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The government will need this brickworks as they are going to build 1000’s of new houses, I suppose they intend using cardboard🤔

Brick factory

triple destruction

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I hate seeing tall chimneys like these destroyed, they have such a tiny footprint for such majestically tall structures that it always makes me wonder why developers don't just demolish everything else on the site but leave the chimneys intact and build whatever they are building around them, leaving them as landmarks and monuments to the past.

all the hard work and history that has been spent on this! I just don't understand why people would destroy a special part of history. :/

It became the scene in the cemetery from The Good The Bad And The Ugly at about 2:00, lol...

I’m sitting at brickworks right now and watching this video is so resourceful and informative, I have learnt a lot today. Thanks for this x

It seems to me, none of that debris should have ended up in the water. But HEY - not my circus, not my monkeys!

Wow, what an impressive yet at the same time sad sight. Last time I saw them was when I was working for a few months on the new upgraded A421 link road between Bedford and the M1. Some landfill activity was still going on, though by that time it was a hill, not a hole in the ground they were tipping on.

No no no that is not how Fred would do it.

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A new method of fishing!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

gone- like my chilhood and all that cane before us. a 'tears in the rain' moment

Pretty much the wankiest, over-dramatised, video on the internet right now.. Don't give up your day job.

What a shame! three ancient Hoffmann ovens whose art will be lost........

Was this one of the places where the oil in the clay provided most of the energy needed to fire the bricks?

I lived in a village near these & saw them on a daily basis as a kid, my grandad worked there too. The day the last ones were felled I had to film them too from high up at houghton house, ( not of your quality tho) I filmed them & put it on TH-cam getting s decent response. A sad day but necessary I suppose.

A useful record of change - impressive rainbow in the spray from the "final splashdown". Thank you for creating and posting. Mike

What was the purpose of these tall chimneys?

Is there a GOOD reason you fucked up capturing the splashes?

Don't forget Fred Dibnah, he took down many smokestacks in England on TH-cam . He climbed some and took them down brick by brick

No Fred Dibnah where they...........

I'm surprised that they were permitted to allow debris in the ponds.

I suppose all the bricks that were once produced there now come from Asia like everything else .

What shall we do with all this rubble? I know, fill the lake up!

Wonder if old fred went up that one lol

Free bricks anyone?

It made a pleasant change not have camera angle change midway.

In my heart I was hoping they would leave the last one standing.But alas progress for yet another housing project I guess.Theres no room left in the world for ludites like me.

I wonder if they made the bricks used in the construction of the stacks.

Remember passing these on the way to see relatives near Bedford. Back then the brickworks were still working and you could see, from the train, the working conveyor belts taking clay to the works from the pits. The pits are just lakes now and yet another industry closed.

Thanks for this, very sad to see these fabulous monuments to the skill and dedication men showed in their construction, men who got up each day to go to work to build these, probably months or years of hard dangerous toil and then they are literally gone in a few seconds.

Looks like my noodle going limp post orgasm! 🤪

Trying to work out if those were birds which flew past the last one or drones?

Rather sad they have gone, having seen them twice a day for seven years on my train journey to and from school in Bedford.

I always feel sad when old buildings get demolished.

could have done without the music

thumbs down because of the anoying music

Ėgalement, mauvaise idée de les faire tomber dans l’eau… vous allez rėcupėrer les briques éparses comment!

Cheminėes dētruites alors qu’elles sont une caractéristique de ce paysage. Dommage.

Excellent footage - but yeah... Dump that sh/t in the water, I'm sure there's nothing toxic og otherwise environmentally harmful in old chimneys.

yknow i think the editing and music is a bit much. we're knocking over some smokestacks, not the tower of babel

Great to see but it's a shame you mis-judged the distance for capturing the top of the chimney crashing into the lake.

Your music made me take a shit

Delete the music it sucks!

What have they built on the land rent free houses for the illegals I suppose

There used to be 30+ of those chimneys. After WWII a heck of a lot of Italians came to Bedford to work in those brickyards. The Italians were later replaced by a vast number of Asians I believe mainly from Pakistan.

F - it, just dump them in the water.

Very nice work! Thank you for posting. Cheers from New Braunfels, Texas.