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Acrylic-bob · 23-07-2004, 05:39

They were red and hard as nails and made in accy. NORI is IRON spelt backwards.

When I was at Accrington and Rosendale College on Blackburn road we dug some shale from the old Nori quarry on the side of the Coppice and ground it up, the clay was fine and very easy to work. Then we fired it, just to see what the result would be. It was firey red and rock hard and impervious to water. A very satisfying result.

But Nori made more than just the bog standard engineering brick, they also did a lot of decorative stuff in the same material. Does anyone know what happened to their pattern books? Did they all go to the county archive in Preston or are they lost now? It would be fascinating to find out just how much they did and where it ended up.

23-07-2004, 05:39	#1
Acrylic-bob God Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tragic Conn Posts: 4,007 Blog Entries: 15 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 2470	Nori Brick They were red and hard as nails and made in accy. NORI is IRON spelt backwards. When I was at Accrington and Rosendale College on Blackburn road we dug some shale from the old Nori quarry on the side of the Coppice and ground it up, the clay was fine and very easy to work. Then we fired it, just to see what the result would be. It was firey red and rock hard and impervious to water. A very satisfying result. But Nori made more than just the bog standard engineering brick, they also did a lot of decorative stuff in the same material. Does anyone know what happened to their pattern books? Did they all go to the county archive in Preston or are they lost now? It would be fascinating to find out just how much they did and where it ended up.