Brickworks of Stoke-on-Trent and district

Basford & Trent Vale Tileries


Brick from T Williams' Basford & Trent Vale Tileries
Brick from T Williams' Basford & Trent Vale Tileries

photo courtesy of 'Tarboat -Flickr'

Thomas Williams was operating his brickworks at Basford, Etruria by the 1860s and was still in business in 1904. The works does not appear in the 1912 Kelly's directory.

Brick from Basford & Trent Vale Tileries
Brick from Basford & Trent Vale Tileries

photo courtesy of 'Tarboat -Flickr'


 

Basford & Trent Vale Tileries on Brick Kiln Lane - 1898 map
Basford & Trent Vale Tileries on Brick Kiln Lane - 1898 map
 


location of the Basford & Trent Vale Tileries - Google maps 2009

 

 

view along Brick Kiln Lane
view along Brick Kiln Lane

 

 


in the foreground is Basford Brick and Tile kilns
the gas holder of Etruria Gas Works can be seen
and in the distance the tower of St. Marks church, Shelton

photo: 1950's

 

 

 

 

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