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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.
Here’s an update to a Star-Telegram story about the discovery of century-old bricks and streetcar ties dug up during median construction on West 7th.
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.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham told The Post that the Lone Star State is offering up the site — a little over 2 square miles, which is reportedly for related new detention centers ...
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