This is a fascinating brick. The inscription is on a brick of a guardhouse at the airbase Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Corporal Ward – Royal Air Force Police – 1948. Source – Oxfordian on Flickr and reproduced by kind permission.
The wall this brick was built into was apparently demolished in 2013 and this wonderful brick was taken away with the rubble – another wonderful piece of history disappears – my hope is that a workman saw the history in the brick and saved it – we can only hope.
Does anyone have any idea as to the identity of Corporal Ward?
At that time there was the Berlin Airlift 1948-1949.
1948–1949 – The Berlin Airlift.
At the end of the Second World War, the U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. The United States, United Kingdom, and France controlled western portions of the city, while Soviet troops controlled the eastern sector. As the wartime alliance between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union ended and friendly relations turned hostile, the question of whether the western occupation zones in Berlin would remain under Western Allied control or whether the city would be absorbed into Soviet-controlled eastern Germany led to the first Berlin crisis of the Cold War. The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and the United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin.
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22/10/1898 – St Andrews Citizens – The utilisation of slag – A German brick making patent. An official German report, just published, contains particulars of a new process of making building bricks from furnace slag. Hitherto many attempts have been made to utilise the slag, but all have been more or less a failure, and…
Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Lochhead Fireclay Works, Dunfermline, Fife. . . .
Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Lochhead Fireclay Works, Dunfermline, Fife. . . .
Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Prestongrange Brick, Tile and Fireclay Works, Prestonpans, East Lothian Usually, the brickmark is Preston Grange – split into 2 lines. In this example, Preston Grange is all on…
These large open-ended fire clay liners appear to be designed to stack up and form a continuous column and are possibly some sort of chimney liner. They measure approx. 662mm high x 558mm square and are lying in a Salvage Yard in Glasgow, Scotland. The reference to 485 / 485 is possibly associated with the…
01/01/1824 – The Scots Magazine – Glasgow – There have been a great many additions built to the old cotton mills in Glasgow this summer besides the new ones erected in various parts of the city. One of the mills is calculated to cost £40,000. This has been altogether an unprecedented year of building. Masons,…
Starworks Glenboig brick found on a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea near Rostock, Germany. The following information has been supplied by Stephan Flindt. This brick and others of its type have been found in 2015 on an unnamed wooden shipwreck in the Baltic Sea near Rostock. The wreck has been temporarily named ‘The Glenboig’ by…
Found by Dr Jorg Ansorge in Stralsund (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany, a seaport town at the Baltic Sea coast. This stamp was on a salt-glazed water or sewage pipe. Lochhead Fireclay Works, Dunfermline, Fife. . . .
Found Gartliston Works, Glenboig. I believe it was made for Reichmann & Co, Glasgow by P & M Hurll and the customer’s name was added to the brick. Note the crossed hammer symbol which I assume represents an iron foundry but there is also this German reference which fits with the Reichmann name – “The…
(Note – SBH – I have found it difficult to differentiate between different brick and tile works in Prestongrange with regards researched information. It may be that some references below relate to the Old Kirk or Ravenscroft Brick and Tile Works or indeed other separate locations. If anyone can clarify then please get in touch)…
