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Joseph South(2) 1850-1897, the eldest son of Joseph South(1), leased a brickfield in Bury Street, Edmonton, adjacent the brick works of competitors, W D Cornish, W Piggott, T & M Plowman and Smyth & Co. Upon his death in 1897 the brickfield passed to his widow, Sarah, and by 1899 was under the management of his younger brother, Samuel South(1). The South brickworks closed circa 1914. During his presidential year Samuel South(2) addressed the Wood Green Rotary Club and a newspaper report appeared on 24 December 1937: "Forty years ago he [Samuel South(2)] was a member of the Brickmakers Association. At that time there were about twenty potteries [sic] around London; now there are about four. Members used to meet to discuss petty problems about men's overtime and other means of saving a few pennies. ' I used to make myself unpopular at these meetings but manged to stop the time wasting by proposing that we put a shilling on every thousand bricks. Better times were in store for the industry and the men after that' " The following minutes of a meeting of the Association in October 1905 are taken from a scrapbook kept by Samuel(2) (transcription beneath). |
North & East London
Brick Masters London 13 Oct/05 At a meeting of the above Association held on 9th Octr/05 the prices for winter work were arranged to be as under:-
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