Armitage 'Robin Hood' bricks and stone : advert issued by George Armitage & Sons Ltd., Robin Hood, nr Wakefield, West Yorkshire : 1959
In the 1959 issue of the City of Wakefield official guide an advert for the local brick and stone supplier of George Armitage & Sons Ltd. It is always good to be able to ascribe a materials supplier to a particular building or structure and I can say that the Darrington Hotel still stands, in use as a pub, now adjacent to the Great North Road at Darrington. Equally it is interesting to see the name of the Leeds City Architect R A H LIvett whose work with that City's social housing is still recalled.
Armitage's had a long history having been founded in 1824 when work began to quarry stone at Robin Hood near Wakefield. By 1864 the company was making bricks with clays associated with quarrying and later from coal seams, and in 1907 it became associated with the brickworks at Oulton/Woodlesford to the south east of Leeds. In 1952 a further site was opened at Swillington and by 1975, their 150th anniversary, they were making some 64 million bricks a year. They sold out to Halifax based Marshalls in 1988 and so became part of Hanson's empire. There is still, apparently, a family link to the trade as one of the Armitage's now runs the York Handmade Brick Company.
Armitage 'Robin Hood' bricks and stone : advert issued by George Armitage & Sons Ltd., Robin Hood, nr Wakefield, West Yorkshire : 1959
In the 1959 issue of the City of Wakefield official guide an advert for the local brick and stone supplier of George Armitage & Sons Ltd. It is always good to be able to ascribe a materials supplier to a particular building or structure and I can say that the Darrington Hotel still stands, in use as a pub, now adjacent to the Great North Road at Darrington. Equally it is interesting to see the name of the Leeds City Architect R A H LIvett whose work with that City's social housing is still recalled.
Armitage's had a long history having been founded in 1824 when work began to quarry stone at Robin Hood near Wakefield. By 1864 the company was making bricks with clays associated with quarrying and later from coal seams, and in 1907 it became associated with the brickworks at Oulton/Woodlesford to the south east of Leeds. In 1952 a further site was opened at Swillington and by 1975, their 150th anniversary, they were making some 64 million bricks a year. They sold out to Halifax based Marshalls in 1988 and so became part of Hanson's empire. There is still, apparently, a family link to the trade as one of the Armitage's now runs the York Handmade Brick Company.