Explores the history of British bricks and brick makers.

Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant ga

This book deals with all the tasks related to brick and stone masonry structures, from the initial identification of defects and their diagnosis to their treatm

Glazed bricks applied as a new form of colourful and glossy architectural decor first started to appear in the early Iron Age on monumental buildings of the Anc

The aim of the Watching series is to draw attention to some of the very interesting items around us, things that perhaps we don't notice as much as we might. Th

Bricks, cement and asbestos have major role in building and road construction. Construction industry is the largest consumer of material resources, of both the

Many of London's Victorian buildings are built of coarse-textured yellow bricks. These are 'London stocks', produced in very large quantities all through the ni

This book titled “Housing for All: Design, Construction andManagement” by A.K. Jain is a comprehensive assessment of the housing situationin India which not