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Between 1968 and 1971, The London Brick Company also bought its three remaining Fletton brick competitors, including the Marston Valley Brick Company, giving it a total monopoly in the Fletton brick market. In 1973, its brick sales totalled 2.88 billion, or 43 per cent of the total brick market. [2] In 1984, the company was acquired by Hanson plc.
Jurong Brickworks (Chinese: 裕廊砖厂; pinyin: Yù láng zhuān chǎng) was a private brick manufacturing plant located in Singapore's Jurong area.Originally known as Sin Choon Kee Brickworks (新春记; Xīn chūn jì), it was renamed Jurong Brickworks in the 1930s after being acquired by Chan Wah Chip and Koh Eng Poh.
Brickworks (also known as Bukit Batok West Extension) is a subzone of Bukit Batok, Singapore. [2] It is bounded by Bukit Batok West Avenue 3/2/5 and Bukit Batok Road and is beside the upcoming New Town, Tengah. It is the latest development area in Bukit Batok.
Forterra was formed as Hanson Building Products as the building products division of Hanson Plc. [2] It has acquired numerous other companies during its existence, including The Butterley Company in 1968, [3] London Brick in 1984, [3] Red Bank Manufacturing Company [4] and Marshalls Flooring in 2002, [5] Marshalls Clay Products and Thermalite in 2005, [6] and Formpave Holdings in 2006.
One of the plans included developing the Kallang area (just to the east of the town-centre) into Singapore's equivalent of London's Hyde Park. This master-plan was reported in the local newspaper, The Straits Times, dated from 11 March 1955. [8] The low-rise brick-clad flats of Dakota Crescent Estate were built by SIT in 1958. [9]
Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company.The village was designed and built to the plans of the company's architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on 'Garden City' principle, a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire.
He wrote to his contacts in Penang to send bricklayers, carpenters and cloth merchants to Singapore. He then established the island’s first brick kiln at what is now Tanjong Pagar. Through these efforts, he also became Singapore’s first building contractor. Pillai also ventured into the cotton goods trade where he sold these at Cross Street ...
This is a result of the Raffles Town Plan (1822) for Singapore with the stipulation that "all houses constructed of brick or tiles have a common type of front each having an arcade of a certain depth, open to all sides as a continuous and open passage on each side of the street". [5]