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WWI Destroyer - 8

Looking around the site of the breaking of ships at Hayle 1920-1949, I see in the shore various bricks; a number of those on the surface (what lies beneath I yet do not know) are Graigddu bricks, similar to those used on GWR locomotive fire boxes (locomotive brick arches). Could those bricks have been used in the WWI destroyer?
12th May 2009
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BayOfPlenty
Made in Pontypool, it would seem. Presumably used in the ship s boiler. Another superb set of shots, treeve - well done!
 
treeve
Apparently this type of brick was designed to gather heat and to incandesce, assisting the heat flow and burn in the firebox. I have recorded each panel of the hull, which appears to be the port side, except those that have collapsed. Those old telegraph poles have very little strength or integrity left.
 
opobs
I have a few of these bricks in my very large collection of Welsh named bricks!
 
treeve
Takes up a bit more space than a stamp collection, I ll be bound!! I have been trying to work out what the centre line reads. I must get down there again and see what more I can find.
 
BayOfPlenty
Hunting around the web leads me to believe it may have been Southward (or Southwood) Jones and Co Ltd , who owned the Graig Ddu works near Pontypool - maybe opobs can shed some light on this?
 
opobs
S J and Co Ltd - and yes, they take up a lot of room, two display stands, one in the garden and one in my museum displaying the rarer types and two large stacks in the garden waiting to be (...)
 
treeve
Thank you both; just trying to sort out the odds and ends that I found on North Quay. ::15:
Here was I thinking I was the only nerd with an interest in such things !!
 

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