Was there a brick factory in Warboys?

Yes, there was. 50 men were employed in 1893 making bricks by hand. By 1930 over 300,000 of the famous Warboys Whites bricks were made each week. They were sold worldwide until August 1984 when the works finally closed. In 1914/18 the works were used for munitions and in 1942 torpedoes were stored in the kilns.

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Photgraph © Joan Cole.