Date:April 1963
Description:The photograph shows the fireclay marl pit at Oldfield's brick works, east of Duke Street in the Lane Delph area of Fenton. At the time of the photograph, the pit was being filled in. There was a brickworks in Lane Delph in by 1820. The Oldfield works was part of the Oldfield Colliery until 1896 when the mine closed and the brickworks continued independently. The yard was in production until at least 1959 when it was owned by D. Duddell Ltd and making refractory bricks. The site is now occupied by the Oldfield Industrial Estate. The thick band of more resistant rock running through the centre of the photograph is the Bassey Ironstone. This is one of over 50 horizons or seams worked for coal or iron in the North Staffordshire Coal Measures.
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Oldfield's fireclay pit and brickworks was off Duke Street in Fenton. Originally the brickworks and ...
The brick kilns and their chimneys at Oldfield's brickworks off Duke Street in Fenton. In the foreground ...
Oldfield's fireclay pit off Duke Street in Fenton. The Bassey Mine Ironstone and Peacock Coal seams ...
The photograph shows the fireclay marl pit at Oldfield's brick works, east of Duke Street in the Lane ...
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Creators: Mr Bert Bentley - Creator
Image courtesy of: Stoke on Trent City Archives.
Donor ref:SD1480/207-19 (204/32788)
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