Brickmaking in Walkern
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The last Walkern Brickmaker
[By Bob Bruce, from the September 1974 issue of the Wallkern Journal]
Back in the Mid 19th Century, it seems, a Brick Field operated in Walkern, and I talked to its last Brickmaker, Mr Fred Warner of Elmside Villa, Stevenage Road.
Fred worked for...
The Brickfields by Cecil Beadle
[An article for the Walkern Journal May 2005]
A seam of London type clay running from the south east to the north west of the village was the type for making red bricks (hand made) with the mark 'Walkern
Bricks' on each one. The first brick...
Brick makers at Walkern by Anthony Camp
[From the June/July 2005 issue of the Walkern Journal]
The first brickmaker that I have found mentioned in Walkern was John Baker who leased two cottages in Frog Hall Lane in 1695 and mortgaged them for £25 in 1700 and again in 1701. He sold them to ...
