British Bricks
British Bricks

Author: David Kitching

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1445659131

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Explores the history of British bricks and brick makers.

British Bricks
British Bricks

Author: David Kitching

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781445659121

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Explores the history of British bricks and brick makers.

The Making of the British Landscape
The Making of the British Landscape

Author: Francis Pryor

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2010-06-03

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 014194336X

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This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.

Brick Bonds: A Life in Britain's Building Trade, 1902-1987
Brick Bonds: A Life in Britain's Building Trade, 1902-1987

Author: Roger Hansford

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 024420179X

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Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations and poor weather conditions. 'Brick Bonds' documents his relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques they used (a bond is a brick-laying pattern). His personal memories of enemy action in wartime, working-class social and leisure pursuits in London, the 1924 National Building Strike, and notable ships like Titanic and Bismarck are set into historical context. Hansford reveals an evolving class awareness and trade union activism; a declared Socialist, he readily left building sites in protest, even into the 1970s. His career encompassed Fawley Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.