epw024606 ENGLAND (1928). The Cliff Brick Works, Cliff, 1928

Small wood or spinney

Boarded foot crossing providing access to the brick works from across the fields to the north west.

The Cliff Sidings up home signal. This would have been kept at danger to protect trains entering or leaving the sidings from or to the up line, i.e. the line north towards Tamworth and Derby, coming towards us in the photograph.

Permanent way gang apparently giving some attention to the crossover.

Signal cleared for the passage of a train travelling away from us.

Trailing connection into the private siding. Where possible connections to sidings like this were always in the trailing direction, ie trains had to reverse into them, as it was much safer, with a greatly reduced risk of trains on the main running line accidentally being diverted into the siding with disasterous results. The connection at the other end of the siding just this side of the overbridge is also trailing.

Farm vegetable gardens.

Brickworks pond

House constructed of blue engineering bricks.

Railway workers cabin.

Track passing through Cliff brick works(Hathernware)

MB, If this track still exists it runs east up and between Slateley Hall and Slateley farm,the farm outbuildings now being private dwellings that overlook Piccadilly & Oil Depot.

Across the railway bridge opposite the wood there was a small group of cottages,I believe it was called Rosy Row?

Track leading to Wilnecote brick works & Stoneware Ltd, at Dosthill.

Hathernware Ltd as we knew it when we were kids(1950`s) was en-route walking or riding on the pram to Mr Bayliss shop at Dosthill to fetch our rations

Unsurfaced farm track leading to Holte Hall Farm and Whately

The M42 Motorway now runs through this landscape in front of Stately Farm

Kilns

Stately Farm

Ex Midland Railway linking Birmingham and Derby

Railway - possibly narrow gauge - to main clay pit, out of shot

Old claypit

Signalbox controlling access to brickworks sidings

Inclined plane on trestle, possibly carring railway, maybe narrow gauge