Hardy & Sons brickyard at Fletton in Peterborough, and the business was incorporated as the London Brick Company in 1900.

[1] During the post war housing boom, Fletton brick sales increased, reaching a peak in 1967.

London Brick Landfill was formed, and it began the tipping of household and industrial refuse into the old clay pits in the Marston Vale area.

Production of Fletton brick is now concentrated at Peterborough, while the Marston Vale site is being redeveloped for housing.

[5] As well as Bedford and Peterborough, many Italian families also settled in Bletchley to work in its Newton Longville factory.

A large number of Bangladeshi workers were continually recruited at the Newton Longville and Jubilee works during the 1960s to 1980s.