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Posted: 30 Aug 2013

Taken: 22 Oct 2009

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Buxton

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Clearly manufactured somewhere in or around Buxton in Derbyshire. I have been unable to conclusively locate the brickworks that made this brick.
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 A Buildings Fan
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Their is the site of an old brickworks at a place called Friden south of Buxton on the old Ashbourne-Buxton railway line. On the 1922 OS map its marked as a 'silica fire brickworks' whatever that means. On more recent maps its called a 'refractory brickworks'
10 years ago.
tarboat club has replied to A Buildings Fan club
Thanks for the suggestion. That's the Derbyshire Silica Firebrick works at Friden. It started up manufacturing retorts and the like for the gas industry, then moved on to refractories for the steel industry after coal gas was replaced by natural gas, and after the steel industry declined they moved to special refractories for the glass industry. The business is still going and seems to be thriving. They have never made ordinary clay bricks such as this one. I will post some photos of the works some time.
10 years ago.

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