not anymore. one by one, they fail. among the watching crowds, former workers who came to say farewell. i am very upset, i spent a lot of time in this place and a lot of people worked here that i know and i still meet up with them. i am very upset. until yesterday, these grade two listed stacks where the remaining symbols of the breadmaking industry that dominated here. it was just a few seconds to take them down, the landscape has been changed for ever. at its peak in the 1930s, the brickworks employed 2,000 people and produced 500,000,000 bricks a year. it was the largest brickworks in the world and the london brick company created a model village around the site for its workers. there were 32
Stewartby historic brickworks chimneys demolished
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