I do think people keep saying shit like "an economy that stopped making things" and the problem there is that brickmaking used to be like a whole towns deal and is now done by one guy and an industrial kiln
this was written by Daniel Penny, whom they employ in spite of his having no relevant qualifications of any kind
August 29, 2026 at 12:19 PM
I do think people keep saying shit like "an economy that stopped making things" and the problem there is that brickmaking used to be like a whole towns deal and is now done by one guy and an industrial kiln
Thinking of how at 14, my grandad went to work at a brickmaking factory because it was preferable to farm work.
July 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Thinking of how at 14, my grandad went to work at a brickmaking factory because it was preferable to farm work.
My dad's family is from lumberjacks in New Brunswick. Between coal mining, brickmaking, lumber and wood products, and then longshoresmen, thats a town. All of that is can be done at same output with like 20 people
August 29, 2026 at 12:27 PM
My dad's family is from lumberjacks in New Brunswick. Between coal mining, brickmaking, lumber and wood products, and then longshoresmen, thats a town. All of that is can be done at same output with like 20 people
#WHM
Women have always been involved in brickmaking.
See this excellent blog about women brickmakers in living memory: www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...
Women have always been involved in brickmaking.
See this excellent blog about women brickmakers in living memory: www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...
March 15, 2026 at 10:52 AM
#WHM
Women have always been involved in brickmaking.
See this excellent blog about women brickmakers in living memory: www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...
Women have always been involved in brickmaking.
See this excellent blog about women brickmakers in living memory: www.socantscot.org/uncategorize...
Why does the free world stand by when slavery is still occurring?
Here's how millions are trapped in modern-day slavery in Pakistan. #pakistan #brickmaking #slavery
YouTube video by Insider
youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Why does the free world stand by when slavery is still occurring?
A unique opportunity to learn about the brickmaking process for historic buildings, at a functioning brickyard, Bulmer Brick & Tile Co in Sudbury, Suffolk . The yard is normally closed to the public.
Book tickets: bit.ly/4iXplGM
#heritage #suffolk 🧵
Photos: @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
Book tickets: bit.ly/4iXplGM
#heritage #suffolk 🧵
Photos: @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A unique opportunity to learn about the brickmaking process for historic buildings, at a functioning brickyard, Bulmer Brick & Tile Co in Sudbury, Suffolk . The yard is normally closed to the public.
Book tickets: bit.ly/4iXplGM
#heritage #suffolk 🧵
Photos: @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
Book tickets: bit.ly/4iXplGM
#heritage #suffolk 🧵
Photos: @thegentleauthor.bsky.social
#JackHargreaves takes us brickmaking in #Dorset and then a visit to #Stonehenge in 🚜 OUT OF TOWN (1986) 4:30pm Premiere episode.
July 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
#JackHargreaves takes us brickmaking in #Dorset and then a visit to #Stonehenge in 🚜 OUT OF TOWN (1986) 4:30pm Premiere episode.
#JackHargreaves takes us brickmaking in #Dorset and then on a visit to #Stonehenge in 🚜 OUT OF TOWN (1986) 6:30pm #TPTVsubtitles
July 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#JackHargreaves takes us brickmaking in #Dorset and then on a visit to #Stonehenge in 🚜 OUT OF TOWN (1986) 6:30pm #TPTVsubtitles
New book! Dr Sadie McMullon's #OnePlaceStudy is Fletton in Northants which has a strong brickmaking industry. She has case studies from 2 other #OnePlaceStudies - Long Buckby Wharf and Rillington @genejean.bsky.social
Very pleased to help Sadie with this fascinating book!
Very pleased to help Sadie with this fascinating book!
July 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New book! Dr Sadie McMullon's #OnePlaceStudy is Fletton in Northants which has a strong brickmaking industry. She has case studies from 2 other #OnePlaceStudies - Long Buckby Wharf and Rillington @genejean.bsky.social
Very pleased to help Sadie with this fascinating book!
Very pleased to help Sadie with this fascinating book!
Me learning about local history: It's cool that one of Reading's major local industries was brickmaking!
Me trying to dig a hole in my garden: FUCK Reading's history of brickmaking.
Me trying to dig a hole in my garden: FUCK Reading's history of brickmaking.
May 5, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Me learning about local history: It's cool that one of Reading's major local industries was brickmaking!
Me trying to dig a hole in my garden: FUCK Reading's history of brickmaking.
Me trying to dig a hole in my garden: FUCK Reading's history of brickmaking.
Another great podcast I discovered is this one - 'Fletton, brickmaking and #On#OnePlaceStudiesith Sadie McMullion on the Journeys into Genealogy podcast #On#OnePlaceWednesdayodcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...htt
Fletton, brickmaking and one place studies with Sadie McMullion
Podcast Episode · Journeys into Genealogy podcast · 10/02/2022 · 36m
podcasts.apple.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Another great podcast I discovered is this one - 'Fletton, brickmaking and #On#OnePlaceStudiesith Sadie McMullion on the Journeys into Genealogy podcast #On#OnePlaceWednesdayodcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...htt
It wasn’t until the early 14th century that the skill of brickmaking in England was revived. This revival began first in the Eastern counties, spurred by the region’s lack of good quality building stone and the influence of continental Europe.
