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  2. Ouse Valley Viaduct - Wikipedia

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    There have been various claims that many of the estimated 11 million bricks used in the construction, were produced as far away as the Netherlands. No primary sources are cited with these claims and they are at odds with the contemporary newspaper reporting and the London & Brighton Railway Company's own meeting minute books held at The ...

  3. Midhurst Brickworks - Wikipedia

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    Midhurst Brickworks is a former brickworks situated to the south-west of Midhurst, West Sussex in England. The works were sited close to the (now closed) Midhurst Common railway station on the Midhurst to Petersfield ( L.S.W.R. ) railway line.

  4. Bursledon Brickworks Museum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Cocking Lime Works - Wikipedia

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    The application was rejected by West Sussex County Council. [ 19 ] In 2012, Cowdray Estate published proposals to redevelop the site of the lime works "to provide overnight camping facilities for walkers and cyclists using the South Downs Way , together with a visitor facility for the industrial archaeology of the lime works".

  6. Southwater - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Elliott Brothers (builders merchant) - Wikipedia

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    The family had lived in that area of west Sussex until John senior moved to Lewes during the first decade of the 19th century. [ 7 ] The sons of John and Maria Elliott involved in the early years of the firm were Thomas Elliott and John Elliott Jr. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] However, they were not the brothers to which the present-day name of the company refers.

  8. Redland plc - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Chappel Viaduct - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...