A Further (and Dated) Example of a Joseph Hamblet Brick Stamp

摘要

A previous contribution to these pages drew attention to brick stamps of two types, a larger and a smaller and with slightly different wording, in capping bricks at St James Street Station, Walthamstow, E17.1 Dating (one may assume) from about the station's construction in 1870, they attest manufacture by the firm of Joseph Hamblet of Oldbury, West Bromwich, 'near Birmingham' (as the larger stamp states), and now within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell.