Heroes of bricks

I reported a few weeks ago, at reference 1, of the probably termination of my habit of walking bricks, supported by a very modest collecting habit.

So I was interested to read in yesterday's Metro of a retired policeman, one Mark Cranston, who has collected around 4,000 bricks. I failed to turn him up this morning at the Metro website, but Bing and the Daily Mail could oblige between them, turning up a rather longer piece and the snap above. I have not read the piece all the way through, but I did not find any mention of walking the bricks or counting the bricks, this last in the way that a miser might count his gold sovereigns in a strong box kept under his bed. Or perhaps under a special floor board. For which see reference 2.

Very impressive - not least because the 4,000 bricks occupy a fair amount of shelving, by the looks of things, in some kind of shed. Plus the wall in the snap above.

PS: the Metro might not have been able to turn Cranston up, but it was able to turn up another collector, one Neil Brittlebank, in a piece dating from 2013. He then had a modest 1,000 or so bricks, but he does make collecting a serious business, travelling up and down the country in search of new bricks to add to his collection. I hope he keeps a proper catalogue of them, on a spreadsheet, to make sure that he has not got too many duplicates. And are there swapping fora for brick collectors?

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/10/bricks-off.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/09/church-two.html.