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OTTERHAM - From Otterham, Quay Lane, Upchurch in Kent. Also know as Four Gun Field. Bricks were made on the site from around 1850.

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PATENT - From the Nottingham Patent Brick Company in Mapperley 1866-1969.

The brickworks supplied most of the building material for the city of Nottingham as well as providing approximately 10 million bricks for the construction of St Pancras station in London.

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PICKYARD - Unknown

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PLUMB - Unknown

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POTTER - This is Addison Potter, one time owner of Throckley Colliery and Brickworks to the west of Newcastle. This example is more likely from Willington Quay on the Tyne, in the vicinity of the famous shipbuilding area of Wallsend. The works were established in 1846 and operated for approximately 35 years before the site was adapted for the production of cement.

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PRESTON GRANGE - Bricks were made at Preston Grange from the early 19th century. The works were expanded after 1872 and progressively mechanised and switched to using shale and fireclay.

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RADCLIFFE - The Radcliffe Coal Company was sited at Amble quayside, Northumberland  between 1875 - 1955. These bricks were produced at the on-site Amble Brickworks. 

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RAMSAY - 1835-1925. G.H. Ramsay and Co, Fire Brick Works Newcastle-on-Tyne.  The founder of this business, Mr. G Heppell, first established his brickworks at Derwenthaugh. Expansion plans were put in hand and the largest brickworks in the area were built, capable of completing 7 million bricks per annum. Clay used in the making of the bricks was transported from the colliery which was about 300 yards away.

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RAVENS WDI & Co - Dewsbury, Yorkshire.

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RAWYARDS GLASGOW - From the Rawyards brickworks in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. 1893-1940

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RBC - Produced by the Redheugh Brick Company on the banks of the River Team, a tributary of the Tyne, near Dunston on the outskirts of Gateshead. The company ceased trading around 1915, having been in existence for only some 35 years.

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J.H SANKEY CANNING TOWN - Based at Essex Wharf in Canning Town in Essex they were merchants and exporters of fine English Portland cement, lime, slates, bricks.  Established in 1857 they manufactured their products until 1964. 

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SAXON - Unknown

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MB SHERRIFF DUNBAR - From the Seafield Brick And Tile Works, Edinburgh Road, Dunbar. Late 19th century.

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SNEYD COLLIERY CO LTD BURSLEM - Sneyd colliery, Hanley 1887-1962. This is one of the oldest colliery sites in the district and throughout the years a forward looking management kept pace with modern trends in mining practice with the result that Sneyd colliery eventually became one of the most modern collieries in North Staffordshire.

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STANDARD - Originally opened by John Bates Gregory and associated with his nearby Mount Pleasant Colliery it became the Standard Buff & Glazed Brick Co. Specialising in hard cream coloured facing bricks. It ended its life making ceramic pipes and closed in 1969. At one time there were 25 brickworks in and around Buckley in Flintshire, North Wales.  Most of them stretched in an arc through the north end of the town and all were served, or connected by tramway, to the Buckley Railway.

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STEVENS - My namesake, however this is only half of the brick. Still it looks great on the mantlepiece.

No information as yet but hopefully if one of these comes out whole this one can be identified. 

** UPDATE **

16/07/13

Look what I found last weekend. Ironically my middle name is John so this is even more interesting for me. Still not much information on this chap. The brick is from the late 1800s to mid 1900s.

Just got to find a whole one now!

With a little bit of computer jiggery pokery I've been able to combine the 2 pieces to make a whole brick. Just got to find a real one now...

01/09/13

BINGO!!

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SUPERAXE – One of a series of refractory bricks produced at Stobswood near Morpeth, some 25 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne, by the Burn Fireclay Co. In production from the 1920's through to the early 1990's, this example would have an approx. 50/40 silica/alumina content together with a good dose of grog, and was designed to withstand temperatures up to 1750*C!

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SUSSEX BRICK ESTATES Co Ltd - The Keymer Brick & Tile Co, sold out in 1899 and the new owner, a London builder, formed The Sussex Brick Co. Ltd and in 1903 a new manager was appointed. Fresh capital was injected and the Sussex Brick & Estates Co Ltd formed. The new company bought a third continuous kiln into use and increased the output of pressed bricks to 12 million annually. In 1912 a steam excavator was brought 

into use in the claypit at Warnham.

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SWINDELL & COLLIS OLD HILL STAFFS - Mid 19th C. From the Iron district of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire. Swindell and Collis were coal masters and brick and tile manufacturers, Granville and Gorsty Hill Collieries, Old Hill.

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TOWNELEY COLLIERY - Towneley Colliery near Burnley was originally operated by Messrs Brooks and Pickup and later by the Towneley Coal & Fireclay Co Ltd. The site of these works was close to outcropping coal seams and to vast deposits of Accrington mudstone, the material out of which the finest bricks in the world were made. Sinking commenced in 1869 and it operated until 1947.

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TUNNEL - The Tunnel Brickworks, Cockett, Swansea, Glamorganshire.  The factory produced bricks form 1884-1914.