"Old Bricks - history at your feet"
Letter G
Garforth
Two West Yorkshire products. Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Gibbons
Gibbons (Dudley) Ltd, No. 1 Fireclay, thanks to Ken Perkins for the contribution. More information on Gibbons can be read here
Gibson, Scotswood on Tyne
Glastonbury Pottery
Thanks to John Biggs for the photo. John understands the works was on the Wells road and is now the site of St. Dunstands School.
Glebe
Glebe colliery and Brickworks was situated between King Street and Glebedale Road,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Image PRBCO.
Glenfield Premier Leicester
Photo by Martyn Fretwell, found in Sutton in Ashfield.
Glossop
Made in Glossop, Derbyshire
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Glossop, Ambergate
Spotted in Riddings, Derbyshire by Martyn Fretwell.
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Thanks to Darren Haywood for the photo.
Found in Darley Bridge, Derbyshire by Simon Patterson.
Grane
Made in Haslingden, Lancashire by the Grane Brick & Terracota Works. Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Great Fire
Great Fire is one of a collection of 50 British fire bricks found in the St Petersburg area by Vladimir N Smirnov. His British collection may be viewed here, the text is in Russian.
Green
Photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection, unknown maker - found near Ilkeston .
Green & Brough
Found by George in Co. Durham.
Greening
Greenwood Glossop
Both found in Penistone, Yorkshire.
Found near Guiseley. All photos by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection.
Greenwoods
Photo by Darrell Prest. 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.
Gregory
Thanks to Simon Patterson for the photo. 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.
photo courtesy of Graham Hague (Sheffield) collection.
Found by Bill Sheppard in his garden in Sheffield
Gringil
Found by Malcolm Smith on the Camerton Brickworks site near Workington, Cumbria
Grosmont
Both found in Whitby by Simon Patterson.
Guiseley
Photo by courtesy of the Frank Lawson collection. This brick and tile works, with an adjacent quarry, was located south of New Scarborough, Guiseley, West Yorks between 1893-1938. Although today the area is recognised as Yeadon brickworks SSSI, in 1938 it was called Guiseley brickworks. I feel quite sure that a single site has had two names. The Yeadon brickworks and quarry were owned by the Marshall family. In a 1908 Kelly's Directory the owners are given as Marshall & Gray Ltd. In addition to the [GUISELEY BRICKWORKS] mark that is illustrated above the company also used [M.MARSHALL][GUISELEY] and also [M&G]. Information by Derek Barker.
G.W.R
A Great Western Railway brick.
Photo by Simon Patterson who spotted it in Slapton, Devon.