With reference to 'slag or burnt brick front garden walls' (GLIAS Newsletter February 2006), the use of brickmakers' wasters in front garden walls is not confined to the area asked about. They can be found all over the boroughs of Wood Green and Hornsey (now L B of Haringey) notably on the estate between Green Lanes and Wolves Lane and houses fronting on to Alexandra Park Road and Colney Hatch Lane. There is even an isolated instance in Granville Road where I used to live.
When Alexandra Palace was being built (c1873) a brickworks was established in the grounds using local clay to make the 60,000,000 bricks required.
But to quote from Wood Green Past by Albert Pinching ISBN 0 948667 64 8:
'Brick-making had been established in Tottenham and surrounding parishes since the 15th century. The first clay workings in the Wood Green area were located at the southernmost extremity of the Wood Green ward alongside Beans Green, on a site which later became the Harringay Stadium and Arena, and now is home for a Sainsbury's Superstore. These clay workings and their associated tile kilns were well established by 1798 when they were owned by Nathaniel V. Lee; by 1843 13 cottages had been built for the workers. These works became Williamson's Potteries in the later part of the 19th century and closed in the early 1900s, the workers' cottages being condemned on health grounds in 1905.
'Clay pits with tile kilns and potteries were established at Bounds Green by 1862 by Charles Paul Millard, then described as 'brick and tile maker'; he was mentioned earlier as a property developer. By 1903 the Bounds Green Pottery was owned by Charles Pickering and specialised in glazed bricks and tiles. Operations ceased by 1926 when the site was sold to the Wood Green District Scouts and in 1928 renamed Scout Park which it remains today. Some of the original buildings remain and the levels of the workings can still be seen.'
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