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Dist:0.4km<br/>from level crossing looking towards Stewartby Brickworks. You can see the kiln chimneys smoking
©Marcus de Figueiredo
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©Marcus de Figueiredo
Dist:0.4km<br/>The old brick pits were used as landfill to get rid of rubbish and polluted soil. Here a train load of spoil is backed into the sidings. This was the view from the road crossing just north of the sidings. The chimneys from the brickworks can be seen behind the locomotives.
©roger geach
Dist:0.6km<br/>At Stewartby, and for sale. Probably a lot whiter than it would have been when the nearby brickworks were in full production.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.7km<br/>With the four remaining Stewartby brickworks chimneys looming in the background.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.7km<br/>The ugly smelly charmless Brogborough tip.
©michael wilson
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>The Midland mainline railway runs through an area of clay which has been extracted for many decades to be made into bricks at Stewartby. Clay is now being extracted by two large draglines to the east of the railway. The brick works are the other side and clay is transported to the works by a covered conveyor - crossing the mid-line of the photo.
©M J Richardson
Dist:1.1km southwest<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
Dist:1.1km southwest<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:1.1km northeast<br/>Judging by the brick & cement works surrounding this lake it was created by opencast quarrying of clay and/or gravel. It seemed eerily devoid of wildlife - perhaps they're put off by the stink of smoke and chemicals that pervades the air around these parts.
©Rob Farrow
Dist:1.1km southwest<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:1.2km east<br/>Long standing terrace of cottages just to the left of the image
©Dennis simpson
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>With Stewartby Club behind it, this was a busy little post office and shop.
©Jean Flannery
Dist:1.2km southwest<br/>Just opposite the village hall [[767118]], and part of the model village built around the brickworks.
©M J Richardson
Dist:1.3km southwest<br/>The last few chimneys
©Barry Ephgrave

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