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]]> #style_32817929 -1.610774,53.408739,0 Getters and Makkers Clay Mining and Refractory Brick Making in the Loxley Valley during the 1960's. INTRODUCTION Clay from the pot clay marine band had been used in the iron and steel industry for many years. In the 1940's and 50's the three long established family companies of Dyson's, Wragg's and Marshall's were producing a large proportion of the nation's refractory or fire brick requirements, so essential to the steel and allied industries. The clay was mined and processed locally by a labour force drawn from the surrounding villages. The following accounts describe the mining of the clay and the manufacture of refractory shapes at Thomas Marshall and Co. Ltd. at Storrs Bridge Works up to the 1960's, at a time when practices were changing or had changed. Both practices, with their distinct vocabulary, are explained as described in separate conversations, held in 1968, with Mr. Alwyn Turner of Dungworth, a clay miner all his working life and Mr. Ray Robinson also from Dungworth, a miner and factory worker who became works' manager. EXTRACTION The mine is known locally as ' t' clay oyl'. It is an adit or draft mine driven into the hillside. The miners or 'getters' enter the mine by the main entrance or 'oddit' and travel along the road or 'footrill'. Very often the main entrance is an open drain and this is called a 'rickett'. We travel along the tunnels, known as 'gates' or 'headings', or 'possts', when a pillar is being extracted. The main method of mining is known as 'pillar and stall'. The tunnels are driven out to the natural fault line or legal boundary. A 'cross gate' is sometimes extracted for ventilation. The pillars are then extracted as the miners work backwards. This is known as as 'possting'. Timbers used for roof supplies are known as 'props' or 'punches'. A split prop or post is known as a 'bar' or 'split'. A short piece of wood used for working convenience, supported by a single prop is known as a 'punch and lid'. When turning a gate at right angles to the main road a set of timbers is erected with a 'bar' straddling three or more sets of timbers with the middle prop knocked out. This is known as a 'jonty' and the device is known as 'setting a jonty'. It may be derived from the name of a 'main mining man' called Jonathen. Gates used to be known by the name of the miner who had driven them but this has been succeeded by numbering e.g. West 3. The clay is extracted by blasting, followed by the use of air picks and shovels. The walls and roofs are very soft and no machinery is used. The pot clay is put into tubs called 'trams' which run on rails. At present fish plated rails are used but angle iron used to be laid and the tubs at that time ran on 'penny wheels'. An air pick is called a 'jigger', a shovel a 'scrummer' and the anvil used to sharpen picks a 'stiddy'. In ganister workings a 'ringer' rather like a crowbar was used to take the 'key' out. When metal arches are used in bad ground, boards are built up round the arch to hold the shale back. The boards are known as 'puddle boards'. A trained miner is a 'getter'. Youths who push the tubs of pot clay are called 'trammers'. They used to be called 'urriers'. " I'm 'urryin' for so-and-so". A tub is known as a 'corf and grease for a tub is known as 'corf fat'. The mine manager is known as 't'owd man', the deputy as a 'coddy'. Men are addressed as 'surry'. Maintenance men are day men or 'daytlers' and surveyors are referred to as 'diallers'. A brass tag called a 'motty' is used to mark each filled tub of clay. The 'motty lad' collects the tags and helps each 'trammer' to tip the tub. The stratum just above the pot clay seam contains many fossils. These are known as 'cockles'. When approaching a fault the miner can tell by the 'slickened' sides of the workings. As a clay seam outcrops it is known as the 'bassit edge'. The ground being worked is called 'the gob'. Clay that weathered at the mine entrance became like putty. This was used to hold candles in the mine and on trucks and it was known as 'candle clay'. Carbide lamps superceded candles and now electric lamps are used. The miner's food is referred to as 'snap', 'bait' or 'scran'. A meal of bread and lard was 'collier's pork pie'. MANUFACTURE After the raw pot clay is brought from the mines it has to be processed. Both current and past methods will be described where possible. In the past water mills were used for dry grinding, the first process. Various grindings of clay were made. Clay containing a proportion of stone was called 'strong' clay. In times past clay was sieved by hand but an electricity powered screen is now used. The prepared clay was then stored in bins prior to being moistened in a 'pan' and then put through a pug mill to drive out any air. An older method was to 'knock up' the clay as in pottery. More recently, after the clay with additives is moistened, it is treated in a vacuum to prepare it for moulding. In the past the moulder or 'makker' worked at a bench making a variety of refractory bricks using brass, steel or wooden moulds. The 'slurry' was carried to him, thrown into moulds and the surface then planed off. The mould was lifted and the 'makkers' would then 'swing off onto the drying floor. At 14 years of age Mr Ray Robinson hand made 2,100 bricks a day. Now much of the moulding is mechanised. The bricks were given names according to their shape or use in a furnace e.g. 