Entrance to Forterra site, Wakefield Road, Swillington
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Entrance to Forterra site, Wakefield Road, Swillington
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 19 Mar 2023
Forterra is a brick-making company (Geograph members may remember our visit to their Whittlesea plant some years ago). According to one source (1) it opened in 1966, originally by George Armitage & Sons, later Marshalls, then Hansons, who closed it in 2008. Another source (2) says the buildings were demolished in 2015. Forterra's Twitter feed (3) says they subsequently acquired the clay pit with its 4.5M tonnes of reserves, 'with the option to construct a new brick factory in the future'. Two of the three houses (brick, naturally!) shown in Image have since been demolished, probably at the same time as the brickworks itself, which can be seen in an older photo Image (1) https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/swillington-brickworks-jan-11.57378/ (2) https://www.dsrdemolition.co.uk/swillington (3) https://twitter.com/ForterraUK/status/1534882810716205058
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Image Location
Latitude
53.774439
Longitude
-1.412906