File:Joseph Hamblet (Bolsover to Glapwell Branch Line) (5497291651).jpg
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Joseph Hamblet, West Bromwich 1895. Joseph Hamblet was a true Black Country entrepreneur who progressed from humble brickmaker to brick manufacturer on the grand Victorian scale. He was born in Dudley in1819 and is recorded in the 1841 census as living in Darby End, Netherton with his wife Caroline (nee Grainger) and two children. His occupation at that time was reported simply as brickmaker. Ten years later in 1851 and obviously with an eye to business he acquired a small brickworks on part of John Edward Piercy's 'Oak House' Estate at Ireland Green, West Bromwich, near to the junction of Oak Road, Gads Lane and Albion Road. He ran this modest manufactory, the Piercy Brickworks, successfully in partnership with a Mr Parkes for a number years. "By the early 1860s Hamblet had became sole proprietor as well as manager and from this point onwards the business steadily grew until the site covered many acres. The main marl hole from which the raw material for the brickmaking process was drawn was served by an inclined railway which passed beneath Albion Road to link with the brickworks on the other side of the road. A large range of clayware products were made over time, from floor and roof tiles to kerb edgings and large specials as described by your correspodant, Mr W Inkson. However, blue engineering bricks were the firm's speciality and mainstay. Due to their strength and durability, and before the widespread use of reinforced concrete, standard blue bricks were the material of choice in civil engineering works such as sewers, canal and railway structures, and the larger 'specials' were also much used as embellishments (plinths, corbels, parapet copings, etc on public buildings, churches, houses and even garden walls) to which they imbued strength and a sense of permanence. Brick output at Hamblets peaked at between 400 to 500 thousand bricks per week in the 1890s, ranking Joseph Hamblet as the largest and most famous brick manufacturer in West Bromwich. |
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