{"id":8964,"date":"2014-09-30T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/?page_id=8964"},"modified":"2017-02-19T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T10:48:20","slug":"swillington-brickworks-leeds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/sites\/everything-else\/swillington-brickworks-leeds","title":{"rendered":"Swillington Brickworks, Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swillington Brickworks was constructed between at the end of the 1950’s, finished in the mid 1960’s,\u00a0by George Armitage and Sons PLC, who had a history of\u00a0making bricks in the area since 1824. Initially, the site was built to produce around 30,000 bricks per\u00a0day, but by the 1980’s it\u00a0was capable of up to 100,000 bricks per day. \u00a0Up until the housing slump in 2007, the final production figures were close to 1\/2 a million bricks per week; these dropped to a 1\/4 million after 2007. \u00a0The site manufactured a wide range of bricks including facings, pavers, engineering and acid resistant. They provided all of the\u00a0bricks to build Barton Square and the second phase of the Trafford Centre, Manchester.<\/p>\n

In 1988 the site was taken over by Marshall\u2019s and the change from a family run business \u00a0upset a lot of the work force. It was then later acquired by Hanson Aggregates. \u00a0After the housing slump in 2007 and the deterioration of the building industry in general; the works closed and mothballed in October 2008 with a loss of 45 jobs.<\/p>\n