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The accepted contract tender was £38,500 [7] [8] (equivalent to £4.42 million in 2023 [9]). The viaduct was designed as a elegant structure, being around 1,600 feet (500 m) in length and carrying a straight line over 37 identical arches.
The following year, Dunning acquired the Midhurst Brickworks which had been producing bricks made from sand and lime since 1913 [10] from a site close to the former Midhurst (LSWR) railway station. In 1926, Benjamin Cloke became the owner of the Midhurst Brick & Lime Company, thus also acquiring the works at Cocking. [10]
The works were established in 1913 by S. Pearson & Son, a firm controlled by the Cowdray family, on land owned by Lord Cowdray. [1] S. Pearson & Son traded as public works engineers and had been involved in the construction of Dover Docks, the Blackwall Tunnel, the East River Tunnels in New York and Vera Cruz Docks in Mexico.
The site was taken over by Sussex Bricks and Estates Co. in 1907 who changed their name to Redlands Bricks Ltd in 1958. [11] The railway yard in Southwater served the brickyard and was closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching cuts. The brickworks closed in 1981 after producing 1,000 million red engineering bricks from Southwater clay.
With the extra capacity, the brickworks was producing in excess of 20 million bricks a year. They were one of the main producers of bricks in the region. [7] After the Second World War, the family business was amalgamated with the Sussex and Dorking Brick Company and in 1959 became Redland Holdings Ltd.
The three-story house [4] is constructed of red brick, and contains two Doric pilasters, [1] as well as ionic pilasters. [6] The attic has three Dutch gables, each with a window. [6] Barnham Court was built in a similar style to Ford Palace and Albourne Palace in West Sussex, Kew Palace in London, [1] [7] and Broome Park in Kent. [4]
The company became known as Monier Ltd and saw the return of the Redland Brand in the UK. The company is now known as Monier Redland Limited (part of the Monier Group of companies) and is based in Crawley in West Sussex. From 2017, the business has been called BMI Redland, part of BMI Group, where BMI is an abbreviation of Braas Monier and Icopal.
[1] [2] It is the longest bridge in East Anglia, [5] [7] and was reported to have been built out of 7 million bricks. It is amongst the largest brick-built structures in England, after Liverpool's Stanley Dock Warehouse (27 million bricks), Battersea Power Station in London, [ 4 ] and Stockport Viaduct and Ouse Valley Viaduct which used ...