Brickmaking began in 1863 when William Holman Collier came to the area from the Collier brickmaking business in Reading. A pair of downdraft kilns still survive from 1883. They are listed on The Industrial Register. At its busiest, production was over 5 million pieces per year.

The product range included bricks, flower pots, land drain pipes, roofing tiles and fireplace briquettes. Currently production is less than 1 million per year