'crown', 'quarter crown' , 'arch' etc. Today the drying floors are steam heated but the earlier method involved the heat from the fires being carried in flues under a slabbed floors. The large bricks over the flues were called cover bricks. When the fires were fully stoked flames crept up the cracks between the floor bricks, then it was said , "There's mice creepin' up them fire 'oles". During the night, the bricks were dressed or 'fettled off and the 'fraj' was removed . The men used wooden 'clappers'. When the bricks were dry they had to be fired. Men would be 'wheelin' in' to the kiln where 'setters' would stack them in a certain way. The man responsible for the kiln was and is known as a 'burner'. The kilns were coke and coal fired but now electric kilns and tunnel kilns are used. Men who empty the kiln after firing is complete are 'drawers'. At one time the firm specialised in firebacks. After moulding and drying these were 'rubbed up' using leather and water to give a smooth surface. Originally bricks were moved on 'barrers', these were replaced by trolleys called 'prams'. Pramming was a boy's first job in the brickyard. All goods are now transported by lorry but they used to be 'carted off. A 'pull up horse' was kept to assist with the steep gradient at Storrs Bridge Lane. -1.556405179376572 53.40566355006765 0 2184.177672853455 0 0.04364173794129854 relativeToGround relativeToSeaFloor #msn_info-i3 -1.561251388603568,53.40610178044899,0 The History of Thomas Marshall and Co. 1969 Thomas Marshall & Co. (Loxley) Ltd., produce a range of refractory products through subsidiary and associated companies at Hoyland near Barnsley, Colchester, Essex, and in India and Spain. The company's fortunes were, however, founded on the manufacture of a highly specialised range of hollow fireclay refractories which have been made at their Loxley works since the late nineteenth century and since 1946 at Wrexham, North Wales, also. Standard brick solid shapes have always been widely manufactured from fireclay found in numerous deposits around the country and it is difficult for those not directly concerned with refractories or the steel industry to appreciate the vital difference between a standard fireclay shape and the hollow fireclay refractories made by my company. This difference can only be clarified by describing the method of use of hollow fireclay refractories known in the trade as Ladle Hollow-ware and Casting Pit refractories. After molten steel has been produced by any known process it is transferred to a vessel or ladle which is used to transfer the molten steel to the casting bay for pouring into ingots. The ingots may weigh from 1 to 20 tons and the ladle may contain 30 to 500 tons of molten steel. The pouring of the steel from the ladle is NOT done as with a jug, over the lip of the vessel, but is, in fact, done through a hole in the bottom of the ladle as a more constant and steady stream of molten metal is obtained in this way. The hole inthe bottom of the ladle is made by using a hollow fireclay refractory known as a "nozzle" and as some 2 5 separate "pourings" have to be made a fireclay refractory known as a "stopper" fitting tightly into the "nozzle" gives the necessary capability of intermittent pourings. The stop and start mechanism is provided by fitting the stopper onto the end of a steel rod which extends the full length of the ladle and can be controlled by operatives remote from the ladle. The steel rod is protected from the molten steel by hollow fireclay refractories known as "ladle sleeves". "Nozzles, "stoppers" and "sleeves" are known collectively as ladle hollow-ware. On leaving the ladle the steel is converted into ingot form by pouring into ingot moulds. A process known as "uphill teeming" gives a cleaner quality of steel. In this method the molten steel is poured down an assembly of hollow fireclay refractories, along horizontal hollow refractory tubes and is made to flow upwards into the ingot. These refractories are known as "casting pit refractories". The essential difference between ladle hollow-ware and casting pit refractories and the normal standard fireclay shapes is that the former are a wholly consumable product being used once, and their quality being assessed only on whether molten steel is allowed to escape on to the shop floor, whereas the latter have a leas exacting role with a life of weeks, months, and in some cases, years. My company is the largest producer in the United Kingdom of these refractories, and, together with our two competitors, each of whom operate within two miles of our Loxley works, account for over 90% of the U.K's requirements for the products. This position hasresulted, not only because the manufacture of these specialised products