Researching your BRICK-MAKING ANCESTORS – a solid trade by Dr. Sadie McMullon
This NEW BOOK focuses on the people involved and covers specific brick-making areas, guiding you through extensive records thus providing a better understanding of the industry. We learn much about those who made the bricks and those who operated the businesses.
Different chapters cover specific brick-making areas revealing why brick-making was prominent there; we learn about the jobs our ancestors did and the machinery of the Industrial Revolution which transformed the industry.
The author’s passion for bricks is evident on every page as she paints a picture of the earliest bricks in the Walls of Jericho to the fabulous patterned brick buildings we see today.
Many areas had a brick works often supplying the local village in times gone by. Indeed, thousands of people were involved in brick-making across the country and this well-illustrated book will appeal to everyone – whether they have brick-making ancestors or not.
Everywhere around us there are bricks but we take little notice! You will view bricks differently after reading this fascinating book which will engage and enthral!
223 pages, A5 format. RRP £14.95.
