Thomas Brooks and Co.
Other names: Thomas Brooks and Co. Ltd.
Active: 1866 - 1951
Function: Carvers, gilders, and looking-glass manufacturers, marble works, roman cement and plaster of paris dealers, stained glass manufacturers, cement and concrete merchants, art metal work, church decorators, marble merchants, fire clay works
Policy: Chimney-pieces: 'in Italian, Belgian, Irish and English Marble....'
As advertised in The Dublin Builder, Oct. 1st, 1865.
Products & Services
Plastering, Stucco Work and Providers of Cement
Locations
Company located at 4 Sackville Street Dublin | View on map
1921 - 1926
Brooks and Co. operating from a premises between '4-13 Sackville Place' from 1866, but the above address '4 Sackville Street' also listed for the Stained Glass Manufacturing section of the business from 1921.
Ran a business at 4 Sackville Place Dublin | View on map
1866 - 1951
'Marble Works';
'Marble Merchants';
'Art Metal Work';
'Cement and Concrete Merchants';
'Church Decorators';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers';
'Fire Clay Works';
'Plaster of Paris';
'Pulpits'.
Ran a business at 4 and 13 Sackville Place Dublin | View on map
1871 - 1936
'Carvers, Gilders, and Looking-Glass Manufacturers'; 'Carvers and Gilders'.
'Roman Cement and Plaster of Paris Dealers';'Cement and Concrete Merchants'; 'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Ran a business at 4 Sackville Place and Lower Abbey Street Dublin | View on map
1896 - 1906
'Roman Cement and Plaster of Paris Dealers';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Ran a business at 4-13 Sackville Place Dublin | View on map
1941 - 1951
In 1941 business address listed as '4-13 Sackville Place', rather than 4 & 13 Sackville Place'. May indicate further expansion of the business.
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1866 Thom's Directory
'Marble Works'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1876 Thom's Directory
'Carvers, Gilders and Looking-Glass Manufacturers'; 'Marble Works'; 'Roman Cement and Plaster of Paris Dealers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1881 Thom's Directory
'Carvers, Gilders and Looking-Glass Manufacturers';
'Marble Merchants'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1886 Thom's Directory
'Carvers, Gilders, and Looking-Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1891 Thom's Directory
'Carvers, Gilders, and Looking-Glass Manufacturers';
'Roman Cement and Plaster of Paris Dealers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1896 Thom's Directory
'Carvers, Gilders, and Looking-glass Manufacturers';
'Roman Cement and Plaster of Paris Dealers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1901 Thom's Directory
'Carvers, Gilders, and Looking-Glass Manufacturers';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1906 Thom's Directory
'Carvers', Gilders, and Looking-Glass Manufacturers';
'Marble Merchants';
'Roman Cement and Plaster of Paris Merchants'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1911 Thom's Directory
'Carvers and Gilders'; 'Cement and Concrete Merchants'; and
'Marble Merchants'.
'Portland Cement Dealers' also listed within this category in 1911, but not distinguishable from above dealers.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1916 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Cement and Concrete Merchants';
'Church Decorators';
'Plaster of Paris'; Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1921 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Cement and Concrete Merchants';
'Church Decorators';
'Marble Merchants';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1926 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Workers';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Cement and Concrete Merchants';
'Marble Merchants';
'Plaster of Paris';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1931 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Cement and Concrete Merchants and Agents';
'Church Decorators';
'Fire Clay Works';
'Marble Merchants';
'Plaster of Paris'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1936 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Church Decorators';
'Marble Merchants';
'Plaster of Paris'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1941 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Church Decorators'; 'Fire Clay Works';
'Marble Merchants';
'Plaster of Paris'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1946 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Church Decorators';
'Fire Clay Works';
'Marble Merchants';
'Plaster of Paris';
'Pulpits';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1951 Thom's Directory
'Art Metal Work';
'Carvers and Gilders';
'Fire Clay Works';
'Marble Merchants';
'Church Decorators';
'Plaster of Paris';
'Stained Glass Manufacturers'.
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1871 Thom's Directory
1871
'Carvers, Gilders, Looking-Glass Manufacturers'; 'Marble Chimney Piece Manufacturers'.
Publications
Advertised in The Dublin Builder, 1865-1866 Illustrated Record of Art, Science, Industry and Manufacture
1 October 1865: 'Chimney-pieces'
Advertised in The Dublin Builder, 1861-1862 Illustrated Irish Architectural, Engineering, Mechanics' & Sanitary Journal, later known as The Irish Builder
1 February 1861, p. 426: 'Statuary, Marbles, Cements'
Sources
Earley and Company (Ecclesiastical Decorators)Documentation: Box 3 of 7 Earley and Company Documentation (ECD)
ECD/8, Large Folio Ledger and Costs Book, p.38.
The Dublin Builder, 1861-1862 Illustrated Irish Architectural, Engineering, Mechanics' & Sanitary Journal, later known as The Irish Builder
1861
1 February 1861, p. 426: 'Statuary, Marbles, Cements'
The Dublin Builder, 1865-1866 Illustrated Record of Art, Science, Industry and Manufacture
1866
1 October 1865: 'Chimney-pieces'
The Irish Builder, 1901 formerly The Dublin Builder
1901
19 December 1901, p. i
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1871 Thom's Directory
1871
p. 1962; 1977.
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1876 Thom's Directory
1876
p. 1750; p. 1765; p. 1772.
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1881 Thom's Directory
1881
pp. 1771, 1786
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1891 Thom's Directory
1891
pp. 1876, 1900
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1896 Thom's Directory
1896
pp. 1893, 1915
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1901 Thom's Directory
1901
p. 1951; p. 1979.
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1906 Thom's Directory
1906
pp. 2148, 2169, 2177
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1911 Thom's Directory
1911
pp. 2182, 2200
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1916 Thom's Directory
1916
pp. 2208, 2214, 2215, 2237, 2244
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1921 Thom's Directory
1921
pp. 2229, 2235, 2236, 2237, 2260, 2274
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1926 Thom's Directory
1926
pp. 2247, 2263, 2264, 2306, 2325, 2336
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1931 Thom's Directory
1931
pp. 2237, 2248, 2249, 2251, 2260, 2279, 2291
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1936 Thom's Directory
1936
pp. 2141, 2151, 2154, 2184, 2195
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1941 Thom's Directory
1941
pp. 1936, 1946, 1950, 1959, 1980, 1991
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1946 Thom's Directory
1946
pp. 1937, 1948, 1952, 1963, 1980, 1990, 1995, 2002
Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1951 Thom's Directory
1951
pp. 1525, 1537, 1555, 1581, 1542, 1594, 1609
Citing this record
'Thomas Brooks and Co.', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib3_1207145444, accessed 16 Jun 2021]
