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Bricks: to build a house
 
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ISBN13:9781032748054
ISBN10:1032748052
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:244 pages
Size:210x189 mm
Weight:610 g
Language:English
683
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Bricks

to build a house
 
Edition number: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication:
 
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Short description:

First published in 1976, Bricks tells the story of bricks in Britain. John Woodforde describes bricks and brickmaking in the ancient world and in Europe and America; he gives a comprehensive account of brickmaking in Britain up to the 1970s.

Long description:

First published in 1976, Bricks tells the story of bricks in Britain. The story of the brick begins with the sun-dried, mud bricks formed with hands alone. Walls built with such bricks have been found in the ruins of Jericho ? probably the oldest town in the world. John Woodforde describes bricks and brickmaking in the ancient world and in Europe and America; he gives a comprehensive account of brickmaking in Britain up to the 1970s. He describes the properties of bricks, including those of the unique fletton brick, manufactured by the London Brick Company. The author looks, too, at the equipment and techniques used to fashion bricks, the brickmakers themselves and brickwork of many kinds: in garden walls, sewers, canals, railways and roads as well as in Hampton Court and the Nash terraces of Regent?s Park. This book will be of interest to students of architecture, engineering, chemistry and construction.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgement 1. Burnt earth 2. The properties of brick 3. Brick BC 4. Roman brick 5. Medieval and Tudor brickwork 6. Early brickmaking practice 7. Brickwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 8. The manipulation of brick 9. Brickwork of the nineteenth century 10. Victorian brickyards 11. Victorian inventions 12. Brickmaking for canals, railways and roads 13. Transport 14. The fletton brick 15. A brickyard on a private estate 16. Britain?s brick industry since 1900 17. Brick tiles 18. The heritage of brick Select bibliography Index