Photo by Michael Hodgson.
Acme tiles were manufactured by G H Downing & Co Ltd at their various works in North Staffordshire. The Robur tiles were made at the Brownhills Works in Tunstall. Photos by David Kitching.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Photos by Ian Suddaby.
George Armitage & Sons Ltd., Robin Hood, Lofthouse, Wakefield. The history of the company has been traced back to 1824 when stonemason John Armitage joined fellow masons to work a quarry at Robin Hood. In 1864 one of his sons established the firm of George Armitage and Sons, also at Robin Hood, and expanded into brick and tile making by exploiting the blue shale or marl which was found along with the sandstone. The Company expanded to open several brickmaking sites around the Leeds and Wakefield area including Woodlesford, Lofthouse, Morley & Swillington. In 1988 the brickmaking business was sold to Marshalls of Halifax and from them it passed to the Hanson Group. Photo by Chris Shaw.
Diamond Clay Co Ltd, Hartshill Tileries, Stoke-on-Trent. Tile manufacture here ended c1958 when the business seems to have transitioned to supplying kiln furniture to the pottery industry. Photo by Gordon Howle.
Dreadnought tiles are made by Hinton Perry & Davenhill Ltd., Dreadnought Works, Dreadnought Road, Pensnett, Brierley Hill, a site that has been in continuous production since 1805. The business is associated with Ketley Brick Ltd. which produces brick at the same site. The numbers on the tiles are the angle of the curve of the tile in degrees.
Golden Vale Tileries at Chatterley, Stoke-on-Trent, was opened in 1934 by John Bentley, formerly manager at Keele Tileries. The works continued until the early 1970s. In 1979 the plant and remaining stock was sold off. This included tiles and drain pipes, hand made bricks, chimney pots, 9 kilns and heavy tile making plant. Photo by Ken Perkins.
Hawkins Colliery was also known as Cannock Old Coppice Colliery and commenced working c1840. Joseph Hawkins took on the lease in 1869 and the colliery remained under the control of the Hawkins family until nationalisation in 1947. The company also operated a brick and tile works with adjacent clay pit at Longhouse, adjacent to the Wyrley and Essington Canal. By the 1920s Henry Hawkins was advertising a wide range of products from the Longhouse Brick & Tile Works, Cannock. About 7 million bricks were made annually using clay mixed with mining spoil. The works continued in Hawkins' ownership after the colliery was nationalised and remains in production today under the Eternit name. Photo by Phil Burgoyne, info by David Kitching.
I think that this is a product of one of the tile works in North Lincolnshire on the south bank of the Humber. Photo by Jim Stevens.
The star stamp indicates that this is a product of the Star Works, Knowl Hill, between Twyford and Maidenhead, formerly owned by H F Warner and Company. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Made by John Doughty & Son in the Broseley & Jackfield areas of Shropshire. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
New Rose Vale Brick & Tile Company was established in Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme around 1869. In 1935 the business was merged into United Tile Manufacturers Company Limited, and from 1952 until the 1980s was Rose Vale Roofing Tiles & Brick Co. Ltd. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
Pantile from the Oldbury-on-Severn brick and tile works which operated in the 1870s and 80s and was closed by 1902. Photo by Eric Taylor.
The Ridge Hill Brick and Tile Co works was in Madeley, Staffordshire. First mentioned in 1848 when it was operated by John Kennerley a local farmer. The business operated under the same name until just before 1912 when it changed to Brick & Tile Workers Ltd. The site is still in use by Marley-Eternit producing hand and machine made clay tiles. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
In 1876 the business was listed as George Warburton Lewis, Rosemary Hill, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall. Later it bexame G W Lewis Tileries Ltd., Rosemary Brick & Tile Works & Walkmill Tileries, Cannock, Staffs. This was followed by Rosemary Brick and Tile Co Ltd. of Rosemary, Coppice Lane, Cannock, Staffordshire. Manufacturers of clay products (bricks and roofing tiles). In 1984 Redland acquired the company. Photo by David Kitching.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Ian Suddaby.
Photo by Chris Tilney.
Photo by Phil Burgoyne.
George Tucker & Son, Park Road, Loughborough, Leics. Photo by Phil Burgoyne.