This is thought to be an early product of Burnby Lane Brickworks in Pocklington. For further information about Pocklington brickmakers see the Pocklington History website.
Made by Cafferata & Co. of Newark at their Beacon Hill works, Newark, Notts. In 1862 William Cafferata purchased the brivkworks along with a gypsum mine and works. Gypsum as the main Cafferata business but the brickworks was worked for many years. It disappears from the trade directories after 1916. A short history of the business may be read here.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Peter Bailey.
One of Tyneside's most successful, if lesser known Victorian
entrepreneur's, Richard Cail rose to prominence as a contractor on
many of the regions early railways, having previously been
apprenticed to a Newcastle' builder. The secret to his success
would appear to have been control of the supplies to his various
businesses. As a Freeman of Newcastle' he was exempt from duty on
imported materials, owned quarries at Sunderland and operated
Gateshead's South Shore Brickworks. However, by the time of his
death in 1893 reference to his interests begins to wain, with the
Gateshead works having disappeared from the OS by 1898. Examples
of his bricks are therefore rather few and far
between, a testament to
his engineering skills in that many of the
structures he supervised are still extant. Photo and information
by Arthur Brickman.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Tony Mugridge has this info: Cakemore was a Black Country brickmaker who specialised in Staffordshire blue bricks and pavers I have two in my collection - both pavers and Cakemore bricks were used for much of the bridgework architecture on the Grand Union Canal through South Staffordshire. More information on the company on this download, pages 14 to 17.
This paving brick was seen on Charlotte Street in Birmingham. Photo by David Kitching.
In 1880 the business was the Cakemore Brickworks and Colliery Company. By 1887 it had become the Cakemore Blue-Brick Company, and in 1892 the firm is called the South Staffordshire Blue Brick Company Ltd., which described itself as 'Manufacturers of the Celebrated "Cakemore" Brand of Blue Bricks. The South Staffordshire Blue Brick Co was registered on 28 October
1887, to take over the properties of the Cakemore Blue Brick Co.
A Cakemore blue paver brick found on an old green lane around
Towcester by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection.
Patricio Larrambebere writes from Argentina: B.A.y R. represents Buenos
Aires and Rosario Railway, a railway company in Argentina of
British origin.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the Chris Thornburn
Collection.
Found in the River Esk near Dalmore Mill, near Penicuik,
Midlothian by Ian Suddaby.
The works also started making red bricks after 1887 and before 1892. Photo by Hamish Fenton.
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Caldwell & Harrison were based in Manchester and are listed in Slater's Directory for 1876. Photo by Jason Stott.
This brick was made for/by Callender's Cable &
Construction Co. Ltd, Erith, London before 1945, when it
became British Insulated Callender's Cables (BICC in
1975) as a marker brick, to warn you
that electric cables are buried in the ground below.
Photos & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Rachel Netherway.
A calcium silicate brick of unknown manufacturer found on the Cumbrian coast. Photo by Chris Graham.
Calstock Fire Brick Co, Hingston Down, between Gunnislake and Callington in Cornwall. It was started by Thomas Westlake and commenced operation c1860. It was acquired by the West of England Fireclay, Bitumen and Chymical Co Ltd in 1871. Photo by Ian Williams.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Camerton Coal and Firebrick Company, Greengill Colliery brickworks, Camerton, Cumbria. Sited 6km ENE of Workington. Site operated late 19th century to 1950s - Angus Glasgow. Image PRBCO.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Photos by Richard Cornish.
Gringil. Photo by David Kitching.
Greengill, Camerton. Photo by Chris Graham.
White's Sheffield and Rotherham Directory, 1879 - John Camm, Little Norton, Norton, Sheffield. Photo by Antony Meadows.
