Date:April 1964
Description:Looking over G H Downing's clay pit east of Westport Lake. The line of houses on the skyline are on Davenport Street and Brownhills Road. Today, the clay pit has been filled in and the land used for housing. The clay dug from the pit was Etruria Marl, a clay found overlying the coal seams of the North staffs Coalfield. The red marl when fired produced very hard impervious bricks blue bricks.
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A view over the Clay pit at G H Downing's Brownhills brick and tile works. The houses running across ...
Looking over G H Downing's clay pit east of Westport Lake. The line of houses on the skyline are on ...
The houses on the skyline are on Davenport Street & Brownhills Road. The pit lay to the east of Westport ...
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Creators: Mr Bert Bentley - Creator
Image courtesy of: Stoke on Trent City Archives.
Donor ref:SD1480/071-02 (204/33729)
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