Tony O'Hagan - Leisure pages
Brickplayer - the bricks and mortar building kit
This is the home page of a website devoted to Brickplayer; brickplayer.co.uk redirects to here.
The wonderful original brickplayer.co.uk site was created by Dave Meesam, and with his kind
permission I have incorporated some of Dave's original material into this site.
What is Brickplayer?
Everyone is familiar with Lego, which began life mainly for constructing houses and other buildings.
The idea of Brickplayer is to build such things using real miniature bricks and 'mortar'. The result is much more
realistic than a Lego building, as well as being more demanding to build.
Brickplayer was produced by J W Spear and Sons,
who are perhaps better known for producing boardgames, particularly Scrabble.
They ceased making Brickplayer in the 1970s but, as a young lad in the 1950s and early 1960s
I enjoyed building with Brickplayer and in recent years I have returned to it.
It is still possible to acquire old Brickplayer kits on EBay, and I have quite a large quantity
(although apparently Dave Meesam had much more!).
Links to pages in this site
- Kits and History. This page traces the history of Brickplayer
through the development of the various Brickplayer kits. It provides onward links to details about
the kits, including building instructions, blueprints and photographs where available.
- Accessories. Once you had a Brickplayer kit, you could always
buy extra bricks, windows, doors or roofing. This page shows some of the accessories that
were available.
- Components. Details of the components (bricks, doors, windows,
roofing, etc.) in the various Brickplayer kits are given on this page.
- Marketing. Examples of the many Brickplayer advertisements and
marketing materials are shown on this page.
Further pages are planned to provide information on techniques for building with Brickplayer,
and also details and photos of the larger models
that I have been building. Links to those pages will appear here as soon as they become available!
Get in touch
I would love to hear from you if you are a Brickplayer builder, or you can add anything to the
information and resources on this site, or if you are just interested to know more. Just
email me.
More links: This Brickplayer website sits within my personal website tonyohagan.co.uk. The links below
provide access to the other parts of my website.
Updated: 11 March 2023
Maintained by: Tony O'Hagan