England 7

England - page 7

Letter: S

S & L

S & W, Newcastle

Sacriston

A small town in County Durham.

St. Johns Colliery

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. The colliery was in Normanton, West Yorks.

Salterwood

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Sandysike

Sandysike is a village north of Carlisle.

Sankey, London

Found on a Renfrewshire seashore by Ian Sinclair.

Sarn, Westbury, Salop

Saunders

Made in Chesterfield, thanks to Simon Patterson for the photos.

S. B. H. (Halifax Brick Co.)

In 1864 the Swan Bank Brick and Coal Company was formed in Halifax, West Yorkshire. By 1873 the company made an agreement to take 24 acres of both hard bed and soft bed coal under Marsh Farm but by 1875 the mine had closed. The Swan Bank Brick and Coal Company continued to make bricks at Bailey Hall Road, where they quarried shale. Halifax Brick Co was an association formed by: Morton's of Siddal, Swan Bank, Oates & Green, and Charlestown Bricks in the late 19th century. Photo and information by Derek Barker.

Scoby Scaur, Willington

This works was near Crook, County Durham.

Scotswood on Tyne

W. Scott, Choppington

Choppington is a village in Northumberland, situated a short distance south-east of Morpeth.

Scunthorpe Brick Co.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Found in New Barnetby, Lincs.

Seaton Burn Coal Co. Ltd.

Shafton, Barnsley

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Sharlston Colliery

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Sharlston colliery near Wakefield survived until the 1990's. At one time it employed 2,200 men.

Sharratt, Elland

Found in an 1880's house in Manchester by John T Pitman. Darrell Prest writes: this one is from Storth Works on the Rastrick/Elland border in West Yorkshire. The brickworks became D Sharrat in 1874 then D Sharrat & sons in 1905.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Photo by Darrell Prest

Shawforth, Rochdale

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Shaw's

This brick from its section actually looks more like a moulding from a column etc. but it's difficult to tell. Either way I believe it's come from the Shaw's of Darwen factory, which again is still extant today. From the Shaws website it says that they begin life as the Shaw's Glazed Brick Co in 1897, progressing into terracotta and faience goods as fortunes continued. Thanks to Tim Lawton.

Sheffield Brick Co.

Made by the Sheffield Brick Co., photo by Brickman

photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection. Sheffield Brick Company, had works in various sites around Sheffield; the dots represented sites, two dots is for the SBC brick works at Aizlewood Road.

Sheffield Patent Brick Co.

Photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Shipley

Wrose Brow brickworks was close to its neighbour - Wrose Hill at Windhill, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Latterly its products were marked [SHIPLEY][BRICK]. The works was in existence by 1881. The mapped brickworks contains a structure that does not appears to be a Hoffmann kiln. The Wrose Brow works was later (probably from 1888) owned by Thomas Sutcliffe of Shipley. A local contact said that she can remember the works being active in the early 1960s. The brick illustrated is probably a late product. Thanks to Derek Barker for the photos and information.

Shipley, Derby

Photo by Ian C

Photo supplied by A.K.A. Demik.

Shortridge

photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.

A. Sidey

J. Simpson

G. Skey & co.

Found in a railway cutting in Ripley by Ian C.

Skiers Spring, Hoyland

More information on the Skiers Spring area can be read on this website

Thanks to Ian C for the photo.

Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo.

Found on the foreshore at New Ferry, Wirral (which accounts for the mud!).

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. Skiers is spelt with a Y on this one.

Slater, Denby

Slater's brickworks in Denby, Derbyshire made this commemorative brick for George the Fifth's Jubilee in 1935.

Both photos by Ian C

Smart

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Smethurst Grimbies

Found near Poynton, Cheshire by Ian C.

Smethurst Lowside

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

E. Smith, Kenilworth

Ed Smith (never called Edward) was a Kenilworth builder with his own quarry and brickworks, Kenilworth's first mechanical brickworks, known to have had a "steam clay machine" in 1868. It left the Smith family around the time of WW1. Earliest year of producing 'named' bricks unknown but this sample comes from a building dating from 1895-1900. The brickworks site is now a tennis club. Thanks to Robin Leach for the photo and info.

Smithson Prudhoe

Snowballs Stourbridge

Snydale

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

South Elmsall

A village near Pontefract in Yorkshire

Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Southwater

Both photographed by Simon Patterson in Bexhill, made in Southwater, West Sussex by the Sussex and Dorking United Brick Co. of Horsham.

Spinkhill

Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.

Stafford C & I Co. Ltd.

The Stafford Coal & Iron Co. had collieries and brickworks in Stoke-on-Trent in the area close to where the Hem Heath Pit was later developed. The bricks are very common in the Potteries in several slightly differing designs of lettering and pressing. Thanks to David Kitching for the information.

Further information has come from Tim Lawton: The brickworks was in operation from at least 1900 as part of the Great Fenton Collieries & Ironworks complex. The colliery (renamed Stafford Colliery) closed in early 1969, but whether that meant the brickworks ceased production at the same time, I'm not sure. The bricks were certainly of a high quality, and are still very prevalent over North Staffordshire. The actual location of the brickworks is just across the access road to Stoke City's Britannia Stadium. The site has now been heavily redeveloped with nothing remaining to reveal it's previous use.