tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post3651878353409509927..comments2023-06-02T17:54:44.641+02:00Comments on Connaissances: A Brick Is... (Part 1)Jonathan Wonhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-57065443858634312662008-06-10T01:04:00.000+02:002008-06-10T01:04:00.000+02:00Thanks for your comment Lucy. I found this web sit...Thanks for your comment Lucy. I found <A HREF="http://www.grantandstone.co.uk/building/bricks/hanson-brick.htm" REL="nofollow">this web site</A> which says that London Bricks or 'Flettons' are only made by a company called Hanson, that they are made from Oxford Clay and come in a wide range of colours and textures. They are 'popular for matching existing brickwork' I suppose because much existing brickwork is made of London Brick!<BR/><BR/>Your right that it seems strange to think of brick as a special building material. But in fact, brick is something that has to be made and bought, while stone is something you can hack out of the ground yourself.<BR/><BR/>Your right about the orange tome. I hadn't thought of that. There is indeed some kind of metaphorical link between books and bricks, the way they stack up until they completely surround you.<BR/><BR/>The meal was good, though I'm not really sure about the black pudding.Jonathan Wonhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09862200571016427320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083730.post-51169473284428531172008-06-08T14:33:00.000+02:002008-06-08T14:33:00.000+02:00Fascinating, I do enjoy this kind of history. Wer...Fascinating, I do enjoy this kind of history. Were the London bricks those yellowish ones?<BR/><BR/>There's an old briquetterie quite near here, which has been reopened as an exhibition, educational and public space, focusing especially on sculpture and art based on clay and industrial type materials, and running little trains on the old line that was used for shifting the materials around. It had a pretty short working life in the first half of the 20th c. and never generated enough brick to use as a constructional material, but many of the better stone houses of that period have brick dressings round the doors and windows, and of course there was always demand for ridge tiles and finials in terra cotta. It seemed odd, coming from SE England where brick was the standard building material and stone buildings were rare and special, to somewhere where stone was bog-standard and brick a rarity.<BR/><BR/>The big orange tome sounds a little like a brick itself,and onion tart, black pudding and seven different desserts sounds rather a wonderful meal to me!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com