Display of Local Bricks
Three racks holding recovered building bricks originally produced within an area of approximately 30 miles (50 km) from central Birmingham are displayed in the  cart shed. Each rack can display 36 bricks, a total of 108 bricks. Wall mounted display boards list the bricks on each rack and, where possible, includes additional information on each of the bricks, diagrams on brick making and copies of old photographs of works and the workers.

The bricks displayed are examples from the very many brickworks that once existed throughout the country. Many were small and may not have worked for very long, also they may not have imprinted their names onto the bricks. Brickworks using machines extruding a long strip of clay that was then wire-cut to create separate bricks produced bricks without an imprinted name.
Many more examples of named bricks can be seen on the Penmorfa web site.

Rack 1
Bricks from Local areas and
the Eastern Midlands

 Rack 2
Bricks from the Aldridge
and Walsall areas

Rack 3
Bricks from the
Western Midlands
Hamstead
Shenstone
Erdington
Sutton Coldfield
Castle Bromwich		 Burton-on-Trent
Coalville
Nuneaton
Tamworth
Coventry		 Walsall Wood
Aldridge
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Bloxwich
Leamore		 Bentley
Longmore
Walsall
Darlaston
 Wednesfield
Wolverhampton
Willenhall
Sedgeley
Dudley		 West Bromwich
Oldbury
Cradley Heath
Stourbridge
The "Brickmobile" display unit contains bricks from the central Birmingham, Saltley and Washwood Heath areas.
A backboard with a map shows the location of the brickworks of the displayed bricks and other information.
 
There is also a Mystery Box containing two bricks to view on Open Days.
 
Cleaning bricks - do you keep you bricks as you found them or do you clean them?
 
"Brick Making in the Midlands" - a brief description of early brick making with a selection of local bricks