Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
The following are among those companies marketing rubbers and cutters dur-
ing this period:
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Allen's rubbers (Essex)
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Beart's white rubbers (Bedfordshire)
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Beaulieu whites (Hampshire)
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Chalfont red rubbers (Buckinghamshire)
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Collier's red rubbers (Berkshire)
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Cornard's rubbers (Suffolk)
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Cossey (Costessey) whites (Norfolk)
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Ewell rubbers (Surrey)
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Fareham reds (Hampshire)
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Kimber's rubbers (Hampshire)
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Midhurst rubbers (Sussex)
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Roshers red rubbers (Suffolk)
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TLB red rubbers (Berkshire)
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Wheeler's rubbers (Berkshire)
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Woolpit rubbers (Suffolk)
Allen's Rubbers
R.H. Allen of Ballingdon (Essex), made a deep black rubbing brick sometimes
referred to in contemporary documents as 'black Suffolk rubbers' (this was
due to the close proximity of the border separating Essex from Suffolk), as well
as their dark and bright rubber range.
As Corder-Birch (1996, 446-7) records:
On the Essex bank of the river Stour at Ballingdon were the large brickworks of
Robert Allen and Sons who excavated the Ballingdon Cut to facilitate access to
their works by barges from the river. The river Stour has been navigable since July
1713 … It therefore became one of the earliest rivers to be navigated … In 1859
Allen's were operating a fleet of 22 barges … Allen's Brickworks at Ballingdon had
commenced in 1812 and they later owned another brickworks at Bures Hamlet. At
their peak they were employing one hundred men in their brickworks.
Beart's White Rubbers
Robert Beart had huge rail-side brickworks exploiting the large reserves of
gault clay at Arsley near Hitchin (Bedfordshire). Gwilt (1888, 526) states that
his bricks were:
…of the following qualities, ranged according price:- white rubbers; handmade
moulded solid brick, equal to the best Suffolks.
