Contribution to the Brick Library.

Thursday 18th September.

During our recent trip to North Wales we did a walk named Lady Bagot's Drive and it was during that walk we came across a named brick, or I should say a brick with initials on it.

I took a photo so that I could find out where it originated and what was it's date.

I searched the internet and found nothing so I emailed a couple of people who had "Brick Libraries" and I had very nice replies from both people.

It turns out that it came from a brickworks only a mile away from where we were staying.

Here is the information:-  The Vale of Clwyd Brick and Pottery Company (Ltd). The works, Pant Glas and Craig Wen, in the parish of Llanynys, near Ruthin.

The company was established in August 1879 to purchase the lease, plant and other privileges connected with the works on the estate of Lord Bagot.

The works was probably started in 1876 or 1877.

There is detailed description of the works in the Wrexham Advertiser, June 2nd 1883 on page 6.

In August 1887 the business was in liquidation and the works was offered for sale as a going concern.

It seems that the business was taken over by the Vale of Clwyd Brick and Tile company (Ltd) which was struck off the register of companies in 1930. The works may well have closed many years earlier.

Here is my brick now added to the library which contains over 9600 bricks.

It's really great to find something that is new to such a comprehensive library and makes it so worthwhile searching whilst hiking for historical bricks.