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	Brickmaking
		Because the steam shovel was not invented until 1879 early brickmakers had to dig for the clay on site with hand shovels.
		The early brickmaker chose his clay by it's color and texture and based on his experience.
		The knowledge and experience of the brickmaker dictated when the fireholes would be bricked over and the heat was allowed to slowly dissipate over another week.
	www.shol.com /agita/thespiel.htm (1071 words)

	Brick - LoveToKnow 1911
		Brickmaking formed the chief occupation of the Israelites during their bondage in Egypt, but in this case the bricks were probably sun-dried only, and not burnt.
		Although brickmaking was thus introduced into Britain nearly 2000 years ago, the art seems to have been lost when the Romans withdrew from the country, and it is doubtful whether any burnt bricks were made in England from that time until the 13th century.
		The Dutch and the Germans were the great brickmakers of Europe during the middle ages, although the Italians, from the 14th to the 15th century, revived and developed the art of decorative brick-work or terra-cotta, and discovered the method of applying coloured enamels to these materials.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Brick (5468 words)

	Brickmaking
		Brickmaking was hard work in a harsh environment and partly seasonal.
		He began brickmaking in 1846 and by 1860 owned expanding brickfields, barges and shipyards along the creek.
		While brickmaking is no longer a major industry in the town, a correspondent has kindly provided the following details to show that the industry still continues in 2006.
	www.sittingbourne-museum.co.uk /Bricks.htm (0 words)

	Brickmaking in Columbia Co., NY - Cliff Lamere
		Brickmaking is an ancient craft used even earlier than the period in which the Egyptian pyramids were built.
		This was the standard brickmaking process at Empire Brickyard, and for the years around 1900-50, it was a fairly modern process.
		Brickmaking was seasonal work, with the colder temperatures from around November to April freezing the raw materials used in brickmaking.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~clifflamere/History/Col/BrickmakingColCo.htm (1167 words)

	Practical Action - Brickmaking Co-operatives
		Brickmaking is an important craft in many rural and peri-urban areas, but the income it provides can be a very marginal one.
		ITDGPractical Action helps brickmakers to form co-operatives which can provide employment for men and women, as well as supplying locally produced bricks for use in local building projects.
		For instance, in Sudan, ITDGPractical Action together with the brickmakers of the Shambob Co-operative researched new techniques which raised both the quality and the quantity of their brick production, doubling their incomes in two years.
	www.itdg.org /?id=brickmaking_cooperative (322 words)

	Once Upon A Mine: Chapter IV
		Initial reports of Newfoundland brickmaking came from Bell Island in Conception Bay where, in the 1830s, a Mr.
		After quitting brickmaking in the mid-1830s he went on to develop a highly successful farm in Random Sound and to become the first man in Newfoundland to can salmon.
		Pittman and his helpers carried the wet bricks to a drying shed; thrice a year they removed the shed roof and stoked a huge fire beneath the racks of bricks to bake them into hardness.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /environment/mine/ch4p10.html (721 words)

	Cashman R & Meader C Marrickville Rural Outpost to Inner City Hall & Ironmonger 1990t
		Brickmaking The southern part of Marrickville, and particularly the St Peters-Tempe area, was ideal for the development of raw material industries such as brickmaking and tanning.
		There were a number of reasons why brickmaking, which was such an important local industry at the turn of the century, petered out at most sites by the 1920s.
		Rupert Cook was one of the earliest brickmakers in the municipality.
	users.bigpond.net.au /james.elizabeth.goodsell/GoodsellBrickmaking01.htm (1495 words)

	Local Communities 2
		There is the possibility of the work of the brickmaker being romanticised in such pictures (with the workers being portrayed as healthy, well-fed, etc. which may not have been the case), but the paintings are still useful for showing the actual process of brickmaking.
		In the 19th century, and the previous centuries, brickmaking was a seasonal occupation, due to the clay needing to be weathered.
		Twist (1984) reports that brickmakers often had a break from work during the hottest part of the day and were supposed to restart at 4pm, however, they were often too drunk by that time to go back.
	www.tegula.freeserve.co.uk /BRICMAK.HTM (8708 words)

	A History of Brickmaking by Florence Kroes
		A wet summer was a poor season for a brickmaker.
		In these early yards it was customary to haul a good supply of clay from the pits and make a huge pile in the autumn to provide what aid the weathering could give in fitting the clay for tempering.
		Early brickmakers used wood for burning, well dried, especially for the beginning.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~kroes/brickyard/history.html (0 words)

	Brickmaker at Colonial Williamsburg
		As soon as it is a smooth consistency, the clay is pulled from the pit and piled upon a molding table.
		The brickmakers remain on site during the entire burn period, getting little sleep and keeping the fires burning and the wood stacked and ready to add to the fire.
		After approximately seven days of burning, the brickmakers let the fires bank, close the fire tunnels and reseal the kiln with clay.
	www.history.org /Almanack/life/trades/tradebri.cfm (880 words)

