Hamblet Coping Brick, Underpass, Soho Street, Newport 13 October 2017
A blue-black Hamblet coping brick on the retaining wall of the underpass on Soho Street. As seemed common for their coping bricks at this period, there is a year stamp (1898).
The Hamblet works in West Bromwich, was founded in 1851 when Joseph Hamblet acquired part of the Piercy estate at Ireland Green, becoming the largest brickworks in this area of West Bromwich. The firm specialised in blue bricks, but produced many other types as well. In 1898, four years after Hamblet's death, it became Hamblet's Blue Brick Co Ltd. The firm closed down in 1915 and the estate was sold off in 1919.
Hamblet Coping Brick, Underpass, Soho Street, Newport 13 October 2017
A blue-black Hamblet coping brick on the retaining wall of the underpass on Soho Street. As seemed common for their coping bricks at this period, there is a year stamp (1898).
The Hamblet works in West Bromwich, was founded in 1851 when Joseph Hamblet acquired part of the Piercy estate at Ireland Green, becoming the largest brickworks in this area of West Bromwich. The firm specialised in blue bricks, but produced many other types as well. In 1898, four years after Hamblet's death, it became Hamblet's Blue Brick Co Ltd. The firm closed down in 1915 and the estate was sold off in 1919.