Stewartby Brickworks: Derelict Drone Footage - Iconic British History for London Brick
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Stewartby Brickworks, Bedfordshire - London Brick Company. With the imminent demolition of this site, I thought it would be a great opportunity to capture some last historic footage for all to remember it by. Stewartby Brickworks provided jobs for hundreds and operated for over 100 years. Now Forterra carries the London Brick legacy forwards.
Thoroughly enjoyed filming this for you, it's an amazing sight in the skyline. I'm sure a lot of the local people will find this footage really interesting, a lot of memories and history lay here. Thank you for watching.
Stewartby was originally two Wootton farming settlements, Wootton Pillinge and neighbouring Wootton Broadmead, the Wootton Pillinge LBC village was in 1936 renamed Stewartby, taking its new name from the Stewart family, directors of London Brick Company since 1900.
The brickworks was home to the world’s biggest kiln and produced 18 million bricks at the height of production.
BJ Forder & Son opened the first brickworks in Wootton Pillinge in 1897.
This site ran for over 100 years providing bricks to all areas of the UK. At the height of the industry’s production there were 167 brick chimneys in the Marston Vale. There are four chimneys in Stewartby.
In the 1970s Bedfordshire produced 20% of England’s bricks.
At its peak London Brick Company had its own ambulance and fire crews, a horticultural department and a photographic department, as well as its own swimming pool inside the factory, and ran a number of sports clubs.
The site closed in 2008 as the owners could not meet UK limits for sulphur dioxide emissions. The four chimneys remaining were due to be demolished upon closure but these have since been listed for preservation of Bedfordshire's brick-related history.
The site is due to have new housing built on it in the next five years. The chimneys must be demolished due to the railway line.
Captured on the DJI Phantom 4 Camera Drone Saturday 31st March 2018
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Some fantastic British manufacturing history here. This video will be here as a reminder of our long industrial past. Enjoy the footage everyone.
Jake Billing wise words and you are rightly so we made much stuff by are selves and now look
Great video. These were demolished this morning. 15 minutes and the landscape changed forever.
Great video thanks. I grew up in stewartby and moved out 15 years ago (ish). It's such a shame about the loss of the chimneys, I remember Roy castle demolishing some when I was a kid. I learnt to swim in the pool there.
Love this place had a look around last weekend
I live 2 mins away from there epic
Wow that's cool love the grass or whatever on the old roof so cool. Would like to visit over there one day 🇨🇦🍻. Great video Jake
Nice footage! I'm always waiting for some flippy shit that never happens with DJI 😂
Brilliant video!! I worked for Butterley in the technical department from 1980, and became acquainted with Stewartby when Hanson took them over.
I always found the method of production using coal fired kilns at the time I first visited to be quite fascinating. It's such a pity that we couldn't find a way to "scrub" the exhaust gas and remove the sulphur dioxide gas :(
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Awesome video. Subbed to your channel yesterday and have loved every video I’ve watched. 🤙🤙
Good lil info brotha, awesome stuff 👍👍📹
I lived in nearby Marston Moretaine as a kid. If we went out for the day I always knew when I saw the chimneys that we were nearly home.
My dad worked here when he was 16 (78 now) he always tells me about the different brickworks around here (there were 3 altogether) even the pits left from digging the clay are amazing to see ( I live right near all the old brickworks that have since been demolished and yes unfortunately this is the last one standing.
My dad used to work there when they took the bricks out by hand on a wooden wheelbarrow 150 at a time. Eventually things became more automated.
Most of London and the South have these brickworks and their workers hard work to thank for re building after the war. Such a shame they are to be knocked down to make way for yet more houses (like we don't have enough already with the horrible new estate that's been built on the b530
Sickening how they can't preserve this English heritage.
love your videos
Great video and Nice Location :)
I went here exploring in and outside of the factory today (18/6/20) Risky, but worth it, such a shame a great piece of history has to be demolished in time, but for now it stands..
I think i may have to get a drone like the dji soon. have you ever looked into the cameras that track you (or whatever you add the tag to) I have seen it used for sporting like dirtbike racing or surfing and the likes.
Cool!
nice footage and is this an dji spark, or what?
If it's Grade II listed, how can they demolish it and build houses on it?
Mark Castro-Garcia Good question Mark! 👍🏻
They've claimed that they are structurally unsafe.
If it's classed as dangerous and un-economical viable to repair then demolition is the only option left. The main concern here was the proximity to the train line and one chimney had a lean of 3.2m. I don't even want to think how much that would have cost to rectify although with heritage like this I do believe that it should have been maintained. Some may have seen them as smelly chimneys but there's no denying how important they were for the country with approximately 20% of ALL houses being made from bricks from this site. And then of course the Italians and Pakistanis that came over to work here and develop the entire area that would have otherwise not existed.
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Our politicians don't care one little bit about English heritage. They'd happily erase it all if they could. Just like they're doing to the English people too. We're now a minority in London. Leicester. Birmingham. Manchester. Luton. And projected to be ENTIRE country by 2066 if trends continue (which they are. They've actually increased since the professor first made his predictions) according to the world's foremost on demographics professor David Coleman of the University of Oxford. 😢
@@AndyMitchellUK26 if they can spend astronomical amounts preserving the leaning tower of pisa they could've done the same for our heritage too. Its just that there isn't a will to preserve English heritage anymore, as there is all of these foreigners here. Infact they're actively trying to erase English heritage. Statues. Street names. Replace classic characters with poc! No different to what they're trying to do by replacing the english people themselves.
And now they are no more :(
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They're gone now :(
Absolutely sickening. No one gives a toss about preserving English heritage. When are we english going to make a stand to what these bastard treacherous elites are doing to us? Making us a minority in our own land
And now the chimneys will be demolished on the 26th September
Wow. Absolutely fascinating. I didn't even realise this existed. Deeply saddens me knowing this incredible bit of British history is to be destroyed to build bloody houses on it, to supply homes bc of bloody foreigners I'd imagine. So we're being made a minority in our own beloved ancestral bc of foreigners and now we're having to build more homes bc of them too. Mass immigration is all so destructive to us Britons. So sad.
Are there any of these types of sights being preserved? We were the first people's in human history to industrialise. You'd think they'd want to preserve some of that heritage for future generations. Not just for us Britons but for all of humanity. Out leaders are so disgusting
Hanson could of made the brickworks conform to the new regulations but they probably will make more money by selling the land for development.
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