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  2. Guignard Brick Works - Wikipedia

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    The brick works was established by the Guignard family in 1801 and over the years produced brick for many buildings in Columbia, South Carolina and throughout the South. The complex includes four brick beehive kilns, a historic brick office, and remnants of other industrial features of the brick works.

  3. United Brick Corporation Brick Complex - Wikipedia

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    The kilns represent the only remaining brickyard in Washington, D.C., and one of the few extant examples of the rounded "beehive" kiln style. The structures are constructed of red common brick, lined with heat-resistant firebrick and capped with arched, brick roofs. [1] The complex also contained eight exhaust stacks.

  4. Brickworks - Wikipedia

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    An old Puolimatka's brick factory in Kissanmaa, Tampere, Finland, in the 1960s. Most brickworks have some or all of the following: A kiln, for firing, or 'burning' the bricks. Drying yard or shed, for drying bricks before firing. A building or buildings for manufacturing the bricks. A quarry for clay. A pugmill or clay preparation plant (see ...

  5. Yarralumla brickworks - Wikipedia

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    The original brick kilns were built according to Walter Burley Griffin's designs with fan forced short chimneys intended to stay below the height of the surrounding pine trees. In 1950 after World War II increased building demands in Canberra meant that a large 46 metre natural-draft chimney was built for the new kilns. This greatly increased ...

  6. Bursledon Brickworks Museum - Wikipedia

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    The kiln was a Staffordshire-type, continuous kiln (based on a Hoffmann kiln) with twelve chambers. Each chamber could hold up to 26,000 bricks at a time. The kiln was always burning with the chambers going from cold to over 1,000*C every 15 days or so. In 1903, the brickworks changed its name to The Bursledon Brick Co. Limited or (B.B.C. Ltd ...

  7. Clinker brick - Wikipedia

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    The brick-firing kilns of the early 20th century—called brick clamps or "beehive" kilns—did not heat evenly, and the bricks that were too close to the fire emerged harder, darker, and with more vibrant colors, according to the minerals present in the clay. [5]

  8. Ascot Brick Works - Wikipedia

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    The Ascot Brick Works is a heritage listed former brick works located in Ascot, Western Australia. [1] The brick works were constructed between 1929 and 1950 and used by Bristile until they ceased operations at the site in 1982.

  9. Mesquite Championship Rodeo - Wikipedia

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    The entrance was still on Hickory Tree Road and passed north of the open arena (the roof was added in 1964) to a parking area on the west side. The brick kilns were just a few hundred feet southeast of the arena. The present arena was built in 1986 further south of the 1958 arena on the site of one of the clay pits.