Photo by Alan Davies.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Coalfield Brickyards Ltd., Clayfield Road, Mexborough, South Yorks. Liquidated 1971. The Yorkshire Brick Company 'Coalfield' Brickworks at Mexborough ceased firing towards the end of 1982. It was the last Pressed Brick Kiln in South Yorkshire to operate.
All the above were used to build a house in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is likely that the H A brick is also a Coalmoor product. Photos by Jade Ling.
Coalmoor is near Telford in Shropshire.
The Allenite was a tough refractory brick used for lining kilns, etc.
Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John Cooksey Collection
Made in Coalmoor, Telford on the same site as Allenite bricks.
The Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd was formed in 1901 & in 1908
became the New Coalmoor Sanitary Pipe Co. Ltd. making pipes &
fire bricks at it's works located near to Woodlands Farm now Myford
House Nursing Home on Woodlands Lane, Horsehay near Coalmoor, Telford
between 1908 & 1948. In 1948 the company was purchased by
Coalmoor Refactories Ltd who produced refractory bricks for the
steel industry. In 1951 the company purchased the nearby Lightmoor
brickworks and in doing so transferred all production to the new
site. By 1980 the company employed around 150 staff at both the
quarry & works. The Lightmoor Works on Brick Kiln Bank,
Lightmoor was owned by Ibstock when it closed in 1992 and the site
now has houses built upon it. Allenite and Mossite are both trade names used by the company. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Cobridge Brick and Marl Co Ltd., was based on Leek Road produced common bricks
with a "Cobridge" logo moulded into the frog. They also produced
fire bricks to line kilns used in the pottery industry and
engineering bricks used in foundation works. They produced a large
range of hand made bricks to order. Marl was extract from the
adjoining marl hole and a second one behind the works in Sneyd
Street. They had a second production site on Scotia Road in Burslem
where they had a modern continuous oil fired kiln main common brick
production was based here with overflow production of commons in
Cobridge. Information by John Roberts.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Cochrane & Co Ltd operated the New Brancepeth Colliery in County Durham in the 1890s and probably for some years after that. Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
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Front and back of a Cocking brick, Clayton is the name of the
manufacturer of the brick making machinery.
Photographed near Newark by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Malcolm Holt.
Martyn Fretwell writes :- Thomas Cocking started his Walkeringham,
Notts. brickworks around 1876, producing red & white bricks
& red floor quarry tiles. Thomas was followed at this yard by
his sons and son-in-law, George Cooper. This works was sold
sometime in the 1940's and continued under new owners until it
closed in 1956. After the sale of the Walkeringham works, the
Cockings family then opened a new works at Balby, Doncaster &
bricks stamped Balby are also believed to be made by them. The
Balby works then became part of Yorkshire Amalgamated Brick Co. in
the 1960's. Photographed at Bassetlaw Museum, Retford by Martyn
Fretwell.
Alfred Coe is listed in Whites 1892 edition at Crown St, Ipswich, offices; works, Hadleigh. Kelly's 1900 edition records two works at Bromford & Hadleigh. Kelly's 1912 & 16 editions then record Alfred Coe, exors of, works Bromford. Kelly's 1925 edition records A. Coe Ltd. offices, 15, Crown St. Ipswich, but no works address. Coe was also a builder. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photographed at Cawarden Reclamation, Rugeley. Kelly's
1896 to 1908 Staffordshire editions records William James Collins
as brickmaker at Oaken, Albrighton, Wolverhampton. Photo &
Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Found in Wolverhampton and I suspect that this was made there by William Collins (see above) and his brother Samuel in the early 1890s. Photos by Dave Hodgkinson.
Alan Davies writes: The company had a colliery at Collins Green, near Bold, St Helens and also a brickworks in Burtonwood producing up to 10,000 bricks per day. Some were used in the construction of 154 working men's cottages in the village. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Possibly from a small brickyard that was on the south side of side of Summer's Lane close to Colney Hatch, Middlesex. It seems to have opened early 1890s and was gone by 1912. Photo by Lal Hardy.
