"Old Bricks - history at your feet"

English bricks - page 9b, Letter: G

Gibbs to Gildenburgh

Gibbs Bros., Loughborough

Photo by Frank Lawson.

Report from the London Gazette dated 31st January 1911, that the partnership of William John Gibbs, Alfred Rendell Gibbs & Horace Rendell Gibbs, known as Gibbs Brothers, Brick & Tile Manufacturers & Building Merchants of Loughborough has been dissolved. 31st January 1911. Any debts due or owing by the said late firm will be received by William & Horace Gibbs, who are to carry on the same business under the same name of Gibbs Brothers. Photo and info by Martyn Fretwell.

Found in a garden in Derby by Mike Shaw.

Gibbs & Canning, Tamworth

Photo by Mike Stokes

The Gibbs & Canning terra cotta works was founded in 1847 at Glascote in Warwickshire. Until closure in the 1950s the company manufactured a wide range of terracotta and faience as well as bricks and drainage pipes. Photos by Ray Martin.

Gibson, Scotswood on Tyne

Photo at Beamish Museum by Cory Doctorow (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Photo by Chris Graham.

Photo by Steven Tait.

Photos by Chris Tilney.

Photos by Mark Cranston. The fish (salmon) impression on the back of the brick was only present on about 1% of the bricks.

Photos by Chris Tilney.

W C Gibson & Co Ltd, enamelled sink and firebrick manufacturer, Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne. Gibson was a firebrick manufacturer by 1871 and in 1881 employed 37 men and 14 boys. T C Gibson may well be William's father. The business is listed in trade directories from 1879 to 1914 when it was William Colville Gibson & Co Ltd, and some bricks were marked with a fish trademark. In 1902 Adams and Co took over W. C. Gibson and Co of Scotswood and moved the sanitaryware arm of the business to Scotswood. In 1903. A new company, Adamsez Ltd was incorporated, although W. C. Gibson continued to be operated separately until 1927.

G Gilbert

Made by George Gilbert at his father William's works at Rumer Hill, Cannock. Listings in Kelly's 1872 & 76 for W. Gilbert, Rumer Hill, Info by Martyn Fretwell, photo by Nigel Furniss.

W Gilbert

Photographed at Ludlow Resource Centre. Possibly by William Gilbert, Rumer Hill, Cannock, who is listed in the 1872 - 1880 Kelly's Staffordshire directories. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 27 February 1884. Bankruptcy of George Gilbert (trading as William Gilbert), Pakenham Road, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, Tividale Brick Works, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, and Rumer Hill, Cannock, Staffordshire, fire and blue brick manufacturer. Photo by Martyn Fretwell courtesy of Shropshire Museums.

Gildenburgh, Whittlesea

The Gildenburgh Brick Co. is listed in Kelly's 1906 & 1910 editions at 52, Narrow Bridge Street, Peterborough, (office). The works was situated on New Road in Whittlesey & was owned by LBC when it closed in 1945. Today the clay pit which has filled with water & in places is 70 ft. deep is the Gildenburgh Dive Centre. Info & Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Photos courtesy of the Bill Richardson collection at Southwick Hall by Martyn Fretwell.