Tag: Threlkeld Granite

Images of ornamental granitic tile, but from 1898 and in fire engine red not that dreary beige Home Depot pushes for kitchen countertops today. From a commercial catalogue put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Ltd. located in Cumberland County, England.

Album of ornamental granitic tiles, 1898 edition. Front cover, Image 1 of a commercial catalog put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Limited, Keswick, Cumberland County England. J. Broadley, Accrington, Lithographer. Collections of the Winterthur Museum Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/albumofornamenta00thre/mode/1up
Numbers 104 – 107. Size 7 7/8 x 7 7/8, Sheet 2. Image 13 of the 1898 edition of Album of ornamental granitic tiles, a commercial catalog put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Limited, Keswick, Cumberland County England. J. Broadley, Accrington, Lithographer. Collections of the Winterthur Museum Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/albumofornamenta00thre/page/n12/mode/1up
Number 109. Size 7 7/8 x 7 7/8, Sheet 3. Image 14 of the 1898 edition of Album of ornamental granitic tiles, a commercial catalog put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Limited, Keswick, Cumberland County England. J. Broadley, Accrington, Lithographer. Collections of the Winterthur Museum Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/albumofornamenta00thre/page/n14/mode/1up
Number 125. Size 7 7/8 x 7 7/8, Sheet 9. Image 26 of the 1898 edition of Album of ornamental granitic tiles, a commercial catalog put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Limited, Keswick, Cumberland County England. J. Broadley, Accrington, Lithographer. Collections of the Winterthur Museum Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/albumofornamenta00thre/page/n26/mode/1up
Numbers 154-157. Size 7 7/8 x 7 7/8, Sheet 23. Image 54 of the 1898 edition of Album of ornamental granitic tiles, a commercial catalog put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Limited, Keswick, Cumberland County England. J. Broadley, Accrington, Lithographer. Collections of the Winterthur Museum Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/albumofornamenta00thre/page/n54/mode/1up
Borders. Numbers 144-163. Size 7 7/8 x 3 15/16. Sheet 24. Image 56g of the 1898 edition of Album of ornamental granitic tiles, a commercial catalog put out by the Threlkeld Granite Company Limited, Keswick, Cumberland County England. J. Broadley, Accrington, Lithographer. Collections of the Winterthur Museum Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/albumofornamenta00thre/page/n56/mode/1up

A post from someone else’s blog with a bit more information and some of the other tiles in the catalogue here https://kottke.org/23/04/19th-century-ornamental-granite-tiles

The Threlkeld Quarry initially opened in the 1870s to supply ballast for the Penrith to Keswick railway line. In the 1890s, the operation expanded under the banner of Threlkeld Granite Company Ltd, eventually producing decorative colored granite floor tiles. The quarry closed in 1982 and there is a museum there now.