Information from The Parks Trust:
Imagine yourself back to a late autumn day at the end of 1800s. Between the back gardens of Nicholas Mead in Great Linford and the Grand Union Canal, a gang of local residents would have been at work since dawn, digging the blue Oxford clay from two pits to feed two massive furnaces.
The men worked 12-hour days with little rest for a princely 22 shillings (£1.10) at the end of each week. They dug mostly in the winter months when the ground was softer, producing the raw material for bricks which would be fired in the kilns during spring and summer. With 12 wet bricks weighing about 50 kilos, it was tough work.
From the kilns the finished bricks then travelled by horse-drawn barge up the canal to be used building homes in New Bradwell, Wolverton, Cosgrove and Castlethorpe.
These days the only work involved is packing a flask to enjoy in this historic corner of the city. Picnic benches have been provided close to where the clay pits have been transformed into ponds, rich in bird and insect life. And if you visit in September be sure to take a bowl for the abundant blackberries and elderberries.
Question 1: The temperature was carefully increased over A days to GFE degrees.
Question 2: There is a photo of the downdraught kiln being built circa DHH0.
Question 3: B0,000 to B5,000 green bricks were loaded into the kiln.
Question 4: The temperature increased to 1C50 degrees over 24 hours.
THE FINAL CACHE IS AT: N52 04.EF(C-D) W000 44.(G-B)A(H-B)
CONGRATULATIONS TO TIKAL FOR FTF