This brick was found at Baildon, West Yorkshire. Brookes (Hx) were
owners of the Yorkshire Ganister Co. on Green Road, Baildon
between 1901 & 1908. Brookes also manufactured white glazed
bricks at their Huddersfield site, so it is open to
conjecture as to where this ordinary red building brick was made.
Image PRBCO.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Warren Dunford.
Edward Brooks appears as a brickmaker in the 1875 Worrall's Directory of Oldham where he is listed as living at 55 Ashton Road. Photo by David Kitching.
William Brooks, Chamber Brick Works, Ashton Road, Copster Hill, Oldham is listed in trade directories 1875-1895.
Found in Middleton. I think the two holes to the right of the 'K' denote the pins that had held the missing 'S' in place. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by Jason Stott.
Photos by Ian Sneyd
William Brooks junior, Hathershaw Brick Works, Oldham. Worrall's Directory of Oldham 1875 - 1880. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photo by Ian Sneyd.
The Brookhouse Brick Co., Littledale, Caton, Lancaster operated from the early 1920s to the late 1960s - Winstanley, M. Rural Industries of the Lune Valley, 2000. See also entry for Lune. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Geoff Mortimer.
Broomhill Colliery near Amble in Northumberland. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Orlando Brothers established his Livesey Fire Clay Works, west of Malvern Mill by the Leeds and Liverpool canal near Blackburn in 1835. Clay was transported from Meadowhead by mineral railway. At one time he was in partnership trading as Orlando Brothers and Railtons until 1851, and then with a John Dodgson but this was terminated in 1857. He was also Gas Engineer to the Blackburn Gas-Light Company. Brothers died in 1870 and the business was continued in the same name by his sons Orlando, Francis and Colin Brothers. In 1878 one speciality they manufactured were Orlando Brothers' Patent Fire-Clay Gas Retorts. Orlando Brothers Limited dissolved 1885. The business continued and was supplying retorts to Buxton Gas Works in 1889. Orlando Brothers junior retired around 1889/90 and the works was taken over for a short while by John Shaw an innkeeper, and W T Holland, a local solicitor who traded under the Orlando Brothers name but soon became insolvent. The works was advertised to let in 1893. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
William Brough, Haying, Silverdale, Newcastle under Lyme is listed
in Kellys 1860 edition, then the entry is W. Brough & Son in
Kelly's 1868 to 1892 editions. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photos by Ken Perkins.
Photo by Aron Bowers.
Photographed at a brick reclamation yard in Kent. James Brown
owned brickworks in Brentwood, Boreham, Hatfield, Witham, Upminster
& Romford in Essex & I have found him listed in several
trade directories from 1874 to 1914. Kelly's 1894 edition records
him at Writtle Street, Chelmsford, Upminster, Romford &
Braintree. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
James Brown, Rossington Hall, Doncaster. This brick was found in the grounds of Rossington Hall. James Brown was the owner of the hall from 1845 until his death in 1877. On the OS 6 inch map of 1901 there is evidence of brick ponds just to the north of the hall so I suspect that this brick was made on the estate and pressed with the estate owner's initials. Photo & info by Frank Lawson.
The Sheffield steel firm owned Rotherham Main Colliery at Canklow near Rotherham. Photo and information by Antony Meadows.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
John Kay Brown was born at Skiers Hall in Elsecar in 1808. His father was a brick maker and John ran his own brickworks close to Milton Ironworks. He died in 1877. Photo by Vanessa Arnold.
Roger Brown, Ecclesall New Road, Sheffield. White's Sheffield Directory 1856/1862. Photo by Frank Lawson, courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.
Brown & Ragsdale, Millgate & Beacon Hill, Newark - Kelly's trade directory 1853. Photo by Ben Powell, brick found at Barnby-in-the-Willows, Nottinghamshire.
In 1905 Brown Royd brickworks was run by the Executors of Jessey Medley. It was situated in the old Brown Royd quarry on Kilner Bank, Dalton, Huddersfield. Photo by Martin Fretwell.
