A tunnel, approximately six to seven feet high, connected it with the factory and bogies (wheeled wagons) loaded with clay ran through the tunnel on metal lines, pulled along by a steel rope. Ibstock quarry pictured in 1990 Roughdales sourced their clay locally and there was one clayhole on the opposite side of Chester Lane, near where the smaller Brickfields woodlands site now stands. On July 11th 1939 it was reported that 250 men and ‘girls’ employed at the two brickworks had come out on strike over a pay dispute concerning female employees. They stated that their intention was to develop their two Sutton works and output 25 million bricks per annum. In 1920 they became a limited company and in their prospectus claimed a pre-war output of 14.7 million bricks per year. Chemical Pipes specially prepared for withstanding acids and gases.' The Roughdales Brass Band was renowned throughout the region and played at countless celebratory events such as walking days, as well as some funeral processions.Įarly in the 20th century, Roughdales was acquired by the Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Co., who also owned a brickworks in Sutton Heath that had been erected in 1912. In another Liverpool Mercury advertisement of December 15th 1886, Roughdales described their business as 'Manufacturers and Exporters of BLUE VITRIFIED FACING BRICKS, brindled and hard-burnt Building Bricks, Terra Metallic Pavements (plain and chequered), Adamant Pavings for Stables, superior glazed Sanitary Pipes and Gullies, Chimney Pots of all kinds. In the foreground by the railway line, bricks and pipeware await collection. It was then prepared for the round-topped kilns which, along with their chimneys, stand at the left of the picture. Roughdales in 1963 - contributed by Jim Lamb In the picture above, clay was hauled up rails (bottom right), then pushed in tubs along an overhead track bridging the site. The latter included dancing to a local band and a footrace. The chairman of the company Isaac Dixon and its directors, officers and shareholders then commuted on their new line to their works, where speeches and celebrations took place. The branch line from the company's works to the main railway line at Lea Green - which had a length of 587 yards - was formally opened at 2pm on July 14th 1870 at Lea Green Station.
The company was registered in June 1868 with a capital of £20,000. (later Roughdales Brick & Coal Co.) began their operations off Chester Lane. Eight years later the Roughdales Fireclay Company Ltd. It was claimed that the land contained 'a bed of most valuable potters and firebrick clay, of great thickness'. In the Liverpool Mercury of June 29th 1860, a house, cottage and three acres of land in Chester Lane were advertised for auction. The Old Teapot Brick Works, Ravenhead Brick Co., the Sutton Drain, Tile & Garden Pot Works and Roughdales, are just some of the more recent pottery and brick-making employers in the Sutton district that are now long-gone. A) Clay, Pottery and Brickworks in Sutton Su tton clay provided employment for countless workers over hundreds of years, with pottery-making traced as far back as the 12th century.
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