Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 3
Continued.
Description
Dimensions
Cracked at tons
Crushed at tons
Colour
Remarks
per sq. ft.
per sq. ft.
Glazed brick wire-cut
8
9
4
4
2
9
166
174
White
Frog
Kentish stock max.
9
3
4
4
2
9
107
127
Yellow
Kentish stock min.
9
1
4
3
2
8
30
54
Yellow
Kentish stock mean
9
2
4
4
2
9
-
82
Yellow
Staffordshire blue,
Staffordshire blue max.
9
0
4
5
3
2
763
807
Blue
Nineteen
Staffordshire blue min.
8
9
4
1
2
7
152
296
Blue
half
Staffordshire blue mean
9
0
4
2
2
9
-
564
Blue
bricks
Stourbridge max
9
0
4
3
2
8
161
242
Yellow
Stourbridge min
8
8
4
3
2
8
157
209
Yellow
Stourbridge mean
9
0
4
3
2
7
-
300
Yellow
Red rubbers max.
10
1
4
9
3
4
-
93
Red
Red rubbers min.
9
9
4
8
3
3
36
67
Red
Red rubbers mean
10
0
4
9
3
4
-
77
Red
Red rubbers three in
9
0
4
5
8
0
-
25
Red
column, bedded
in putty
Victorian and Edwardian Bricklayers
The high level of building activity during the mid-eighteenth century had seen
the complete disappearance of the craft guilds, and a rapid decline in the time-
honoured hierarchy of master, journeyman, and apprentice. By the beginning
of the Victorian period, master bricklayers were relatively rare in London. Big
businesses sprang up regulating wages and conditions of work, changing build-
ing from a craft-oriented industry to one of general contracting, a contractor
estimating for a whole job. This had early consequences in quality of crafts-
manship for the embittered workers who had now lost control of their work,
prices and traditions.
Despite hostility, the time-served craftsmen worked on the prestigious con-
tracts or on the parts of a building requiring knowledge, experience and skill,
but the rest of the trade was being flooded with cheap semi-skilled labour,
content with lower rates than craftsmen bricklayers. The Statute of Apprentices
