1918 to Present - The History of Gauged Brickwork - page 334

The York Handmade Brick Company Ltd
Forest Lane
Alne
York
North Yorkshire
YO61 1TU
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.yorkhandmade.co.uk
Contact: Mr David Armitage
Hanson Building Products, Bedfordshire
As of January 2007, Hanson Building products were not in a position to man-
ufacture oversized traditional soft red rubbing bricks for gauged brickwork.
The company is, however, assessing the feasibility of relocating its Milton Hall
traditional soft red brickmaking machinery from Essex to another suitable
location.
Hanson Building Products
Stewartby
Bedford
MK43 9LZ
Tel: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.hanson.biz
Sussex Hand Made Bricks, Virginia, USA
There have also been some recent trials in the hope of small-scale production
of a rubbing brick in Richmond, Virginia, in the United States of America.
The author had a chance to work with some of these, using traditional cutting
and rubbing skills at an event in Bacon's castle, Virginia (2006) and the results
were most encouraging.
Until recently there has been no manufacture of rubbing bricks in the United
States. This is despite a revival of interest in the subject of cut and rubbed and
gauged brickwork, and especially as people seek to repair and restore Colonial
brickwork with these features on to the highest standards of authenticity.
Over the last year Jason Whitehead of Richmond, Virginia, who has worked
for several years in the brickmaking area of Colonial Williamsburg, where
they closely follow the eighteenth-century methods of brickmaking, has been