Pub sign and brickwork: The Wheatsheaf, Chilton Foliat
Introduction
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Pub sign and brickwork: The Wheatsheaf, Chilton Foliat
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 17 Jul 2017
I took the photo simply because I liked the sign - but it happens to show a good sample of typical Wiltshire and west Berkshire brickwork. The bricks are laid in Flemish bond - 'stretchers' (laid with their long side exposed) alternate with 'headers' (laid end-on). A chequered pattern arises if the stretchers are red while the headers are 'blue'. Blue bricks are generally described either as glazed or vitrified. It may well be that after a couple of centuries the glazed surface fades or is weathered away - leaving the chequering faint or intermittent.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.431786
Longitude
-1.538921