Who remembers the name and makers of the chicken tile.

[stephen street]

I will slip into this thread the name Mr Bob Howard at this point so if Phil hobson and the said B H are the only people other than myself to recall Chicken tiles, his name will hang around on the internet for quite sometime.Keeping on topic,Bob Howard is alleged to have fixed chicken tiles when he was younger, probably long before he rose to the high office he now holds at wilson and wylie. I also remember Bob as contracts manager at The Tiling Co(TTC) along with the MD Martin Burr,chicken tiles I think had probably been disc'd by this point.(still on topic!)I don't know if Tabby Cranks can remember chicken tiles, but he does appear to have Bob Howard in the right context.
Chicken tiles came in two sizes BM answers only please!?.(sorry I Don't hold with all this common era tosh.Just good old BEFORE METRIC,leads to another story "always quote in yards. That's a 10% pay rise.)
Answers on a post card no later than!

Yes,that's it how it was done BT. (Before Techno)(but, on topic,After chicken tiles.)
Steve the Luddite.

 

[Dan]

Pilkingtons I think. Horrible tiles. :lol:

Might have been johnsons but I'm sure it was Pilks.

Can't remember their name though, we always called them chicken tiles and so did customers.

I'm sure their colour names were like 'champagne' and whatnot but might be wrong.

 

[doit4u]

I think they were called TV Vein. Still got some of the brown ones on a sink splashback on the downstairs loo.

 

[Gazzer]

H&R Johnsons Cristal Textured Vein, a range with many colours and 2 sizes 4 1/4 " and 6". With Re`s, Rex. Also anyone remember the perforated cardboard spacers they used to give you with each box.

 

[Gazzer]

Oh and they had little spacers/nibs built into the sides of the tiles before they changed to border tiles with had bevelled edges to act as a spacer. We were told that they would collapse if there was movement in the walls.....yeah right

 

[Dan]

I remember the boxes but they were disco'd even when I was in topps. We had to find the odd box every now and again from other store stock. And back in those days we had to call the stores from A - Z to see if they had stock. I think these days they're on a national database so takes just minutes to check all stores. Pain in the bum when a customers used to come in waving one around.

We'd be like 'look, they've been on since the 60's - just re-do the lot!!!! It's time!!!!' haha

 

[murf]

I remember them only too well. topaz vein, primrose vein etc. The chicken shape was pure fluke but many the smartass used to insist that the chickens be all aligned the same way up. They came in 4x4 (inches) and 6x6. With built in spacers that never kept in line. We tiled a prison with them in the late seventies and used hundreds of square yards, with every colour that was available.

 

[Gazzer]

Along with Cameo range and Vanity Fair range.
In the eighties and early nineties a tile called Rachel took over, peach and sage most popular. We got ours through Ramus Tiles.

 

[Brian the Tile]

textile vein ,pilkingtons made one and H&R Johnson stoke on trent made one one with a chicken and one with a lamb not to sure who made whitch though,i remember trying to make a bit of extra money as a apprentice doing a foreigner and the customer made me take them off because they wernt all the same way,made sure i always checked for a pattern in every tile after that one

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Hi Steve, TV textured vein by Johnsons ( crystal) textile by Pilks, Bob Howard and I fixed acres of them. I remember Lol Palmer well, Bob was a good fixer in his day he won first place at olympia, when he was an apprentice.Sorry I have.not replied earlier, I am away and struggling to get a signal.

 

[Andy Allen]

yuk!!

and some kh1 that ive posed on here before, just for phil........cause i know he loves seeing them..

 

[Gazzer]

TV Turquoise and Kitchen Harmony Country Garden or was it Pilkingtons Broadstone ?

 

[Ian]

Ok, I've seen a couple of threads on here recently about these chicken tiles from the 1880's and I really can't see the chicken! Can someone draw it out for me coz it's driving me mad!!!!!


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[Gazzer]

Ok, I've seen a couple of threads on here recently about these chicken tiles from the 1880's and I really can't see the chicken! Can someone draw it out for me coz it's driving me mad!!!!!


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Hows this ?

 

[Ian]

Cheers mate! I'll sleep better tonight!


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[White Room]

I put some of them up in 1975..

 

[DHTiling]

I put some of them up in 1975..

1975 I was in last year of junior school

 

[Andy Allen]

me too..

 

[Ian]

And about the last time Forest won any significant!


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[White Room]

1975 I was in last year of junior school

:yikes::yikes:

 

[kilty55]

i was 1

 

[suave]

lmao got shown a sample of this tile at college apparently glasgow was riddled with them,u can actually see the chicken if u look close enuff,a personally thought it looked more like a turkey hehe

 

[Dan]

I was a twinkle in my mums eye in '75! Another 7 years would pass before I entered the world!! haha

 

[stephen street]

Well well,
Bit of fun with this one. Did anyone notice that Sir Ramic may have taken a photo of his bathroom in order to detail the said chicken? (but the tiling,what you can see of it,doesn't look to bad!)
The chicken if i remember correctly was on the"4 1/4" and "6" inch tiles of(happy days) Johnsons crystal range. It was mooted many years ago that it had been one of the longest running ranges. (20 years plus) So the guy writing about been two tiles short would have got away with it back then.( no smart asses please. Johnson sold their products claiming that you didn't get shade errors.) Pilks made a vein tile to compete but no chicken,Only got those through the clearing house.
Must deduct some points as my mail bag has no Answers on post cards in it!
The Nibs/lugs, what ever they were called, waste of space.(Think about it.)But the "cisco kids" dream,the first "stacking" tiles.(Universal range) Unfortunately as many found out, the bevelled edge was supposed collapse if the was any problems,the adhesive man'f's demanded a 2mm space.i'll leave you to think about poor sod's who got the bill.Or did a runner.

 

[Gazzer]

Well well,
Bit of fun with this one. Did anyone notice that Sir Ramic may have taken a photo of his bathroom in order to detail the said chicken? (but the tiling,what you can see of it,doesn't look to bad!)
The chicken if i remember correctly was on the"4 1/4" and "6" inch tiles of(happy days) Johnsons crystal range. It was mooted many years ago that it had been one of the longest running ranges. (20 years plus) So the guy writing about been two tiles short would have got away with it back then.( no smart asses please. Johnson sold their products claiming that you didn't get shade errors.) Pilks made a vein tile to compete but no chicken,Only got those through the clearing house.
Must deduct some points as my mail bag has no Answers on post cards in it!
The Nibs/lugs, what ever they were called, waste of space.(Think about it.)But the "cisco kids" dream,the first "stacking" tiles.(Universal range) Unfortunately as many found out, the bevelled edge was supposed collapse if the was any problems,the adhesive man'f's demanded a 2mm space.i'll leave you to think about poor sod's who got the bill.Or did a runner.

It was Andy Allens photo so maybe his bathroom !