Wigan Album
Bricks
5 CommentsPhoto: Rev David Long
Item #: 22855
Interesting. The view that you see is usually inside the wall, but if this is being used as a hearth I guess its OK.
Rev David; Have a look at:-
http://www.hindleygreenra.com/westlake.htm
Ah Hindley Green brickworks...I served my apprenticeship there. My dad did too.
Thanks for that link, Ernest. I wondered where the brickworks might have been. By coincidence, the new Vicarage for St John's Hindley Green backs onto the claypool.
What a lovely brick: shallow frog, with no sharp angles, and it has cleaned up very well!
Remember about Forty years ago, when The Tate Gallery paid thousands for a pile of these! (and they had far less character than this one.)
I lived in London at the time: a bin strike followed shortly afterwards, and apparently thousands of us packaged up our garbage and sent it to The Tate. They appealed on TV to ask folk to stop! The Tate Philistines! I think that action represented much more of an artistic statement than the piece the Tate bought!
Every now and again, I find a 'colliery-made' brick with name in the frog, that has migrated many miles from the coalfields: they certainly get around.