Obituary: Mrs Averil Harper-Smith

摘要

Mrs Harper-Smith, who died in Leicester General Hospital on 3 January 2011 after a short illness, was a long-standing member of the British Brick Society. She will be best known to most members of the British Brick Society for her 1991 publication, The Brickfields of Acton, jointly researched and written with her late husband, Thomas Harper-Smith. It is a model of its kind: detailed and with full references to the sources. In her latter years she had resided in I .oughborough, Leicestershire, and I received several e-mails from her concerning brick and terracotta there and on the chimneys of the former London Brick Company brickworks visible from the train south of Bedford. Her last communication in October 2010 to me expressed her pleasure at being able to see the chimneys of Charnwood Brick from the window of her bedroom at the care home where she spent her final months.