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From: "Bert Arter" <>
Subject: Grimston bricklayers
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:45:15 +0100


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Thanks to Guy, David and Bonnie for their thoughts on this puzzle.

I agree that logically brickLAYERS are required where building is in
progress and not brickmaking but I am clutching at straws. I know the area
quite well and I cannot think of any building project large enough to result
in such quantity of labour.

I was interested in this question due to a family link to Grimston
bricklayers in the late 1800`s but I have just done a search of
"bricklayers" and "Grimstone" as residence in the 1851 census and 24 come up
with most living in Pott Row.

Rob the Hermit mentioned the pottery at Pott Row and I wonder whether this
was a Norfolk Pantile works and employees there called themselves
"bricklayers". Almost every house in Norfolk is tiled with Norfolk Pantiles
and the quantities required since the very early days of tiling roofs is
vast. Pott Row lies on the edge of the River Gaywood where presumeably the
pottery clay was extracted.

Regards, Bert Arter, Stibbard, Norfolk, England.
Researching ARTER, BIRD, BONE, BUNN, CRASKE, CUSHING, GAGE, LANGLEY and many
others.



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