A NORTH Yorkshire brick manufacturer has supplied 100,000 bricks for a new airfield control tower in Buckinghamshire as part of a £130,000 contract.

York Handmade Brick Company, based at Alne, near Easingwold, was appointed to supply the specially-made bricks for the hexagonal control tower at Turweston Flight Centre in Brackley.

The company was approached by David Owen, owner of Turweston Flight Centre, after he was York Handmade’s Maxima bricks at the base of the Shard building in London.

David Armitage, chairman of York Handmade, said: “It was a tremendous honour to be asked to provide so many bricks for such a prestigious project. The new control tower at Turweston is an exceptional building, utterly at home in its surroundings.

“It was especially pleasing that our bricks at the Shard, of which we are very proud, led to this order. It is often forgotten that the Shard is not just made of glass.”