January 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It wasn’t until the early 14th century that the skill of brickmaking in England was revived. This revival began first in the Eastern counties, spurred by the region’s lack of good quality building stone and the influence of continental Europe.
Although the Romans introduced bricks and brickmaking into England during their occupation between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, the skill of turning clay into this versatile building material was lost after their departure.
January 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Although the Romans introduced bricks and brickmaking into England during their occupation between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, the skill of turning clay into this versatile building material was lost after their departure.
George Perkins Marsh, early environmentalist and first US ambassador to Italy, noted in his 1864 book Man and Nature that the lack of wood for fuel led to a decline in the quality of brickmaking and masonry work throughout the Roman Imperial era
George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)
Groundbreaking study of humanity’s affect on physical geography by the American statesman, philologist, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.
publicdomainreview.org
September 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
George Perkins Marsh, early environmentalist and first US ambassador to Italy, noted in his 1864 book Man and Nature that the lack of wood for fuel led to a decline in the quality of brickmaking and masonry work throughout the Roman Imperial era
Cool mini documentary on brickmaking along the Hudson River valley www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5P...
Hudson River Brickmakers (28 minute documentary)
YouTube video by Jim Ormond
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Cool mini documentary on brickmaking along the Hudson River valley www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW5P...
Bricks drying in the sun. ca. 1931, Djenne, Mali.
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
July 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Bricks drying in the sun. ca. 1931, Djenne, Mali.
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
The UK consumes 2.5 billion bricks a year, but over 500 million are imported. 50 million of those are from outside the EU, up from just 3 million in 2015
Domestic brick production benefits from a lower embodied carbon, and lower human rights risk
www.elliottwood.co.uk/latest/a-21s...
Domestic brick production benefits from a lower embodied carbon, and lower human rights risk
www.elliottwood.co.uk/latest/a-21s...
A 21st-century British brickmaking revival? - Elliott Wood
We believe in a bigger and better idea of Engineering. One driven by strategic consultancy and married with creative and technical expertise.
www.elliottwood.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The UK consumes 2.5 billion bricks a year, but over 500 million are imported. 50 million of those are from outside the EU, up from just 3 million in 2015
Domestic brick production benefits from a lower embodied carbon, and lower human rights risk
www.elliottwood.co.uk/latest/a-21s...
Domestic brick production benefits from a lower embodied carbon, and lower human rights risk
www.elliottwood.co.uk/latest/a-21s...
Flashing back to seeing this last year, where a stunningly beautiful blonde teenage tour guide with no communication skills whatsoever had the crowd locked down
Mormon Battalion Historic Site at San Diego
The Mormon Battalion Center features an interactive video tour, historical artifacts, and demonstrations on gold panning and brickmaking.
www.churchofjesuschrist.org
June 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Flashing back to seeing this last year, where a stunningly beautiful blonde teenage tour guide with no communication skills whatsoever had the crowd locked down
Bricks drying in the sun. ca. 1931, Djenne, Mali.
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
July 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Bricks drying in the sun. ca. 1931, Djenne, Mali.
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
Brickmaking was initially assumed to have been introduced during the spread of Islam, before the discovery of several pre-Islamic sites proved it was a local invention
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-indege...
In the mid-1850s, Pennyville's name was changed to Brickton to reflect the area's status in brickmaking. By the 1870s, when the brickmaking in the area had dried up, the townsfolk felt the area needed a classier name and “Park Ridge” was chosen. Here is the sign for the five-acre a Brickton Park.
June 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
In the mid-1850s, Pennyville's name was changed to Brickton to reflect the area's status in brickmaking. By the 1870s, when the brickmaking in the area had dried up, the townsfolk felt the area needed a classier name and “Park Ridge” was chosen. Here is the sign for the five-acre a Brickton Park.
Despite a 2019 mandate, most projects in Bangladesh still use clay bricks.
About 7,000 brickfields destroy topsoil and generate ~3% of emissions, while greener alternatives lag due to a 15% VAT.
About 7,000 brickfields destroy topsoil and generate ~3% of emissions, while greener alternatives lag due to a 15% VAT.
Brickmaking keeps eating farmland as Bangladesh misses clean-build goal
In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the…
news.mongabay.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Despite a 2019 mandate, most projects in Bangladesh still use clay bricks.
About 7,000 brickfields destroy topsoil and generate ~3% of emissions, while greener alternatives lag due to a 15% VAT.
About 7,000 brickfields destroy topsoil and generate ~3% of emissions, while greener alternatives lag due to a 15% VAT.
It was REALLY hard to get anything established there, ever, because it was about 3" of topsoil and sod on top of red brickmaking clay. Nobody would buy me soil so I had to make it from grass clippings and seaweed, for YEARS my only garden activity was composting.
May 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It was REALLY hard to get anything established there, ever, because it was about 3" of topsoil and sod on top of red brickmaking clay. Nobody would buy me soil so I had to make it from grass clippings and seaweed, for YEARS my only garden activity was composting.