Abandoned Brickworks Around Halifax

Another Sunday scope with The Fragglehunter. This time headed for White Rose turf with a trip to Cleckuddersfax. As is often the case, we set off with our sights on one thing, and wound up shooting something else altogether. In this instance, we looked for a Mink farm, and found two brick factories instead...

As is sometimes the case on these trips, the buildings we found weren't all that photogenic in themselves. Some buildings fall apart beautifully, others do not. These two sites fall squarely in the latter group. So focus instead on the graf' and look for anything with good form or some colour.

Wilkinsons of Elland, visible from the M62.

On to Hipperholme...

The glazed brick manufacturers was established by Henry Victor Allen when he took over the Halifax Glazed Brick Works in the Walterclough valley.
He converted the works to manufacture refractory bricks.
They were taken over by G.R.Stein of Scotland in 1936 who were the largest brick works of their time.
There Selfrac refactory bricks were world famous.
Today the site is ruined and fire damaged after a series of suspicious fires after the factory was used to make stiff plastic bricks.