There was quite a thriving fireclay / brick making industry in Wortley, Leeds. The makers commonly have their name impressed in the frog. I think that last one I recorded in the Yorkshire Dales was a pale cream firebrick bearing the name Ingham of Wortley.
There are online copies of trade directories covering Leeds @ http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/
A quick look finds "North Benjamin, Wortley Firebrick Works, Silver Royd Hill, Upper Wortley, Leeds" in the 1881 Kellys directory of the West Ridding of Yorkshire p.1849.
Looks like that may be the one.
Martin
Meerstone Archaeological Consultancy http://www.martinroe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/meerstone.htmLead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales, http://www.martinroe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:13:19 +0100> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: firestone and lime kiln> To: [log in to unmask]> > Hi All> > I am trying to write some interpretation for a lime kiln in the Yorkshire Dales. > It is quite an unusual kiln as the bowl was fully re-lined in the mid-nineteenth > century. Around the draw hole there are also some quite nicely dressed > firestones with the inscription (carved) B. North Wortley.> > Can anyone shed any light on the inscription? Any info will be gratefully > received as I have exhausted all my lines of enquiry.> > Lynne
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