Re: Christmas photos


"Edgar Iredale" <edgar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> For Birkby Colliery see:-
> http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b075.htm
> (There's a link to a list of other nearby collieries there too.)
> There was some fireclay produced.
>
> I think Birkby Brick and Tile Works was at the same place as the Colliery
> but earlier. It was near Dearham Bridge Station and is said to have used a
> drift rather than a pit for obtaining the clay. It's shown on
> www.old-maps.co.uk.
>
> Incidentally there was another Birkby's Brickworks somewhere around
> Huddersfield which seems to have been a rather larger affair.
>
That's all very interesting - thanks for those links, Edgar.

The village of Birkby itself - if you can call a collection of about 10
houses and a farm a village - is on the main A596, and some distance from
the colliery/brickworks site. I'd suspect the Huddersfield firm is named
after a Mr Birkby rather than a place, though this is just a guess of
course.

ally


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