THE BRITISH BRICK SOCIETY
Old
bricks – history at your feet
David Sallery’s brick pages,
including brick stamps can be found at: http://www.penmorfa.com/bricks/index.html
The Porth Wen brickworks
operated c.1850 -1914. Three beehive kilns are still on site, but in
deteriorating condition. The raw material used had a high silica content and
produced bricks of great resistance to high temperature. The works produced a
great quantity of building bricks for use in construction at Liverpool docks.
County Museum at Llangefni has an aerial photograph of part of the works in a
display about local the north coast and mentions that the remains of the works
are scheduled for preservation: http://www.penmorfa.com/porthwen/
On its website, http://www.stanglpottery.org/
Stangl Pottery, Flemington, New Jersey, USA shows pictures of repairs carried
out on the brickwork of its bottle kilns
Nancy
Kroes has collected and annotated a series of family photographs that form an
intriguing record of production, equipment and buildings at this American
brickyard that operated from 1908 - 1923
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~kroes
Maurice Page:
There are articles on Handleys Brick at http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk and
then clicking onto the heritage section. There has also been a Handleys Brick
(which was the earlier family owners name) go-to box. Some of the articles are
already in the archive section.
E-mail your internet brick news to: sgnuk@yahoo.co.uk