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A clay pit owned by the company at Ibstock. The company was founded in 1899 at Ibstock in Leicestershire as a coal mining business. [2] It bought Redland's brick manufacturing business in 1996. [3] CRH bought a majority stake in the business in 1998 and the balance of the shares in October 2011. [4]
The Cattybrook Brick Company was established in 1864. [2] In 1903 Cattybrook also acquired the nearby Shortwood Brickworks. [2] From 1972, they were taken over by the Ibstock Group. [2] [3] The brickworks are located immediately to the North of the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, then under construction through the Severn Tunnel. By the ...
Clay engineering bricks are defined in § 6.4.51 of British Standard BS ISO 6707-1;2014 (buildings & civil engineering works - vocabulary - general terms) as "fire-clay brick that has a dense and strong semi-vitreous body and which conforms to defined limits for water absorption and compressive strength".
A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).
London stock brick is the type of handmade brick which was used for the majority of building work in London and South East England until the increase in the use of Flettons and other machine-made bricks in the early 20th century. Its distinctive yellow colour is due to the addition of chalk.
Ibstock is a former coal mining town [2] [3] [4] and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 5,760 at the 2001 census increasing to 6,201 at the 2011 census [ 5 ] and 7,615 at the 2021 census.
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Sheet metal or boards are used to route the airflow through the brick lattice so that fresh air flows first through the recently burned bricks, heating the air, then through the active burning zone. The air continues through the green brick zone (pre-heating and drying the bricks), and finally out the chimney, where the rising gases create ...