Cattybrook Brick Works.
An age ago. A loose-coupled train of Welsh coal, for Didcot Power Station perhaps, is drawn past Cattybrook Brickworks, near Almondsbury, by an English Electric Type 3 locomotive. Hanging in the air above me "like a tea tray in the sky" and creating a superb din, was the Vulcan bomber used by BAC to test the Olympus engine then being developed at nearby Filton for the Concorde.
How much of the fabric of Victorian Bristol is composed of Cattybrook bricks? Structures like the Welsh Back granary and the various dockside sheds came out of this patch of ground. I remember seeing lorries with Cattybrook Brick Co. lettering when I was a boy. I always thought it a funny name. I threw away the original print of this photograph, but on another taken the same day, Wednesday 25th April 1973, I recorded that the buildings and chimneys were demolished circa August 1973.
Later in the day I went to see The Poseidon Adventure at the ABC Bedminster.
Cattybrook Brick Works.
An age ago. A loose-coupled train of Welsh coal, for Didcot Power Station perhaps, is drawn past Cattybrook Brickworks, near Almondsbury, by an English Electric Type 3 locomotive. Hanging in the air above me "like a tea tray in the sky" and creating a superb din, was the Vulcan bomber used by BAC to test the Olympus engine then being developed at nearby Filton for the Concorde.
How much of the fabric of Victorian Bristol is composed of Cattybrook bricks? Structures like the Welsh Back granary and the various dockside sheds came out of this patch of ground. I remember seeing lorries with Cattybrook Brick Co. lettering when I was a boy. I always thought it a funny name. I threw away the original print of this photograph, but on another taken the same day, Wednesday 25th April 1973, I recorded that the buildings and chimneys were demolished circa August 1973.
Later in the day I went to see The Poseidon Adventure at the ABC Bedminster.