Brickmaking in 19th century York:
a preliminary survey
By S Garside-Neville

Note: This project was undertaken for the author’s BA
degree in Information Studies (aka Librarianship) at Leeds Metropolitan University in
1994. Alistair Black,
who ran the Local Communities course said that I should ‘… do something with
[this project].’ 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.
Please feel free to email me with your comments, extra
information, etc. My email address is at the end of this page
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
(some 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 XXVII - 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 i & ii
- Appendix XXXVI - PAINTINGS.
By Ralph Hedley, shows brickmaking in the North East One
& Two
- Appendix XXXVII - PAINTING:
LONDON BRICK COMPANY. By G Forster, shows Nash's brickfield at Edmonton,
London, in 1856
- Extra PHOTOGRAPH: Brick
found since writing the article. H South, mid 19th
century.
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