Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Thanks JohnFilmer - I never knew about these brickworks before this GTP.  Looks like it is destined for housing now.


Next - which station?

[grandarog]

I should have known the stables at Grove End Farm were floored with their Blue hatched bricks.
Bit of info for interest .
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A brickworks next to Pluckley Railway Station was opened in 1879 by the Kent Brick & Tile Company who are listed in Kelly’s 1882 edition with John Porter as manager. The works first produced their bricks in Scotch & Staffordshire kilns, but by the early 1880’s a 14 chamber Hoffman kiln had been built which was capable of holding 350,000 bricks. By 1891 this works was owned by the Pluckley Brick & Tile Co.
The Pluckley Brick & Tile Co. are listed in Kelly’s 1891 & 1903 editions at Pluckley, Ashford with W. J. Moody as secretary & manager. A web article reveals that Pluckley Brick & Tile Co’s. 25 foot deep clay pit contained several types of clay suitable for producing both red & blue bricks. Fireclay was also available to produce low quality fire bricks suitable for lining brick kilns & lime kilns. Pluckley B & T Co. mainly produced red bricks & blue vitrified stable & paver bricks of various patterns. Their blue & brindle bricks were of such unsurpassed quality that they rivalled those made in Staffordshire. Kelly’s 1913 edition records new owners at the works & the entry is Pluckley Clay Works, proprietors, East Kent Contract & Financial Co. Ltd. Pluckley, Ashford. At a later date & up to when this works closed, possibly in the 1970’s/80’s it was owned by Redland.  Photos and info by Martyn Fretwell."
Source https://www.brocross.com/Bricks

[johnfilmer]

Well done JW, Pluckley it is. Their pavers, or paviours, were dark purple brown colour, often with a diamond grip pattern, and there were drainage ones. They usually had an impressed Pluckley mark.


We had a ruined barn floor of them, which we reused when we lifted and extended the floor into the revised building (24ft x 18ft garage and workshop  ).


Over to you...

[John Walker]

Pluckley Brick and Tile Works.  That had a substantial siding off the main line.

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[johnfilmer]

None too far away, right railway line.

[grandarog]

Is it one of the brickfields that were around Headcorn?

[johnfilmer]

The adjacent station is a frightful distance from the village that it serves.

[johnfilmer]

Wrong railway line JW. It is a mainline.

[John Walker]

Lenham?

[johnfilmer]

Not there Beachbum, west of Ashford.


Their bricks were noted for flooring, especially agricultural uses.

[Beachbum]

Hammill Brickworks at Woodnesborough?

[johnfilmer]

Right product, wrong place.


Somewhat south ish from there.

[Beachbum]

Funton Brickworks at Lower Halstow?

[johnfilmer]

You are excused JW, senior moment and all that
Seriously that was very odd, I just knew where it was even though I may only have ever zoomed past on the main road. It was all down to many happy hours spent wandering around a virtual Canterbury and its environs looking for other Guess the Place locations. Either that or I've got a bit Mystic Meg...
Meanwhile. This scene no longer exists, but it was there from about 1850 until recently. It famously produced a particular variation of a common kentish product of the time. Railway is almost adjacent, it had a private siding to shift the heavy product.

[John Walker]

Well done JohnFilmer - The correct answer in under 42 minutes  !!Lawrence House - currently the offices for Pharon - Independant Financial Advisers.  On Summer Hill.In the 50s it was the head office for the East Kent Bus Company and in the 60s it was the offices of the Canterbury Water CompanyI can't find any early info on the house but perhaps another member knows about it.Over to you