Welcome, Guest. Please login or register for free.
Did you miss your activation email?
Thursday 21 August 08 09:48 BST (UK)
Welcome Home Help Shop Search Calendar Login Register
Search Images Online
 
  First Name(s)
Last Name
 
News: Ad: Look up your ancestor in the 1871 England Census

+  RootsChat.Com
|-+  England (Counties as in 1851-1901)
| |-+  England - General
| | |-+  Bedfordshire (Moderator: RootsChat)
| | | |-+  Stewartby brickworks RIP
« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Stewartby brickworks RIP  (Read 227 times)
cathymcc
RootsChat Veteran
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 752


Sam & Hilda Worker


WWW
Stewartby brickworks RIP
« on: Wednesday 28 November 07 19:39 GMT (UK) »
Hello

Stewartby brickworks is about to close  Sad

Well, many of the chimneys have been demolished over the years and now there are only 2 or 3 still puffing away... I watch the smoke as I walk to Bedford.

There will be new houses built there over the old LBC site - but it is the end of an era?

You could say Bedfordshire was ''built on clay''  Grin

About 30 years ago I looked down from the roof into the furnace and it looked like hell's cauldron!

Bedfore LBC [London Brick Company] people were making clay by hand...if your people were from West Bedfordshire [18/19th C] - brick-making would have played a part in their life I would think?

cath
Logged
Bedfordshire: Worker [Flitton]; Ames [Kempston]; Manton [Kempston]; Morris [?]; Valentine [Kempston]; Two & Osborn [Cranfield]

Herfordshire and West London: Brown [Kent in early 19th C]; Blackwell.
McCarthy [Clonakilty, County Cork - searching for needles in the haystack!] and LOSTY [Dublin]
bedfordshire boy
RootsChat Marquessate
********
Offline Offline

Posts: 3526
Re: Stewartby brickworks RIP
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 November 07 03:39 GMT (UK) »
Much to the relief of those living in Bedford where the prevailing SW winds blow the noxious fumes coming from those chimneys, causing respiratory problems.

Yes, it is the end of an era, to which many people will say "thank goodness, now we can breathe"

Not just West Beds - there were also brickfields at Arlesey and Stotfold

David
Logged
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:  Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs:  Bourn: Bowd
             Eltisley: Medlock
             Graveley: Ford/Revell
johnP-bedford
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 2770


Name & Religion come just after Date of birth....


WWW
Re: Stewartby brickworks RIP
« Reply #2 on: Friday 30 November 07 22:18 GMT (UK) »
article on front of Bedfordshire Times (or equivalent) through my letterbox today  http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/Stewartby-brickworks-to-close-in.3529876.jp
Hanson's headquarters & IT dept to stay put though 
« Last Edit: Saturday 01 December 07 06:24 GMT (UK) by johnP-bedford » Logged
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Partridge - North Beds;  Peterborough
Bishop - Bedford; Hunts, Hemingford Grey
Allen - Hunts, Hemingford Abbotts
Clement - Croydon

Who's going to love you when your looks are gone...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
linmey
RootsChat Aristocrat
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1472


My Grandfather George Burns. Seaforth Highlanders!
Re: Stewartby brickworks RIP
« Reply #3 on: Friday 30 November 07 22:29 GMT (UK) »
Cant say I am heartbroken cos I hated that smell. Angry

Linda.
Logged
Reynolds, Woodham, Payne, Wilmott, Hart, Richardson, Packwood, Tandy, Dexter - Bedfordshire.
Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
Lanarkshire, Ross and Cromarty and Kincardineshire.
Garvey- Ireland.

Census Information Is Crown Copyright From--
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Alan7636
RootsChat Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 118


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Re: Stewartby brickworks RIP
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 01 December 07 16:01 GMT (UK) »
After living within 3 miles of the works for the past 26 years I’m not sorry to see the end of brick making at Stewartby, although it is a blow to more than 200 workers. The smell will certainly not be missed except perhaps as an indicator of imminent rain.

I am however of the opinion that at least one of the chimneys should be preserved as a monument to the fact that Bedfordshire bricks built post war Britain.

Alan
Logged
Hogan (Lambeth, Southwark, Ireland)
Masters (Lewisham, St Pancras, Clerkenwell)
Knowles (Salford, Manchester)
Farrow (Staffordshire, Manchester)
Maddigan (Ireland, Lambeth, Southwark)
Ball (Lincolnshire)
Hicks (Lincolnshire)
Wheatley (Lincolnshire)
Pearson (Lancashire, Cheshire, Pawtucket)
Wilson (Yorkshire)
Papworth (St Ives, Coventry, Leicester)
Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »


[Copyright] [Free RootsChat Webspace] [Your Surname Interests] [Shrink Link] [About Us] [Terms of Use]
All Census Lookups are Crown Copyright, National Archives for academic and non-commercial research purposes only
RootsChat.com cannot be held responsible directly or indirectly for the messages or content posted by others. Inline images in messages are the copyright of the respective linked sites.
RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT
0.571:21