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Ferny Hill Brick Works Redditch Heritage
Ferny Hill Brick Works.
Introduction
RLHS member, Pam Day, found the old photograph below at home. She did not
recognise the place or the people so she bought it along to a RLHS meeting. This is what
she found out.
Vince Green undertook to do some detective work, the chimney suggesting it was a brick
works and deduced that is was Ferny Hill Brick Yard. Searching local publications he
soon found other pictures in “More Redditch Remembered” by Alan Foxall and Ray
Saunders which matched the building. He concluded the date given when the buildings
and chimney stack were built is 1929. So this picture is probably dated 1929 as the
buildings and stack are new and the workmen are having their photographs taken to
commemorate the occasion.
In this booklet, some of the images from the book, together with maps from the
Ordnance Survey and memories from Anne Bradfords book “Old Redditch Voices” trace
the story of Ferny Hill Brick Works. The book also contained a publicity advert for the
works, thought to be c. 1900’s, which is shown on the front cover.
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