| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (mostly color), maps. |
| Series |
Studies in regional and local history ; volume 22
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Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 22.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Brickfields -- 1. A brick-built city: London brickmaking at the beginning of the nineteenth century -- 2. From clay pit to clamp: manufacturing the London stock brick -- 3. Finding the clay: landowners, brickmakers and the availability of land -- 4. 'The rage for building': meeting demand for bricks in Victorian London -- 5. Brickfields in town and country -- Part II: Brickmakers |
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6. Builders, brickmasters and speculators: brickmaking businesses and their owners -- 7. Land, machinery and labour: operating and financing the brickfield -- 8. The market for bricks: brickmakers, builders' merchants and customers -- 9. From brickfield to building site: delivering the bricks by road, rail and water -- Part III: Brickies -- 10. 'Hard and inappropriate labour': the brickies at work -- 11. 'The perfection of untidiness, dirt and disease': the brickies at home -- 12. 'Habits of intemperance': the brickies and the beershop -- 13. 'Profane workmen': the brickies at prayer |
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14. Pug boys and barrow loaders: the children of the brickfields -- 15. 'The great struggle': industrial disputes and trade unions in the brick industry -- Part IV: An industry in decline -- 16. 'The chief market is London': the challenge of the Fletton brick -- 17. Into the new century: stock brickmaking after 1900 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Bricks -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Brickmaking -- Social aspects -- 19th century.
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Bricks. |
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hounsell, Peter Bricks of Victorian London Chicago : University Of Hertfordshire Press,©2022 9781912260560 |
| ISBN |
9781912260621 (electronic bk.) |
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191226062X (electronic bk.) |
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9781912260560 |
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9781912260638 ebook |
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1912260638 ebook |
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