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Old 11-07-2016, 06:46 PM
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I can understand why the picture is described as a colliery if it is Stobswood brickworks as they, the Colliery and brickworks, were virtually together anyway.

Here's a view with those distinctive sloping kiln walls and the colliery in the background.


The NCB closed the colliery in 1965 but the Burn Fireclay Co. persisted until 1999. The Burn family originally owned both but lost the colliery with the 1947 nationalisation.
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