Guess the Place

[CAT]

Still in regular use (mainline?)?

[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 .
"
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.

51.157687094558945, 0.7416782083661199

[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.