Belmont Works - Buckley Brick and Tile Company"

Belmont Brickworks, Middle Common, Buckley

1894

BELMONT BRICKWORKS - BUCKLEY BRICK AND TILE COMPANY

Originally a pottery and brick clay earthenware establishment, it was taken over by Gibson who perfected a crimson/brown brick named Metalline. The Works were known as Brookhill.

The Belmont Brickworks and Pottery, associated with Powell, was established on the middle common, adjacent to Catherall's works at about the same time.

The two were linked by a tramway which preceded over the lower common to a railway alongside the Brookhill Works. The Belmont closed in 1912 and the area was filled by domestic refuse and a council housing estate. (In 2004 the site is a field next to Belmont Crescent which is used for grazing horses - ed.) Brookhill merged with Castle Brickworks and until the 1960s was a source of clay for the Trap Works. The clayhole is now a refuse tip (2002).

The latter site had revealed significant post-mediaeval pottery kilns in the 1970s.

BUCKLEY'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

PICTURE NUMBER 22

entry number 1.119

Author: Bentley, James

Belmont Works - Buckley Brick and Tile Company"

Belmont Brickworks, Middle Common, Buckley

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