requires a range of craft skills and know-how which has been handed down from father to son in the Loxley and Stannington valleys, but also because the widest searches have failed to reveal fireclay deposits elsewhere in the U.K. in significant quantity -which have the particular and special properties needed for hollow fireclay refractories possessed by the Loxley Valley deposits. Other producers have, at various tines, developed the manufacture of the products in Scotland (which produces the highest quality of standard fireclay refractories) Lancashire, Stoke-on-Trent, North Wales and South Wales, but the lack of suitable deposits has prevented the output becoming significant. I should point out at this stage, however, that my own company has produced some 30% of its output in North Wales since 1946 but that its raw material sources in this area are rapidly depleting and there is little chance of replacement. Evidence from The British Steel Corporation will be produced to the Tribunal to confirm the vital nature of the products and the importance placed by the steel industry on being able to rely on adequate supplies of high quality indigenous hollow-ware. In addition, however, I must point out that the Loxley Valley fireclay is one of the very few raw materials which the U.K. possesses which is of a higher quality than is found in most countries abroad, and I would like the company's export record in recent years to be seriously borne in mind when the appeal is being considered. Like many others, my company until seven years ago concentrated on supplying the U.K. market, but since that date very substantial progress has been made. The record for the last five years is:- COUNTRIES SUPPLIED: Argentina Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Denmark Finland France Greece Ghana Hong Kong Rumania South Africa Sweden Uganda Zambia Holland India Ireland Israel Italy Mexico Hew Zealand Norway Panama Portugal Rhodesia Singapore Spain Turkey West Germany Whilst the value of these exports will, by itself, have no effect on the country's position, I submit in all seriousness, that a similareffort by all companies of similar size would quickly eliminate the balance of payments problem. This is of special importance to this Tribunal because if output is hold down because of the non-availability of the clays, which are the subject of this appeal, we should have no alternative but to give priority to the U.K. steel industry and so reduce the export sales. At this point 1 would like to emphasise that the clay under appeal is the last source known to us of substantial quantities of clay of the right quality. If the appeal is allowed, the clay will be used sparingly by adulterating wherever possible with lower quality clays and the life of our Loxley works will consequently be increased from its present five years to some nine or ten years at present rate of production. Mr. Guthrie, Mines General manager, has already given evidence to you, but I would like to point out that before our application to work the area was put forward, Mr, Guthrie had spent a major proportion of his time investigating areas for clays of the right quality. In the Loxley area alone some fifteen different areas have been investigated, and in the vain hope of finding sources outside the area, investigations have been made in the counties of York, Derby, Stafford, Durham, Salop and Leicester. In view of the vital effect of the outcome of this appeal on the future of Loxley works, I would like to point out that my company has for many years been a significant contributor to the income of the Wortley Rural District Council, and an important employer of labour, particularly from the adjoining villages of Loxley, Bradfield, Stannington, Ughill, Storrs and Dungworth, from which some 43% of our labour force is drawn. These villages have almost no local industry other than refractories, and any decline in our labour requirements would, without doubt, accelerate the- trend of these villages becoming more "dormitories" for Sheffield rather than viable rural communities in their own right. If my company is enabled to work these minerals, the livelihood of present miners and clay-workers will be assured for a very considerable future tine. It is necessary also for me to point out that although ray company is publicly-quoted, 70% of the shares are still held by the Marshall family who have been in control of the company since the original John Marshall, a farmer, first mined fireclay in Storrs village in 1G26. A grandson and two great-grandsons of Mr, Thomas Marshall, the founder of the company, are members of the present Board of Directors. The long tradition involved here has given all the members of the Board a feeling of pride in the works, its surrounding villages and the countryside around. This pride will ensure that the company will enforce restoration plans aimed at minimising the disturbance to the visual attractions of the area. I, personally, will bo showing overseas visitors round this country¬side and seeing the effects of the working of the site. -1.564075202522943 53.40606857671963 