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The Cattybrook Brick Company was established in 1864. [2] In 1903 Cattybrook also acquired the nearby Shortwood Brickworks. [2] From 1972, they were taken over by the Ibstock Group. [2] [3] The brickworks are located immediately to the North of the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, then under construction through the Severn Tunnel. By the ...
A clay pit owned by the company at Ibstock. The company was founded in 1899 at Ibstock in Leicestershire as a coal mining business. [2] It bought Redland's brick manufacturing business in 1996. [3] CRH bought a majority stake in the business in 1998 and the balance of the shares in October 2011. [4]
Ibstock is a former coal mining town and also has historical and current manufacturing plants that produce tiles, bricks, boots and shoes, and light engineering. [13] In the 19th century a branch of the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway was built through the village and nearby village of Heather.
The area has a long history of mineral extraction, with coal, brick clay, gravel and granite amongst the products. All the deep coal mines in the area have closed, but opencast mining still continues. The district is also home to part of the Battlefield Line and the Ibstock Brick.
To the east of South Chailey, the woods bear the imprint of centuries of quarrying and brick and pottery production. Kiln Wood is on the southern edge a deep pit dug for the Chailey Brickworks, now the Ibstock brickworks. The wood has shares its name as the wood by Hamsey brickworks.
It sold its UK brick manufacturing business to Ibstock in 1996. [5] The company was acquired by Lafarge in 1997. [6] [7] In 2008 the roofing division was divested by Lafarge. [8] The company became known as Monier Ltd and saw the return of the Redland Brand in the UK.
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.
Silverdale is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, west of Newcastle-under-Lyme.It is a self contained ward of Newcastle Borough Council returning 2 Councillors.