	Brick News
		Water from the process tank would then be continually recirculated through the cooling units and tank until needed in the brickmaking machine.
		Because the brickmaking machines consume large amounts of water, their water storage tanks require almost continuous filling, traditionally by well water supply.
		By re-routing non-contact cooling water to the brickmaking machines, well water could be shut off under normal operating conditions, or activated through a low-level float mechanism installed in the tank.
	www.bia.org /html_public/pr20030625.html (1374 words)

	The Guardian
		The first clay-based industries in the locality were established in 1841, and by 1869, 44 pottery and brickmaking firms were operating in the area.
		Early brickmaking technology in the Australian colonies utilised the relatively inefficient "Scotch" kilns and produced by hand the beautiful but irregular sandstock bricks.
		Brickmaking ceased in 1993 and the site of the works was finally sold to Sungrove Corporation in 1996.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve4/1066book.html (1040 words)

	Brighton Brick
		Brickmaking was the dominant industry on the Hudson River at he end of the 19th Century.
		The types of dispersal are varied, air, water and glaciers are the main particle transports.
		Clay for brickmaking is sometimes referred to as 'Brick-Earth.
	home.rochester.rr.com /leoj/brickmaking.html (945 words)

	Haverstraw's place in history assured by machine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the height of its prosperity, Haverstraw village was part of a bustling region regarded worldwide as a premier brickmaking area.
		Brickmakers were confounded by the problems they encountered in the oftentimes irregular shape of the building blocks, which at that time were made almost entirely by hand.
		VerValen patented his machine in 1852 and, deNoyelles said, its principles were "so workable and so novel to brickmaking" that they were used until a more advanced machine, incorporating some of his original ideas, was developed in the 1920s.
	www.thejournalnews.com /business2003/newsroom/k3230bzinventstoryb.html (1049 words)

	Brickmaking
		On the other side of Swallowdale Lane, bounded roughly by Redbourne Road on the west and north and by Three Cherry Trees Lane to the cast, was Claydales Brickworks, and it is so named on a 1922 map.
		Although there are few physical traces of the brickfield on the ground today, there is an abundance of street names such as Brickmakers Lane, Brickfield Avenue, Kiln Ground (roughly the site of the tile works), Tile Kiln Crescent and, commemorating the firm, which produced bricks at Bennetts End for about one hundred years, Acorn Road.
		it is her estimate that all brickmaking at Potten End had ceased before 1900.
	www.homestead.com /bacchronicle/Brickmaking.html (0 words)

	THIS BRICKMAKING MACHINE MAKES NOTHING BUT MONEY!
		David, however, says that MMI is changing the brickmaker's name to "Mold Master" in the States.
		If you decide to feed one of these little brickmakers with truckloads of concrete from a ready-mix plant, two people can supply all the man- or womanpower you'll really need to operate the machine.
		There, three men both produce all the concrete (with a small mortar mixer) that is run through one of the Mold Masters, and operate the brickmaking machine too.
	www.motherearthnews.com /Green-Home-Building/1977-09-01/This-Brickmaking-Machine-Makes-Nothing-But-Money.aspx (3009 words)

	Isle of Wight Brickmaking History
		In the late 1760s Pritchetts, who were a brickmaking family in the New Forest area, contracted to supply bricks and tiles for the building of the House of Industry at Parkhurst.
		In 1863 the church register records that a son, John James, was born to a brickmaker George Lindsay and his wife, Mary Anne.
		The brickmaking Prangnell family built their cottage at Newtown using a variety of bricks to display the range of their products.
	freespace.virgin.net /roger.hewitt/iwias/bricks.htm (3062 words)

	Historical Bricks : Old Williamsburg Hand-Made Bricks
		Working in the pit, brickmakers used their feet to stomp water into the clay.
		As soon as it was a smooth consistency, the clay was pulled from the pit and piled upon a molding table.
		The brickmakers remained on site during the entire burn period, getting little sleep and keeping the fires burning and the wood stacked and ready to add to the fire.
	www.historicalbricks.com /old_whmds_history.html (685 words)

	Brockway Brickyard, Beacon, NY
		Despite over a century's worth of brickmaking, the clay deposits, some over 100 feet deep, have not been depleted.
		The industry really began to develop in the early 1800s, and flourished after improvements in machinery were introduced in the 1850s.
		Brickmaking thrived in the late 1800s, and many communities revolved around it.
	www.hudsonvalleyruins.org /yasinsac/brockway/brockway.html (497 words)

	Hertfordshire Genealogy: Occupations: St Albans Brickmakers: Blanks & Lefevre Brick Making Machine
		It is claimed for this machine that it produces bricks by the semi-dry process at a cheaper rate than any other machine, and the bricks have been pronounced by competent experts in Australia to be superior to all other machine-made bricks.
		This is of interest because it is the first explicit reference to Jacob Reynolds making bricks (although unsourced modern accounts suggested he made them earlier) and the first explicit reference to the use of automated brickmaking machinery at any of the brickworks on Bernards Heath.
		Of the twelve machines that had been sold by the makers at the time the Standard's report was written, five were claimed to be then in use at the Excelsior works at Croydon.
	www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk /data/occupations/st-albans-brickmakers/brickmaker-blanks.htm (1227 words)

