Display of Local Bricks

Three display racks containing building bricks originally produced within an area of approximately 30 miles from central Birmingham are displayed in the cart shed. Each of the racks can display 36 bricks giving a total of 108 bricks.

Wall mounted display boards list the bricks on each rack and, where possible, includes some additional information on each of the bricks.

Rack 1

Bricks from Local areas and
the Eastern Midlands

Hamstead
Shenstone
Erdington
Sutton Coalfield
Burton-upon-Trent
Coalville
Nuneaton
Tamworth
Coventry

Rack 2

Bricks from Aldridge
and Walsall

Walsall Wood
Aldridge
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Bloxwich
Leamore
Bentley
Longmore
Walsall
Darlaston

Rack 3

Bricks from the
Western Midlands

Wednesfield
Wolverhampton
Willenhall
Sedgeley
Dudley
West Bromwich
Oldbury
Cradley Heath
Stourbridge
An additional rack displays bricks from the central Birmingham area and is capable of displaying 21 bricks. This rack has a backboard displaying the location of the brickworks that produced the bricks on this rack.

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?

Temporary page - more details will be included when access to the racks is possible.