It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

Out of water, brick, and tile they have made far more than just a bridge.

Practically all bulky housing products can now be ordered in standard units palletized or unitized for mechanical handling -- including lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face brick, plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and sheathing, cement, insulation sheathing, floor tile, acoustical tile, plaster base, and asbestos shingles.

A measure passed by Congress just before adjourning softened the ruling's impact, on prior-year returns still under review, for clay-mining companies that make brick and tile products.

In 1696 he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury, Essex and living in the parish of Chadwell St Mary.

The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone, marble, granite, travertine, limestone, cast stone, concrete block, glass block, stucco, and tile.

Many buildings date from the 19th century and are constructed of brick or stone and adorned with decorative woodwork, ceramic tile, slate roofs and stained glass.

When the Globe burned down in June 1613, it was rebuilt with a tile roof ; when the Fortune burned down in December 1621, it was rebuilt in brick ( and apparently was no longer square ).

It was designed by Salvin and is constructed in red brick and stone with a tile roof.

In 1896, the trade unionists of Bridgwater's brick and tile industry were involved a number of strikes.

The Teague station design is typically built of white porcelain tile but local and regional variations could include painted brick, concrete brick, and stucco materials.

With the great quantities of brick, tile and other stone in Verulamium the Roman site became a prime source of building material for the abbeys, and other projects in the area, up to the 18th century.

One section is Roman and is notably different from the medieval walls with the tell-tale red brick layers and the shallow pitch terracotta tile roofs.

The clay was shaped and fired in a series of brick and tile kilns.

Most of the workers at the tile and ceramic works factory came from Crystal Lake, The production consisted of drain tile, brick and architectural items.

As of 1888, the town of Sidell had three main industries ( aside from farming ): tile, brick, and ice.

Clay deposits in the town led to the production of clay products including building brick, paving brick, sewer pipe and drain tile.

The most prominent were brickyards that used the shale of the coal measures as a source of clay to make both brick and drain tile, firing their kilns with local coal.

The earliest industry was a brick and tile factory established in section 15 by the firm of Dunning and Chappell employing eight men.

Buildings in stone and brick, roofed with tile or slate, increasingly replaced buildings in clay, timber and thatch from the later 18th century.

These buildings are constructed of red brick edged in white concrete block, with royal blue trim and red tile roofing.

With the linen and later the hat-making and brick manufacturing industries, Cookstown continued to prosper in the early 20th century and its population continued to expand.

Several smaller brick manufacturers, along with numerous other industries, including Indiana Condensed Milk — a company purchased by Wilson ’ s Milk, a leader in canned condensed milk.

The industries that grew as a result of the new train station included brick making, windmill making and carriage making.

By 1900, the lumber industry had declined, and the city's economic base rested on other industries, including a furniture factory, a paper mill, a fire brick plant, and a silk mill.

In the 1800s natural gas was discovered which led to the expansion of industries including glass firms, chemical plants, cheese factories, machine shops, brick plants, sawmills, planing mills, tanneries and furniture factories.

In 1940, the chief local industries were: dairying, poultry raising, fruit growing, milk condensing, fruit and vegetable packing, brick and tile manufacturing, coal mining, portable house manufacturing, and fern shipping.

It ’ s strategic location near the Yadkin River and the Big Elkin Creek and as a stop on the railroad caused prosperity that produced brick stores, many industries, and fine houses.

The town's main industries include logistics, engineering, clothing, brick, tile and paper manufacture.

Other industries which developed in the town included brick and tile making and brewing.

Commerce, including tourism, is mostly concentrated in the city proper, while agriculture and certain industries such as brick making, are mostly found in the edge of the city and in the rural areas of the municipalities of San Pedro Cholula and San Andrés Cholula.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the decline of the industries ( glass manufacturing, brick production, mining and agriculture used to be presented in the town's coat of arms ) caused heavy unemployment.

Smaller-scale industries began developing around this time, such as brick, sail and rope making, the latter reflected in road names such as Ropery Street in the town centre.

The extensive brick terraced housing in the area dates to this period, and brick-making and tile-making were significant local industries.

Immediately other industries followed ; a large cotton spinnery, large weaving mill, iron mining, cast iron, brick manufacturing, sawmill, chemical laboratories, steam and water flour mills, machining, etc.

There is a feeling of New England in its brick and sycamore villages, its stable industries, and a tradition which goes back to the Revolutionary War.

For much of the colonial period one of the major industries of the area was brick making, mostly for nearby Mexico City.

Roman knowledge lost as the Romano-Britons shifted towards a stream-lined militaristic near-tribal society included the use of coinage and other complex industries dependant on a money economy, architectural techniques using brick and mortar, and even more basic knowledge such as the use of the wheel in pottery production.

However, during the 1890s the pattern of freight services began to change, ‘ caused by the transport of raw materials and finished products of entirely new industries such as petroleum, cement, brick and tile manufacture, forestry and biscuit making .’ This resulted in the construction of 55 additional freight locomotives of the C2 class

The opening of the Tunstall railway station contributed to the growth of the brick and clay industries, with orchards soon following.

Railway workshops, brick works ( until 1953, the area supplied 20 % of Melbourne's bricks ), sand mining, and market gardens became the most important industries in Oakleigh at the end of the 19th century.

These are raw materials for industries such as brick making, ceramics, bottle manufacturing, glass manufacturing, chemical / insulators production, chalk manufacturing and sanitary wares, decorative stone cutting and quarrying.

The construction materials required regenerated the North Kent brick and cement industries.

The site includes the original sail loft and forge which have been converted to a museum devoted to the history of the Thames Sailing Barge and the associated industries of brick and cement making which once sustained the local fleet of barges.