C. B. C. - Cheshire Brick Co

C. C. - Crowborough

C C C Ltd - Crosland Coal company

C. C. C. C. - Cannock Chase Colliery Co.

C. R. - Charles Richardson

C. R. C. - Cannock & Rugeley Collieries

C X C - Clay Cross

G C & Co - George Chadwick

Cafferata

A company in Newark, Nottinghamshire, whose history may be read here.  Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo

Cakemore

Tony Mugridge has this info:  Cakemore was a Black Country brickmaker who specialised in Staffordshire blue bricks and pavers I have two in my collection - both pavers and Cakemore bricks were used for much of the bridgework architecture on the Grand Union Canal through South Staffordshire.

California

Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.  Tony Mugridge writes:  California Brick and Tile Works - Hollinswood (now Telford) The works was demolished in the early 1970's and part of Telford Town Centre occupies the site. The works produced red stock bricks and roofing tiles and it is believed that this was where the Blockley family had their works before they opened their brickworks at Trench (Telford) in the 1890's, where Blockley's Brick still operates (now part of Michelmersh Holdings, plc).

Camerton

Camerton Coal and Firebrick Company, Greengill Colliery brickworks, Camerton, Cumbria. Sited 6km ENE of Workington. Site operated late 19th century to 1950s - Angus Glasgow. Image PRBCO.

This one is spelt Camrton, found by Malcolm Smith by the River Derwent

Cannock & Rugeley Collieries

Photo and information by David Kitching.

Candy

Believed to have been made by Candy Tiles in Heathfield, Newton Abbot, thanks to Chris Williamson for the photo.

Cannock Chase Colliery Co.

Photo and information by David Kitching.

Cannon St, Hanley

Photo and information by David Kitching.

Capel

Probably made at the Auclaye brickworks, Capel, Surrey.  Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

Carlton

The Carleton Brick Co., Carleton, Pontefract is listed in Kelly 1897 / 1901. West Yorkshire. Image PRBCO.

Carlton Main

Another company still in business today, located near Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

G Carr

Made by George Carr, listed at 3 addresses in Attercliffe Road area of Sheffield between 1875 and 1904.  Info and image PRBCO

Made at Scotswood between 1828 and 1881 found in an exposed culvert on the Lanchester Valley railway walk about 8 miles west of Durham.  Photo by Gordon Hull. 

Photo and information by David Kitching.

Castleford

Thanks to Simon Patterson for the above photo.

Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Catchpole & Co., Rotherham

Found near Rotherham by Bob Gellatly

Cattybrook, Bristol

Thanks to John Biggs for the photo, found in the remains of Southmead Manor, Bristol.

Believed to have been made in Pocklington, near York at the Burnby Lane works.  Thanks to Andrew Boyce for the photo, further info on the Pocklington brick industry can be read here.

Central, Whittlesea

Whittlesea was an important brick making area east of Peterborough.  The Central Brickworks Whittlesea was acquired by the National Coal Board in 1966.  It was sold in 1973 to the London Brick Co by N. C. B. Ancillaries.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Challans, Grantham

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, found at Barkston near Grantham.

From Whites Directory, 1882

This brick was manufactured by the Chamber Colliery Limited, which operated a coal mine in the Hollinwood area of Oldham from the late 1850s. The company added a 16-chamber Hoffmann-type continuous brick kiln to the colliery site during the 1880s. It is uncertain when the company ceased manufacturing bricks, although the kiln is marked ‘disused’ on the Ordnance Survey map of 1922. The brick was discovered on the site of the brickworks during its redevelopment. Photo and information by Ian Miller.

Chamberlain

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Charlaw

A Charlaw brick.  The Charlaw and Sacriston Collieries Co. Ltd ran mines in the Sacriston area of Co. Durham. See this website.  Photo and info by Andrew Gardner.

