Okay, lets be pedantic about this. Most of the bricks used in the development of the South Ealing area in the late eighteen hundreds were made locally and the area where the council estate below Occupation Lane was built was as a result of the brick earth excavations to fire the bricks in clamps on the spot. This later became the world's first aerated sewage processing facility... Then the flats were built there. Bricks continued to be made locally owing to the difficulty of moving heavy stuff around by horse and cart until the railways changed that amd decorative (though not as mechanically strong) red brick started to get shipped into London and Ealing from Oxfordshire where the brick earth had a higher iron-oxide content. Still much more expensive than the locally produced stuff so used for decoration.The bricks that the Assyrian Centre have used do not match any of the old established brickwork in the area. They are the wrong size, the wrong colour, and are definitely NOT reclaimed and do not resemble anything used locallyy.Does that meet with your requirements? We are discussing here HOW to save South Ealing from sliding further into the abyss of drug-dealing bars, illegal tobacco smuggling corner shops, alleyway strreet drinking, bank and ATM robberies, NOT the detailed history of bricks used throughout London. Perhaps if you could look at what the Assyrian Centre has used for its wall and apply your knowledge of local brickwork to categorize appropriately what they SHOULD have used to meet their own (retrospective) planning criteria? That would make an excellent contribution to the discussion and provide us with more accurate information to take the Council.Please help rather than be pedantic.
Neil F. Weber ● 4149d