	Environmental Colours of Microfinance
		A cross section of brickmakers were selected, mainly from amongst those with whom the researchers had previous contacts.
		Moreover environmental impacts from the mining industry are more diverse than those in the textile and brickmaking sector.
		This is the case for brickmaking to a lesser degree, but not in the mining industry.
	www.gdrc.org /icm/environ/plan3-appxa.html (1299 words)

	The My Hero Project - Yukulam Oloka ObboObbo_Uganda_ul
		He became a hero because of his influence in the community through tree-planting, brickmaking, and because he educated his family although he, himself, never recieved an it.
		He is a father of twenty children, a subsistence farmer on a eucalyptus tree plantation, and also does brickmaking as an income-generating source for the family.
		To every energetic youth, brickmaking has become another source of income for both education and other personal needs.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=Obbo_Uganda_ul (255 words)

	Shipwrecks of Lake Champlain: Brown's Brickyard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The nineteenth century brickmaking process involved several steps and required a site with readily available clay and sand deposits, a water source, and an open flat area for drying the bricks.
		The first step in the brickmaking process was called “winning” the clay, or gathering it from the clay deposits.
		To perform the labor-intensive job of brickmaking, the Clay Point brickyard employed twenty men; combined with the workers at the West Milton Brickyard, as many as fifty men were employed by John Brown at his brickyards in 1892.
	www.lcmm.org /shipwrecks_history/shipwrecks/browns_brickyard.htm (1210 words)

	Hudson River Brickmaking
		On the Eastern shore of the Hudson in Westchester County, one of the areas brickmaking took place was Croton-on-Hudson where William A. Underhill established a brick works in 1837.
		He patented his machine in 1852 and, its principles were "so workable and so novel to brickmaking" that they were used until a more advanced machine, incorporating some of his original ideas, was developed in the 1920s.
		In 1828 brickmaker James Wood discovered that 'culm' - fine coal dust - added to the mixture reduced burning time for a kiln by one-half, from FOURTEEN DAYS to SEVEN.
	brickcollecting.com /hudson.htm (2051 words)

	Brickmaking in Bures
		Evidence is available to show in 1840, that it was occupied by John Moss who describes himself as a Brickmaker and farmer.
		Robert Garrad advertised as brickmaker and maltster (1848).
		These workings would have been where the clay was extracted to be used in the brickmaking process.
	www.bures-online.co.uk /brickworks/brickworks.htm (898 words)

	EHP 104(5) Forum
		The families of brickmakers are at risk of high exposure to dangerous chemicals.
		The brickmakers reverted to the cheaper fuels, especially at night, despite the fact that the Mexican government has made it illegal to burn tires.
		Staudhammer says the brickmakers are eager to address the pollution problem but are constrained by the economics of their trade.
	www.ehponline.org /docs/1996/104-5/forum.html (3648 words)

	Castaic Brick
		Castaic Brick stands atop one of the world's most generous deposits of top quality brickmaking clay.
		Since its founding in 1950, bricks made from this clay have won the company a reputation for quality and service.
		We are one of the largest brick manufacturers with our main offices centrally located in Castaic, California.
	www.castaicbrick.com (53 words)

	The Great Hudson River Brick Industry - Purple Mountain Press
		The great majority of the substantial changes to the landscape, resulting from the excavation operations, will not be discernible due to overgrowth—a condition that is nearing completion at this writing.
		It was the largest brickmaking region in the world, supplying vast amounts of this most essential building material to the fastest-growing city in the world.
		George V. Hutton, a graduate of Williams College and Yale School of Architecture, is a retired architect with firsthand experience in brickmaking at the Hutton Company in Kingston, New York.
	www.catskill.net /purple/bricks.htm (448 words)

	Brickmaker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As you know, the brickmaker makes bricks.The brickmaker would start to make the bricks out of clay, and at the end, the bricks made by the brickmakers would be fired in the kiln.
		The first step of the brickmaking process was to gather the clay and mix it up by stepping in it.
		The brickmaker would roll it and then put it in a mold.
	www.esd.k12.ca.us /Matsumoto/TM30/history/Trades/bm/bm1.html (238 words)

	Brickmaking at Hinkletown -
		The earliest craftsman in brickmaking at Hinkletown was William J. Watkins.
		He probably constructed a crude early kiln around 1852, and continued the trade there for fourteen years.
		Lucy Hudson Whitmore was the daughter of Thomas Hudson, and before she died she wrote a letter to Carl Hogendorn of the North English Record, describing the early process of brickmaking at Hinkletown:
	www.hinkletown.com /brickmaking.html (0 words)

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