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The Royal Arcade in Norwich was designed by local architect George Skipper in 1899. It is a marvellous piece of Art Nouveau architecture including this impressive entrance with lots of glazed terracotta. The arcade is listed Grade II*.

Car House Colliery along with Aldwarke Main, to which it was connected underground, in Rotherham was ocquired by the Sheffield steelmakers Sir John Brown & Co in 1873. It appears to have been closed soon after flooding claimed the lives of eight miners in 1913 and the 1923 OS map shows much of the site cleared. In spite of being closed for 100 years there are still some buildings surviving from the pit, including this winding enginehouse in the yard of a waste management company.

The oldest part of this group of corrugated iron buildings dates from c1897 and had to be moved up the hill when the scond railway viaduct was built here in 1905. The building on the left opened in 1906 as a refreshment room serving the nearby Miller's Dale station and operated until the railway closed in 1967. Reopened from the 1980s to 2002 these corrugated iron buildings are now fully refurbished as a holiday let. Now known as the "Wriggly Tin" the buildings have their own website: www.wrigglytin.co.uk/aspx001/article.aspx?CID=5&SID=f0fc0b69-dd11-472a-b559-c22ded590799

The Grace Building is a historic building located in Sydney, New South Wales Australia. Designed by Morrow & Gordon and built by Kell & Rigby during the late 1920s, it was opened in 1930 by Grace Brothers (!), the Australian department store magnates, as their headquarters. The building was Inspired by the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower in Chicago and designed for a department store on the first two floors and office rental space above. It was extensively refurbished and restored in the 1990s and since June 1997, it has operated as a luxury hotel known as "the Grace Sydney".

Over-successful cooling at the Enthoven lead recycling plant at South Darley. This is an interesting example of a manufacturing plant remaining long after the mine that supplied the raw materials has closed. On this site was Millclose Mine, once one of the largest lead mines in the world. Closed due to flooding in 1940 the site has continued to maintain links with lead production and is now the largest single site producer in Europe of recycled lead.

Working Men's Club and Institute Union (CIU) built this terracotta clad convalescent home between 1912-14. It operated until 1989 by which time 83,028 convalescent residents had passed through its doors. It has since been completely refurbished with an extra storey added across the imposing frontage and is now owned by Brancaster Healthcare as Cartmel Grange Nursing Home.

Watch office at RAF Cark with a smaller Fighter Satellite Watch Office to the right. The airfield was constructed for fighters in late 1940 but appears to have been mainly used for anti-aircraft training and later for pilot training.

The former Central Fire Station on Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, was built in 1911 by the Borough Surveyors under architect Arthur Race. The terracotta for this Grade II listed building was supplied by Burmantofts of Leeds.

William Gradwell was a major building contractor in Barrow-in-Furness. In 1855 he moved his business to Hindpool, Barrow, and set up a brickworks in Dalton Road capable of turning out 75,000 bricks a week.

R. Wilson was operating Broughton Moor Colliery and Brickworks in the 1880s. In the 1890s the business traded as Flimby & Broughton Moor Coal & Firebrick Co. Ltd.

A group of local businessmen, H.Mellor, G.S.Heath, R.F.Matthews and John Field formed the Askam Brick Company Ltd. in about 1899/1900. The Works was constructed during 1900 with plant and machinery installed and railway connections made and brick production commenced on the 1st December 1900. During the year 1901 to 1902 Furness Brick & Tile Co. Ltd. acquired the assets of Askam Brick Company.Unknown maker - seen on a beach at Askam in Furness

Unknown maker - found on a beach near Ulverston.

Cindrils is a firebrick mark of Joseph Morton Ltd, Cinderhills Fireclay Works, Siddal, near Halifax.

Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig and was used for firebricks made with a mixture of poorer quality Ayrshire clay and local fire clay to provide a cheaper product for less demanding applications.

The Furness Brick & Tile Co Ltd has been established for over 145 years at Askam in Furness and remains a family owned business. The works continues to manufacture a vast range of standard and bespoke bricks to order.

Henry Graves, Gillhead Brickworks, Flimby, Cumbria. In 1867 a colliery was sunk at Gill Head, Flimby by Messrs Lucock & Carlton to produce coal, fireclay and gannister. The Whitehaven News for 18th January 1872 carries an advert "Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks for sale, apply Mrs. Lucock, Broughton Moor". Again, in January 1876, "FOR SALE by private treaty; Gillhead Colliery and Brickworks near Flimby, in use by representatives of the late Mr. Joseph Lucock". In 1878 a partnership between Mary Lucock and Henry Graves, as Coal Owners and Brick and Tile Manufacturers, at Gill Head, in the parish of Flimby, was dissolved with Henry Graves continuing the business in his own name. The business became the Gillhead Coal & Firebrick Co. in 1897.

In 1876 AJ Woodhouse moved his yard to Walney Road and his works covered an area of over 20 acres. The Furness Brick Company works lasted to 1972 and the site is now occupied by Asda.

The Furness Brick & Tile Co Ltd has been established for over 145 years and remains a family owned business. The works can manufacture a vast range of standard and bespoke bricks to order. The transverse-arch continuous kiln has twenty chambers and is coal-fired.