Benjamin Jones found this brick embedded in a dirt track at Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire. J Giles is listed as a brick manufacturer at Hartlebury in Kelly's Worcestershire Directory for 1870.
Kelly's West Yorkshire Directory, 1881, Jonathan Gill, Elmley, Wakefield. Found in Wakefield. Photo by David McNicholas.
Gillhead Co Ltd, Flimby, Cumberland. Found by David Ashford in Maryport.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Photo by Richard Cornish.
In 1867 a colliery was sunk at Gill Head, Flimby by Messrs Lucock & Carlton to produce coal, fireclay and gannister. The Whitehaven News for 18th January 1872 carries an advert "Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks for sale, apply Mrs. Lucock, Broughton Moor". Again, in January 1876, "FOR SALE by private treaty; Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks near Flimby, in use by representatives of the late Mr. Joseph Lucock". In 1878 a partnership between Mary Lucock and Henry Graves, as Coal Owners and Brick and Tile Manufacturers, at Gill Head, in the parish of Flimby, was dissolved with Henry Graves continuing the business in his own name. The business became the Gillhead Coal & Firebrick Co. in 1897.
The Post Office Directory of Cumberland & Westmorland 1873: -
Firebrick Manufacturers, Mrs Mary Lucock, Gillhead, Flimby &
Broughton Moor, Maryport.
Kelly's Directory of Cumberland 1894: - Firebrick Manufacturers:
Cumberland Coal & Brick Syndicate Ltd., Graves Road, Gill Head,
Flimby, Maryport.
Photo by Eric Taylor.
Bricks stamped GILT seem to be modern Wienerberger products. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.
Found near Blisworth by Nigel Furniss.
Photo by Clayton Woods.
Photo by David Kitching.
The ganister for these silica bricks came from W H Girling & Son at their Byerley House Quarry, 3 miles SE of Rowley Station in County Durham. The brickworks was at Beechburn near Crook. In 1909 the business became W H Girling and Co Ltd with a capital of £10,000 in £1 shares. The company was said to be a silica, ganister and magnasite brick and lump manufacturer, and brick, tile and pipe manufacturer. Photo and info by Ian Suddaby.
Edward Gittins, Wakefield Road, Bowling, Bradford. The Bradford 1856 directory records that Edward Gittins had arrived from Leicester and was advertising his new patent-brick works at the junction of Wakefield Road and New Hey Road. Info from Derek Barker at Bradford Local Studies.
John Biggs understands the works was on the Wells road and is now the site of St. Dunstan's School. Photo by Tim Sayers.
The London Gazette, 29 June, 1923. Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Herbert Edwin Berry, of Selby, in the county of York, Coal Merchant, Charles Neaverson, of Peakirk, Peterborough, in the county of Northampton, brickmaker, and Thomas Hurst Pearson, of Selby aforesaid, Brickmaker, carrying on business as Brick and Tile Makers, at Selby aforesaid, under the style or firm of the GLAZED FAIENCE & BRICK COMPANY, has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three. - Dated this 19th day of June, 1923.
The works was situated to the east of the railway where it crossed the Selby Canal a short distance to the south of the town. It does not appear on the 1892 map but the 1908 OS map shows the works with a tramway to a wharf on the canal. There is also a Hoffmann type kiln shown. In 1838 it is shown as Selby Brick & Tile Works. The buildings are still extant on mid-1960s maps but the kiln seems to have been demolished by the early 1970s.
Photo and info by Tony Gray.
The Glenfield Premier Brick & Terra Cotta Co Ltd. The Company was registered in 1898 and dissolved by 1932. It was located approximately half a mile west of Glenfield, Leics, with a siding from the LMS West Bridge railway line. The site is now occupied by an industrial estate. Photo and info by Ray Martin.
Photo by Frank Lawson.
Photos by Chris Tilney.
Photo by David Kitching.
Glodwick Coal & Fireclay Co Ltd., Glodwick, Oldham, Lancs - Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory 1896. Photos by Frank Lawson.
Found on Besom Hill near Oldham, itself a site of several
brickworks at one time. Photo by Colin Driver.
Made in Glossop, Derbyshire
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Spotted in Riddings, Derbyshire by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.
Found in Darley Bridge, Derbyshire by Simon Patterson.