Goodbye Messrs Davison's"

Old Ewloe Brickworks, Buckley

August 1976

GOODBYE MESSRS DAVISON'S

CAPTION ONE

It is August 1976. Messrs Davison's is derelict except for five gaunt chimneys. Detonators are laid and dynamite festoons their stacks. An aged man who once greeted the owners in 1920, turns aside as an ear- piercing crack splits the air and all except the main chimney disintegrates.

The brikkil is no more, having been turned into the area refuse dump.(Now Etna Heritage Park.2002)

The main chimney was split into upper and lower sections and the top dynamited first, followed by the lower half.

CAPTION TWO

It was Sunday morning, only four kiln chimneys and the tall main chimney remained on the naked brickworks site. These were already linked by electric cable to dynamite charges. A siren wailed, the demolishers pressed a plunger and with an ear-piercing crack, all four small chimneys atomised into dust. The main chimney lifted then settled askew on its foundations. A former employee turns, in tears as his old works disappears. The remaining chimney was demolished later.

OLD BUCKLEY DAYS AND WAYS

PICTURE NUMBER 46

see entry 1.51

Author: Bentley, James

Goodbye Messrs Davison's"

Old Ewloe Brickworks, Buckley

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