Mount Pleasant Colliery and Standard Brick and Pipe Works"

Standard Brick and Pipe Works and Mount Pleasant Colliery, Drury

1875

MOUNT PLEASANT COLLIERY AND STANDARD BRICKWORKS

These were established by a mining engineer from Lancashire, John Bates Gregory. A talented surveyor and geologist, he realised that coal and clay abounded on the site of the nearby Dinghouse Woods. Here were found many early primitive bell-pits known as "wood pits" and on this site he established a colliery, mining also fine, light coloured clay.

The setting up of the brickworks alongside superseded the mining of coal. Gregory's large family expanded into other industries, including the well-known aerated waterworks at Lane End.

BUCKLEY'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

PICTURE NUMBER 29

see entry number 1.119

Author: Bentley, James

Mount Pleasant Colliery and Standard Brick and Pipe Works"

Standard Brick and Pipe Works and Mount Pleasant Colliery, Drury

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