#brick collecting

[bobdylanhater1965]

Support your local brick thief. Donate your unused bricks

[sandboxworld]

Guinness World Record for the Largest Brick Collection

Some folks collect comics, stamps, or coins—classic, respectable hobbies. Others, well, they take collecting to an entirely different level. Honestly, if it exists, someone out there is probably collecting it! But let’s talk about the unsung hero of the collecting world: bricks. Yes, you read that right. Good old-fashioned, heavy-as-a-small-dinosaur bricks. Enter Clem Reinkemeyer, a dedicated…

Guinness World Record for the Largest Brick Collection

[itoldyouthings]

there’s a fandom for everything

[bobdylanhater1965]

BRICK COLLECTION STATUS

I HAVE 2 BRICKS!

[tspacearchitects]

I am now a collector of bricks

More specifically, of named bricks.  The names are stamped into the brick, and provide a roll call of our industrial heritage - of hundreds of brickworks, but also collieries and railways.  They range in colour from the deep slate blues of Staffordshire to soapy whites from Suffolk. Seen en masse they are a work of art.

The collection now numbers over 400 unique bricks, a portion of which is shown above.  It's the result of a lifetime of rooting around post industrial sites, scavenging for a well preserved example before the rest is crushed up into hardcore. Alas I can't take the credit - the hard work was put in by Michael Dunn, who kindly sold me his collection.  I have added a few specimens - mostly soft southerners so far. They may not be strong, but they sure look nice. 

The real challenge though, is to find a way to display the collection. I feel a new building coming on...