The Campbell Brick & Tile Company, Stoke. Appears in the 1876 and 1880 editions of Kelly's Staffordshire Directory. The business was running in 1875 according to adverts. They moved premises from Fenton to Stoke in 1875. In 1876 Robert Minton Taylor was the manager of the business. Colin Minton Campbell, Thomas Minton and Herbert Minton were Directors. Previous to May 1875 the business was trading as the Minton Brick & Tile Company but this was subject to a restraining injunction on 27th May 1875 at the request of Minton, Hollins and Company and therefore took the Campbell name instead. The original business of MInton, Hollins and Co had ended with the dissolution of the partnership between Mickael Daintry Hollins, Colin Minton Cambell and Robert Minton Taylor in August 1868. Colin Minton Campbell taking the china works and Hollins the tile works. It was the marketing of tiles by Campbell under the Minton name that caused the problems with Hollins who continues to trade under the Minton Hollins brand name. Minton Hollins bricks I have seen before and suspect that these pre-date the split in the business. It appears that Campbell continued to manufacture some bricks along with china, and tiles. I suspect that the brick manufacture did not last long after 1880. By the 1890s the business was trading as the Campbell Tile Co. Photos by Angel Rose.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Candy & Co Ltd., Great Western Potteries & Brick Works, Chudleigh Road, Newton Abbot, Devon. The business was founded by Frank Candy in 1850 and continued in production under various owners until 1998. For a comprehensive history of the business visit: - www.potteryhistories.com/candyhistory.html. Info and photos by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Martyn Watson.
No Info - Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
John Dexter Canning was the son of Charles Canning, joint owner of Gibbs & Canning of Glascote. John was born in 1848, and by 1877 when he married, he called himself a manufacturer. Then in 1881 he is making bricks in Devon. Found at Four Oaks Reclamation. Photo by Nigel Furniss and additional info by Angela Rodgers.
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The Cannock Chase Colliery Company produced bricks at various sites until production was centralised in the 1920s to the west of No.9 & 10 Collieries at Hednesford. The works was developed to a capacity of 8 million bricks per annum in the 1930s but the average production in the 5 years ending in 1932 was only 5.75 million bricks. Under the NCB the works was further expanded and c1974 was taken over by the Butterley Brick Company. It has since been closed. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the John Baylis Collection.
The Cannon Street Brick Company operated from its central Hanley works during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It appears in trade directories for 1912 but not 1921. Photos and information by David Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Seen at Cawarden Reclamation. Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The Clock House Brick Company Ltd was founded c.1933 to exploit a rich deposit of high-quality Weald Clay to the south of the Surrey village of Capel. The outbreak of war in 1939 was bad news for brickmaking, as housebuilding effectively ceased and the workforce was swallowed up by conscription. Although there was some demand for bricks to be used in military engineering projects, there was little use for the high-grade ceramic blocks made at Clock House. By 1941, the Company was in liquidation and sold the majority of its share capital to the London Brick Company (LBC) to avoid closing the works. In 1945, the Company was wound up for good and the works were acquired by the LBC. Under LBC, production was substantially increased to meet demand from the recovering housing market and in the 1960s the factory was rebuilt to accommodate more efficient production methods.
London Brick was acquired by Hanson PLC in 1984 the works was refitted shortly afterwards to produce multi stock bricks under the Butterley and Capel brand names. In 1998, Clockhouse Bricks were used by three major exhibitors in that year's Ideal Home Show and by 2000, Clock House was be Hanson’s main soft mud production site, making around 42 million bricks per year.
In March 2009, Hanson announced a 'phased closure programme' which began later that month and led to the loss of 61 jobs.
Photo by Guy Morgan.
Photo by David Kitching.
Carborundum Co. Ltd., Trafford Park Manchester. An American Company which established a factory in Manchester 1913. Abrasive, refractory and crucible materials. Trade Names: Carbofrax; Alfrax; Carborundum Brand; Aloxite Brand. Photos and info by Mark Cranston.
In 1861 William Cargey is described as a firebrick manufacturer living at Heworth. In January 1869 the partnership of Cargey and Co., Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, firebrick manufacturers, and Heworth Shore, Durham, cement manufacturers, was dissolved. By 1871 he was just described as a cement manufacturer, still living in Heworth. Photos by Chris Graham.
Found by Vladimir Smirnov in St. Petersburg.
The Carleton Coal & Brick Co., Carleton, Pontefract is listed in Kelly 1897 / 1901. West Yorkshire. Image PRBCO.
There is some debate as to the manufacturer of this brick. It is likely that it comes from Claud Lonsdale's, Carlisle Tile and Pottery works, but it has also been suggested that it may come from the Botcherby Brick and Tile Works was on the eastern edge of Carlisle. Photo by Chris Graham.
English China Clay Sales. Photo by Ian Williams.
West of England Co.
