Enfield Bricks : advert issued by the Enfield (Middlesex) Red Brick Co Ltd in Specification : Architectural Press : London : 1934
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. I do love the fact that the company name is so wonderfully specific - not only giving the town but also the county and the main product! In truth I suspect that the "Middlesex" was there to distinguish it from the other 'Enfield' brick company who were based in another heartland of red brick manufacturing, Accrington in Lancashire.
Enfield, as the diagram shows, was on the fringes of London and even today as one of the outer London Boroughs it is, to the north, still mainly open land thanks to the Green Belt legislation of the post-war era. However - southwards was during the Victorian and into the 20th Century prime building land for the massive expansion of the Metropolis and the Enfield Brick Company would have been well placed to exploit both the clay beds in this part of Middlesex and Essex as well as the growing market for bricks. As well as the standard 'Reds' the company made a 'Roman' brick with a distinctive bench-marked facing.
Enfield Bricks : advert issued by the Enfield (Middlesex) Red Brick Co Ltd in Specification : Architectural Press : London : 1934
An advert from the 1934 edition of "Specification", issued annually by the Architectural Press and containing an index of building and construction subjects, relevant specifications along with allied contractors and materials. I do love the fact that the company name is so wonderfully specific - not only giving the town but also the county and the main product! In truth I suspect that the "Middlesex" was there to distinguish it from the other 'Enfield' brick company who were based in another heartland of red brick manufacturing, Accrington in Lancashire.
Enfield, as the diagram shows, was on the fringes of London and even today as one of the outer London Boroughs it is, to the north, still mainly open land thanks to the Green Belt legislation of the post-war era. However - southwards was during the Victorian and into the 20th Century prime building land for the massive expansion of the Metropolis and the Enfield Brick Company would have been well placed to exploit both the clay beds in this part of Middlesex and Essex as well as the growing market for bricks. As well as the standard 'Reds' the company made a 'Roman' brick with a distinctive bench-marked facing.