A brickworks was operated next to the colliery, on the opposite side of Old Walsall Road from,the colliery and from 1929  made bricks using shale dug out in the process of making new mine tunnels.

An aerial ropeway carried shale from the mine to the brickworks.across the Old Walsall Road

1960s view of aerial cableway

map showing cable route

 


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Maps: Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland