Tyne and Wear HER(3434): Blaydon Burn, Cowen's Lower Brickworks
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Description
"Brickworks were established here in 18th century and fireclay is thought to have been mined here even earlier. About 1819 Joseph Cowen, the first Chairman of the River Tyne Improvement Commission, took over the Blaydon Burn Pit and Works. Upon his death in 1874 his sons Joseph Cowen and John Anthony Cowen took over. The property included two sets of firebrick and retort making works, each with drying and kilning accomodation and steam-driven machinery. The lower works abutted the North Eastern Railway and River Tyne...." -
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Further information
Link: http://twsitelines.info/SMR/3434
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Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 5 years, 11 months ago
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