An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Numbers 22 and 23"

Elm Crossroads, Pinfold Lane, Buckley

1967

see entry 1.239

AN INDUSTRIAL AND POTTERY WALK ROUND BUCKLEY - NUMBERS 22 AND 23

22. Travel along the main road towards Mold for a few hundred yards to the Elm Crossroads. Turn right and proceed for a few hundred yards towards Northop Hall. At the junction of the track to Tirlas Coch Farm is a small shed. Drainage trenches in 1976 revealed post-medieval pottery wasters. Further along was, until 1970, a three-chimneyed brickworks manufacturing common bricks and known as the "New Castle Works" or Elm Brickworks. Each towering chimney bore the name "Castle" down the upper length of its stack.

23. A few hundred yards further along Pinfold Lane towards Northop Hall was the site until the mid 1970s of the Castle Brickworks.

It was established in the mid 19th century by a Mr Alletson and a group of Irish partners for the manufacture of refractory ware. Later it was bought by Messrs John Summers to ensure a constant source of kiln lining furniture in their steel works. This works became the figure-head name for most of the Buckley brickworks taken over by Summers.

Author: Bentley, James

An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Numbers 22 and 23"

Elm Crossroads, Pinfold Lane, Buckley

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