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Original Text (Annotation: EPW034090 / 1145063)
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I lived on Leek New Road immediately next to this works until I left home around 1960. I remember that the adjacent brick-works used to start burning the cheaper poor quality coal as the sun went down. It was less obvious at that time of day.
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