Brickmaking in 19th century York:

a preliminary survey

By Sandra Garside-Neville

Note: This project was undertaken for the author’s BA degree in Information Studies (aka Librarianship) at Leeds Metropolitan University in 1994. The original word-processed file was in WordPerfect 5.1, and was converted into Word 6. It was then simply converted into HTML, and links and anchors have not been included. Use the ‘Find’ facility on your browser to search for phrases and names. Additional information is still being discovered and will be added to the text when necessary. A full copy of this report was deposited in the York City Archives c1994.

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S Garside-Neville

May 2003

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Contents

• Primary sources
• Secondary sources
• Project management
• BRICKYARDS AND BRICKMAKERS IN 19TH CENTURY YORK
• Before the 19th century
• York in the 19th century
• Hall Field, Layerthorpe
• Heworth
• Hob Moor, Dringhouses and Dringhouses Moor
• Lawrence Street
• Other brickmaking areas
• 20th century brickyards
• THE BRICKMAKING INDUSTRY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• Brick production
• The workers
• External influences
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES

APPENDICES (not included to due copyright)

• Appendix I - YORK CITY LIBRARY, Family/Local History Research Booklet
• Appendix IIa - YORK CITY ARCHIVES, Categories of records
• Appendix IIb - YORK CITY ARCHIVES, Categories of records (cont.)
• Appendix III - YORK CITY ARCHIVES, Map collection
• Appendix IV - DIRECTORIES, Brickmakers in York (1823-1955)
• Appendix V - YORK LIBRARY, Lecture series
• Appendix VI - YORK CEMETERY, Guided tours 1994
• Appendix VII - OS GEOLOGICAL MAP, Scale: 1:50,000. Shows suitable brick clay south of York
• Appendix VIII - MAP OF YORK. Shows major brickmaking areas: 1. Huntington 2. Heworth 3. Hall Fields 4. Lawrence Street 5. Dringhouses 6. Hob Moor 7. Dringhouses Moor 8. Acomb
• Appendix IX - YORK COURANT, 30.10.1809. Sale notice for Morley's brickyard
• Appendix X - YORK COURANT, 5.10.1812. Morley announcing stock prices
• Appendix XI - YORK GAZETTE, 27.1.1836. 1. G & H Kidd buy Morley's yard. 2. R Gibson advertising stock
• Appendix XII - PHOTOGRAPH: CITY OF YORK, 1960. 10 Hallfield Road and the entrance to Kidd's Terrace
• Appendix XIII - PLAN: ENGINEER'S INDEX. H Kidd, 1857 Plan showing house on proposed street (to become Kidd's Terrace)
• Appendix XIV - PLAN: YORK LIBRARY. H Kidd, 1881 Plan for two houses on Kidd's Terrace
• Appendix XV - PLAN: YORK LIBRARY. J Webster, 1852 Letter acknowledging problem with drain
• Appendix XVI - OS MAP, 1852, Scale: 1:1056 (5 feet to 1 mile) Shows kilns and drying sheds at Hall Field
• Appendix XVII - OS MAP, 1853, Scale: 1:10560 (6 inches to 1 mile) Shows Heworth, Hall Field, and Lawrence St brickyards
• Appendix XVIII - OS MAP, 1893, Scale: 1:10560 (6 inches to 1 mile). Shows Heworth, Hall Field, and Lawrence St brickyards
• Appendix XIX - TOWN CLERK'S "3" INDEX, Biscomb, 1905 Extracts of specification for work at Poppleton Road Council School, York
• Appendix XXa - TOWN CLERK'S "3" INDEX, Biscomb, 1905 Contract for work at Poppleton Road Council School, York
• Appendix XXb - TOWN CLERK'S "3" INDEX, Biscomb, 1905 Contract for work at Poppleton Road Council School, York (cont.)
• Appendix XXc - TOWN CLERK'S "3"INDEX, Biscomb, 1905 Contract for work at Poppleton Road Council School, York (cont.)
• Appendix XXI - OS MAP, 1892, Scale: 1:2500 [reduced to 70%] Shows Hob Moor, & Dringhouses brickworks
• Appendix XXII - OS MAP, 1909, Scale 1:2500 [reduced to 70%] Shows Hob Moor & Dringhouses brickworks
• Appendix XXIII - OS MAP, 1931, Scale 1:2500 [reduced to 70%] Shows Hob Moor and Dringhouses brickworks
• Appendix XXIV - YORK HERALD, 23.10.1841. Thomas Kirby advertising his brick and tile yard
• Appendix XXV - OS MAP, 1910. Scale: 1:10560 (6 inches to 1 mile) St Lawrence and St Nicholas brick and tile works
• Appendix XXVI - PHOTOGRAPH, 1994. 62-66 Monkgate, built by John Shaftoe in the 1840s, and the family home until the 1920s
• Appendix XXVI - PHOTOGRAPH, 1994. 70A-72 Holgate Road, probably built by John Shaftoe in 1850
• Appendix XXVIII - PHOTOGRAPH, 1994. Priory Street Wesleyan Chapel, built by John Shaftoe in 1856
• Appendix XXIX - OS MAP, 1929, Scale: 1:10560 (6 inches to 1 mile) St Lawrence
• and St Nicholas brick and tile works
• Appendix XXX - OS MAP, 1937,Scale: 1:10560 (6 inches to 1 mile) St Lawrence and St Nicholas brick and tile works
• Appendix XXXI - PLAN: YORK LIBRARY [reduced to 70%]. St Lawrence brickyards 1944-6. Plan of workshops and offices to be built
• Appendix XXXII - OS MAP, 1950, Scale: 1:10560 (6 inches to 1 mile). St Nicholas brick and tile works
• Appendix XXXIII - PHOTOGRAPH, 1994. St Nicholas Fields
• Appendix XXXIV - OS MAP, 1892, Scale: 1:2500. James Street brick and tile works
• Appendix XXXV - PAMPHLET: YORK LIBRARY. Wray and Sons, no date
• Appendix XXXVI - PAINTING. By Ralph Hedley, shows brickmaking in the North East
• Appendix XXXVII - PAINTING: LONDON BRICK COMPANY. By G Forster, shows Nash's brickfield at Edmonton, London, in 1856

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