Furness Vale Firebrick

The Furness Clough Colliery and associated firebrick works was purchased by Richard Knowles in 1905. The mine produced mainly fireclay but also yielded coal for the kilns. The mine closed in 1963 but the works continued into the 1980s. A significant market at the time of my visit was firebacks exported to Saudi Arabia and several of these can be seen in front of the fork lift outside the kiln.