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E.P. Cartwright & Co., Upper Gornal
1887: London Gazette, 7 January.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Mary Parker Cartwright, Edward Parkes Cartwright, Joseph Round Cartwright, and Sarah Cartwright, carrying on business as Fire Brick Manufacturers, at Upper Goraal, in the parish of Sedgley, in the county of Stafford, under the style or firm of Edward Parkes Cartwright and Company, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as and from the 29th day of September, 1886. All debts due and owing by the said late firm will respectively be received and paid by the said Joseph Round Cartwright and Sarah Cartwright, who will continue to carry on the said business under the style or firm of Edward Parkes Cartwright and Company as heretofore. Dated this 31st day of December, 1886.
Mary Parker Cartwright, Edward Parkes Cartwright, Jos. Round Cartwright, Sarah Cartwright.
On old maps, there were two brick works existing in the 19th Century in the vicinity of the Upper Gornal Colliery.
The larger works, belonging to Edward Parkes Cartwright was located off Burton Road between there and Jews Lane, where there is now a small industrial estate.
The other works, almost adjacent but further down Jews Lane belonged to John Waterfield.
No doubt both owners were taking advantage of the same bed of clay of which was plentiful in this particular area.
Cartwright's brickworks was well established by the 1840s.
The brick works had disappeared by the 1940s.
E.P Cartwright & Co. Fireclay Works, and brick manufacturers, was listed in trade directories of 1834, 1839 and 1865 as a brick maker.
He is described in a trade directory of 1851 as a 'fire-brick and clay works, and mine proprietor'.
Edward Parkes Cartwright died in 1880 and is buried in the family vault in St. James' grave yard at Lower Gornal.
According to Kelly's Directory from 1916 onwards, E.P.Cartwright & Co., had become a branch of Gibbons (Dudley) Ltd. (Dibdale Works)
Working in the brick yards was hard and many local women and children were employed in the manual tasks.
This report from 1842 describes children's duties and wellbeing whilst employed at E.P. Cartwright's brick works, Jews Lane, Upper Gornal.
Depositions taken at Mr. CARTWRIGHT's Fire-brick and Fire-clay Works, in Upper Gornal.
May 26. Jane Milward, age “going a 13:”
Works at the kiln; bears off; is page to one of the women that makes bricks, who pays her 3s.6d. to 4s. a-week; works from about six in the morning till about seven at night, with half an hour for breakfast and an hour for dinner; goes home to tea; carries two bricks at a time: they are very heavy, but not too heavy for her; carries 1000 bricks up in the day, sometimes 1500. Cannot read; likes her work; never feels any pains anywhere; Is never beaten; has worked here two years come Whitsuntide.
Not well grown, but straight and well made; healthy; clean (except from the clay); clothed suitably.
Prudence Milward, aged 10, her sister, worked with her as a page and got 2s. a-week. These two, being little, did the work of one page.
May 26. Elisa Harris, aged 18 “nearly:”
Makes bricks out of the clay; comes to work at six and half-past six, and leaves at six at night. Time for meals the same as the foregoing witness. Can make 500 bricks in a day, and bear them off herself, besides carrying her clay; does not have a page to do the carrying and bearing work, because the stove where she works happens to be too small. Has the more money for this, because she does the page's work besides her own; does not feel very tired at night; has worked here above four years; has been apprenticed to the master; was apprenticed for three years; the time is just out; gets 9s. a-week in full work; does not feel any pains now except a little in the side sometimes. Can read in the Testament, and is learning to write; goes to a night-school.
Well grown, straight, graceful, thin, healthy, clean, suitably clothed.
May 26. Elisa Wasdale, aged 10:
Is page to one of the brick-makers, Ann Mob'ly [Mobberley], the moulder; gets 3s., 3s.6d., and 4s. a-week; the master pays her; works from six in the morning till seven and eight; likes her work; is never beaten to hurt; only a little smack from Ann Mob'ly; carries from 500 to 800 bricks in the day. Goes to a Methodist Sunday-school sometimes, but sometimes has to attend at the brick-kiln, because the fires have to be kept in; all the moulders and their pages have to go.
Well grown, healthy, straight, clean, and suitably clothed.
May 16. James Gorden, aged 16:
Helps his father to burn bricks; works from six till six, with half an hour for breakfast and an hour for dinner; likes his work; can read and write; goes to a night-school to learn to write; goes to the Independent Dissenters' Sunday-school at Ruiton. [He says] There were 12 Apostles, Mathew, Mark, Luke, &c. Forty pence are 3s. 4d.; four pints make one gallon.
Very well grown; healthy; perfectly straight; clean; suitably clothed.
Extracts from: Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the Employment and Condition of Children in Mines and Manufactories, 1842.
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