"Carolyn Perkes" > >> My friend John Cooksey of Cradley, about 3 miles from Stourbridge, > published >> his book "Brickyards of the Black Country - A Forgotten Industry, >> Refractories" in 2003. He is the brick industry expert of the Black > Country >> Society's Industrial Archaeology Group, and he spent 17 years working in > the >> refractory (firebrick) industry. I can only describe the book as the >> definitive work on the subject and of course a large part of it is about >> Stourbridge. > Certainly of interest to me. Where can one get this book? It is mentioned on http://www.harrisandpearson.info/brickmanuf2.htm David.

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