Birtley, Union Brickworks

HER Number:
8587

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Birtley, Union Brickworks

Place:
Birtley

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Brick and Tilemaking Site

Site Type: Specific:
Brickworks

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
1879-1939 Kellet’s yard 1879-1897, manufacturer Birleson, Todd and Compnay 1908-1925, manufacturer Allison, English and Company 1934-1985, manufacturer Birtley Brick Company In 1908, the works comprised two office buildings, stable, seven kilns (each 20ft long by 15 feet wide by 9feet high); three steam drying sheds with cast iron floor plates, a modern Lancashire boiler, a horizontal engine, a Porter’s double pugmill, and cutting table, a feed pump, a cold water pump, two Pulsometer pumps, an engine and grinding pan, and engine and fan for the brick dryer. The plant and kilns in the Union and Team Valley brickworks combined was thought capable of producing four million bricks per year.

Easting:
2656

Northing:
5563

Grid Reference:
NZ26565563

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 158, 159 site 4, 165-6.