Letter F
Farnley Iron
Photo by Darrell Prest.
Farnley Iron Works was founded in 1846. Farnley Iron Works produced more bricks than iron a
This wonderful glazed brick was discovered during the renovation of Carnforth station in Lancashire. Stephanie writes: When renovation work was being carried out by builders in the Furness and Midland Hall, they found one of the bricks was loose, high up on one of the walls, and on pulling it out and turning it round they found the other side was ceramic and ornately inscribed with the words "Farnley Iron Co Ltd Farnley, Leeds. This hadn't been seen, since it was built in the 1890's.
Photo by Derek Barker
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, this one is a double bull nose and is glazed.
Found by Martyn Fretwell in an old school in Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts. This is a glazed brick used in the school corridors.
Simon Patterson photographed this example in an old school at Brampton, Chesterfield.
Fenay Bridge
Made in Huddersfield. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Fenton Collieries
A Potteries brick, this company became part of the Stafford Coal & Iron Co. See the later entry under this name
Ferens and Love
The company owned Cornsay Colliery in Co. Durham which produced superb fireclay as a by-product. A large brickworks was set up beside the mine. Thanks to Andrew Gardner for the photo and information.
Fitton, Dewsbury
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Fitton's Brick and Tile Co., Pildacre, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Listed in Robinson 1904. Located between Dewsbury and Ossett. Image PRBCO.
Fletcher, Great Lever
Great Lever is a district of Bolton, 2km south of the town centre. Image PRBCO.
Fletton
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photos. Flettons were based near Peterborough and ceased production in 1970.
Ford
Forest, Walsall
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Foster
Photographed in Staveley by Simon Patterson
Foster Crown, thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.
Fosters Brick, Felling
Felling is a district of Gateshead. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
A Foster firebrick, thanks to George Simpson for the photo.
Frisby, Tardebigge
Simon Patterson photographed this one at Avoncroft Museum
Furness, Askham in Furness
Askam-in-Furness is located 8km north of Barrow-in-Furness. Brickworks aside Barrow to Millom railway line. Still operative 2010. Image PRBCO.
Furness, Barrow
Furness Brick and Tile Co., Barrow-in-Furness operated c1898 - 1972 - Angus Glasgow. Image PRBCO.
Furn-Axe
Thanks to George Simpson for the photo.
Fyfe
Mr John Rhodes Fyfe started 'Shipley Firebrick Works' (later called the Sanitary Tube and Brick Works) at the Shipley end of Heaton Woods, Bradford around 1875. The works continued in operation for about 50 years. As well as refractory fire bricks for furnaces, his works made household bricks, salt-glazed sinks, animal troughs and chimney pots. Coal pits and a quarry site were associated with the brick-works. I have seen both [FYFE] and [SHIPLEY] brick-marks on opposite sides of a double frogged, pressed, fire-brick. Another brickmark used was [J R FYFE & Co][SHIPLEY]. A plan of the works dating to 1877 survives in the West Yorkshire Archives. The works with its beehive kilns is mapped on the OS 1890-91 which also shows the old coal pit on site. This seems to have been abandoned by the 1908 OS map to be replaced by a drift mine under an adjacent hillside with the products reaching the works by means of a short tramway; after this there seems to have been a second drift with an entrance in the quarry north of the site. The works have been demolished by the time of the 1934 OS revision. Thanks to Derek Barker for photos and information.
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