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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 96 SW 239 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Smeed Dean ' Centre Field' brickworks |
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Summary
Brickworks operated by Smeed Dean into the 20th century.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 91777 64654 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ96SW |
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| Parish: | SITTINGBOURNE, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BRICKWORKS (Post Medieval to Modern - 1855 AD? to 1960 AD?)
Full description
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Site of brickworks operated from 1850s by George Smeed originally to make stock bricks using hand moulding berths supplied from wash backs..
Under Smeed Dean and Co Ltd it was rebuilt as a new red brick plant in 1906 with a Monarch brick moulding machine, Wolff dryer and an Osman continuous kiln (Hoffman kiln). The works were expanded in 1911.
Post 1906 the Centre Field produced red facing bricks.
The site is marked on editions 1 to 4 O.S maps., and mentioned in R Perks, "George Bargebrick".
The site has been cleared for redevelopment.
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE13236.
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske13236.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Verbal communication: Jim Preston Personal Communication. |