Found in Tenby by Gary Davies.
Photo by John Morley. William Symons opened a brick yard in
1851. By 1859, Colthurst & Symons & Co were leading
brick makers in the area. By 1881 large numbers were employed, 85
by one manufacturer. The largest yard was the Crossway Brick
and Tile Works of Colthurst, Symons, and Co. By 1887 there
were three yards, Crossway, Fursland's Somerset Yard, and New
Yard. New Yard was held by William Symons in 1898.
Brick making in the area declined in the early 20th century. The partners are also listed in trade directories as running the Llanthony brick works at Gloucester.
Photo by Ian Williams.
Photo by Malcolm Holt.
The Colwich Brick & Tile Co. is listed in Kellys 1904 to 1940 editions at Colwich, Stafford. Established around 1900 the works closed in 1970. Photos of the derelict works at this link. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
There was just this one brick in the garden at Buckden Towers in Cambridgshire and the name isn't immediately obvious . Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
A chimney brick found at Neasham by Jo Crossley.
A decorated moulding, photo by Jo Crossley.
Commondale Brick Pipe & Pottery Co.Ltd., Commondale, North Yorks.
Commondale Brickworks was originally established in 1861 by John Pratt, a printer from Stokesley. In 1873 the works was purchased by John Crossley and his son Alfred. The Crossley family owned much of Commondale and continued to produce bricks in addition to high quality pottery products until the business closed in 1947.
Kelly's Directory N.& E Ridings of Yorkshire 1913 - "Crossley & Sons Ltd.: office & depot, Boundary Road, Middlebro' : branch depots Bridge Road, Stockton on Tees & Ormesby ; works Commondale & Grosmont."
Photo by Jo Crossley. The Crossley family, see later entry, used
the COMMONDALE name on some of their
products.
Made in Conisborough, South Yorkshire, Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photos.
Yorkshire Amalgamated Products, Ashfield Brickworks, Conisbrough, Doncaster. Ashfield Fire Clay Works on Clifton Hill In Conisbrough was founded by Thomas Henry Simpson in the 1850's. On his death in 1880 ownership was purchased by George Walker and Godfrey Edward Crawshaw of Doncaster and subsequently, on their deaths in around 1887, it passed to their sons Edward Crawshaw and Godfrey Walker. In 1920 Yorkshire Amalgamated Products Ltd of Doncaster, the owners of several other brickyards in Yorkshire purchased the business and production continued until closure in 1961. It seems that when clay deposits adjacent to the works were reaching exhaustion in around 1950 clay was shipped from their works in nearby Mexborough. For more information visit this site. Photos and info by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Consett Firebrick Company, Shotley Bridge, Newcastle on Tyne. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Consett Iron Co. Ltd., Consett, Co. Durham. This was a massive industrial concern producing steel, coal, coke and other related products from the mid 19th century until closure in 1980. The Company owned several brickworks including Delves on the outskirts of Consett, Garesfield and Templeton. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Found near Wolsingham. Photo by Marshall Rippon.
The name on this brick is unusually on the header end. Photo by Steven Tait.
Alfred Rankin Cook is listed as brickmaker at
Stratton St. Marys, Long Stratton & at Swainsthorpe, Norwich in Kellys 1896 & 1904 editions. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by David Sallery.
Photographed in Leeds.
Photos by Frank Lawson. J H Cookson & Son Ltd of Lofthouse, West Yorkshire.
John Cooper, Mill Lane, Blackburn, Lancs, is thought to have been in business c1865.
Kelly's 1854 edition lists J.K. & H. Cooper at East Street,
Maidenhead & Pinkney's Green, Berks. Then Kellys, 1887, 1899
& 1915 editions list the company as John Kinghorn Cooper &
Sons, Castle Hill & Pinkney's Green, Maidenhead. The Cooper's
owned the works between 1825 & 1955. More info at
this Link. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by David Kitching.