Made at Carloggas Brickworks near Nanpean, Cornwall. Thebrickworks opened c1860 and by 1869 was beingmanaged by Edward Stocker of the West of England Company. The mark changed from W E Co to E C C S when taken over by English China Clays around 1919 and then to Carloggas c1932. Photos by David Kitching,
part of the collection at Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum.
Found in Durham. Photo by Steven Tait.
Carlton Main Brickworks, Grimethorpe, Barnsley, South Yorks. Another company still in business today.
Carlton Main Brickworks was a subsidiary of the Carlton Main Colliery Co. which was established in 1872 and owned many businesses including several collieries. Despite apparent prosperity, the Carlton Main Colliery Company went into voluntary liquidation in early 1952 and was officially liquidated ten years later on 1st August 1962. Brick are still produced on the site by a re-formed Carlton Brick Co. Photos and info by Frank Lawson.
Photo by David Kitching.
William Henry Carr is listed as brickmaker at Leiston, Saxmundham,
Suffolk in Kellys 1888 edition to Kellys 1925 edition. The 1926
revised OS map no longer shows the works only the remains of the
clay pits. Carr owned two more brickworks, one was on Suffolk
Road, Ipswich & this works is listed in Kellys 1896 & 1900
editions. The other, Valley Brick Works, Foxhall Road, Ipswich is
listed in Kellys 1900 & 12 editions. The 1924 OS map no longer
shows the Valley Brick Works, but the Suffolk Road brickworks is
still shown. It is unknown if Carr still owned this works in 1924
as his last T.D. listing for Suffolk Road is 1900. Info &
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
This brick came from a 1932 built house in Felixstowe. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Made by George Carr, listed at 3 addresses in Attercliffe Road area of Sheffield between 1875 and 1904. Info and image PRBCO.
Photo by Antony Meadows.
Harrison, Carr & Co owned the Radcliffe Colliery at Amble in the 1860s. Found near Amble by John Jackson.
Found not far from Waskerley. Photo by Dave Liddle.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Ruth Pritchard.
John Carr & Sons, Low Lights, North Shields, Northumberland. Kelly's Northumberland Directory 1894. Photos by Mark Cranston. Bricks from this works were used to build the Percy, Warkworth and Alnwick Avenues in Whitley Bay which were built on land sold in 1898 by Lord Algernon Percy, the Duke of Northumberland. Info by Sue Nicholson.
The Low Lights Pottery was established in 1814 by Nicholas Bird.
In 1829 it passed to Cornfoot, Colville and Company (later
Cornfoot, Patton and Company). When Cornfoot retired and John Carr
became a partner, the name was changed to Carr and Patton, and
then Carr and Company. When the business became the property of
John Carr, he and his sons carried it on as John Carr and Sons.
When Carr took over the business at North Shields, John Patton
took over the Phoenix Pottery in the Ouseburn, Newcastle. Carr
made brown and black wares and ordinary wares. In 1856 these were
discontinued and replaced by ordinary white earthenwares printed,
lustred and painted. They were exported to the Mediterranean,
Egypt and the Far East. Carr also made terracotta vases and
articles for the building trade. The pottery was abandoned between
1890 and 1901 when the company concentrated on firebrick
manufacture. The last directory entry for the firm at 44 Low
Lights was in 1907-8. Info by Frank Lawson.
Made at Scotswood between 1828 and 1881 found in an exposed
culvert on the Lanchester Valley railway walk about 8 miles west
of Durham. Photo by Gordon Hull.
Photo by Michael Gibson.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Mark Cranston.
Photo by Neville Akers.
Found in Chile. Photo by Juan Valdivia.
Photo by Patrick Vyvyan.
