Imperial Clay Tobacco Pipe Factory
Description of this historic site
The site of a clay tobacco pipe factory which was in use during the Imperial period. The factory had kilns. It stood on Market Street, Warwick.
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Notes about this historic site
1 1967: Also found were large numbers of wasters in the clay pipe factory that occupied the site in the 19th century.
2 There were kilns on Market St (east side; towards the north end). They were excavated by Farr and Taylor in the late 1960’s. The same site also housed a 19th century clay pipe kiln (marked on the 1851 Board of Health Map).
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
There is a Will in the National Archives for John Simmons, pipemaker of Warwick who was living in Market Street on 1851. His Will is dated 2.2.1854. Interesting reading, ref PROB2187/11. I will be researching further in due course.
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