Henry George Matthews established H.G Matthews in 1923. The traditional techniques that he used have been passed on to his descendants who still run the works today. Although he may never have imagined, as a coal burner, that 90 years after he founded the company his yard would be firing bricks with wood, as even in his day wood firing was all but a distant memory. In our long history our bricks have been used on many of the most important and prestigious buildings in England.
WoodFired Range
Brick buildings predating the 19th Century are widely considered to be amongst the most beautiful in the country. It is the subtle colour shades and glazes that characterise bricks from
