I remember playing as a child on a pottery spoil heap at Matts Yard,
behind the old Stanhope Arms (now Stanhope Grill) in Main Street,
Newhall
I thought there was a bottle kiln adjacent to the heap, but despite
extensive research find no record of a pottery there..
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Hilary���� We were talking about Klondike.� I had thought Matts Yard had a pottery: I was told it closed when it lost a big consignment on the Titanic but I think my informant had it confused with Klondike.� Do you know if Klondike did send any pottery on the Titanic?
Jeffrey��� I wouldn�t know.� And the two families that you�d want for that are Barnes and Rowan but unfortunately I don�t think there�s anyone left now.
������������� But they definitely made the hardest common bricks.� Bretby commons were always used in foundations, and if they were used in inside walls you wouldn�t drill them, they were really, really hard.
Hilary���� I was looking in the Burton Mail book Memory Lane and there was a photograph of the Bretby brickworks and it said that Lord Carnarvon of Bretby Hall took bricks from Bretby to Egypt for the entrance he built to the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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