume B B Brick Works, Armley. There is an area of Armley called Botany Bay near the Leeds & Liverpool canal so a possible site of manufacture although I can find no such works listed in trade directories. Info and image PRBCO.
Found near Wigton by Ian Suddaby. The Botcherby Brick
and Tile Works was on the eastern edge of Carlisle.
Photo by Graham Brooks.
The Botfield ironworks at Stirchley in Shropshire was expanded in 1838 to encompass the manufacture of bricks. Photo by Shellie Bradshaw.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
A Staffordshire Blue brick, photo by Darren Haywood. The blue colour means they are made from clay deposits known as Etruria Marl. http://blackcountryhistory.org/collections/getrecord/GB149_D-SSW_2_AB/
By 1896 Boulton & Co advertised their business from the
Midland Brick and Tile Works, Port Vale. They were still operating
in 1940 as Boulton & Co (Longport) Ltd., Midland & Port
Vale Tileries, Longport. Photo and info by David Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Tim Lawton
Boulton, Burnett, & Platt first appear in the trade drectories in 1867 at Brownhills Colliery, Tunstall. In 1868 the listing is for Boulton, Burnett & Co, and in 1869 it is Boulton & Co. brick and tile makers. Proprietor George Boulton was living at Moreton House, Wolstanton. The works was last listed in 1892. Photos and information by David Kitching.
Daniel Platt first appears as working with Boulton and Burnett in the trade drectories in 1867 at Brownhills Colliery, Tunstall. Platt is likely to have formed part of Boulton & Co until he bought the Brownhills Works at Tunstall from Boulton in 1896. Photo by Christopher Dixon.
Joseph Walker Bourne is recorded as a Earthenware Manufacturer in Church Gresley, Parish of
Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire at the time of his daughter Adelaide's birth in 1830. Pigot’s
1831 now lists Joseph Walker Bourne as a Fire Brick Maker in Church Gresley. At the time of his
son’s birth, William England Bourne who was born in December 1832, Joseph is listed as a Fire
Brick Maker in Church Gresley. It appears William did not follow in his father’s footsteps. Joseph
is again listed as a Fire Brick Maker in Pigot’s 1835 edition at Church Gresley. Joseph Walker
Bourne died in the Parish of Ashby de la Zouch in June 1840. Photo by John Goodman & Info by Martyn
Fretwell.
Made in Bovey Tracey, near Newton Abbot in Devon. Photo by Pete Joyce.
Found on the Easton Neston estate, near Towcester by Nigel
Furniss. Made by Bovingdon Bricks
in Hertfordshire.
The works closed in 2016 when it ran out of clay.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Ian West.