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History @Sewage_waste did an excellent write-up, I won’t repeat it here but instead implore you to visit their post and give it a read (and admire the photos that inspired me!) The Explore There are two sites to the Brickworks, bisected by the trainline - the East side faces next to the...

History: The works first opened as the "Campbell Brickworks" in the 1930s on the site of the former Campbell Colliery, it was first operated by the "Staveley Coal and Iron Company". It was sold twice in the 1970s and 1980s, before closing down in 1989 and then reopening in 1993 under the Phoenix...

History Foundation and Growth The London Brick Company was established in 1889 during Britain's Industrial Revolution by John Cathles Hill, a developer-architect based in Fletton, Huntingdonshire. Hill's identified the extensive Oxford Clay deposits across Bedfordshire as a prime resource for...

We visited this huge former ceramic/ brick factory in Montijo near Lisbon. I’m unable to find any history on the specific site, but the original company Cermon was founded in 1978, and it looks like it was overtaken by another company Cerâmica do Liz before the site was abandoned sometime in the...

The History The London Brick Company, established in 1900, is renowned for its significant role in the British brickmaking industry. In Stewartby, Bedfordshire, the company found its most notable base of operations. Stewartby itself was named after the Stewart family, who were prominent figures...

Background: The London Brick Company began in the late 1800s in response to industrialization and the need for construction materials. Although named the London Brick Company, it was located in Bedfordshire due to the abundance of clay. The town of Stewartby was largely developed to provide...

Bryn and Cwmavon Brick Works Co. The earliest reference to this brickworks I can find is the 1906 Kelly's Directory and it appears in subsequent issues until the mid 1920s. A Grade II listed building, their website mentions that Bryn Brickworks was constructed after 1894 and continued production...

Blickling Hall is large country estate and hall on a grand scale. The estate and house is managed by the national trust. These large estates had set ups to be self efficient and this one is no exception. You can still find remains of some old stuff as the trust can’t restore everything. They...

Finally got around to visiting here for the first time earlier in the year on an Urbex trip to North Wales. Didn't do much research prior to the explore, so I went only expecting the remains of a brickworks, I didn't realise the site has been used by various industries over it's life. The...

1. The History The site of the former brickworks lies just north of Scalford in Leicestershire, next to a bridge on the minerals rail line (a.k.a. the ironworks line). Lion Brickworks opened in 1875 with the nearby railway line providing links to the local quarries. A row of six cottages to the...

Introduction As it was a nice day me and a friend decided to take a look at an old Pipe and Brickworks site near the Suffolk Coast. We've had this pinned on the map for a while and decided to give it a go. It was a good explore and I haven't constructed a report for a while so I have decided to...

Recommended by a friend History ( copied from couple of other sites) Glazed brick manufacturers established by Henry Victor Allen (1887-1960), when he took over the Halifax Glazed Brickworks in 1905 in the Walterclough Valley. He converted the works to manufacture refractory bricks (glazed...

Well here we go, first stab at this report malarky History The original brickworks opened in1897 by the village then known as Wooten Pillinge. In 1937 the village was renamed Stewartby after the Stewart family who were heavily involved with the development of the works. Stewartby was the...

Explored this site back in August. At the time this was the biggest urbex I'd completed by far. I only began my journey in July. This site was crazy big from what I had explored, though unfortunately it sounds like most of it has now been torn down. I've been meaning to try and see what's left...

1. The History I've been to this place a number of times so you can find the history of this place on this previous report HERE. 2. The Explore This area is a massive one, spread over three sites. Furthest down-stream is Storr's Fire clay works, across the river of another large set of brick...

It's not a big city urbex. It's an urbex in a rural setting. In a beautiful cottage in Poland, we found an abandoned watermill. Outside we saw an amazing brick construction. But the most surprising thing was the interior. There is a lot of untouched watermill equipment. We felt like in a time...

. The site has a long and chequered history from clay production in the early part of the 20th century; during WW1 the site was a munitions store; between 1937 and 1989 it was used for a range of chemical manufacturing processes; between 1990 and 2004 the site reverted to a brickworks with clays...

1. The History Porth Wen Brickworks is located on the western side of Porth Wen (meaning White Bay), in the North of Anglesey, North Wales. Dating back from Victorian times, it produced fire or silica bricks, made from quartzite whose main use was to line steel-making furnaces. The works...

History : Stewartby Brickworks has stood in the small village of Stewartby since the 1920s. Stewartby, then named Wooton Pillinge, soon became the mainstay of brick production in the county of Bedfordshire. In 1923 the two companies operating in the area merged to form the London Brick Company...

Really excellent place, incredibly well tucked away and as a result I didn't see a single piece of modern rubbish inside, not even a monster munch packet or a stella can. Nice to see somewhere a bit older than the usual Victorian Palmerston Forts after having seen plenty of those. Explored with...