See my other blog for his E.M's bricks.
http://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/phil-sparhams-east-midlands-collection.html
N C B Hall End started life as Morris & Shaw Ltd. who operated Birch Coppice Collieries at Polesworth near Tamworth. Locally the main pit was known as Hall End. The brickworks are recorded of being in operation in 1940 & again in 1947 at the time of nationalisation.
The company was first started by Benjamin North in 1863, he was joined by Pflaum in 1898 to form North & Pflaum of Wortley, Leeds. They are recorded in Trade Directories 1898, 1908, 1911/12 & 1922. In the 1908 edition they are listed as making white & coloured glazed bricks at Wortley Firebrick Works, Upper Wortley Road, Leeds. Info by Phillip Rothery.
The Twentywell Brickworks at Bradway, Sheffield, was adjacent to the railway cutting off Twentywell Lane & was in operation from 1875 to the 1950s.
One of the many recorded examples from this brickworks which was adjacent to Lidgett Colliery, Barnsley.
