Cruckmeole Clay Pit and Brickworks
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Cruckmeole Brickworks
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The Cruckmeole Brickworks opened in 1911
just before Robert Madeley and his family moved into Cruckmeole Villa.
The clay for the bricks came from the Clay Pit field nearby. The kilns were fired up with coal dust from mounds the colliery had built up over the years in the fields nearby. One good thing for all Cruckmeole residents was that all the collieries were South of the arching railway line. The railway line divided the industrial landscape from the Cruckmeole countryside and gentry. Hanwood Colliery, which was further East, was North of the line so may well have had an impact on Hanwood pollution. Its owner, Samuel Atherton from Wigan, ironically lived with his family in Cruckmeole. Samuel Atherton sold Hanwood Colliery for £10,000 in 1920. |
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