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Established in 1906 by Walter Thomas Knowles, this brickworks at Elland continues to manufacture drainage pipes and chimneypots using downdraught beehive kilns. Today W T Knowles and Sons Ltd is one of only three such manufacturers left in Britain.

Established in 1906 by Walter Thomas Knowles, this brickworks at Elland continues to manufacture drainage pipes and chimneypots using downdraught behive kilns. Today W T Knowles and Sons Ltd is one of only three such manufacturers left in Britain.

A very large piece of firebrick seen at Jubilee Colliery coke ovens, in Shaw near Oldham, where it had formed part of the flue lining. David Sharratt was in business manufacturing firebricks at Elland by 1860. By 1917 the firm was David Sharratt & Sons Ltd. The company operated several fireclay mines in Elland. Storth was the longest lasting but there were also Tonge Royd and Ainley Grange which were being worked in 1940.