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I think you win the prize Clive.
Do you think you deserve extra Brownie points for identifying the very bricks my house is built from?

Hello Jenny,

But I failed to identify correctly whether they are 1930s or 1950s Rustic Wirecuts..

Clive.

Tut tut.

I do know the answer to that - but would you like to take a guess?

Well done Clive, that was really starting to bug me.
And as for those rustic bricks, your fingers certainly used to know it when you had layed a thousand of them in a day.
I like the new avator Clive, is that you in the front

Hi Clive,
I think they are 1930's LBC Fletton Rustic Wire Cut
laid above a glazed engineering brick DPC.
The plant is obviously of the Polygonacae family and if you look at your British weeds like Redshank and Bistort they are very similar in make-up stem and flowerwise.
JB.

Hello,

JG, JB,..I am going to chance 1950s.??....

Our house was built 1955 with blue brick damp course...next door the bungalow with same size rustic wire cuts but without the blue brick is 1937...The wirecuts seem to be still available as next door have just had an extension added in same albeit slimmer brick size juggled in to the existing side wall.

OldH' I ran this avatar briefly before...It is me in the lead with my little barrow..1965??...riddled soil for Tomato compost.
I actually still have the barrow whilst Dads barrow in the photo got nicked last year..removed from our shed...thence loaded with next doors new Suffolk Punch 43, chainsaw, strimmer, circular saw etc it exited across the back field ...

Somewhere there is some silent colour cine of my first run with the little barrow when freshly gifted from "Aunt & Uncle".

All the best,
Clive.

Hello Clive, the theft of tools seems to be an ever increasing problem.
I bet that photo brings back some happy memories, funny how when children start gardening young, they seem to keep at it for a lifetime.

Hello OldH,
I have just been rumaging throught the old album looking at a few other piccys... found the one of me at an early age clutching a hand saw...attempting to fell a Laburnum in front garden ...in the next photo I am seen to have a length of thin rope attached to the tree and the other end tied to my pedal tricyle.

I think I had been watching some chaps next door with their Danarm, AEC Matador and winch..

Clive.

Hi Clive & Herby

Sorry to interrupt your walk down memory lane but I'm sorry to say my house was built in 1939. Still, top marks for being able to name the brick.
I can't name any bricks.
In fact, up until now I didn't even know they had names!

Hello Jenny,

Top marks then to JB...

All the best,
Clive.

Dear Jenny, did you move into your house when it was first built.

Sorry i couldn't resist it.

Yes, it must have been about the time you retired Herby.

Jenny that was even better than mine.

It is probably safe to move off track as the plant is well and truly identified. I used to live in a Victorian House in Gosport, Hampshire that used to have some old pre-victorian listed bakehouses in the back yard, they were demolished by the previous occupant believing that the fine for doing so was cheaper than the maintenance needed.

What I was left with was a pile of old dutch flat bricks that made excellent raised beds and retaining walls for the terraced areas. I also found old enamel baking dishes, the original cast iron oven front, and a metal sign ‘Lyon’s Tea’ Apparently the house was once a tea shop (early name for Grocer).

I then discovered the soil, rich loamy stuff, great to drain and very fertile. Further research showed me that the property was on reclaimed land, the site of a feeder creek to Portsmouth harbour, hence the rich silty soil.

I grew great tatoes, beans, salad and carrots. Never got bothered by pests either.

You cannot get a better building material than a good brick, specially an old one. Luvly.

The beauty of KG forum is it lets us ole gits ramble on, marvellous, long may it continue.

Compo