Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Bursledon Brickworks

From Graces Guide

of Swanwick, Southampton

1887 Southern works built

1897 Founded by the Ashby family and produced the famous Fareham red brick

1903 Northern works built

1914 The Bursledon Brick Company Ltd was incorporated

Post WWII Amalgamated with the Sussex and Dorking Brick Co

1955 The Bursledon Brick Company became part of Redland Holdings Ltd

1960 The Bursledon Brick Company, and others in the group, were in liquidation[1]

1974 Works closed

Now the Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum

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Sources of Information

  1. London Gazette 19 February 1960
  • companies house filings