The Brickmakers of St Albans
A Talk given to the St Albans & Hertfordshire Architectural & Archaeological Society at St Albans on 7th January 2003

... and not forgetting

The many foremen, brick moulders, and labourers who actually did the work, such as James Dixon, foreman to Mr Miskin, William Fensome who worked for Frederick Barford and Jacob Reynolds, and many others.

The many bricklayers and builders, such as James Vass, Messrs Savage, and others, who may have made bricks for their own use and may have occasionally sold them.

Contractors such as Mr. R. Young, from Lincoln, who made the bricks for the Prison at a brickworks believed to be at Tyttenhanger.

And finally we must not forget Joseph Fenwick Owen, the Wheathampstead builder who opened a successful brickworks in 1899 at Hill End, undoubtedly to make the bricks for the large mental hospital that was being built there. This was at a time when all the other small brickworks were going out of business.

Supplementary Information

For details of other brickmakers see the Directory of St Albans Brickmakers

If you can add to the information given above tell me.