IMPORTED AND OUT-OF-STATE BRICKS
Brand name: HANNINGTON
Company: Hannington and Company (George and Mary Hannington)
Location: Swalwell
Years: 1846-1887+
Type: Firebrick
Description: Brand name impressed on the face. The brick is buff in color and has a coating of melted
brown slag. The clay property at Swalwell was leased to Hannington in 1846 by Sir Thomas John Clavering of Axwell Park and
Greencroft, Baronet, for a term of 21 years. This lease may have been extended as Mary Hannington was manufacturing firebricks
at the property in 1883 and as late as 1887.
Reference: Kelly's Directory of Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, North and South Shields, and Suburbs, London: Kelly and Company, 1883;
Greenvalley, Hanningtons in Durham, RootChat.Com, 2 August 2007; The Monthly Chronicle of North-Country Lore and Legend, v. 1, no. 1,
March 1887.
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