Martyn Fretwell writes : The 1856 OS map shows the Stourbridge Firebrick & Sanitary Pipe Works at Stourbridge near Pipewellgate, Gateshead & this works is listed as being owned by Walker & Snowball in Slater’s 1855 edition with the address of the New Stone Bridge Fire Brick Works, Gateshead. Around 1865 James Snowball moved to a new works at Derwent Haugh & it's thought it was then that Thomas Carr took over this Stourbridge Firebrick Works, hence the firebrick stamped T. Carr, Stourbridge. The earliest trade directory I have found for Thomas Carr as a fire brick manufacturer is in Ward’s 1850 edition & the entry is Thomas Carr senior ; works, Scotswood; office, 3, Indian Kings Court, Newcastle. Slater’s 1855 edition now lists T. Carr & Son in the Fire Brick section at 28, Quayside, Newcastle (warehouse). Kelly’s 1886 edition reads Thomas Carr, Fire Brick Manufacturer, Printing Court Buildings, Akenside Hill & Scotswood on Tyne. In Ward’s 1890 edition Thomas Carr & Son are listed in the Brick Makers section & the Fire Brick Makers section at Scotswood, Newcastle. The entry in the Fire Brick Makers section of Kelly’s 1894 edition reads T. Carr & Son (now Walter Scott Ltd) office, 21, Grainger Street, Newcastle & the entry in the Brick & Tile Makers section reads Walter Scott Ltd. Scotswood. I have therefore come to the conclusion that Walter Scott continued to produce fireclay bricks under the T. Carr name after this take over & then produce red bricks under his own name. The last listing for T. Carr & Son at Scotswood is in Kelly’s 1914 Fire Brick Makers section while Walter Scott Ltd. is listed at Scotswood & offices at 21, Grainger Street, Newcastle in the Brick & Tile Makers section. Ward’s 1916 edition only records Walter Scott Ltd. in the Brick & Tile Makers section & not in the Firebrick section.
The 1914 Kelly's directory for Durham lists Carter, G & W H, Greatham brick works, Cowpen Bewley, Stockton. Photos by Chris Tilney.
This is probably one of the earliest bricks produced by the company. Photo by Ray Martin.
Photos by David Kitching
Photos by Ray Martin. The Castle Brick Works was in Birchills, Walsall, just off Upper Green Lane, and first appears on the 1902 OS map with five rectangular kilns. The listing in Kelly’s 1900 to 1908 editions reads Castle Brick Works, Birchills, Walsall. Kelly’s 1924 lists J. Griffin Jones & Co. at the Castle Brick Works, Upper Green Lane, Birchills, Walsall. The listing in Kelly's 1928 to 1940 editions is the Castle Brick Co. Upper Green Lane, Birchills, Walsall. Castle are listed as operating a second works at Bloxwich in Kelly’s 1932 to 1940 editions. The works seems to have closed and been swallowed up in extensions to the tube works by the early 1950s. Info by David Kitching.
The Castle Bromwich Brick Co. was owned by Mr. W.H. Winterton & is first listed in Kelly's 1921 edition with the address of Black Pit Lane, Ward End which was formerly the Little Bromwich Brick Co's yard. The 1932 Kelly's Directory records the business on Bromford Lane (red), Ward End. This works remaining open until 1967 & still being run by the Winterton/Major family. Info by Martyn Fretwell, photo by Ray Martin. Found at Four Oaks reclamation yard.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by Darren Haywood.
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the above photo.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
It would appear that there were two different Castleford Brick
Companies. The manufacturer of this brick is listed 1897- 1912 and
the brick was used in the works of the Aberford Railway, which
principally shipped coal from the Garforth Collieries to a coal
depot at Aberford on the Great North Road. A later Castleford
Brick Company, with works at Glasshoughton, is listed as a
branch of the Yorkshire Brick Co., 1922 to 1965.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Seen at Wakefield Museum and believed to be a product of the Castleford Brick Company. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Catchpole & Co., College Road, Masbrough, Rotherham. White's Sheffield & Rotherham Directory 1893 & 1901. In the 1893 directory the listing is just James Catchpole. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Thanks to John Biggs for the photo, found in the remains of
Southmead Manor, Bristol.
Photo by Richard Paterson.
Photo by Mike Chapman.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Cattybrook brick house number. Photo by Andrew Morley.
Nicholas Cawthorn, Tees Tilery, Middlesbrough - Slater's Northern Counties Directory 1855, albeit mis-spelled as Craythorn. By 1873 the works was being run by Jackson Gill and Co in 1873. In 1877 the works and contents was offered at auction on the instructions of the Trustees of the Property of Mr W Chipchase, Brick Manufacturer. The sale advert describes one downdraught kiln and two large open-top case kilns. Found near Guisborough. Photo by Dan Armstrong.
Believed to have been made in Pocklington, near York at the Burnby Lane works. Thanks to Andrew Boyce for the photo, further info on the Pocklington brick industry can be read here.
