This image provoked quite a few comments about the brickwheel gang; this image has Harry Dack’s twin brother Tom second from the right. Can anyone know the names of the other men?
The brickwheel produced the once familiar ‘back street’ paving bricks, produced from the slag; a by product of the iron smelting process. Eric Johnson advised the Archive: “In the background, centre of the image, part of the benzole house can be seen; this distilled the tar from the coke ovens and to the right the old number 5 furnace.”
Image from a compilation by Derick Pearson and others, thanks to Eric Johnson for the update.
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