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This is a double exposure of a brick wall and a door. I like it because the brick wall is curved, so it makes the picture look almost 3D. I also like that the picture looks almost medieval.
This well worn "Little Mill Brick Co Pontypool" die was photographed at the Usk Museum of Rural Life, Usk, Monmouthshire. It would appear that brick making at Little Mill dates back to at least 1850. Some Burgoyne bricks are faintly embossed in small lettering with "Estb 1850", and another, probably later commemorative brick, is incised "Little Mill, Estb 1850". The works was alongside the Newport and Hereford line at Little Mill Junction, where a line branched off eastwards through Usk into Gloucestershire. A spur into the works was laid in 1869 when the owner was given as a CH Leigh. The 1882 OS map, and subsequent editions until 1920, give the works as "Bryn Tovey Brick Works" (from the nearby Bryn Tovey Wood); from 1920 to 1988, it is marked the "Little Mill Brick Works".
Between 1910 and 1920, Lougher who took over the works from the Burgoynes, changed the name to "Little Mill Brick Co" and later it became a limited company. Kelly's for 1926, and all directories subsequently, use the name Little Mill Brick Co Ltd". Lougher himself died in 1948. The spur into the works was removed in 1966, doubtless a victim of the infamous Beeching Cuts. The firm continued into the 1980s, the last directory entry being the 1981 Industrial Directory of Wales. Today, the site is the Little Mill Go Kart Track.
Well, Ruskin said a lot about the stones. A small tribute to the humble bricks and the workers who laid them!
A close up view of how the bricks are degrading over the years of constant exposure to sun, rain, winds and freezing winters.
Brick Fair traveled to Birmingham, AL to show of all their blocky goodness. The dealer's section was not huge but slam pack full of goodies, both stock and custom.
Then we checked out the exhibits, which I took pictures of. SO MUCH to see.
Ye olde Castle. Nice details on the buildings, and a witch being burned at the stake while the military walks on by and a lady calmly feeds her chickens.
I found this brick on Pelham Street in Hanley and a friend found another in Newfields at Tunstall. A look at Peake's directory for 1889-90 gives a reference to the Tunstall Brick and Tile Co., Newfields.
LEGO started to produce plastic bricks in 1949. The initial design was based on the Kiddicraft "Self Locking Building Bricks" by Hilary Page. LEGO received a sample mould of those Kiddicraft bricks with the first injection-moulding machine that was bought. That design was only patented in a few countries, so LEGO was able to produce similar bricks without legal problems. Only a few minor adjustments were made to the general design. The edges were sharper, the top of the studs were flattened, and in addition to the bricks with two opposite slots a design with a single slot was introduced.
Initially the LEGO bricks were produced in a rainbow of colours and sold under the name "Automatic Binding Bricks".
In 1953 LEGO changed the name of the product line to "LEGO Mursten". New brick sizes were added and the number of colours was reduced.
By 1955 LEGO developed the "System in play" and the product line was renamed again. From now on, all sets and parts supplemented each other instead of being separated items. A key design feature that all LEGO elements share until this day. The sets were modelled around a single theme: town plan.
LEGO kept searching for improvements. New parts and sets were added every year. In 1956 the slotted bricks and the corresponding windows were replaced. The new designs no longer needed the slots and the bricks were replaced by the "hollow bricks". By 1958 LEGO patented a new interlocking system for these bricks and they were replaced by the "bricks with tubes". Care was taken to improve the visual appearance of the bricks.
The LEGO slotted bricks were produced in a few locations:
1) Denmark
2) Sweden (approximately 1950-1954)
3) Norway (1953-1962)
4) Iceland (1955/56? - 1977)
LEGO seems to have controlled the moulds and seems to have rented them to the different companies as a part of the licence agreement. As a result, moulds sometimes moved form one location to the next. Some odd colours or materials that were used prove this. That is why, in some cases, it seems to be impossible to tell where a brick was produced.
John C. Edwards operated in the mid-1800s three brickworks in Wales: Tref-y-Nant, which made tiles, pipes and other mouldings; Pen-y-Bont, which made decorative terracotta bricks; and the Albert Works in Rhosllannerchrugog which made these light brown bricks. JCE bricks found their way to the Blackpool Tower, Ibrox Stadium and the Panama Canal.
This particular specimen is beautifully smooth and rounded from meeting the sea twice a day at the shore between Leith Docks and Seafield water treatment works.
Original DSC_5230
Another first time using a certain film, this time Kodak Ektar 100.
Walking down from the flower market leads pretty much directly on to Brick Lane. A long, busy, Sunday market with plenty of colours and bits of street art dotted around.
Olympus XA2
Kodak Ektar 35mm
I don't normally play around with the presets but thought this effect looks cool with the graffiti
MM: 1564487
Strobist info: 60x60cm softbox, canon 580 ex II, slightly left of lens
Triggered using 603s
Taken with a 1980s Tokina FD-mount 70-210mm telephoto zoom lens and an inexpensive adaptor purchased through eBay. Lens is fully zoomed in; aperture at Æ’/16.
At the UNESCO Heritage site Zollverein at Essen in the German Ruhr.
The site comprises a former coal mine, coal washer and coking ovens.
My set of photos is here.