Ian Lindsay Freeman b.1927

 Ian Lindsay Freeman, b.1927, probably in Dundee; joined the Building Research Station in Garston, Watford in 1962; retired in 1980s.

 This is the hypothesis: That the ILF paper on the mineralogy of ten British brick clays, published in the Clay Minerals Bulletin in 1964, is the best available listing of the mineralogy of British brick making materials. No other readily available source of mineralogical data is apparent. ILF sample 63AH gives an analysis of a London Stock Brick mixture- one of the very few to give any information on this important source of bricks; bricks made from the loess of south-east England.

The interest in the work of ILF arises because of the connection to the 'Loess in Britain' project. Acknowledgements for assistance go to: Dave Morgan, the Mineralogical Society, Monica Smalley. Picture from the BRE publication Building Magazine 11 June 1971 pp.69-70

I.L.Freeman 1964.  Mineralogy of ten British brick clays. Clay Minerals Bulletin 5, 474-486. 

I.J.Smalley 2021.  London Stock Bricks: from Great Fire to Great Exhibition.  British Brick Society Information 147, 26-34