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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]If the brickyard is the "quarry," and I'm not sure that it would be, then this was owned by C.W. Hardy. There was a press cutting in 1911 about the local striking miners digging for coal there. The area had quite a lot of brickyards. I can't now remember which bricks were used in my first house, on Ebenezer Street, Langley Mill, though they were a local company. What I do remember was how solid they were!!!! The number of drill bits I got through when I live there! Two specifics I remember from when I rewired the house: - trying to chisel a chase through a single-layer wall, the brick pushed out the other side, through the plaster. - worse than that, my top-quality bolster chisel ended up getting bent, rather than the brick giving way! They don't make them like that any more!![/quote]
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replied on: 3/19/2003 6:38:40 PM

If the brickyard is the "quarry," and I'm not sure that it would be, then this was owned by C.W. Hardy. There was a press cutting in 1911 about the local striking miners digging for coal there.

The area had quite a lot of brickyards. I can't now remember which bricks were used in my first house, on Ebenezer Street, Langley Mill, though they were a local company. What I do remember was how solid they were!!!! The number of drill bits I got through when I live there!

Two specifics I remember from when I rewired the house:
- trying to chisel a chase through a single-layer wall, the brick pushed out the other side, through the plaster.
- worse than that, my top-quality bolster chisel ended up getting bent, rather than the brick giving way!
They don't make them like that any more!!

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