Charles Richardson

Found in Derbyshire by Martyn Fretwell. Martyn thinks that that CR could be Charles Richardson of Vauxhall, London, His brickfield was at Teynham, Kent and his cement works at nearby Conyer. He owned wharves at Vauxhall and Conyer, using his own barges to transport his goods. His bricks were stamped CR. In the early 1880's he joined forces with John Francis Eastwood and four others to form Eastwoods Co. Ltd. supplying bricks to London, Kent and Essex by barge. An ever expanding Eastwoods went on to own many brickworks in Eastern and South-Eastern Counties of England including making Fletton bricks at Peterborough. See entry for Eastwoods. Photo by Martyn Fretwell.

T. Charlton & Co.

T. Charlton & Co owned a number of mines. This one was found near coke ovens at East Howle in County Durham.  Thanks to Paul Harman for the information and photo.

Charnwood

Thanks to Darren Haywood for the contribution.

Chellaston near Derby 

Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.

Cherry Orchard

The works became the Cherry Orchard brickworks possibly as early as mid-1889, and it became Kenilworth's last brickworks, closing in 1977.  Date of this brick uncertain, but it came from a building put up in the late 19th century.  Thanks to Robin Leach for the photo and info.

Robin writes: frustratingly, I have yet to find the years that the works operated under this fuller title, nor did I record where I got the brick from.  The pit at the works was in use as a tip even in pre WW1 days and since closure became a full scale pit-filling operation. Today, with the pit filled and grassed over, it is a 're-cycling centre' and all the rubbish is taken from there to elsewhere.

Simon Patterson photographed this one at Avoncroft Museum

Cheshire Brick Co.

Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.  The works was in Stockport.

Churwell - (A Rodgers)

Churwell Brick Co., Leeds. Site operated by Fitton Bros. in 1904, as Churwell Brick Company 1938 and by A. Rodgers in 1956. Site cleared c2000. Image PRBCO.

Cinder Hills

Cinderhill Brick Works was operated by Joseph Morton at Siddal Hall Lake in 1857 ( Kelly's Directory ). It was still operating in 1927 ... and beyond. Images PRBCO.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.  Made at the Cinder Hills Brickworks near Halifax.

City Brick

Spotted in Horsforth, Leeds by Thomas Ackroyd.

Photo by Mark Harriman who thinks the city brickworks were in Harehills, Leeds just behind Hillcrest house and the Brown Hare pub. What we think was the works can still be seen today. 

Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo

Clarkson

Photo and information by David Kitching.

C.J.S & C

Found by Simon Patterson near Barrow Hill, Derbys.

Claughton Manor Brick Co. Caton

The Claughton Manor Brick Company was one of a number of brickworks near Lancaster.
 The works is operated by Hanson plc and was 'mothballed' in April 2010 because of a downturn in orders.

The brickworks is also served by the last aerial ropeway in Britain.  Follow this link to see some of my photos of it.

J W Clay

Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, found near Ilkeston.

Made by the famous Clay Cross Company in Derbyshire.  Photos by Simon Patterson.

Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Clayton

Found near Papplewick pumping station in Notts. by Alan Murray-Rust.  Claytons made brick making machinery and examples have been found where the other side of the brick has the actual brick makers name on it.

Jason Montgomery found this example in Sydney, Australia

Cliff & sons, Wortley, Leeds

The above was spotted in the ruins of Penrhyn Quarry hospital by Gwyn.

In the mid-nineteenth century there was a brickworks in Wortley, Leeds which was founded by Joseph Cliff (1806-79). This company was known as Joseph Cliff & Sons and it also owned a brickworks in Dick Lane, Tyersal and the Shipley Fireclay Company, both in the Bradford area. In 1861 Joseph Cliff's daughter, Emily Christiana, married James Kitson (later Lord Airedale) a famous Leeds ironmaster and locomotive builder. Some years after Joseph Cliff's death the organization he had created became part of the well-known Leeds Fireclay Company. Thanks to Derek Barker for the information.

Photographed on the seashore at Crosby, Merseyside.

Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.

Found at the Surrey Docks farm, London by Germander Speedwell.

Clifton

Clive Bros. Sandyford

Photo and information by David Kitching.

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