Beeston is believed to be the mark used by Clayton & Speight at the Wortley Royds Fireclay Works on Gelderd Road, Beeston, Leeds. The business is listed in the 1888 Kelly's Directory for Leeds. The business had closed by 1932 and probably a few years earlier.
Charles Clementson & Co were shipping agents based at Newcastle-upon-Tyne from the 1850s to 1870s. I have found no evidence of the business ever owning a brickworks and can only conclude that these were made for them by a local manufacturer. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Ian Suddaby
In 1914 the Normanby and nearby Ormesby brickworks at Middlesbrough were taken over by the Cleveland Magnesite and Refractory Company, which shifted focus to production of silica firebricks. From that point, some of the company's bricks were stamped "CLEVE". Photos and info by Phil Sidwell.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Front and back of a Cliff, Wortley specimen found by David
Barlow.
In the mid-nineteenth century there was a brickworks in Wortley, Leeds which was founded by Joseph Cliff (1806-79). This company was known as Joseph Cliff & Sons and it also owned a brickworks in Dick Lane, Tyersal and the Shipley Fireclay Company, both in the Bradford area. In 1861 Joseph Cliff's daughter, Emily Christiana, married James Kitson (later Lord Airedale) a famous Leeds ironmaster and locomotive builder. Some years after Joseph Cliff's death the organization he had created became part of the well-known Leeds Fireclay Company. Thanks to Derek Barker for the information.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.
Found at the Surrey Docks farm, London by Germander Speedwell.
Found in London by Vladimir Smirnov.
Photo by Nigel Megson.
Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Found at Thornhill Lees and also seen near Crigglestone, West
Yorkshire. The maker is Cliffe Coal & Fire Clay Co.,
Crigglestone. Listed in Post Office, West Riding directory of 1877
and White's Clothing District directory of 1881. Image PRBCO.
Photo by Russell Firth.
Photo by David Kitching
Photo by David Kitching.
West Cumberland Iron & Steel Co Ltd., Clifton Brickworks, Workington, Cumberland. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Graham Brooks.
Clifton & Kearsley Coal Co., Clifton, Salford.
The Clifton and Kearsley Coal Company which took over collieries owned by the Fletchers was started by Edward and Alfred Pilkington in 1867. Photo by David Kitching.
Robert Clement Clive and William Bolton Clive of Tunstall, colliery proprietors leased land for a brickworks at Sandyford , Tunstall for a period of 21 years from 31st March 1895. This firebrick is from the works they established and this may have become known as the Newfield Brick & Marl Works. The Clive Brothers disappear from the trade directories at some point after 1912. Photo and information by David Kitching.
William Clover is listed at Hogwells, Boreham, Essex, in Kellys
1878 to 1899 editions. Today the A12 road runs through most of this Hogwells site. William Clover is
also listed as owning two more works at Hatfield & Rayleigh. William died in 1900 with his Boreham
works being sold by his executors in 1901. Both his sons William junior & Frederick John followed
their father as brickmakers in Rayleigh. More info on the Clover’s at http://www.rochforddistricthistory.org.uk/page/lambs_brickfields_rayleigh . Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Ken Evans.
Photo by Zoe Schofield.
James Clutterbuck, George Street, Gloucester. Photo by Frank Lawson.
The brickworks associated with Greyfields Colliery seems to have been the source of this brick. It was probably made during the ownership of the Clutton Coal Company which was formed in 1908. Photo by Mark Wilson.