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  2. London stock brick - Wikipedia

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    London stock brick is the type of handmade brick which was used for the majority of building work in London and South East England until the increase in the use of Flettons and other machine-made bricks in the early 20th century. Its distinctive yellow colour is due to the addition of chalk. Another important admixture is 'spanish', which is ...

  3. London Brick Company - Wikipedia

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    The London Brick Company owes its origins to John Cathles Hill, a developer-architect who built houses in London and Peterborough. In 1889, Hill bought the small T.W. Hardy & Sons brickyard at Fletton in Peterborough, and the business was incorporated as the London Brick Company in 1900. [1] ". Fletton" is the generic name given to bricks made ...

  4. York Handmade Brick Company - Wikipedia

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    The York Handmade Brick Company is a specialist brickmaker based in the village of Alne, North Yorkshire, England.The company was founded in 1988 from a previous brickmaking venture on the same site and has won many awards for projects that its bricks have been used in, and has supplied bricks for several notable buildings throughout the United Kingdom.

  5. Staffordshire blue brick - Wikipedia

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    Staffordshire blue brick is a strong type of construction brick, originally made in Staffordshire, England. The brick is made from the local red clay, Etruria marl, which when fired at a high temperature in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere takes on a deep blue colour and attains a very hard surface with high crushing strength and low water ...

  6. Bursledon Brickworks Museum - Wikipedia

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    www.bursledonbrickworks.org.uk. The Brickworks Museum, also known as Bursledon Brickworks, is a volunteer-run museum in Swanwick, Hampshire, England. It is purportedly the UK 's sole surviving Victorian steam-driven brickworks. [3][4] The brick kiln, chimney, drying sheds, and the boiler and engine house at the south section of the brickworks ...

  7. Michael Bruce (entrepreneur) - Wikipedia

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    Michael Bruce (born 28 June 1973) is a British entrepreneur, and the co-founder and ex CEO of the online estate agent Purplebricks. [2]After studying Law in Southampton, Bruce embarked upon a legal career before purchasing Midlands estate agent Burchell Edwards with his brother Kenny in 2006, eventually selling it to Connells in 2011.

  8. Purplebricks - Wikipedia

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    Purplebricks Group PLC. Purplebricks is a British online estate agent which operates in the UK. Founded in 2012 by Michael Bruce, Kenny Bruce and David Shepherd, [3] it is backed by investors that include venture capital firm DN Capital [4] as well as Neil Woodford, Paul Pindar, and Errol Damelin. [5][6]

  9. Marston Vale - Wikipedia

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    52.062°N 0.538°W. / 52.062; -0.538. Marston Vale is an area of Bedfordshire. It lies to the south west of Bedford and Kempston, near Junction 13 of the M1 motorway. Historically it was one of the main brickmaking districts in England, home of the London Brick Company, now a division of Hanson plc. The brickmaking activity left scars across ...