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Figure 95
Gower Street, London,
c
.1780, showing the use
of malm cutters for the
construction of all the
gauged arches.
Of note, studying Cox's description is the naturally high level of silica in the
Malm (65-75%), a feature of bricks used for gauged enrichments. 'Malm cut-
ters', like contemporary rubbers, were produced to the same size as the stand-
ard bricks.
The prices for best malms during the Georgian period were (Cox, 2002):
Year
Price per 1,000
1787
80 shillings
1794
80 shillings
1810
105 shillings
1813
130 shillings
A Building Agreement, dated 15th October 1807, between the Earl of
Northampton and Thomas Hughes, for houses to be built by Hughes on the
Clerkenwell Estate of the Earl in the vicinity of Northampton Square, included
the following:
…the whole of the front to be faced with seconds and grey gauged arches [i.e. all
in London Stock brick including gauged arches] (London Metropolitan Archives:
ref E/NOR/L/3/545)
