Bruffords or Ruffords? Ruffords were fairly well-known brick makers; firebricks and apparently glazed bricks. See http://www.tom.cockeram.clara.net/Industry/188700rc.htm
I think they started in the early 19th C and finished some time in the early 20th C.
David
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Waterhouse
Sent: 02 September 2008 16:18
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Subject: Re: Bruffords brick makers
Dear List,
Slightly off-subject I know, but I don't suppose anyone knows about a brick
manufacturer called Bruffords of Stourbridge? We've just found a brick made
by them at Morwellham Quay, used to line a limekiln, before the mid-1850s.
Robert Waterhouse
Morwellham Quay Archaeologist
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