THE BRITISH BRICK SOCIETY

WEBSITE LINKS

• All Archaeology.com – Archaeology directories
• Archaeological Ceramic Building Materials Group - For those involved in reporting on brick and tile from archaeological excavations
• Avoncroft Museum of Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK

· The Brick Directory - Contacts with every brick manufacturer in the UK and Ireland as well as brick merchants and factors, brick services companies, builders merchants and roof tile manufacturers.

• Brick and Tile Noticeboard - Details about brick and tile events
• Brick Development Association - Represents the interests of UK and Irish manufacturers of clay and calcium silcate bricks and clay pavers. Has list of links to manufacturer's websites.
• Brickmakers Index - UK - By David Cufley
• Historic Tile Co and European Reclamations - Has Online 'Museum of Medieval Tile'

· Kenilworth's Last Brickworks – book by Derek Billings. Published in Kenilworth in April 2005, the 24 page booklet contains a collection of black and white photographs taken by Derek Billings about a month after the Cherry Orchard Brickworks closed in June 1977

• The Official Calendar Tile Page - These tiles were made from 1879 until 1929 for the Jones, McDuffee and Stratton company doing business at 33 Franklin St, Boston, MA, USA
• Old bricks - history at your feet – David Sallery’s brick pages including brick stamps
• Porthwen Bricks - The Porth Wen brickworks operated c.1850 -1914.

· Somerset Brick and Tile Museum, East Quay, Bridgwater, Somerset, UK

· Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society

· Tiles on the Web - Extensive website by Tom Colson

• Weald and Downland Open Air Museum - At Singleton, Chichester, West Sussex, UK. They also run useful brick and tile courses – see the links on their website

• The WWW Tile Image Gallery - Virtual gallery of tile images, also a web resource with useful links to other tile web pages
• www.ukbookworld.com/ - Britain’s major internet site helping members of literary and historical societies find old and out-of-print books for sale in Britain in their own subject-area of interest. You can search under, eg. bricks, brickwork, brickyards, brickmakers, etc.
• Zsolnay Tile Museum - The Zsolnay factory was a leader in industrial ceramics production throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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