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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Clay pit

My clay pit is on a hill to the left of and above the brickworks. This was done because there was no room adjacent to the brickworks but I have found multiple prototype examples of this.  The photo below shows the clay pit in almost finished condition.  There is a derrick with a clamshell bucket to dig out the clay and dump it into the bin at the right, from which the clay is then dumped into the tramway bucket on the tramway.  The small structure to the left of the derrick houses the lifting engine.  There is a lot of litter of old machinery around the site.


There is a discarded tramway clay bucket on the ground to the right of the pit.

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