866
Cottage, Garden and Tile Sheds (owner William Gilby, occupier Thomas
Greenhill and others)
Location: south side of the Coventry Road, west corner of Redhill Road. The Coventry Road has been widened over this
site.867
Brickkiln Piece (owner William Gilby, occupier Thomas Greenhill)
Location: triangular area south of the Coventry Road between Kings Road and Ada
Road.
1847
376
Tile House and Sheds (owner Charles Thornton, occupier Daniel Bishop)
Location: east side of junction of Coventry road and Deakins Lane, in the angle. See the map just above this entry for the
location.
868 Cottages, Brickyards, Sheds and Land (owner Thomas Mansfield, occupier
himself)
Location: buildings between the ends of Ada
Road and Arthur Road, still shown on the 1888 map as a brick works. Some of the area may
still be open. See the Tithe Map extract for 866 and 867 above for the site
in 1847.
1888
1916
851 Tile House Piece with Tile House (owner Joseph Martin, occupier himself)
Location: buildings south side of Coventry Road opposite Preston Road,
overbuilt by a house called Stonyhurst. The
Coventry Road has been widened over this site. Joseph Martin is listed in a
directory of 1841 as a blacksmith, tile
maker etc.
855 Brick Kiln Field (owner Joseph Martin, occupier himself)
Location: the field is now covered by Hilderstone Road.
 1847
 1888
 1916
381 Brick Kiln Piece (owner Humphrey Pountney, occupier John Yeomans)
Location: there is what appears to be a structure in a field on the east
side of Holder Road, which is still open in the recreation ground. Just
north of there was the Fast Pits, later Fast Pits Farm. See the Tithe Map
extract for 851 and 855 above for the site in 1847.
 1888
 1916
A Joseph Kemp is listed in a directory of
1850 as a brick and tile maker, Coventry Road.
This may be in the South Yardley section rather than here.
Later, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries large brickworks
developed at Hay Mills.
1888
The kilns near the Coventry Road are shown as a
brick works, as mentioned above, but the directories do not show a works
there at that time, unless Henry Powley was not on Speedwell Road as Stephenson states.
However, it is possible to see two pits and two sets of kilns at the bottom
of this map. It is possible that this
site near the Coventry Road is that of Skelding
and Barkling/Barklam (1879, 1881 listings). Frank Barklam, whose home is the
Causeway, Milton Villas on the 1881 Census, is listed there as a Master
Bricklayer, employing five hands. The works is described as at Red Hill in
the directories.
1916
Shipways/Derringtons
In 1878 Henry Shipway is listed as a brick and tile maker as well as a
timber merchant, at the Speedwell Brick Works, Red Hill. In 1884 Edwin Shipway is listed as a brick maker at the Speedwell Brick
Works. It is curious that there is no listing between the two dates. Shipways were
builders, and had a timber yard, and a wharf on the canal. None of the
family living at Hay Mills described themselves as brick makers on the 1881 Census. According to the
Hay Mills Project, several local roads are named after the Shipways: Ada
Road, Berkeley Road and Berkeley Road East (Berkeley in Gloucestershire,
where the Shipways had come from), George Road and Shipway Road, and
Wharfdale Road. Derringtons had bought Edwin Shipway's yard by 1888.
Powleys/Derringtons
Henry Powley is listed at the Yardley Brick Works, Hay Mills, in 1879, and
continues to appear until 1890. On the 1881 Census he is resident at at Olton Lodge,
Yardley Road, and is described as a brick maker employing eight men and two boys. His yard, which was adjacent to Shipways' former yard on
Speedwell Road according to Stephenson, was bought by Derringtons around
1890.
Derringtons carried on until around
1920, when they sold the pit to the Corporation to use for dumping rubbish.
They carried on as brick merchants.
Bayliss/Waterloo
The Bayliss Brickworks was the other large brick works, across Speedwell
Road. Albert Stephenson wrote
that it had been started by Henry Hemming, who had been associated with Derringtons, in 1895 (the directories list him from 1900).
Perhaps Henry Hemming started at the small works nearer the Coventry Road
after Skelding and Barklam left. He later sold the Speedwell Road works
to Frank and William Bayliss around 1913. Bayliss carried on until c. 1969,
when their pit was 125 feet deep, and a local landmark.
Postcard, c. 1915
A photograph of the Bayliss works from the east, taken in
1972 by H. Birch a few years after closure
The pit at the former Bayliss works in 1972, an awesome
sight (H. Birch)
Introduction
Billesley, Hall
Green and Acocks Green
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Tyseley
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Yardley
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