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©Pam Goodey
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©Pam Goodey
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking north east towards Bedford from the very minimal station, with three of the four surviving and listed brickworks chimneys in view.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Part of the conveyor which transported clay from clay pit [[551792]] to the works. The brickworks stopped making bricks in February 2008.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>The station is on the line between Bedford and Bletchley. The semaphore signals have now been replaced by lights and the manned level crossings have followed the same fate.
©nick macneill
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©John Yaxley
Dist:0.3km<br/>This no longer happens on the line as it has gone completely automatic.
©nick macneill
Dist:0.3km<br/>The last few chimneys
©Barry Ephgrave
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©John Yaxley
Dist:0.3km<br/>A rather strange concept. How could one use a rented chimney - a kiln, perhaps, if one was into pottery. The brickworks at Stewartby ceased brickmaking in 2008. There are four of these chimneys still remaining - an earlier photo by Jean Flannery [1959] [[1095716]] shows about 20 chimneys in full action.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>This Station is on the Bletchley - Bedford line, looking in the Bletchley direction (South Westerly) from the north bound platform. The railway overpass is used for moving raw clay around the area.
©Mr Biz
Dist:0.3km<br/>After centuries of brickmaking in Bedfordshire, the last bricks were made in February 2008. Modern brickmaking at Stewartby began in 1897; by 1936 the brickworks was part of the London Brick Company, and was the largest brickworks in the world, employing 2,000 and manufacturing over 500 million bricks per year. There were 135 chimneys in use in the Marston Vale, and an old photo in the Bedford Museum shows at least 30 at Stewartby. Recently there have been far fewer, and at the end only 2 kilns and 3 chimneys were in use, producing a total of 135 million bricks a year. The 4 remaining chimneys and 2 kilns are now protected by listed status. Stewartby is closing because the sulphur dioxide emissions from the kilns breached EU and UK environmental regulations.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Information board at the Green Lane Crossing entrance.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Two of only four remaining chimneys at the Stewartby brickworks, which produced their last bricks in February 2008. The brickworks produced far too much pollution to comply with UK and EEC environmental regulations.
©M J Richardson

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