"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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Chris J Dixon writes:
stuart noble wrote:

I have a couple of hundred reclaimed Victorian yellow stock bricks
stacked up ready to build a garden wall. Some have quite wide cracks
which don't even extend to the edges of the brick, suggesting that they
were made that way. It's obvious from the general shape and size
variation that manufacture was a bit rough and ready in those days.

It is also, IME, only with the current level of mechanical
handling that bricks are treated with care before use. My
childhood memory is of building sites where bricks were delivered
by simply tipping from a truck.

I rather like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-iP1jSMlI

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Andrew Gabriel


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQegJCTLi4k

Much more typical in the UK

Adam