Brickworks at Brampton

[carol59]

Thanks Omskirk and John for that most interesting information.

Omskirk - if you are a brampton man i may pick your brains for further info in due course.  as a number of my distant and recent ancestors lived there.
Best wishes Carol

[omskirk]

  Dear Carol,
                     Be aware there is Old Brapton & New Brampton, your St Peters is in Old Brampton which is about two miles up the road from New Brampton, the Church for New Brampton is St Thomas, I'll help if I can.

  Omskirk {not my real name}

[theath]

Hi Carol, Don't know if this is too old, but I lived in Brampton until I was 15.  My great uncle was Arthur Heath, the builder.
I have a dim recollection of brickworks as you go towards the town centre from Brampton.  This would have been late 1940's
Regards
Terry

[Bangladore]

Google map---Baycliffe Close, Ashgate, Chesterfield. To the right of Baycliffe, there is a cul de sac. There are houses there now but that is where the brickworks were.
The green area beyond is The Inkerman - the site of the quarry.

[theath]

I lived in Ashgate Avenue until 1957 and I remember, now you have jogged my memory, there was a brickworks with a tall chimeny over the field at the bottom of our garden.
The Inkerman was at the left corner of the field and there was a footpath leading alongside the Inkerman to Ashgate Road.  You can see that, although the Inkerman has been filled in, Inkeman Cottages remains.
I would put the brickworks around the south end of the field which remains, just east of what is now Rockingham Close.  Looking from our garden the Inkeman was out of sight far left, probably 150 yards from the bottom of the garden.  We kids used to play in that field which is now the housing .  Direct in front over the field was the quarry used for the brickworks, without water.
If I unlock any other memories I will post.
Terry

[kimhulme]

Reading these posts from the beginning I assume that personal info is required as to a person possibly working at the brickworks. That is doubtful unless of a management position etc.
You could make general enquiries to the British Brick Society, Enquiries Secretary. 250 plus members up and down the country may be able to help. Are members at Penkridge and Stoke-on-Trent.
PM me for email of Enquireies Secretary.
KimH

[Grangewud]

I lived on Old Hall Rd, Brampton near Pearsons Recreation Ground which is opposite Manor Rd. The top end of this section of road continued as a footpath and the Wasp Nest brick kiln was to the right. I remember seeing men removing freshly made bricks and believe it was still operating till 1956. The top end of the footpath came out on the 2nd section of Manor Rd. Although I am using past tense, I think the road and footpath layout is still the same, but the brick kiln site and Inkerman quarry have gone. Pearson's Brampton pottery was at the far side of the recreation ground.
Grangewud

[theath]

 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

Arthur Heath was my great uncle.  When I was a child in the late 40's and early 50's he ran a building company.  He employed my father, his nephew, until his (my father's) death in 1957.  Athur Heath lived in Old Brampton, although his brother Godfrey (Goff) Heath lived in Brampton.  He was a cabinet maker/joiner and he worked as such for the Brampton Brewery.. Terry Heath

[Derbysderek]

Just barging into you Brampton folks.......I have the parish Records for both Old Brampton and for Brampton St Thomas..and a whole lot more elsewhere in Derbyshire. if you need any help from them.

Derek.