Walls around Loughborough

Yes! You did read that right! It does say 'walls about Loughborough' even though one might have expected it to read 'walks around Loughborough', given that I'm a tour guide!

The term brick wall could refer to a number of things! For example, it could be used in the phrase 'like banging your head against a brick wall' which means that despite repeatedly asking something, doing something, or saying something, a situation can't be changed. A similar usage is when you are doing your family tree and you 'hit a brick wall', which just means you can't find some vital piece of information - as basic as a date of birth, or marriage date, or date of death - so you can't trace any more information about that part of your family.

In the case of this blog, I'm actually talking about walls made of brick, so house walls, garage walls, garden walls etc.. I've written extensively about local brickmakers in previous posts (1), but I don't think I've shared pictures of brick walls before! We have quite a variety in Loughborough, which use many different kinds of bond, and which are quite different in style. 

So, we've got walls with what look like an inset panel, which seem to have been popular around the late-nineteenth, early twentieth century, like those close to the Great Central Railway, by Herbert Morris, and on Park Road. We've got what look like reconstructed walls that have the imprint of the brick type showing. We've got red brick walls, practically everywhere you look, and we've got blue brick walls, especially on some of the GCR bridges. We've got houses constructed of red bricks, white bricks, and a mixture of the two!

We've got walls made with English Garden Wall Bond; Flemish Garden Wall, or Sussex Bond; English Bond; English Cross Bond; Common, or American Bond and Flemish Bond (either single or double). There's probably a whole load of others, too!

Anyway, here's some photos to show what I mean:

English Garden Wall Bond, Middleton Place

Not a wall, but a bridge. Other GCR bridge walls are also of blue brick

Tuckers, English Cross Bond on the former Prudential Building, Market Place

English Bond on the former Victoria Street School

Flemish Garden Wall, or Sussex Bond, Gray Street

Stretcher Bond, Gray Street. There's also a name for that little inserted row, but it escapes me!

The hidden door, Burton Street

Insert panels with hidden door, in Stretcher Bond, Park Road

Inserts on Mayfield Drive

Inserts, Stretcher Bond, Park Road

English Cross Bond

Flemish Bond at the Great Central Railway, with GR post box

New housing estate boundary Wall in Flemish Bond on Great Central Road

There's a name for this bond, but I don't know what it is! Corner of Wharncliffe Ave and GCRoad

Then we have walls with OS marks - Convent on Park Road

Close-up of the OS mark

We have doors that are now walls

We have bricks of red clay and white clay, used together

We have buildings made completely from white clay bricks

We have brick walls, painted, with sentiment

We have houses of Flemish Bond, mixing white clay and red clay bricks

We have patterns of white clay bricks in red clay bricks

And there we must leave it as it is now dark outside, and my photos are becoming grainy!!

Notes

(1) Posts on the Tucker family; Part 1 about Tucker's bricks; Part 2, and Part 3 . Buildings constructed with Tucker's brick.     

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