Has anyone got any photos, I have asked around and had no luck. I wouldn’t care I used to work there I was one of those students who always turned up for the summer, The money was great no tax.
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Hi
Unfortunately, I haven’t any photographs of the brick works. But I am interested in it’s location. Grid references, in historical books, put it as being near Lambton D pit and the coke works, on the East of the Leamside line. Others suggest it was on the opposite side of the road from Lambton 6th pit. Can you help?
Regards
Stan
hi stan lumley brickworks was on the opposit side of the
road to lambton pit as you know it has all gone now
i used to work there i left in 1959 and went to live in derby
i still keep in touch with a couple of blokes that i used
to work with and visit them when i come back to..gods country
iff you know anyone from bickworks please let me know…..ron daley
hi are you saying that lumley brickworks
was working during ww1 how interesting
ron daley
The first location you mention was definitely the old Lambton Brickworks- had a couple of uncles who worked there,
Hi Stan
Welcome to our little world of Fence Houses
There were two brick factories. The one opposite Lambton 6th pit was called Lumley brick works, Lady Scarbourgh I think part owned this or was a major share holder. The other was Lambton brick factory near Lambton D pit. I willput the grid ref and maps on the site asap.
I hope this helps
Hi,
6th Pit was called Lumley 6th Pit as opposed to Lambton.
Lumley Brickworks was built on the site of the old Lumley 7th Pit over the road from Lumley 6th Pit colliery and adjacent to the Lumley 6th Pit Colliery Welfare Hall
hi does anyone remember Les Edwards he was forman
under the bancrofts and E Douglas who was chargehand
at lumley brickworks sadly les has gone but eddy is still with us
thanking you…ron daley
I worked at Lumley brickworks for 2x. 6month periods in the early 70s.
as part of my college (durham tech) engineering course.I remember Les Edwards in his blue dust coat. I worked alongside Eddie Douglas , Tommy Moralee & old Geordie the fitters mate. Fond memories. Only the pay/clocking office remains.
Hi Ron
Les was my grandad and his son Ray worked there too x
Hi , another of those students who worked there. Csilla Wilkinson worked in the offices, Garside was one of the managers, Coxon foreman with marvellous copper plate handwriting, Joe Curry sand and die man whom l covered for when he was ill, Mattie and Ronnie two drawers (who taught me how to drink!!) and finally my college friend from Stanley Jeff Carr who was setting in the old coal fired brick kiln. 1965, 66 and 67.
Just found out my father worked there prior to WW1′
But sorry no photos.
All the best from a Shiney Row lad in deepest Norfolk, who can remember tennis tournaments at Burnmoor CC. My family once owned Floaters Mill , the farm before it was a Pub.
Hi
Do you know if a family named Fowler worked or were associated with the brickworks
Good evening,
Just to say how pleased I was to find this website. Hopefully you of you will recall my father, Joe Coggings, who ran Lumley Brickworks until his sad death in the late 1980′s.
I can remember many of the loyal men who worked for him, including Jim Garside, Jack Perry, Gordon Walker etc etc. Although I was only a child when my father ran the brickworks, the people who worked there were an important part of my growing up.
I spent many a Sunday lunch sat with a coke in the lounge at The Dun Cow, waiting for the result of the domino card.
I now live in Brighton but am very pleased to have found this site.
Regards to you all
It would be great if you or a member of the family could upload a photo of Joe. He was a great fella just like a lot of the hard working men at the time
The name Joe Coggins rings a bell, also Gordon Walker. My father was Frank Robinson, local builder who did a lot of the maintenance work at Lumley Brick Works.
Hi, I worked at Lumley Brickworks under Joe Coggings for a number of years. He was a great bloke. (you could not be found with a calculator on your possession.) NOT ALLOWED ha ha. All calculations had to be done in your head. I also remember Gordon Walker, Jim Garside, Ken Wise, the Blackburn sisters, Les Edwards Stella Walker (nee Blackburn). Yes. Good Times.
do you remember ann henderson she worked with stella in the office with joe coogins
Hi Andrew
I remember your Dad, I can remember seeing him occasionally but not to speak as he was the Big Boss. I just remember would mention his name and we all had to look as if we were working. I am still waiting for photos or anything we can put on the website regarding Lumley Brickworks.
my grandfather was manager of lumley brickworks ,some time in the 1920 s / 1930 s his name george thurwell he lived in redburn row where rainton bridge estate is. my mother was born there and me and the the family are all fence houses born
roland . my father billatkinson and bill rutherford ran the tennis tournament for years at burnmoor cc all our family learned to walk on bcc in the summer months,we wre all ball boys there.