Bricks Gallery

Bricks are a building material made from clay, shale, or concrete, and are formed into rectangular shapes and then fired in a kiln to harden them

Churchill bricklaying
Winston Churchill bricklaying, building a wall at Chartwell in the 1930s Date: 1930s

Bricklayers 1827
A bricklayer standing on a rather precarious looking scaffold. His assistant mixes mortar behind him; his hod for carrying bricks etc is nearby

Illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- The building of Saltash Bridge. Date: 1935

Bar inside a martello tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
View of a stylish circular bar which was built inside a martello tower at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Martello towers were small defensive forts

London going out of town -- the expansion of London
London going out of town, or, The March of Bricks & Mortar -- Cruikshanks cartoon comment on the expansion of London

Stack of Bricks
An old man stacking bricks in an industrial brick yard. Date: early 1930s

House to house fighting in Stalingrad, USSR
House to house fighting during the bitter battle amongst the ruins of the battered city of Stalingrad (Volgograd), USSR

Lullingstone Castle Gatehouse
The marvellous Tudor brick gatehouse of Lullingstone Castle, in Eynsford, Kent. Built by Sir John Peche (who became Sheriff of Kent in 1495)

The Cavern Wall of Fame in Matthew Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Syria - Village Street near Aleppo Date: circa 1920s

Collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice, Italy
A photo-montage re-creation of the dramatic collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice, Italy on 14th July 1902 Date: 1902

Women brickmakers in the Black Country
Women brickmakers at work in the Black Country -- south Staffordshire and north Worcestershire

Music cover, Puss! Puss! Puss! Comedy song waltz, words by Robert Hargreaves and Stanley J Damerell, music by Tolchard Evans. 1932

The Day After Christmas by Mark Symons
Cosy front room festooned with decorations and filled with Christmas toys. Date: 1931

Damp-proofing in a house. Impermeable layer of tar-like material (diagonal black line) inserted in the bedding joint between two courses of brickwork in the wall of a house

Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, Somerset
View of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, Somerset, with a brick-built bridge. Date: 20th century

Barge and windmill, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A picturesque view of a sailing barge and Archers Windmill at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The Georgiana, a spritsail barge owned by Smeed Dean & Co of Kent

Red English Post Box in a brick wall in Cambridge, England

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

Children Throw Bricks
The new housing is built, but theres no provision for the young : except a waste land strewn with bricks and stones for them to chuck at one another or at passers-by

Playing with Lego
A little blond girl and her Mother play with Lego building blocks, possibly building a train which is travelling under two little Lego bridges? Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Anti-Catholic graffiti, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Anti-Catholic graffiti on a wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- No Pope Here. Date: 1969

DOW-501
Smooth Newt - male on old brick - UK

Lion on Ishtar Gate and Processional Way which form part of the walls of Babylon. Built by Nebuchadnezzar II 6th century BCE / c. 560 - 556 BC. Dedicated to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar

BRICKS
Just a pile of bricks. Date: 1960s

A Clever Bricky
This bricklayer has come up with a nifty way to carry his bricks. Date: late 1960s

Kilns from the 18th C
Various views of a French kiln from the 18th century used to make bricks and tiles. Date: Circa 1760

Owen Jones Assyrian 13
Designs taken from enamelled bricks, ornaments from a kings clothing, bronze shields and vessels, and a battering ram, from Khorsabad and Nimroud

derelict houses in Manchester UK
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Northumberland, England; Hadrians Wall

Elephant looking through window on a cutout Christmas card
Elephant looking through a window on a cutout Christmas card (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Building the outer foundations for an air raid shelter in a garden in Hextable. 1938

Model of the ATLAS particle detector C017 / 6987
Lego model of the ATLAS (a toroidal LHC apparatus) particle detector at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory). ATLAS sits around the large hadron collider (LHC) particle accelerator

Woman Brick- Maker during World War 1, UK. Loading bricks in to a kiln. April 1916

brick facade
Udo Dittmann

Brickfield's Worker 9332
Garik

The Killer Fashion
Ruslan Bolgov (Axe)

Domestic dog, Weimaraner, puppy in garden, France

Man in a bath chair
An elderly man in a bath chair at his front door, with a young man about to take him for an outing

Workers of Brickfield 4279
Garik

The Blue Light
Wayne Pearson

The family in the brickfield
Sudipta Chakraborty

History wall
Normunds Kaprano

Old House Facade
Miro Susta

How I Move: Kari - Transportation
Petri Damst├®n

Starting of the Day
Sudipta Chakraborty

Trades in Regency England. Spinning, reaping flax and Suffolk horses. Woman spinning wool on a wheel outside a cottage in Lavenham 28, boy harvesting hemp for sailcloth in Suffolk 29

Men at work with paving stones and bricks near docks, UK
Men at work in a storage area, surrounded by piles of paving stones and bricks near docks, somewhere in the UK. Date: circa 1910s

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Bricks are a building material made from clay, shale, or concrete, and are formed into rectangular shapes and then fired in a kiln to harden them. They have been used for centuries as a reliable and durable building material and can be used for both indoor and outdoor construction projects, such as walls, chimneys, fireplaces, walkways and patios. Bricks come in many different colors and sizes to suit any design needs and are easy to install with mortar or adhesive products. Bricks provide excellent insulation against heat loss and sound transmission making them an ideal choice for energy efficient homes. With proper maintenance they can last for decades providing an attractive look that is sure to last the test of time.