Whittlesea was an important brick making area east of Peterborough. The Central Brickworks Whittlesea was acquired by the National Coal Board in 1966. It was sold in 1973 to the London Brick Co by N. C. B. Ancillaries.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, found at Barkston near Grantham.
This brick was manufactured by the Chamber Colliery Limited, which
operated a coal mine in the Hollinwood area of Oldham from the
late 1850s. The company added a 16-chamber Hoffmann-type
continuous brick kiln to the colliery site during the 1880s. It is
uncertain when the company ceased manufacturing bricks, although
the kiln is marked 'disused' on the Ordnance Survey map of 1922.
Information by Ian Miller, photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
H & F Chamberlain, Dodworth Road, Barnsley - Kelly's Directory of West Riding of Yorkshire, 1881. For further information visit Grace's Guide. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Salvaged from a Victorian house at Green Hammerton, so a possible maker could be John Chambers, Littlethorpe, Ripon or his successor Mrs J Chambers & sons, listed in trade directories 1867 - 1881, info and image PRBCO
This small paving brick was put under a kitchen cupboard in York by Don Boldison. He cannot remember exactly where he found it
John Champion, St Saviour, Jersey. Photos by Richard Watson.
The Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd ran mines in the Sacriston area of Co. Durham. See this website. Info by Andrew Gardner.
This may have been made in the 1860s or 1870s when Sacriston Colliery was owned by Sir George Elliot, Bart. & William Hunter. Photos by Steven Tait.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
In the 1870s Thomas Charlton & Co owned a number of mines around Evenwood in County Durham. This one was found near coke ovens at East Howle in County Durham. Photo by Paul Harman.
Photo by Darren Haywood.
Charnwood Forest Brick Ltd., Shepshed, Leics. This company now forms part of Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC. and still produces bricks at the Shepshed works. This is probably a modern brick made under the Michelmersh regime. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.
Photo by courtesy of the Richard Symonds collection.
The works became the Cherry Orchard brickworks possibly as early as mid-1889, and it became Kenilworth's last brickworks, closing in 1977. Date of this brick uncertain, but it came from a building put up in the late 19th century. Thanks to Robin Leach for the photo and info.
Robin writes: frustratingly, I have yet to find the years that the works operated under this fuller title, nor did I record where I got the brick from. The pit at the works was in use as a tip even in pre WW1 days and since closure became a full scale pit-filling operation. Today, with the pit filled and grassed over, it is a 're-cycling centre' and all the rubbish is taken from there to elsewhere.
Simon Patterson photographed this one at Avoncroft Museum
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
The Cheshire Brick Co works was situated at Middlewood between Hazel Grove and High Lane. Production began as the Middlewood Brick Co in the 1920s and ended in the 1950s. Photos and info by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
Photo by Jeremy Nutter.
Arthur Brickman writes: I suspect this is the Chester Brick Company, (as in Chester-le-Street), Plawsworth, Co. Durham, established in 1953. A calcium-silicate brick, formed by mixing various grades of sand with hydrated lime, before adding colouring dyes and baking in an autoclave - I believe this shade was known as 'Cumberland Stone'. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The works was at Scholes, some 8Km north east of Leeds and operated from 1880 to c1930, info and image by Sue Wright.
Photo by Hispano Buchon.
At the turn of the 19th century The Chorlton Land & Building Company Ltd acquired rights to make bricks in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The Chorlton Brick Company was established there in the early part of the 20th century, and the works continued producing bricks for about forty years. It was accessed via Chepstow Road off Longford Road. Joseph Jackson was operating the works in the early 1920s and it became part of J & A Jackson Ltd when the company was incorporated on the 7 April 1922. Thanks to Steve Biddulph for this brick.
Photo by Tony Gray.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
J. Christy, New Writtle Street & Broomfield, Chelmsford is listed as brickmaker in Kellys 1855 edition. The entry in Kellys 1862 & 1867 editions is J. Christy & Son, Brownings, Broomfield & at New Writtle Street, Chelmsford. The 1871 entry is for Fell Christy (son), New Writtle Street & at Broomfield, Chelmsford. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Churwell Brick Co., Leeds. Site operated by Fitton Bros. in 1904, as Churwell Brick Company 1938 and by A. Rodgers in 1956. Site cleared c2000. Photo by David McNicholas
Made at Chytane Brickworks, near Summercourt SW913561. Photo by David Kitching, part of the collection at Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum.