Landscaping supplier Marshalls used to do these, other suppliers were available im sure. That shape in particular was called Porto superscreen walling. There was also Faro, which i think was a square within a square, Vigo was some ofset curves, (which was not particularly popular) a solid block called Northstar.
This is a random answer, but it reminds me of the reverse of the ancient Ionian Miletus obol coins. Even experts can’t agree on what the pattern is, they describe it as “ornamented star, sun symbol, stellate pattern, starlike floral ornament, floral star, flower, floral design, or rossette.” I don’t know if there’s a shared origin of these symbols, but other guesses for quatrefoil seem to work.
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It’s a square.
I don’t know if there even is an agreed name, it’s just one of several concrete, decorative screen wall blocks that were popular in the 60s and 70s.
B&Q call it a Screen Wall Leaf block
It’s called a leaf block.
A German iron cross?
I call it “those horrible 70’s cement blocks”
Dunno if it’s the right name for this object, but four-leaf shapes are sometimes called quatrefoils in design.
California brick / block
It a 70’sagon
Hackneyed
Luftwaffe Brick
A 1970s Fourfanny Porn Block
The Bath Taps of Power
IFKYK
It’s a type of quatrefoil.
Landscaping supplier Marshalls used to do these, other suppliers were available im sure. That shape in particular was called Porto superscreen walling. There was also Faro, which i think was a square within a square, Vigo was some ofset curves, (which was not particularly popular) a solid block called Northstar.
They’re in our back garden, semi detached house built 1937. I hate them! But they’ve never blown down in a storm, unlike the fence.
Councilgardenwallagon
Octo-pussy
California screen wall breeze block
Nans garden wall
Brian
Nan’s wall.
Nans house wall vent.
Stephen
1950’s ex council house.
The design is a croix pattée or croix formée
It’s like a Maltese cross, but its arms flare out and are flattened at the end, rather than forked.
It’s called a Quatrefoil, or at least, that’s the most similar shape which has a name. Usually they are more circular.
80’s council lad done well?
Old persons bungalow wall
Square
It’s a cross pattée, with piercings. Sue me!
I used to draw these kind of shapes with my geometry box, using compass and a ruler
Bogbignabok
Trangualamahexalgronscquricle. Tis an ‘Ol saying for brickwork from back in the day. We used to call Turkeys walking birds back then.
Feel free to name it yourself
Four de lys
Idk, but it looks angry. Does it look angry to anyone else?
It’s called 80s fluer de council estate
A picture tells a thousand words.
It’s called ‘Yer Nan’s House’
Square
It’s the shape you get when you overlap 4 circles, just a simple design
Square
Square shit head
California blocks they were once known as.
The butterfly’s anus
Four de lys
Brick
Square
Suzumebachi sting
I call mine Trevor
Pretty flower stone
Real Old school. Reminds me of walking home from school and seeing it in people walls in front of their house 😂😌
Yes, I believe that is called a square.
Not sure but a few nearly fell on my head on a windy night
It’s a clover. Pretty similar to the four leaf clover intersection.
It’s a square
This is a random answer, but it reminds me of the reverse of the ancient Ionian Miletus obol coins. Even experts can’t agree on what the pattern is, they describe it as “ornamented star, sun symbol, stellate pattern, starlike floral ornament, floral star, flower, floral design, or rossette.” I don’t know if there’s a shared origin of these symbols, but other guesses for quatrefoil seem to work.
Square
SPREAD EAGLE CROSS THE BLOOOOOCK
I helped my dad make dozens of these from a mould in the 1970s.
He had to raise the height of our back garden wall because our dog used to launch himself over into the downhill neighbour’s garden 😂
It was 2 feet high on our side, but 6 feet high on theirs.
These remind me of the housing estate I used to live near (built in early 1980s)
Nan’s back garden
Is it not a quatrefoil?
Quatrefoil?
I’ve always known them as daisy blocks
These are sex people, Lynn.
Council estate style 1
My little brother once killed a kitten with one of these when he was little.
Dave
A square with holes in it?
it’s called we are close to grandma’s
You see a leaf, I see an iron cross. We are not the same.
His name is Steven
OP marked this as the best answer, given by /u/fluffy_samoyed.
> It’s called a leaf block.
^(What is this?)
My neighbour had these :0
Thankyou everybody! The correct answer is much appreciated and the rest really brightened my day
Italian screed block is what us UK bricklayers know it as
I call them triple H’s
Simon
Thebasicgardenwalldeco3000
Quadgina
Retro and not in a good way
Its Brian
Maltese Cross
Steve…it’s called Steve
Looks like an iron cross lol.
I once wrote a poem inspired by these kind of blocks:
— Fractal —
I know a place,
‘Twixt here and there,
And yet in both,
And none.
Of dusted sand,
And time-stripped land,
Pier of the Rising Sun.
Court of Ursa,
Minor though,
East King,
Near blooming walls,
From Doggerland,
A Marram hand,
Of whipping Winter calls.
I wish to go,
When the day is hot,
And the Moon,
Is much too long,
To that curious place,
With its parterre face,
Singing Old Empire’s song.
So join me, please,
On the promenade,
Or by the,
Concrete flowers,
For on this plot,
Time’s all but stopped,
And iterates in hours.
Fun with Compass
Roger
It’s either square, triangle or oval depending on which shape you mean
The 1970’s
Old people bricks
Yes, square
Iron Cross block.
Steve
It’s called ‘the portal of the four vaginas’
I think it’s from the 1970s. I think I saw an item about them on Tomorrow’s World.
For some reason it always reminded me of the sassanid empire
Thay have different names it’s a breeze block the pattern can be called flower floral leaf
What’s a 1930s semi? Were there semi trucks in the ‘30s?
Montura
quatrefoil
Looks like a square with some holes in it
Quadragina
This is a wall.
Uh… in between 4 circles.