Tag: industrial chimneys

  • The Leaning Chimneys of Stewartby

    The Leaning Chimneys of Stewartby

    Back in the 1930s, the London Brick Company established the largest brickworks in the world across Bedfordshire.  Over 2,000 people were employed here at this time. A rich source of clay had been found in the place John Bunyan called the ‘Slough of Despond’ in ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’. At the peak of the brickworks, there […]