reclaimed bricks

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by andyb, Sep 2, 2013.

  1. Anyone know about reclaimed bricks, and their value?

    I have around a 1000 of these, they are 75mm high, probably 60 + years old......quite a pale colour maybe a common?

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  2. "Fell off the back of a lorry, guv'nor!"

    "This time next year Rodders..."
     
  3. no they didnt fall.......i had to smack them with a big hammer!
     
  4. Get a hand cart and sell 'em individually outside Millwalls ground on match-day
     
  5. Put me down for ten :biggrin:

    They look like a London Stock. By the look of 'em with LBC in the Frog.. 500 to a pallet. 50p to a £1 each. depends if you sell to a brick trader/dealer or private sale.

    Have you got the Community Service guy's knocking walls down for you as punishment?
     
  6. Trade you a bag of haribo ;-)
     
  7. They are ordinary LBC Fletten bricks........Commons, in other words.......(sometimes sandfaced on one header and one stretcher) cheap as chips and normally end smashed up as hardcore when secondhand.........

    ........a London Stock wouldn't have LBC stamped in the frog.

    AL
     
  8. #8 arthurbikemad, Sep 3, 2013
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  9. Its Fletton not Fletten, named after the village near Peterborough were they were produced.
     
  10. What's an 'e' instead of an 'o' between mates? It was a flip of a digit, like wot you just got.....:wink:

    Actually, you needn't tell me about LBC & bricks.......I've been round the brickyards so many times I can't remember.....

    ...so, without looking it up.........tell me, why did they use to have 'Phorpres' in the frog?

    AL
     
  11. Is it something to do with garden sheds?
     
  12. Yes, if it will make you happy because you think you have got one over me.
     
  13. Well here's another one,

    e and o are characters not digits
     
  14. Agreed, but my fingers are, so you just got another like the first one.......:biggrin:
     
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  15. This is real recycling. I like to see people recycling brick, stone, slate ... iron, copper, brass, lead ... lumber ... part-used engines, tyres, glass, body panels ...

    What a contrast with the kind of fake, window-dressing 'recycling' of bits of paper and plastic which local councils like to pretend is virtuous!

    Real recycling becomes more and more difficult as the scrap merchants who have always done it get suppressed by those same local councils.
     
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  16. Crumbs.........OK, there's a bit of junk, but there are loads of items that would fetch premium prices............and I wonder if there are any old motorcycles hidden underneath it all.....

    ........Arfur Senior has an eye for brass, doesn't he?

    AL
     
  17. lol, junk thats what I call a lot of it.... just annoying when he sells it for good money....lol So often I get proven wrong with old "stuff" thats sits round for years just as I go to throw it on a fire it sells! lol

    The images don't show half of it mate it a big site 12.5 acres and "stuff" is all over the place, my fathers slowed down some since 59 and the place trickles along but still he has busy days, hes ALWAYS open and you never know what will turn up tomorrow..!!

    Oh and if you dig you will defo find some old bikes (GT250's and maybe some 400 4's)..lol
     
  18. Do you mean 1959 or age 59?

    If 1959, there must be bikes older than Jap stuff surely?

    We have a similar place not far from here..........agricultural engineer's workshops.......go round the back and there are building materials everywhere, but what your eyes rest on is a Churchill tank.
     
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