John Cooper, Kingsfield Brickworks, Newcastle-under-Lyme. He is listed in 1841 as a brick manufacturer at living at Hartshill, In 1851 he was emmploying 3 men and in 1861 the business was John Cooper & Son, King's Field, Shelton New Road, Newcastle. William Cooper his son is listed in 1861 as a master brick and tile maufacturer employing 15 men and 13 boys. The works was closed by 1871 and William Cooper had moved to Springfield Tileries by then. The works was reopened by Deane & Co by 1873. Photo by David Kitching.
Thomas Cope first appears as a brickmaker in the 1842 trade directory at Steels Nook, Longton and the business is listed as being run by his executors by 1864. In 1869 the works is listed as Holden Bridge Brickyard, Smallthorne and it is last mentioned in 1904. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Blue paver. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Ken Perkins records J. Cope & Son at the Midland Port Vale Tileries in 1878 & I have found that John Cope (blue metallic) is listed as brickmaker at Port Vale, Wolstanton Stoke on Trent & Smallthorne in Kelly's 1868 edition & then in the 1872 edition the listing is Norton in the Moors, Burslem & Wolstanton SOT. Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by David Kitching.
Found at St Lawrence, Jersey. Photo by Richard Watson.
Made by G Copp, Maufant, Jersey. The works operated from the 1890s to 1914. Photo by David Kitching, part of
the collection at Wheal
Martyn China Clay Museum.
Photo by Jonny East.
Coptrod Brickworks Ltd., Mellor Street, Rochdale. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
London Gazette July 1920:-
COPTROD BRICKWORKS Limited.
AT an Extraordinary General Meeting of the above named Company, duly convened, and held at Sparth Brickworks, Rochdale, on the 9th day of June, 1920, the following Resolutions were duly passed as Extraordinary Resolutions; and at a subsequent Extraordinary General Meeting of the
Members of the said Company, also duly convened,
and held at the same place on the 1st day of July, 1920, such Resolutions were duly confirmed as Special Resolutions, namely:—
1. " That the Coptrod Brickworks Limited be wound up voluntarily."
2. " That Charles Percival Menday, of Sparth Brickworks, Rochdale, Company Secretary is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up."
Dated this 2nd day of July, 1920.
THOMAS HOWARTH, Chairman.
Photo and info from Frank Lawson.
A Worcestershire brick, Simon Patterson photographed this one at Avoncroft Museum
Cordon Brothers, Gallows Inn Brickworks, Nottingham Road, Ilkeston. The Cordon Brothers had taken over the Gallows Inn brickworks from John Wilson in 1875 & ran it until 1882 when the works was put up For Sale. It appears it was not sold & the works was demolished. Photo & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by courtesy of the Richard Symonds collection.
Cornard Brick & Tile Co. Sudbury, Suffolk was in production
between 1919 & 1964. This example was made after 1945.
Full history of the works, page 4. http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/Downloads/bbs/bbs-43.pdf/at_download/file
Image of the washmill. http://www.sudburysuffolk.co.uk/photoarchive/viewimage.asp?id=670
. Info & Photographed at Bursledon Brick Museum by Martyn
Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
The Cornes works was on, Slippery Lane, Hanley, adjacent to the Shelton Colliery. By 1900 it was sharing the marl hole with the Sun Street Works to the south. In 1867 the works was operated by Richard B Clarke and Cornes only appears in the 1896 directory. By 1904 the firm was trading as C Cornes & Sons but in 1907 the works is listed as operated by the Hanley & Tunstall Fireclay Co Ltd. Photo and information by David Kitching.
Photo by John Morley.
BCM stands for British Commercial Monomarks, a company formed in 1925 to provide manufacturers with a London address and mail forwarding service. Photos by Frank Lawson.
