"Old Bricks - history at your feet"

English bricks - page 4b-3

Brookes to Brown & Ragsdale

Brookes, Halifax

Brookes, Baildon

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.

Brookfield : see Taylor, Brookfield, Bolton

Edward Brooks

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

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.

William Brooks junior

William Brooks junior, Hathershaw Brick Works, Oldham. Worrall's Directory of Oldham 1875 - 1880. Photo by David Kitching.

Photo by Jason Stott.

Brooks & Pickup - see Towneley Colliery, Burnley

Brookfield Clay Co, Chesterton

This brick may have been made by The Brookhouse Brick & Tile Co. who are listed at Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffs. in Kelly's 1876 & 1880 editions. Info by Martyn Fretwell. Photo by David Kitching.

Brookhouse

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.

Broomhill

Broomhill Colliery near Alnwick. Photo by David Kitching.

Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Brothers, Blackburn

O.Brothers Co.,Livesey,Blackburn. Livesey Brickworks was started by Orlando Brothers (surname) around 1845.The site was to the west of Malvern Mill by the Leeds/Liverpool canal..Clay was transported from Meadowhead by mineral railway.By 1886 William Brothers owned the works but went bankrupt that year and it became a Limited Company.It was last worked by Livesey Brick & Tile Co.Ltd.but was wound up in 1894. Found in Sale. Photo and info by Colin Driver.

W Brough

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.

Broughton Moor: see Wilson, Broughton Moor

Brown, Belper

The reverse of this brick is very lightly stamped Belper. W. Brown of Becksick Lane in Belper is listed in Kelly's 1855 edition. Becksick Lane does not exist on maps today, but I have found Becksitch Lane which could be the modern name for this lane? Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

Brown, Braintree

James Brown is listed in Kellys 1871 to 1902 editions at Braintree. Brown also owned several more brickworks in Essex at various times between 1871 & 1908 & these where at Chelmsford, Romford, Brentwood, Boreham & Witham. From Kellys 1906 edition the company name is listed as James Brown Ltd. & then from 1912 there is only one brickworks listed at Kavanagh Road, Brentwood. 1919 see the company change it's name to James Brown (1919 Brentwood) Ltd. The next change is in Kellys 1937 edition when the entry is Browns Brick Works (British Cavity Brick & Tile Works Ltd.) Kavanagh Road, Brentwood. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

Brown, Kingswinford

J. & E. Brown of Kingswinford are listed in Kelly's 1868 to 1880 editions, then in 1884 edition just as John Brown, brickmaker, High Street, Kingswinford, Dudley. Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

J S Brown, Loughborough

Photographed at Cadeby Reclamation yard by Martyn Fretwell.

Joseph Stanley Brown - White's 1877 Trade Directory. Found in the garden of a house on Gladstone Avenue, Loughborough. Photo and info by Richard Thorpe.

James Brown, Essex

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.

The earliest type of brick found on the site of the Brown Brickworks at Pot Kilns, Upminster is the brick which is simply embossed JB on a flat face. Subsequent ones are embossed with JB in the frog. Later types are embossed JBU, where the 'U' identified Upminster as the manufacturing site. James Brown was a highly successful producer of bespoke, hand-moulded bricks in 650 versions (1891 catalogue) - eminently suitable for the Victorian high-gothic use of decorative brickwork. Arguably they were the leading manufacturer of such bricks and the brickearth at Upminster was particularly well suited to this application. After WW1 Brown's had concentrated production at their Brentwood Brickworks and given up their Upminster site. Info & Photos by Andy Grant.

James Brown, Rossington

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.

John Brown & Co. Aldwarke Main Colliery.

Photographed at Valley Reclamation Yard, Chesterfield by Martyn Fretwell. Made by John Brown & Co. Aldwarke Main Colliery Brickworks, Parkgate, Rotherham. Info by Frank Lawson.

John Brown & Co. Rotherham Main Colliery.

The Sheffield steel firm owned Rotherham Main Colliery at Canklow near Rotherham. Photo and information by Antony Meadows.

Photo by Frank Lawson.

J K Brown