0 1751.564093454024 0 0.03748389704106634 relativeToGround relativeToSeaFloor #msn_info-i2 -1.564473373660295,53.40702066688977,0 The Marshall Story At the turn of the century, the firm was run by the late 'MR. Thomas Marshall's father and had about thirty employees. The method of working was by contract labour, with the foreman employing his own men. When Thomas Marshall was fifteen years old he was told by his mother that his father was thinking of selling out to a competitor, and that unless he left school immediately and took over the running of the firm he would not have much to inherit. Thomas wisely took his mother's advice and his first business decision was to sack the foreman and establish a new company-employee relationship which has been the key factor, in this successful enterprise, which goes back over a hundred years. A Sheffield directory published in 1787, when the population was under 30,000, gives a "William Tricket" of Storrs (near Stannington), and a John Bramall of Storrs, who made razors, whilst a directory of Sheffield and district, published in 1849 by William White, when the population was 125,000, mentions that Ecclesfield parish is divided into the two townships of Ecclesfield and Bradfield, and produces coal, ironstone and "black firebrick clay", the black clay used for crucible potmaking. Deepcar, Oughtibridge, Loxley and Stannington are included in this parish, and so is Little Matlock, reputed to have been the birthplace of Robin Hood. "Stannington" it seems, means "Stannen Town" or "Stone Town". Two Tricketts are shown at Loxley, one a farmer and the other a cutler. Storrs includes a "firebrick maker" of the name of George Miller, who does not seem to have left his footprints on the sands of time, and "George Henry Marshall" was already established there as a "black clay miner" as was also John Crapper. At Ughill, near by, Marshall (all Georges) are amongst the farmers, one George Marshall being an uncle of the late Mr. Arthur Marshall, senior, and brother of the Mr. Thomas Marshall from whom the present company takes its name. The 1787 directory has no reference to either fireclay or firebricks or those who worked with them. The only two firms in the refractories industry that are mentioned in the 1849 directory, and whose names have survived in the industry until today, are Marshalls and Dysons. A map dated 1826 drawn by "William Squire", land surveyor, etc., shows the "estate of John Marshall, Throstle Nest." It would seem that in those days they were mining pot clay on the estate. There was no bridge over the ford, near the Marshall works, then. Evidently, Thomas Marshall, son of John Marshall, joined forces with a Mr. Crapper, who was making red bricks and fire-bricks at the time they built the reservoir. A company was formed known as Marshall and Crapper, Crapper evidently being the "red brick expert". They were then selling their red bricks at 60/- a 1,000 to repair Dam Flask, following upon the Sheffield flood in 1864, and which was the result of the bursting of Dale Dyke some 4 miles up the Loxley Valley above the Marshall works. They were fitting a new boiler at the time when the flood came and washed it away down the valley. The map is certainly documentary evidence that pot clay was being mined on the "estate of John Marshall" in 1826. It was noticed from one of the old ledgers that a gallon of gin cost 13/-. Thomas Marshall, who was a relative of the first John Marshall, was the grandfather of the late Mr. Tom Marshall, and Mr. Arthur Marshall, who is the father of Mr. Thomas Anthony Marshall, Joint Managing Director of the present-day Marshall Refractories Group. In 1936 the company was incorporated as a private company. In 1959 the company became a public company. The Marshall family have certainly been pioneers and have built up the group on solid lines with its extension from casting pit refractories to carbon and vermiculite insulating refractories. -1.558277848193628 53.4112160987453 0 2798.232174934753 0 0.04213764479990397 relativeToGround relativeToSeaFloor #msn_info-i -1.558499881899059,53.40565756343967,0 The Importance of the Clay Deposit THOMAS MARSHALL &, CO. (LOXLEY) LTD. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CLAY DEPOSIT, Thomas Marshall & Co. (Loxley) Ltd. is a small public company whose fundamental business i3 in a little known but highly specialised section of the refractories industry. The refractories, manufactured from fireclay, are known in the trade as 'hollow-ware refractories' and are the daily consumable items of steel works. Appendix 1 describes them and their vital importance to the steel industry. Thomas Marshall is one of three such companies operating within one mile of each other in the Stannington and Loxley area. The importance of the area can be judged from the fact that these three companies together supply 80% of the country's requirements (100,000 tons per annum out of 120,000 tons). The British Steel Corporation take about 50% of the area's output (85,000 out of the 120,000 tons), the remainder going to the private sectors of the steel industry and