bricks

History of Selborne Brickworks Tower Brick & Tile Company Limited have been making handmade Selborne bricks and roof tiles at their site near Selborne since 1872. The company went into administration on 6th November 2009 and dissolved in August 2011. Selborne Bricks are made using traditional...

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A ganister (or sometimes gannister) is hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite, used in the manufacture of silica brick typically used to line furnaces. Ganisters are cemented with secondary silica and typically have a characteristic splintery fracture. You can check out all...

Henry Dennis founded the Hafod Brickworks in 1878 to capitalise on the reserves of Etruria Marl Clay found in the Ruabon area. Such was the popularity of its products - bricks, ridge tiles, chimney pots and the famous Ruabon quarry tile – it became known as the ‘Red Factory’. Partial visit due...

This is one I'd be meaning to do for a while. It's a fairly large active site, but with one big disused building that was the former 'Beare Green Factory'. It a tad underwhelming once I got inside as it was mostly used for storage and the only really interesting bit was the old kiln ovens...

History (Stolen from Coflein) Quarrying in Llanddulas was first recorded in 1696 although this was further to the east of what we now know as Llanddulas Quarry. The stone was used primarily for building material both locally and further afield, including Liverpool. Stone to be transported by...

tl;dr - Found access to a mine in the woods, it was small and a bit flooded, but still good… The History Ganister (or Gannister) was mined for its use in the manufacture of silica bricks (often called 'refractories'; materials that maintain strength at high temperatures), used to line...

P.D. Bricks L.T.D., Llandulas, North Wales – May 2017 As Always! I have a huge backlog of sites to get up! It’s been a slow old year, but myself and Mookster had a pretty successful North Wales trip back in May! P.D. Bricks operated this North Welsh Brick Production Facility until 2008; when...

I had heard heard there were tunnels at the site so I decided to stop off as I was working in Colwyn Bae and had already failed to climb onto the crumbling pier. I started walking up to the obvious tunnel at the top but there was a grinder going in one of the sheds so I made an executive...

Visited with @The Stig and @labrat Tower Brick & Tile Company Limited have been making handmade Selborne bricks and roof tiles at their site near Selborne since 1872. However, the company went into administration on 6 November 2009. Selborne Bricks are made using traditional methods from...

This was my very 1st explore I've done, and thanks to Stig & Auntie Knickers for inviting me along. The Selborne Brickworks was first opened in 1901 and extended later in life to it's current size. It was bought out by Tower Brick & Tile Co. and closed in 2009 as a result of the recession, when...