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| Bursledon Brickworks, Bursledon |
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| Brief Description: View of Bursledon Brickworks, Bursledon, about 1914. |
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| Subject Date: About 1914 |
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| Creator: Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; |
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| Owner: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Contributor: Hampshire Library and Information Service |
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| Full Description: Bursledon Brickworks was founded in 1897 by Mr Ashby and was actually in Swanwick. There had been many local yards in the area but these had only produced poor quality bricks and not many of them either. Bursledon used machinery and experienced staff were brought in from Chandler's Ford Brickworks to run the new yard. Production developed raridly and a second works was constructed in 1903 on the site now occupied by the new Civil Aviation Authority Centre. The brickyards consisted of clay pits, kiln chambers and chimneys. Skips were loaded with clay to be taken to the machine sheds for processing. The skips travelled by their own weight to an inclined plane where they were mechanically hauled into the engine house and tipped into a hopper above the pug mill.
After manufacture, the bricks were taken to large drying sheds where they remained for between ten days and three weeks. They were then barrowed to the kilns where they were loaded by hand for firing. When the bricks were ready they were transported along the River Hamble or by rail. A spur from the main railway line which passes the works was brought into the yard at Bursledon, so that bricks could be easily loaded and distributed around the country.
Just before WW2 further kilns and brick drying sheds were constructed and production peaked at about 20 million bricks per year employing about 180 men.
The brickworks remained a family run business until it was amalgamated with the Sussex and Dorking Brick Company, eventually becoming Redlands Limited in 1959. It closed as a brickworks in 1974 and gradually fell into disrepair. Two of the five chimneys are still there, they were known locally as the five sisters by the brick makers.
In 1990 restoration of the site began and today much of the old machinery and buildings has been restored. The Engine House, Boiler House, brickmaking plant and drying sheds have all been restored or awaiting restoration. It is now owned by a Charitable Trust who hold events throughout the year.
References:
1. Palmer, Oonagh. 1998. Around Fareham, p.37-42, 82.
2. Ritchie, Susannah. 1984. The Hamble River and much about old Bursledon, p. 57.
3.www.fareham.gov.uk/town/activities/places/bursledonbrickworks
4.www.hants.gov.uk/discover/places/brickworks.html
Copy photograph of a photograph. |
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| Place: Bursledon, Eastleigh District, Hampshire |
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| Subject: building, factory, brickworks, Bursledon Brickworks, Chandler's Ford Brickworks, Redlands Limited, brick, clay pit, kiln, chimney, river, engine house, boiler house, River Hamble, transport, railway |
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| Name Subject: Ashby, Bursledon Brickworks, Chandler's Ford Brickworks, Civil Aviation Authority, CAA, Sussex and Dorking Brick Company, Redlands Limited |
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| Content Type: Photograph |
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| Location: Fareham Library |
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| Local Ref: 314/1/5 |
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| Unique ID: hs-hl-hs2389-i-00-000.jpg |
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| IPR: Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council |
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