English bond

(Building) a bond used in brickwork that has a course of headers alternating with a course of stretchers

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The listing description is of a functional 'factory' in 'red English bond brick with a battered plinth of black engineering bricks and a hipped slate roof, a square-section tower which is capped by a large metal water tank, below which appears the sign "BOAK" in white bricks against a black background to each of the four faces.

A landmark burns as a town falls out of love with itself... Last week the landmark BOAK building in Walsall went up in flames, the latest in a string of devastating fires. Award-winning architect David Mahoney - a resident of the town - asks who is protecting the town's rapidly diminishing heritage?

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