Tar bricks

[Rough Hewn]

Mentioned a while back about seeing wooden tar bricks for roads in a thread.

saw these today from the same stretch of road being dug up again.

must be a hundred years old and not in bad condition.

[Khriss]

What a brilliant idea ! I can see that the sound deadening potential with this road cover would be amazing - just wouldn't want to ride the motorbike on them ! K

[eggsarascal]

Where in the country are these?

 

I've worked on the roads around a lot of the place and have never seen these.

[Rough Hewn]

These are in hove/Brighton 

near the station. 

Didnt have time to examine really as the digger driver was working.

 

[Graham]

I do remember my dad telling me about these.  Our local town high st was dug up in the 30s and he said it was made from wooden blocks covered in tar.

[eggsarascal]

14 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

These are in hove/Brighton 

near the station. 

Didnt have time to examine really as the digger driver was working.

 

Cool, they seem to have stood the test of time.

 

A mate of mine dipped some wooden fence posts in tar, ( the part that were buried) I laughed and thought it won't make much difference......... Those posts/fence are still standing twenty odd years on.

[Yournamehere]

yergo

Second para 'Tramcars & Track'

[Rough Hewn]

As a kid in Devon, I always wondered why the old cottages were all white except for a black band 2 feet high all round the base.

They painted over the tar.

primitive but effective damproofing. Some of the cottages were 400+ years old.

 

 

[eggsarascal]

25 minutes ago, Yournamehere said:

yergo

Second para 'Tramcars & Track'

Interesting, I'm 'into' old methods of transport, canals, trains, trams, I know, a bit sad.

 

do you know if these tar bricks were used nation wide or were they a local thing to Brighton?

[Yournamehere]

21 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Interesting, I'm 'into' old methods of transport, canals, trains, trams, I know, a bit sad.

 

do you know if these tar bricks were used nation wide or were they a local thing to Brighton?

no idea! I just googled 'brighton road wooden blocks'  

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