The Great Exhibition of 1851 had various kinds of new machinery on show. These included two machines for use in brick working:
1. Clayton's tile, brick and pipe making machine (below) enabled two men 10 make 10,000 - 15,000 feet of drain pipe per day.
1. Clayton's tile, brick and pipe making machine (below) enabled two men 10 make 10,000 - 15,000 feet of drain pipe per day.
2. A Mr Williams also exhibited a machine for pipe and tile-making and for making hollow bricks (on the right below) or field drains, much in demand at the time.
One wonders if machinery of this kind was ever used in Haxby,
One wonders if machinery of this kind was ever used in Haxby,