A website for Brick Monomaniacs

[Ferdinand]

It is wonderful that people do this.

 

An entire site about bricks and brickworks from my area.

 

https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

 

 

And a wonderful "walking" steam engine from a different site, made by the Butterley company. It ran at 3mph up a 1/50 gradient. Designed by someone familiar with a horse.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Horse_locomotive

 

Commendable nerdery. Found due to following a reference to the billionaire with a global conglomerate who lives in Repton. Not, unfortunately, @PeterW

 

Ferdinand

 

 

[PeterW]

Saw some Butterley ones in the pile at the weekend marked "Butterley Ollerton" - I should take a photo and send it to him ..!

[Ferdinand]

2 minutes ago, PeterW said:

Saw some Butterley ones in the pile at the weekend marked "Butterley Ollerton" - I should take a photo and send it to him ..!

 

He has lots of varieties of those already :-).

 

I was trying to match some late 1970s buff bricks, and some Butterleys match, but the Butterley Brick company is now down South somewher - Bedford I think. So none to pick up locally.

 

The Repton conglomerate is Langley's, which came out of a small business which used to supply the mining industry. Now 4000 people internationally and £800m+ turnover.

 

F