Leonard Brick Company Guestbook08/14/01 I
really enjoyed your web site that was recommended to me by George
"Bud" Best wishes Mike
Hammett
09/01/02 Just
by chance I was browsing on my PC and had a look at your website Your
family pictures are intriguing. I have recently been looking at
my Very best wishes Mike Hammett
09/02/02 Mike Hammett sent me your homepage address and I enjoyed the photos that you had posted of your family brick yard. Any chance of getting a copy on floppy or CD for our library? Jim
Graves, librarian
I
happened to spot your brickyard website today. I understand your Besides
the family connection, there's just something about bricks, for
me; Craig
Edel
01/16/03 Good work! Leonard Kroes
Would like to hear from the Leonard family member who put this site together, as the Pennells family mentioned, Henry and Hannah are on my family tree and are desended from William Pennells who was married to Elizabeth leonard !!! Steve
Pennells
6/23/03 What part of england did your family emigrate from. Victoria
Leonard
07/10/03 Grew up in the 30's and 40's at Wall Lake during summers with grandparents - W. W. Potter and since the Starr family was in the brick and drainage tile in Royal Oak, Michigan -- was interesting to follow the trail back to the beginning. Steve
Starr
09/13/03 I,ve seen all your pictures and I love them all. I'm still remembering all the nice things thank you so much Dirk
Kroes
10/09/03 I
like your website very much. I appriciate afforts like this. Sushil
Raghav
2/11/04 Interesting site. Just doing research on a brickyard here in Atlanta. James
D'Angelo
I was wondering if anybody happened to know Alexander Pennells or Mark David Pennells and if they were related to the people on this site? Any info is appreciated. and this site is really great! Kyrsten
Pennells
I am trying to find out where my family descended from, my grandad is called Edward Leonard and lives in Kent, UK. I was wondering if my grandad came from this family, did any of the members move back to UK again or did they all stay in the US? Nice site, well planned. Thank you.. Charlotte
Leonard Nice to see this information your your family's brick yard. I am affiliated with the Claybank Brick Plant National Historic Site of Canada. (see: http://www.sasktelwebsite.net/cbphm/) We are collecting information on brick yards across North America, so I am pleased to find your factory on the internet. If you have more photos of the brick yard buildings I would appreciate seeing these - either on your website or by e-mail. Thanks, and have a good day. Frank
Korvemaker
I visited the site with descendent George Leonard as a guide on August 24, 2004. Your website has proved to be of much help in my research of the Zeeland Brick Co. and their facilities in Cloverdale. Michael
Douma
This is lovely. Thank you for sharing. Karen
McDougall
Great photos of an old business, and distant relatives through the Reynolds & Taylor family. History is wonderfully preserved here. Thanks for this site!! Bev Traenkle
I
was so interested by the "Brickmaking, A History By Florence
Leonard Kroes, 1966" My company, Vermont
Brick Manufacturing still makes brick by the "soft mud method".
In New England we call our brick "Waterstruck". Prior
to the firing process every brick is set by hand to ensure that
like snowflakes each brick assumes it's own character. (see: http://www.vermontbrick.com/index_files/Page894.htm.) Gene
McDonough
Thank you for your history of brickmaking. My GGgrandfather, Jacob Daniel founded a brick company in Wayne County, Detroit area, that ran from the 1860s through to 1953. The company name changed over the years, but was best known for "Daniel" brick. I understand Fairhaven and the old Detroit city hall were built with Daniel brick. Tim
Polzin
Great photos of an old business, and distant relatives through the Reynolds & Taylor family. History is wonderfully preserved here. Thanks for this site!! Bev Traenkle
I was just trying to locate some ancestors. William E. Leonard
Found your site whilst browsing for history of brickmaking. My father started work for the butterley brick company, (now part of the hanson group) in 1958 as a fifteen year old, at a brickworks in waingroves, near ripley, in derbyshire england. He retired from there in 2003, after 45 years and saw many changes in the industry. He will be having a look at your site himself. It really is fascinating, and very professional. Best wishes...Mark. P Mark Gadsby [Home]
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