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  2. Lithgow Valley Colliery and Pottery Site - Wikipedia

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    Cunningham built a pottery kiln of brick in front of the store (to the east) and installed another kiln within the store. Since Cunningham left the premises in 1994, another craft-potter Cameron Williams and his wife Colleen have leased the store area, so the traditional use of the site is maintained. [1]

  3. Beehive oven - Wikipedia

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    A fire brick chamber shaped like a dome is used. It is typically 4 metres (13 ft) wide and 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) high. The roof has a hole for charging the coal or other kindling from the top. The discharging hole is provided in the circumference of the lower part of the wall.

  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. Kiln - Wikipedia

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    Bottle kiln: a type of intermittent kiln, usually coal-fired, formerly used in the firing of pottery; such a kiln was surrounded by a tall brick hovel or cone, of typical bottle shape. The tableware was enclosed in sealed fireclay saggars; as the heat and smoke from the fires passed through the oven it would be fired at temperatures up to 1,400 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Continental Clay Brick Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Continental Clay Brick Plant in Martinsburg, West Virginia includes a number of beehive brick kilns. Originally a coal-fired brickworks , it was later converted to natural gas . The kilns are now largely disused, except for a few used to dry sand.

  8. Hoffmann kiln - Wikipedia

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    The Hoffmann kiln is a series of batch process kilns. Hoffmann kilns are the most common kiln used in production of bricks and some other ceramic products. Patented by German Friedrich Hoffmann for brickmaking in 1858, it was later used for lime-burning, and was known as the Hoffmann continuous kiln.

  9. List of State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Belmont

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    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The State Register of Heritage Places is maintained by the Heritage Council of Western Australia. As of 2024, 124 places are heritage-listed in the City of Belmont, of which seven are on the State Register of Heritage Places. List [edit] The Western ...