Loading a palletising machine with bricks, Whitwick Brickworks, Coalville, Leicestershire, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters

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Loading a palletising machine with bricks, Whitwick Brickworks, Coalville, Leicestershire, 1963. A worker at the Whitwick Brickworks loading a palletising machine which is used to load the finished brick onto pallets. Whitwick Brickworks was located to the west of Whitwick Colliery. It benefited from the extension to the Leicester-Swannington Railway (London & Northeast Railways) which ran to the east of the colliery. The brickworks closed in the latter part of the 20th century.

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Size: 4760px × 3680px
Location: World,Europe,United Kingdom,England,Leicestershire,Coalville
Photo credit: © Worldwide Photography/Heritage-Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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