I cannot say definitively that James Chatham was one of the partners in this business although the 1871 census shows James Chatham, age 58, master brick maker employing 7 men and 3 boys. He was living at Mill Lane, Harborne, which is very close to the brickworks on Park Lane, whereas Tennal road is on the other side of Harborne. Photo by Rob Sutton.
George Green is listed as brickmaker at Mapperley, Nottingham in White's 1864 Notts. edition. Info & Photographed in Awsworth by Frank Lawson.
Henry Green was born in Liverpool and by 1851 was a brickmaker and beer seller at Kirkdale in Liverpool. After that area became built over he seems to have moved to Pemberton in Wigan where he took over the Bird i'th Hand pub in Newtown. In the 1861 and 1871 he is listed in the census as a brick maker and publican, Henry senior died in 1871 and in the 1881 census his son Henry is still living on ormskirk Road in Pemberton and is described as a Master Brick Maker employing 8 men, 2 boys and 2 women. By 1891 the brickworks seems to have been closed and Henry is a grocer.
Found at Ince-in-Makerfield, photo by David Kitching.
Found in Salford by Frank Lawson.
Found in Oldham and is likely to be from William Green's Bent Grange Brick Works, Lewis St, Oldham. He is recorded in 1881 as a Master Brickmaker employing 3 men and 2 boys. The business is recorded in trade directories from 1875 to 1889.
Green & Brough are listed as firebrick manufacturers at Felling Shore, Gateshead in 1856. Found by George in Co. Durham.
Photo by Chris Graham.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Greenhill Brickworks near Chilsworthy SX420717. Photo by David
Kitching, part of the collection at Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum.
Found in Cumbria by Chris Graham.
Photo by Jud Hirst
Found in Hollingworth by Frank Lawson.
John Greenwood (Brickworks) Co Ltd., Railway Street, Glossop & Mouslow, Dinting, Glossop. Kelly's Derbyshire Directory 1936 & 1941.
In the 1881 Kelly's Directory of Halifax the executors of 'George Greenwood' are brick-making at New Bank. By the time of the 1908 Trade Directory there is George Greenwood & Sons, Builders Merchants, of New Brunswick Street, Halifax. This company came to own: Beacon Hill Brick Works (formerly Oates & Green) and Swan Bank colliery and brickworks, together with several quarries. They were still active in the mid-1930s. Thanks to Derek Barker for the information.
Michael Hammett has supplied some info on this brick: This was more than likely made by J. Gregory & Sons Ltd, Ecclesall brickworks, Ecclesall road, Sheffield, Yorkshire - I have no record of exact period during which this firm was in operation, but it was established by 1877 and was closed by 1943.
White's Sheffield & Rotherham Directory 1905: - John Gregory& Son Ltd., Sheaf Brick Works : registered office, 623 Abbeydale Road : & Marriott Wood brick works, Millhouses & Ecclesall Road brick works, Sheffield.
Photos by Frank Lawson.
Benjamin Gregory - Mason, Bricklayer, Builder & Brickmaker, 145 Portobello Street & Duke Street, Park, Sheffield. White's Sheffield Directory 1852. Photo by Frank Lawson.
Made at Greyfield Colliery near Clutton, Somerset. The bricks originally just had CLUTTON impressed in the frog. The works subsequently had at least two other owners, one being Gregory, and the other was a builder from Timsbury by the name of Keeling, who also had his name added to the stamp. Photo and info by Mark Wilson.
The Church Gresley Fire Brick & Fire Clay Co. Ltd. is listed as being operational between 1920 & 1955. Photo by Tegan Blake.
Robert Grey, Grey's Brickworks, Wilfred Street, Byker, Newcastle. In 1891 he sold up his building business to concentrate on brickmaking. He died in 1907 and the plant, including five Newcastle kilns, was sold. Info by Mark Cranston, photo by Neal Barrass.