Great Britain Abandoned Brick Works

[fat wreck]

.......some picz from a abandoned brick workz in south east kent, cheerz to unfairytale for a top morning evil:

 

[Maniac]

Nice one, we stopped briefly at night and had a look at this place - I believe it was origenally a colliery, part of the kent coal field, but wasn't a very productive one.

 

[silverainbow]

You beat me !, I was gonna stop by there a couple of weeks back but run outa time, was eyeing it again today after a mad session round Lydden race circuit, are the old furnaces still there its gonna get levelled and built on apparantly ?

 

[Obscurity]

lol we looked at this place last year. What a disappointment. Its just shells of buildings really but some interesting history on it...Epic sheds FTW

Never heard it refered to as a brick works though. Where did you get ur info Mr. Wreck? This is the remains of the Hammil colliery.

 

[Maniac]

lol we looked at this place last year. What a disappointment. Its just shells of buildings really but some interesting history on it...Epic sheds FTW Never heard it refered to as a brick works though. Where did you get ur info Mr. Wreck? This is the remains of the Hammil colliery.

Part of the site is used as a brickworks, we just missed that bit when we visted as we didn't go far enough into the site.

WoodnesboroughWe are indebted to John Drake for the following information about Woodnesborough Colliery:

"The site was the 'Works' shown on the First Series 1:50000 OS sheet at 295 558, on the west side of the Hammill - Woodnesborough road, near Hammill. The buildings were erected around WW1 following the exploration drilling, but no shaft was ever sunk."

Investigation of the area reveals that the colliery buildings were taken over by the Hammill Brick Works, and are still in use today. We will try to obtain pictures of the site in the near future.

The following additional information was supplied by Mark Frost:

"Woodnesborough Colliery is indeed the site of Hammil brickworks (it also had the name Hammil Pit). It most certainly did dig shafts though; the evidence is two 18ft wide shafts still standing in the scrub at the rear of the site, complete with concrete tubbing lining. I don't know how deep they are but they haven't been capped - they are full of water and somehow abundantly stocked with fairground goldfish! The winding shed survives, now incorporated into the kiln building, and close by the two shafts are two substantial colliery buildings (one an engine shed?) which are derelict."

(http://www.eastkent.freeuk.com/mining/w ... orough.htm)

 

[Swamp_Donkey]

I want to see the goldfish! Dnt believe it!

 

[Maniac]

Really nice buildings. Do you know whether the nissen huts had a wartime use?

I really don't know, but they've been there a bloody long time!

 

[silverainbow]

One for the future

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