Brick Making Equipment
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Brick Making Equipment
Image: © Paul Buckingham Taken: 23 Jul 2010
These two items of brick making equipment were removed from the nearby Stewartby brickworks which closed in 2008. The wheels on the right crushed the lumps of Oxford clay prior to it being fed to the Whitaker double repress brick press on the left. The press had a capacity of 26 bricks per minute.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.065023
Longitude
-0.535794