Researching Your Brickmaking Ancestors - A Solid Trade by Dr Sadie McMullon

Family History Books

Researching your brickmaking ancestors focuses on the people involved and covers specific brickmaking areas, guiding you through extensive records thus providing a better understanding of the industry.

 

We learn much about those who made the bricks and those who operated the businesses. Different chapters cover specific brickmaking areas revealing why brickmaking was prominent there; we learn about the jobs our ancestors did and the machinery of the Industrial Revolution which transformed the industry.

The author’s passion for bricks is evident on every page as she paints a picture of the earliest bricks in the Walls of Jericho to the fabulous patterned brick buildings we see today.

Many areas had a brick works often supplying the local village in times gone by. Indeed, thousands of people were involved in brickmaking across the country and this well-illustrated book will appeal to everyone – whether they have brickmaking ancestors or not.

Everywhere around us there are bricks but we take little notice!  You will view bricks differently after reading this fascinating book which will engage and enthral!

 

223 pages, A5 format, Published July 2025