I suspect that this is a product of Lumley brickworks. Photo by Mitch Richardson.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Fencehouses Brickworks Ltd., Fencehouses, Co.Durham. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Glebe Colliery was established by the mid nineteenth century and operated for around 100 years. From the 1860s it was operated by Challinor and Co and then by 1900, J Heath and Co. In 1919 it was in the hands of Fenton Collieries Ltd and continued to work into the nationalised era. It finally closed under the NCB in October 1964. The associated brickworks was situated a short distance to the south of the pit and had three round kilns in 1878. The brickworks was still in business in the 1930s, but had been levelled by 1953. Photo and info by David Kitching.
Photo by William Whitehead
The Glebe Pit was one of the Fenton Collieries. Image PRBCO.
Photo by David Kitching.
Photos by Ken Perkins.
James Wood ran the Fenton Tileries, Fenton Culvert in partnership
with Leonard Broughton Wood as a brick and tile manufacturer. The
business is first listed in the trade directory of 1875-76 and
James Wood was bankrupt
in May 1892. It appears that the site was owned by Messrs John
Challinor & Co Ltd, Glebe Colliery, Fenton, and there is
a memorandum of minutes re the application by William Hill and
others to take lease of Fenton Tileries
brickworks, 20 Feb 1893. Photo and information by David
Kitching.
Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by Greg Julian.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Steven Tait.
Photo by Richard Cornish.
Kelly's Durham Directory 1890: - Fire Brick Manufacturers Ferens & Love, Lanchester, Durham Ferens & Love, 28 Market Place ; works, Cornsay & Lanchester Collieries, Durham Cornsay colliery was opened in 1868 by Ferens and Love, who employed 700 men at the colliery and its associated drift mines. The company established a works alongside the colliery specifically for the manufacture of bricks and sanitary pipes using fire clay extracted from the mine. The brickworks operated for some time after the closure of the colliery in 1953. Photos and info by Frank Lawson.
Joseph and Sarah Love had one son, Isaac Pearson Love, who died in 1854, leaving an only child, Joseph Horatio Love, born in 1853, who subsequently lived at The Hawkhills near Easingwold, Yorkshire. Isaac Pearson Love's widow Sarah (née Stephinson) in ca.1857 married Robinson Ferens (died 1892), originally a draper of Durham City and Willington, County Durham. Robinson Ferens became a member of the Methodist New Connexion perhaps in ca.1857. After his marriage he was appointed manager of Joseph Love's collieries. He later joined with Love as a partner in developing new collieries and after Love's death in 1875 had sole direction of the collieries, becoming wealthy.
Found in the walls of a building at Lion Brickworks, Scalford. A possible source is Littleworth Tileries at Hednesford in Staffordshire. In 1876 this was William Field, Littleworth Works, Hednesford 1876. 1904 William Field, Littleworth Tileries. 1924 Field's Littleworth Tileries Limited. By 1928 the business was being operated by Itters Brick Co Ltd. The works is not listed in the 1940 trade directory.
Photo by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
William Finch is listed in Somerset trade directories for 1883 with a works at Sedgemoor and offices at Burnham-on-Sea. Found in Somerset and photo by Neil Bannell.
Made in Sacriston in County Durham. A local history (Rand &
Nairn, 'Memories of Sacriston', 2004) says it was made by the Findon
Hill Coal Company in and for a few years after 1873. Photo and info
by Ian Hunter.