An old clay pit with a tramway and brickwork in or near the Newtown area.

[Steve Jones]

as ststed earlier the restrictions on digging lay etc are quite common on victorian deeds as well as others such as stopping anyone being a Tallow Chandler (this is widely on deeds because of the smells involved in the process, I often wondered how the business ever found a place to work!) and Fustian Dresser (urine was used in the process hence smells again). I used to work at the land registry on leaving school, and we used to delight in finding these old trades and skills which were prohibited ,another was "makers of vitriol"i.e manufacturing sulphuric acid,not something you wanted your neighbours to be doing s they had a habit of going bang if doing it wrong<G>!    

[The Parksider]

Leodian wrote: Hi The Parksider.That thread has a map on which Burmantofts brick works is shown, but that seems to be at another location to the clay pit/brick works that I'm asking about in my thread. Within a fair walk of Roseville Road and Dolly Lane brickworks are Stoney rock lane, harehills lane, harehills lane (gipton works) Burmantofts north, burmantofts south, Torre Road, Blossom Street, Pontefract Lane and Clark Lane (Plastic Brick works)The latter aren't Lego bricks and I can't recall exactly what they are and can't find the definition- anyone oblige?