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Hand made brick

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:28:02 +0000

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Charnwood Forest Brick Ltd is a component of Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC. The Company produced approximately 3 million facing bricks and special shaped bricks per annum from its manufacturing base at Shepshed, near Loughborough. Hand made facing bricks are here being manufactured and placed on rail trollies to go to the dryer before firing.

Brick production ended here in 2023 and the works then concentrated on Hathern Terracotta wares & FabSpeed pre-fabricated brick components. The remaining business has now been sold to Shaws of Darwen and the works is to be closed.

Robots

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:27:56 +0000

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Robots setting green bricks onto the kiln car at the Ibstock Chesterton brickworks. This image is featured in the recent book The Brick and Tile Industries of the Staffordshire Potteries. www.brocross.com/Bricks/Penmorfa/Book/book.htm

Balmoral House

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:16:16 +0000

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This building on Granby Street in Leicester dates from 1873. The upper storeys incorporate decoration in brick and stone with the buiding name in tiles. Sadly the street level has been greatly changed by a fast food takeaway business.

Wheatly's

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:55:56 +0000

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Wheatly & Co Ltd. Springfield tileries, Trent Vale. Wheatly's was established before 1819 and was famous for its 'Triton' brand roofing tiles. In 1978 the company was taken over by Daniel Platt Ltd of Brownhills Tileries in Stoke, then in 1982 works was closed and demolished soon afterwards.

Restaurant and Grill Room

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:38:27 +0000

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The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway provided extensive opportunities for eating and drinking at Manchester Victoria Station. The glazed brick and terracotta with mosaic decoration and lettering still invites customers to the restaurant and bar. It dates from 1909 and is listed Grade II.

Station entrance

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:45:35 +0000

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Glazed brick predominates in the entrance to the railway station at Leicester. This is part of the station rebuilding works to the design of Charles Trubshaw that were completed in 1895.

St. Elisabeth's

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:22:05 +0000

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St. Elisabeth's Church is an Anglo Catholic church in Reddish, Stockport. Local mill-owner Sir William Houldsworth commissioned Alfred Waterhouse in the 1870s. Construction took place between 1881 and 1883, paid for entirely by Houldsworth, with consecration on 4 August 1883 by Bishop James Fraser. The church could hold 750 people and was named after Houldsworth's wife. Described by Pevsner as "a superb job, big-boned, with nothing mean outside or in", the church is of Openshaw brick with Wrexham stone dressings. The almost separate belltower contains eight bells cast by Taylor. The granite columns of the nave were brought to Reddish by narrowboat, and transported from the canal wharf at the mill by carts drawn by elephants borrowed from Belle Vue Zoo! It is listed grade I.

Refractory production

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:17:10 +0000

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Press and moulding bench at the Vulcan Refractories Ltd., factory at Cheadle. The works manufactures a comprehensive range of high performance refractory shapes and infra-red heaters.

Storm King

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:12:03 +0000

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Fletchers 'Storm King' ventilator at the Bee Hive Mills, Great Lever, Bolton. Many brickworks made a wide range of clay products beyond common bricks and this is just one example. Sadly this is now gone as one of the mills burned down and all has been demolished and replaced with houses.

Walleys

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 06:54:54 +0000

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Buildings at the Rosemary Hill Tileries on Cemetery Road, Silverdale. The was a brickworks operating on this site from before 1841 when it was occupied by William Brough. John Nash Peake took on the yard in 1875 and then Walley and Alsop making tiles in 1921. From 1926 to 1975 it was T E Walley and then G H Downing Ltd until sold to Steetley brick in 1981. A year later Steetley closed the works and transferred production to Knutton Tileries nearby. The marl hole continued in use to supply other works until after 2006 when it became a landfill with significant subsequent problems for the locals due to smells.

Pan Mill

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:54:44 +0000

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Clay preparation at the Shepshed works of Charnwood Forest Brick Ltd which is a component of Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC. The Company was producing approximately 3 million facing bricks and special shaped bricks per annum.

Showcase

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:09:26 +0000

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Decorative brickwork on the outside of the Ibstock Parkhouse brickworks in Newcastle-under-Lyme. A good way to showcase the product.

12 Hanover Street

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:28:32 +0000

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This extraordinary building curves around into Duke Street close to the centre of Liverpool. It was built in 1889-90 to the designs of Edmund Kirby and originally formed the offices and warehousing for Ellis & Co who were shipowners. The terracotta work was produced by the Ruabon Brick and Terra Cotta Company.

Kiln cars

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:21:02 +0000

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Kiln cars at the Vulcan Refractories Ltd. factory at Cheadle. The works manufactures a comprehensive range of high performance refractory shapes and infra-red heaters. The goods for firing are placed within these structures before placing in the kiln.

Dryers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:16:54 +0000

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Doors on a row of dryers at the Vulcan Refractories Ltd. factory at Cheadle. The works manufactures a comprehensive range of high performance refractory shapes and infra-red heaters. The green products spend some time in these before progressing to the kilns.

Brick Press

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:41:13 +0000

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Press and bench for preparing moulds at the Vulcan Refractories Ltd. factory at Cheadle. The works manufactures a comprehensive range of high performance refractory shapes and infra-red heaters. Some of the green product can be seen on the left.

Presses

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:45:53 +0000

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Two presses for the production of larger refractory items at the factory of Vulcan Refractories Ltd. The business was established in 1969 in Cheadle, Staffordshire, and manufactures a comprehensive range of high performance refractory shapes and infra-red heaters.

Refractory blocks

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 06:43:58 +0000

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Inside the DSF refractories works at Friden, Derbyshire. In this view can be seen two small gas-fired kilns and a large number of special firebrick shapes for industrial use. Many of these blocks are used in the glass industry.

Furness Brick Co

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:37:51 +0000

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The Furness Brick & Tile Co Ltd has been established for over 145 years and remains a family owned business. The works can manufacture a vast range of standard and bespoke bricks to order. The transverse-arch continuous kiln has twenty chambers and is coal-fired.

Brick kilns

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 05:47:30 +0000

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A pair of downdraught kilns at a brickworks at Qiaotou near Nanpiao. This is the only place where I have seen kilns built with a stone outer structure.