Peter Harris writes: These were made by Coronet Brick co
ltd of Measham. They made both bricks and salt glazed
pipes They only made pipes in the later years They
closed about 1965 I do not think they were connected
to Redbank as they were on the other side of the Midland Railway
at Measham.
Martyn Fretwell adds; Coronet Brick and Terra Cotta Works was in
production by 1903 and was one of a trio of brickworks on
Atherstone Road. Redbank was on the opposite side of the
railway line and Measham Terra Cotta Co. was to the north, each
with its own adjoining clay pits. The company may have taken its
name from nearby Coronet House situated 150 meters from the
works.
Photo by David Kitching, part of the collection at Wheal Martyn China Clay
Museum.
Photo by Tatyana Martin.
With an entirely reversed stamp. Photo by Angel Rose.
Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Simon Patterson. Cottam Colliery, Barlborough was sunk in 1853 & was owned by Appleby & Co. then later by the Eckington Coal & Iron Co. The 1875 OS map shows the associated brickworks was next to Cottam No.2 pit, also known as Cottam "New Colliery". Both colliery & brickworks had disappeared by the 1899 map.
See also the entry for Barlboro.
The Cotton Hall Brick Company works was situated at Ingol to the northwest of Preston beside the Lancaster Canal.
Photos of the works can be found here.
Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Jason Stott.
The County Brick & Tile Co. at Rakehead, Stackstead, Lancs
went into liquidation on the 26th May 1900 after 13 years of
production & was owned by Thomas Ratcliffe. Seventeen years
after the disused brickworks had closed the 114ft chimney,
constructed with 90,000 bricks was pulled down. Info
by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photo by Simon Patterson.
Frank Lawson writes: I am confident that this brick was made by Coupe Brothers, Brickmakers who, according to several street directories, operated out of several addresses in Sheffield including Carlisle Street East & Sorby Street. Coupe Brothers (Bricks), 19 Carlisle Street East ; works, Eleanor Street, Attercliffe, Sheffield. Kelly's Sheffield Directory 1923 - 1935 .
Joseph Cowen & Co., Blaydon Burn Brickworks, Co Durham. Kelly's Durham Directory 1890. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Another Cowen brick has been found by Tom Ostrander along the path of the Seattle and Lake Shore Railroad at Issaquah Washington, the first rail line built out of Seattle and across the Cascade mountains. It was built in 1885-1887.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by Chris Graham.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Mark Bradley.
Photos by Frank Lawson
Photo taken at an old house in the village of Everton in North Nottinghamshire by Joe Jefferies.
John Cowling is first listed in White's 1853 edition as brickmaker at Walkeringham, Notts. John is then followed by his son William in the running of the works in 1861. This works consisted of two yards, one either side of the Chesterfield Canal. Kelly's Lincolnshire 1868 edition records William as him living at Crowgarth, Gainsborough & his works at Walkeringham, Notts. After William's early death in 1871 aged 35, his wife Maria ran the two yards until she sold them as two individual lots in 1880. The entry for Cowling & Co. appears in Kelly's 1876 Notts. edition.Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Coxlodge Colliery Fire Brick Works at Gosforth, Newcastle outlasted the collieries themselves by many years and from map evidence was open from before 1895 to after 1938. Photo and info by Ian Suddaby.
This brick was photographed by Dave McAnelly at the Coxlodge, Gosforth and District Social Club, on Jubilee Road, Coxlodge, Newcastle upon Tyne. It was part of a wall that was removed during refurbishment work and kept as a memento, the Club was purpose built and opened in June 1910. Thanks to Ken Roddam.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
This brick could have been made at the Congreaves Brickworks,
Cradley Heath owned by the British Iron Co. History of the
brickworks can be read at this link. Photo by Colin Wooldridge from the John
Cooksey Collection, with Info supplied by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Malcolm Holt.
Craig Brothers were a local builders firm, their yard was on Findon Hill, Sacriston, County Durham, where there is still a small row of 1930s semi-detached houses called 'Craigland Villas'. Craig's was a family firm, one of whose daughters, born in Sacriston, was the actress Wendy Craig. Photo by Chris Tilney.
