Floor tiles from Oakworth House

	The Friends of Oakworth (Holden) Park Floor tiles from Oakworth House No navigation buttons at the top of this page? Click here to visit our home page Back to the main Friends page
		Several floor tile shards were discovered when the stone steps in the portico were replaced in 2006. We have pictured them here as part of the documentation of our work in Holden park.


The floor tile shards pictured below are believed to be some of the original floor tiles from the entrance hall of Oakworth House
The general dimensions of these tiles are either 6 inches (150mm x 150mm) square or 3 inches by 6 inches (75mm x 150mm), and they are 3/4 inch (18mm) in thickness. They are what is known as Encaustic floor tiles and were manufactured by a firm called Maw and Co, originally situated at Ironbridge. They were established in 1850 and became the largest manufacturer of tiles in the world, producing more than 20,000.000 tiles per year. After the second World War the industry went into decline and the firm merged with Campbell Tiles in 1960. This firm was absorbed into H.R. Johnson Tiles in 1968. In 2001 Brian and Lesley Joyce bought Maw and Co from H.R. Johnson and trade under the original company name. Today the company manufactures bespoke tiles for both new and heritage/restoration work. Many of their original customers from the 1800's trade with them today on maintenance and restoration projects.
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All the pieces of tile that have been found

Obverse of tile 01	Reverse of Tile 01

Obverse of tile 02	Reverse of Tile 02

Obverse of tile 03	Small pieces of odd plain tiles probably used for infilling or plain borders

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