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The British live in a land of brickwork. Today more types of brick and ways of using them are to be found in Britain than in any other country, and brickmaking and the skill of bricklaying are part of the British heritage. The story of the brick begins with sundried, mud bricks formed with hands alone. Walls built with such bricks have been found in the ruins of Jericho - probably the oldest town in the world. John Woodforde describes bricks and brickmaking in the ancient world and in Europe and America; he gives a comprehensive account of brickmaking in Britain up to the present time. He describes the properties of bricks, including those of the unique fletton brick, manufactured by London Brick Company which today makes half the clay bricks used in Britain. Mr Woodforde looks, too, at the equipment and techniques used to fashion bricks, the brickmakers themselves and brickwork of many kinds: in garden walls, sewers, canals, railways and roads as well as in Hampton Court and the Nash terraces of Regent's Park. The story ends as it began, with the mud bricks; for at the British Building Research Establishment there have been recent experiments on stabalising an ancient material whi

Author

John Woodforde; London Brick Company

Publisher

Routledge and Kegan Paul [for] the London Brick Company

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780710081056

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Updated

2026-03-24