Made at Cramlington colliery north of Newcastle on Tyne, photos by Tony Gray.
East Cramlington Brickworks - probably associated with Cramlington Colliery. Photo by Frank Lawson.
The Cranham Brick and Tile Company was established in 1900. In 1908 it became the Shenfield and Cranham Brick and Tile Co., Ltd employing 70 men. The clay eventually ran out and the works closed in 1920. Photo by Andy Grant.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Henry and William Crapper were running the Wisewood brickworks at Loxley by 1893, the business having previously been operated in partnership by Thomas Marshall and William Crapper at their Storrs Bridge Works in the Loxley Valley. Their works was severely damaged in the Sheffield Flood when the Dale Dyke Dam at Bradfield burst on the night of 11th / 12th March 1864. Their claim for damages for £1603 11s 2d was agreed at £1217.10s 0d. Later Thomas Marshall concentrated on the refractory brick side of the business at the Storrs Bridge works while the Crappers concentrated on the manufacture of house bricks at a works lower down the Loxley Valley at Wisewood. In 1901 the Crappers Brick Co. Ltd. was in existence but the deaths of the brothers led to the business being taken over by the Wisewood Brick Company around that time. Info from John Bramall.
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Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Ben Powell.
These bricks were the product of John Craven at the large Roundwood brickworks at Alverthorpe, Wakefield which opened in 1862. John Craven was the inventor of the stiff-plastic process and the owner of the first Hoffman kiln in Britain. The kiln was fired continuously until 1909. John Craven designed the brick-making machines and grinding pans. Thanks to Derek Barker for the information.
The Craven Brickworks, Cockshutts Lane, Wolverhampton was established by Joseph Onions after 1902 and prior to 1908 and was then run by Isaac Onions from 1912 to 1916. Photo by Duncan Russell.
Crescent Brick Co., George Holt manager, Bilston Road, Willenhall. Kelly’s Directory, 1900. Photo & info by Martyn Fretwell.
Crompton's brick and tile works was situated to the south of Croston Station in Lancashire and was well established by 1892. By 1910 the works was connected to the clay pit by an aerial ropeway. Production continued until at least the early 1970s when it was marked as a tile works on the OS map.
photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.
From the Liverpool area.
Found on the site of Cleckheaton Central station, probably made by the Crosland Coal Company, Webster Lane, Scholes, Cleckheaton. Listed 1877 to 1897, info and image PRBCO.
Photo by Linden Miller.
This brick was found and photographed in a fireplace at Holbeach, Lincolnshire, by David Spellane. The end of the brick is scribed W A 1832. My best stab at the brickyard where it was made is that it comes from the Cross Keys brick field, immediately on the east side of Sutton Bridge, a few miles to the east of Holbeach. The owners of the initials RS and also WA are unknown.
John Crossley, Stockton on Tees, Co. Durham. John Crossley was a retailer of building products from Stockton-on-Tees having also opened a builders merchants in Middlesbrough in 1858. Between 1871 and 1947 he operated several brickworks in the South Durham / North Yorkshire area including Commondale & Grosmont which produced many clay building products, as well as terracotta ware at Commondale.
Kelly's Directory N.& E Ridings of Yorkshire 1913 - "Crossley & Sons Ltd.: office & depot, Boundary Road, Middlesbro' : branch depots Bridge Road, Stockton on Tees & Ormesby ; works Commondale & Grosmont."
See also the entries for Commondale and Tudor.
Crossley, Middlesbro - photos by Simon Patterson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Jase Fox.
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Photo by Don Boldison.
Found on the beach at Saltburn by Jo Crossley.
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.
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
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Made near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
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.
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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.
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.
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. Photo by
John Bowes & Info by Martyn Fretwell.
Photos by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by courtesy of the Colin Driver collection.
Photo by Graham Brooks.
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.
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.
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.