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English bricks page 5b-6

Crossling to Cuthbert


Crossling, Benwell



Hartley Hudson Crossling; produced at the Condercum Brickworks adjacent to the Charlotte Pit in Benwell, (although not commercially connected to that concern), to the west of Newcastle upon Tyne. Info by Arthur Brickman, photo by Thomas Davison.


Crowborough

Martyn Fretwell was told at the brick yard that this one is from Crowborough. INFO from net - Crowborough Brickworks at Jarvis Brook, started around 1890 and was in production until February 1980. It was owned by Redland when it closed in 1982. The site is now part industrial and part nature reserve. Photo and info by Martyn Fretwell. 2 links for the brickworks. http://www.theweald.org/B10.asp?bookid=payne02050 http://www.theweald.org/m00.asp?PicIdto=45151104


Crowle



Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Made near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.



BSC operated the Crowle Brickworks near Scunthorpe between 1967 & 1972. Full history of the works at these two links: here and here. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Crown Brick Works, Hadleigh

Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Found near Maldon. Photo by Paul Wilson.

Found at Southend. Photo by Sharon Stevens.

The Crown Brick Works, Hadleigh, Suffolk, owned by Messrs. Gibbons, builders of Ipswich, 1873-1885. Edward C Gibbons, 1885-1890. Ipswich Journal 25 January, 1890. Advert for sale of Crown Brick Works, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Two kilns to burn 70,000 bricks. Alfred Coe, 18908-1892; Girling & Coe, 1892-1896; Alfred Coe 1896-1900. East Essex Advertiser 3 March, 1900. Advert for sale of Aldham Crown Brick Works, 1.5 miles from Hadleigh Station, Suffolk. With 14 chamber continuous kiln.


Crown Clay Co

Situated at a Crew's Hole, Bristol the Crown Clay Co made firebricks along with sanitary pipes and terracotta ware from around 1800. At some point in the later 19th century the business was absorbed into the Bristol Fire Clay Company. Photos by Eric Taylor.


Crown Works, Horwich: see Yates, Horwich


Crowther & Hamblet: see John Hamblet (coping bricks)


A B Croxon



Made in Burnham on Crouch, Essex. Photo by David Wallis.

Cudworth





Cudworth Brickworks Ltd., Cudworth, Barnsley, 1890-1945. Located Behind Lindrick Close, Cudworth. It wasn’t connected to coal mining and seems to have been an independent producer. Later in the brickworks' life it was owned by Oakland Brothers who bought a number of Barnsley based brickworks. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.


Cudworth Junction

The brickworks was located on the south-western flank of Cudworth near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Listed in trade directories under this name 1897 and 1904. Image PRBCO.

Photo by Alan Murray-Rust.

This was photographed at the Chasewater Railway near Lichfield by John Pease.



Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Culford



This was an estate brickworks belonging to Culford Hall, Suffolk owned by the Benyon family until the Hall was sold in 1889 to George Henry, 5th Lord Cadogan who live there until his death in 1933. I have no trade directories for this works but it is shown on two maps dated 1881 & 1903 with it no longer being shown on a 1950 map. In 1893 Lord Cadogan made many improvements to his house when he turned it into a mansion. In 1901 Henry Warren is recorded as manager of the works & living at Brick Kiln Cottage. Photos By Frank Lawson & Info by Martyn Fretwell.

Photos by Martyn Fretwell.


Culgaith, Cumberland



Photo by courtesy of the Colin Driver collection.

Photo by Graham Brooks.


Culm Davy Brick Co

Culm Davy brickworks was at Hemyock in Devon. The Culm Davy Brick and Tile Company Limited was founded in 1880 to take over the existing brickworks. The works appears to have closed in 1885. Photo courtesy of Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life.


Cumberworth

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Cumberworth Brick & Tile Company was founded by the Wood family. The address in the 1930s was the Cumberworth Brick, Tile & Stone Co Ltd, Shepley, Huddersfield. Thanks to Derek Barker for the information.



Found at Thurlstone, S.Yorks by Frank Lawson.

Photo by Jason Stott.


Cunliffe's Kettering



This works was the north-west of the town between the River Slade and the Midland Railway and this is shown on the 1900 map and Kelly's Directory lists a William Cunliffe as a brick manufacturer. Photo and info by Dave Clemo.



Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of the Bill Richardson Collection at Southwick Hall.

J Cure & Co

From the Bradford area. Photo by Mark Anderson.


Cuthbert

F Cuthbert & Sons Ltd., Greystones, Sheffield. White's Sheffield & Rotherham Directory 1905. Photo and info by Frank Lawson courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.

Photo by Martyn Fretwell.


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