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Collection
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Bio-brick grown from urine, University of Cape Town

2023

Model of NatWest Tower

1970-1971

Collection of samples of building materials used at the Building Research Station, Watford in the 1940s and '50s.

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Sliver of chestnut wood, from King James' Hall, Warwick

Assyrian Brick, 604-551 BC

604-551 BCE

Specimen from Weaver's Mill

1898

Specimens from Weaver's Mill

1898

Red Brick with Cross-shaped Frog, 19th Century

1801-1900

Bullnose-shaped Red Brick, King's Lynn, 19th Century

1801-1900

Specimen from Weaver's Mill

1898

Specimen from Weaver's Mill

1898

Engraving of James Vauloué’s pile-driving machine

1763-1793

Model of a Section of the Pont-y-Cysyllte Aqueduct, 1805

1805

Paint grinting machine, hand operated, c1900

1900

Fragment, Fawcett fireproof flooring

Model of mansard roof

1914

Four specimens of Ribnet expanded metal:- No.LX.243 1/4" mesh

Right angled branch joint for round lead pipe

Cavity wall ties (2) from Reddish Conservative Club

1880

Four specimens of BB and Expamet lathings:- No. 256 1/4" mesh

Samples of channels

Model of 'Roll' Concrete Mixer

Sling from Quadrangle Storehouse at Sheerness Dockyard, England, 1824-1979

1824-1829

White brick from wall in Colchester, dated 1854

1854

Part brick from Norwick City Wall, c1340

1340

Brick from wall at 46 Highgate High Street

Tile from Llandersant Brickworks

14th century shaped brick from Beckets Chapel

14th century part brick from Wingfield College

Wooden mould and stockboard for handmaking bricks

Model of Vauloue's pile driver

Brick from the construction of an early 14th century culvert built predominantly of chalk and limestone

Piece of sundried brick from barn at Brockdish

Sectioned paint stirring stick

1978-1993

Oven floor brick from Waltham Abbey

Early brick from 22 Nigate Street

Large brick from a Cambridgeshire Fenland barn of 1644

Small brick probably 17th century Dutch

Moulded brick with roll

White rectangular brick from Ipswich

1930

Late 15th century or early 16th century brick from bell cage support

Caisson gauge, calibrated for heat, 1940

1940

Bullnose brick

Hollow clay tile, from R.A.F. Stanmore Park, 1800

1800

Brick stamped in frog "Central, Whittlesea"

Brick stamped in frog "Wm. Thomas & Co.

Tudor brick from Henry VIII's Palace, 1515-1523

White brick from a Martello Tower near Felixstowe

Brick used for transverse bonding in brick and flint wall