Nevil Smart
From Graces Guide
Finchley High Road
Previously of Bridge-Wharf, Hampstead Road and a coal merchant.[1]
Operated a tile and brick yards from the 1820s until the 1860s.[2]
1809 - By then he had also built four Georgian villas on Fortis Green.
1820s - He built two more villas near the working toll gate at the Old White Lion.
The by-products of the brick making was blackened, fused-together bricks called clinkers which were later used to build walls around East Finchley and Muswell Hill.[3]
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Sources of Information
- ↑ The Law Advertiser, Volume 9, Page 172
- ↑ https://www.barnet.gov.uk/libraries-old/local-studies-and-archives/pocket-histories/finchley-friern-barnet-and-totteridge
- ↑ The Archer, September 2018
- [1]Article in The Archer