Comments on: The Jungle, Swinethorpe, Lincolnshire

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:06:22 +0000

In reply to Landbeforeslime. Morning. I’m pleased you got to see The Jungle. It’s a magnificent structure.

By: Landbeforeslime

Landbeforeslime — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:18:19 +0000

In reply to Keren. I went past today, there’s a gap in the hedging where you can get a direct view of what it looks like today! Amazing space, I sat in awe for around 15 minutes gawping at it!

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:33:24 +0000

In reply to Andy Hooper. Hello Andy. I’m all in favour of such clinker ‘rejects’ having a practical, and often aesthetically pleasing, use. And yes, ‘that’ Pugin.

By: Andy Hooper

Andy Hooper — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:55:54 +0000

In reply to Rosemary Hill. 'Pugin' as in the architectural wonders around Ramsgate?

By: Andy Hooper

Andy Hooper — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:52:02 +0000

Where I grew up in Thanet, there are many examples of burnt and misshapen bricks used in boundary walls and some houses.
I believe they are called clinker bricks due to the sound they make when struck.

By: Editor

Editor — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:32:42 +0000

In reply to Matthew Gavin. Hello Matthew. I didn’t come across that name in my research, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t live there as the house had a number of different tenants. I wish you success in finding out more about your grandfather.

By: Editor

Editor — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:08:02 +0000

In reply to David Edgar. Hello David. I appreciate you sending these very interesting examples of the use of over-baked brick. I will add the Plantation Garden to my itinerary for a Norfolk trip this summer. Thank you for taking the time to get in touch.

By: Editor

Editor — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:05:08 +0000

In reply to TOM GARDNER. Good morning Tom. Hopefully all that ivy is also home to birds who feast on the bugs! It is indeed a curious marriage of styles - one built 150 years after the other.

By: David Edgar

David Edgar — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:21:14 +0000

1. A rewarding place to see the use of fanciful or reject grade (spoils) products from a brick maker is the Grade 11 Plantation Garden at Norwich, constructed in a quarry from 1856 onwards by Hugh Trevor; furniture maker and chapel minister. Retaining walls, terraces, an alcove, a fountain and stairwayss were constructed from flints or the products in the very comprehensive catalogue of Gunton Bros., at Costessey (determinists should say ‘Cossy’) manufacturers of Moulded and Enriched Brickwork. Variety, rather than uniformity is the cheeerful result. Today volunteers maintain well-ordered Victorian planting.
2. In Southend-on-Sea the front garden walls at older houses are often constructed in burrs; over-burnt bricks that became deformed or fused together in firing, and no doubt cheap to buy. These walls point to the former brick-making industry in this south-east corner of Essex. Most bricks became the yellow-shaded and very durable London Stock.

By: Matthew Gavin

Matthew Gavin — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 18:37:37 +0000

In reply to Editor. My Grandad apparantly grew up living in The Jungle. Thomas 'Sid' Gavin. He was born 1913. All I know is that he was part of a very large family. Would love some more information if anyone knows !?