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Beamish
Museum
The back wall of this tram waiting shelter at
Beamish Museum in County Durham
is made almost entirely of named bricks from local brickmakers. There are
several hundred bricks in this wall, quite a few images of which are now
included in this website.
The Ruby
brickworks in Rhydymwyn near Mold, North Wales, was typical of its kind.
A small local industry supplying bricks to the local area. The photo
below shows the remains of one of its beehive kilns in 2004:
A disused brick and tile works
near Ironbridge
The chimney and end of the
Hoffman Kiln at Cemaes Bay brickworks
The preserved brickworks at
Prestongrange near Edinburgh
This is the still roofed Hoffman Kiln in Ilkeston Derbyshire, heavily wooded and hidden but a nice survivor with intact roof. This was Oakwell Brickworks and the site is listed. It can be found at SK460412, the quarry pit is next to it and there are also ruined buildings in the woods.
Some views of
the long disused works at Porth
Wen, Anglesey, North Wales.
This brick works is Park Hill at Wombwell
near Barnsley. It was operated by Oakland Bros from late 19thC into the
1960's. It is a Staffordshire type kiln. The adjacent claypit is now a fishing pond and the site inc chimney is scheduled for conservation.
Update: Due to the poor condition of the chimney it was demolished in May
2011.
The Castle
fire brick Co. Sentinel steam wagon
These vehicles were a common
site delivering bricks around North Wales until the late 1950's. This
preserved example paid a return visit to Buckley in August 2009, a youtube video
of it may be viewed here
Garrabost
Brickworks, Isle of Lewis
These are part of what's left of Garrabost brickworks on the
Isle of Lewis. The works are understood to have been built by Lord
Leverhulme when he owned the island in the 1920's. A Garrabost brick can
be seen here
Watnall
Brickworks chimneys
The remains of the four famous
chimneys following their
demolition in 2009, photo by Alan Murray-Rust.
The logo found on the overalls
of Butterley employees, photo by Simon Patterson.
Alan Murray-Rust paid a visit
to the William Blyth tileworks at Barton on Humber recently. This is a
view inside their kiln. The Normanton Brick Co. bricks are seconds which
are used to form the bagwalls in the kilns, apparently they are very hard and
much cheaper than firebricks.
This artistic piece was
photographed at a school in Llanfair Caereinion in Powys.
A postcard showing local
bricks issued by Summerlee
Museum near Glasgow
A view of the inside of a
disused Hoffman Kiln
The brick path illustrated is
at Catcliffe, South Yorkshire near to its famous preserved glass furnace cone.
The bricks are the products of the Rother Vale brick works, marked [RV] and G.
Robinson, Masborough. Thanks to Derek Barker for the contribution.
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