Brickworks at Brampton

[carol59]

I am trying to find out info about Waspsnest Brickworks in Brampton, Chesterfield around the 19thc.  my ancestor lived at Waspsnest and may well have worked there.  if anyone knows of any possible sources of info for Waspsnest Brickworks i wd very much appreciate hearing from them. 

[madbadrob]

Carol,

Having ancestors from Brampton this is interesting and I gues the place will be the Records Office at Matlock.  Have you googled?

rob

[carol59]

Hi Rob
I did google and found a very nice old map of Brampton on the JMJ Pottery website which is incorporated into their history of Brampton pottery.  The map has Waspsnest and the Waspsnest brickworks marked on it.  that is when i found out that there was a brickworks there, unfortunately the map didnt appear to be dated but it has whetted my appetite to find out more about it. as you say, i may get something from the records office.
If you havent already seen the map you may well find it interesting if you have ancestors from there.
by the way noticed that newbold is one of your research names, there was a Thomas Newbould who was a witness at my ancestor Richard wildman/wilemans marriage in 1839 at St Peters in Brampton.  believe the newboulds were a brampton farming family? richard married Milly Fisher who i believe came from a local farming family also so there may be a connection.
Carol

[madbadrob]

Hi Carol,

My newbolds are down the South on the Staffs borders but thanx for the thought.  I hadn't found the map and it is interesting that they are in the pottery works which is where one of my GAGAING (5th Great Grandad) worked as a pot burner in 1861

rob

[carlT]

hello,

[carlT]

Hello,
I work at a papermill at Brampton,and the site contains lot,s of broken pottery, supposedly from Pearsons pottery well known Chesterfield pottery, but I wonder - the site lies in the middle of brampton on the old Robinson and Sons works, if this is any help.

[omskirk]

  Waspnest Brickworks was on Old Hall Road and was established c1909.
Founded by two builders Edward Silcock & Edwin Hattersley & Arthur Heath, A Joiner and Arthur gibbons, a Butcher.
In 1934 it was taken over by theChesterfield Brick Co, which seemed to be the old company reformed, They ceased trading in the mid 40s.

 Omskirk

[John Whysall]

A primer for information about the Wasp's Nest pit might be Mr Bridgewater's site at:
http://www.abridgewater.freeserve.co.uk/New/Ashgate.htm
Most mining operations need brickwork. I am not a specialist, but I gather the  geology of this neighbourhood provided both soft and hard (.e."engineering") bricks.
An introduction to the New Brampton neighbourhood and genealogy might be:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/NewBrampton/index.html

[omskirk]

You're quite right John, I live in Brampton and the whole area is built on various types of clay, there were many brickworks and potteries around here in the 1800s.

A primer for information about the Wasp's Nest pit might be Mr Bridgewater's site at:
http://www.abridgewater.freeserve.co.uk/New/Ashgate.htm
Most mining operations need brickwork. I am not a specialist, but I gather the  geology of this neighbourhood provided both soft and hard (.e."engineering") bricks.
An introduction to the New Brampton neighbourhood and genealogy might be:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/NewBrampton/index.html