Brick-pits of Leicestershire

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Leicester City once had thriving extractive industries
\nwithin its limits, but these have changed over the years as
\nworkings have developed more within the surrounding
\ncounty. The extractive industries were the quarrying
\nof clay for brick-making, gypsum for plaster, sand and
\nsandstone for building, as well as limestone quarries
\nworked for lime, building stone and the manufacture of
\nmortar. Few traces of these are visible today. The brick
\nindustry is therefore only one of many that worked the
\nground in the city and county. Surveys of Leicester’s
\nindustries for the British Association meetings of 1907,
\n1933 and 1968 (which were held in Leicester) make
\nlittle mention of brick making, but there are records of
\nmuch earlier production (McWhirr, 1997).

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