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February 6, 2013
I just liked the texture. And really wanted to take a photo because it feels like I haven't taken any real photos in a while.
Varusanathu-road, lots of brick making companies to see here !
Date Taken: 2008-01-04 10:10
Canon EOS 5D, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS
ISO-1600 Exposure: f/7.1, 1/1000 seconds 200mm
Sign on a church wall. Only one thing could make this sign even better, and that would be including a threat: "Violators will be persecuted."
In the 20th century the Brick Lane area was important in the second wave of development of Anglo-Indian cuisine, as families from countries such as Bangladesh (mainly the Greater Sylhet region) migrated to London to look for work. Some curry houses of Brick Lane will not sell alcohol as most are run by Muslims).
More recently the area has also broadened to being a vibrant art and fashion student area, with considerable exhibition space. Each year most of the fine art and fashion courses exhibit their work near Brick Lane.
Source: Wikipedia
uneven, rustic and, in my opinion, beautiful...and even more so with the sun throwing such strong shafts of light through the window...
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.
Taken on Shaw Avenue in McKeesport, PA. Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)
This is part of a series of photos that I took for a summer employment program that I helped to coordinate for the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR), part of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. The program began its pilot year in the summer of 2016 at which time we connected 50 students with jobs at nine municipalities within Allegheny County (Pittsburgh). As of this writing (9/2/2017), the second year was even more successful at facilitating employment as we made connections for over 170 students across 40 community organizations.
An AH James brick by the front gate of a house at the bottom of Greenmeadow Way. The reverse will almost certainly be marked "POИTИEWYDD" (Pontnewydd - reversed letters were common in 19th Century die sinking) - see comment below.
This brick will have no connection with this spot.
Nothing is known about the company, it appearing to be absent from trade directories, but interestingly, another brick company - see “C DAVIES & CO" has the same pattern frog, and the same “Pontnewydd” with the first N reversed. This suggests that one took over the other, keeping the same die for the reverse stamp. An AH James brick was found used in a house believed to have been built in Cwmbran in the late 19th century. Which might have come first, Davies or James is unknown, but the former are more frequently encountered, the latter being something of a rarity.
Photographed Llanyrafon Manor, Llanfrechfa Way, Cwmbran. The 17th Century manor has recently opened to the public after restoration. It was farmed until after WW2 when it fell into disrepair, and sold to Cwmbran Development Corporation in the 1950s.The only reference I can find to the Aberdare Brick Company is an entry in the Cardiff, Newport & District Trades Directory of 1914, stating that the company produced fire and building bricks, and their registered office was 10 Canon Street, Aberdare, phone number 200, Works, Aberdare. I believe the works closed in the 1920s