| Some Northumberland Brick Manufacturers |
| All found within the old
parishes/chapelries of Warkworth, Shilbottle, Chevington, Acklington. see map |
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| Radcliffe (Produced at Amble
Brickworks) I've also found broken frogless 'Radcliffe' impressed bricks
which will be earlier, when I find a complete one it will be added here. |
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| The small remaining fragment of the old Amble Brickworks today (click to enlarge) |
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| The Amble Brickworks on the Quayside (map circa 1900) |
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| T. Blythe & Sons Birtley Station Brick & Tile Wks. 1894. This brick is still in situ in a wall located along the foot path near Straffen Court and the end of Middleton Street in Amble (the track of the old railway) and is the remains of a signal box. (ref. 2nd ed. 1897 ordnance survey) Why bricks from distant Birtley were used in preference to Radcliffe bricks which were being produced less than 500 yards away remains a mystery. |
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Hobnailed footprint in a brick in the same wall ! Obviously impressed
into the newly formed clay of a brick by a Birtley brick maker, probably in 1894. |
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| "A C", Ashington Colliery (or Ashington Coal Company Ltd.?) |
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| NCB Wallsend |
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| Broomhill (Broomhill Colliery Brickworks?) |
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| Pegswood |
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| NCB Pegswood (post 1947?) |
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| NCB Cramlington (post 1947?) |
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| Seghill |
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| Wallsend & Hebburn Coal Co. Ltd This brick and the next one appear to have been used in WW2 coastal defensive structures at Amble. |
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| Backworth |
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| Jones Bros, Pelaw |
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| Fosters Felling |
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| H. Carr & Co. - a mystery, found at Amble |
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| Hartley Main Colliery bricks, stuck to lumps of concrete in sea defence rubble south of Hauxley. |
| We suspect there will be many more, will add them as we find them! |
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