bricks from the - Department of Architecture

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The problem of transporting bricks in the early eighteenth century
must have been considerable. Thus I was fascinated to find a list of
the sales of the bricks from the kiln. On 4 November' 1727 Thomas Plaxton
agreed to make 100,000 bricks at Bainton for 8s 6d per 1000. The bricks
made were sold to the fol10wing peop1e at the stated places~
Notes
Mr Barenet of North Dalton 12,500 £8 2s 6d.
Mr Hochenon of Bainton 11,000 £7 5s Ode
Robert Bengton of Bainton 22,500 £14 lOs Ode
Mr Gavit of Beverley 8,000 £5 4s Ode
M.D.Jameson of Bainton 2,000 £1 6s Ode
John Bengton 'of Bainton 1,100 14s 4d.
John Smith of Bainton 1,500 19s 6d.
George Cobon of Bainton 2,000 £1 6s Ode
John George of Bainton 500 6s 6d.
HewHeperson of Bainton 4,000 £2 12s Ode
John Hotson of North Dalton 1,500 19s 6d.
Mr Hotson of Cranswick 1,500 19s 6d.
Mr Thompson of Tibthorpe 2,000 £1 6s Ode
John Rorgers of Bainton 600 8s Ode
Wil1iam Gray 6f Bainton 5,000 £3 5s Ode
John Marshall of Bainton 800 lOs Ode
William Dickeson of North Da1tonl,OOO 13s Ode
..... etc. 3
1. M.Beswick, 'The Country Brickmakers of the Weald', BBS Information,
30, May 1983, 9-10.
2. The accompanying map shows the locations;of all places mentioned in
the accounts.
3. (This works out at anormal price ~f 13s' per 1000 at the kiln,
although the fu11 range is from, 12s 6d pe:.r1000 to 13s 4d per
1000. This compares wi th bricks.'supplied in the same years to
various official bodies such as the Office of Works and Greenwich
Hospital; these cost rather more but inc1uded carriage,
which is not the case with the bricks mentioned_by Mrs Los in
her artic1e. TPS.) .
A Change of Name. Those who have pursued work on old brickmaking
sites will be aware of 'rationalising' name-changes,
as when (B.g.) Brick Kilns (ar, in an older form~ Brick Kills)
becomes Brick Hills. An interesting example i8 given in W.Minet,
Hadham Hall ... , Colchester, 1914: a site in Little Hadham, Hertford-"
shire where there had been brick clamps in 1844 had, by the early
years of the present century, become Brick Lambs. I am not sure that
this would really have made the name any easier to understand! But
it is at least easy to appreciate how the change came about. In the
local speech, the 'ck' of 'brick' and the 'c' of 'clam~' would be
assimilated whilst the 'p' between Im' and 's' would become a
glottal stop; the result, in phonetic transcription, wou~d be
IbrikJam?s ; a further slight change would give the 'pronunciation
'Brick Lambs I [lbrikJamz].
(T.P.SmithJ