Tegelbruket i Veberöd Traditional Cache

Close o this place where the base for the Tileries of Veberöd. Everything started with the Brick master Nils Persson who in 1851 decided to move to Veberöd, to start a Tilery. The view that met whoever came to the crossing of the Simrishamn-Malmö railway and Dalbyroad was 3 giant buildings reaching for the sky. Brickmaster Persson knew that the clay in the area was of very good quality with significant amounts of iron in it. When the railraod opend in 1893 the production started rapidly.The clay was dug up by hand and mixed with gravel and water to the correct mix. After that the bricks had been drying the were stacked in a simple kiln, a field kiln. The bricks, up to 30 000 at a time were carefully covered with clay and dirt. The temperature of the kiln could reach 1000 degrees C fuelled by coal or wood. This way of making bricks continued up until the end of 1800s. In year 1900 a new kiln was built in Veberöd, a Ring kiln. Basic machinery was installed and driven by locomobils in order to increase the productivity. This way the production increased all up to 2 million bricks per year. A new Tilery was built, 200 meters from the old one, by a local entrepreneur, Director Lundkvist. This new Tilery burnt to the ground already in 1913. No funds were available for re-building so the property and what was left was sold. The buyers brought new capital and could start again. They also managed to buy the old Persons Tilery in 1934. This new company became Weberöds New Tilery. It prospered and survived through world wars up until the 1970s when compåetition became to difficult and no more funds were available. The decision to close the tilery was taken on April 28th 1972 . Weberöds tilery is the tilery in Sweden that were operative the longest, into modern time.

Logscroll, pen, Cache-note and some trading trinkets