export, and their dependence upon Loxley Valley - Stannington production is acknowledged by them. Any serious shortfall in Marshall's production at Loxley that could not be made up by our competitors' production would be keenly felt by the British Steel Corporation. Marshall manufactures 27,000 tons per annum of their output at Loxley. The competitors, jointly, have 60,000 tons per annum capacity and clearly would not be able to make up this amount of shortfall. Gordon Ibbotson, B.A., Downing College, Cambridge, studied the area and wrote an essay for Part 1 of his Geographical Tripos entitled 'The Refractories Industry of the Loxley Valley - A Study in Industrial Location". He concluded:-"Perhaps three major factors can be underlined for their importance in the original location and continued importance of the Loxley Valley firebrick industry. The attraction of the raw material, which may be unique, was very important in the beginning and is still so today, even with cheaper road transport. Secondly, Sheffield's early and continued lead in British and world steel-making has also played a vital role in providing a nearby market and in helping to sell Loxley products elsewhere. Thirdly, a factor which has grown in importance from the early days, is the experience of the Loxley firms in a little-known, specialised field of industry. Those three factors have been, and still are, closely inter-related but it seems that everything has been possible because of the availability of excellent fireclay. " Our own Technical Director believes our success to be dependent upon the unique properties of our local clay3 and upon the skill developed by our craftsmen. Eleven years ago when we became a public company we believed we had ample reserves within the mine. Five years ago the the Mines General Manager was dismissed (for irresponsibility and non-reliability and replaced by Mr. Guthrie. It was he who drew our attention to the fact that areas in the mine which we believed to hold clay did not, and other areas also believed to hold clay could be equally barren. The sinking of boreholes in the mines area (in 1966) revealed a dismal picture - only one out of four boreholes showing clay in an area we thought was all clay. Further work on this in 1967-8 has confirmed that we have only a limited amount left in the mine and that we cannot extract it at an great a rate as the works require. The areas that may contain clay that are available to us are restricted by an agreement with the Duke of Norfolk. Outside our mine area that most readily accessible was at Loftshaw. Boring there in 1967 drew a blank. Next we turned to the Onesmoor area. When this was acquired in 1957 boreholes put down showed that there could be clay in the area in question. Boring in 1968 side by side with our application for Planning Permission showed the right quality of clay to exist in sufficient quantities to supplement the mine supply. There is no other area known to us where the presence of the right quality clay is proved. Paragraphs 1 to 6 give reasons why we regard it as essential that we be given permission to extract Onesmoor clays now. Other consequences of a planned close down of our fireclay works in about five years would be:- i) The loss of employment for about 250 men. Of these, about 100 would come from the local villages and have no alternative employment without travelling to other areas and using their homes in the Peak Park as dormitories. -1.609140143545168 53.40451178994008 0 2086.830941696992 0 0.006010787864816689 relativeToGround relativeToSeaFloor #msn_info-i0 -1.609793882203745,53.40862398303663,0 Mineral Reserves of the Loxley Valley MINERAL RESERVES OF THE LOXLEY VALLEY FIRECLAY INDUSTRY The area on which the Loxley Valley Fireclay Industry is based lies to the north west of Sheffield under which the lower coal measures extend out westwards from their general north to south line of outcrop into the foothills of the Pennines. The Pot Clay seam, which is the only seam worked in this area where it is of exceptional quality, is the lowest of the fireclay seams forming the lower coal measures. The valleys of the River Loxley and of its feeder streams from the south intersect the pot clay seam horizon thus providing extensive outcrops which, although providing little opportunity for opencast working, permit of economical small scale mining operations, by driving adits into the hillsides. The general dip of the strata is from west to east, and as a result of the increasing depth of cover combined with the commencement of the built up area of north west Sheffield, for practical purposes an eastern boundary occurs along the line Oughtibridge-Worrall-Loxley-Stannington. The extent of the area lying to the west of this line in which the pot clay seam occurs is about eight square miles with a total content of perhaps 50 million tons. Considerable parts of the seam are of unsuitable quality or incapable of being worked economically due to faulting or thinness of the seam. Final extraction is unlikely to exceed a third, or perhaps 15 million tons, of which about 5 million tons have been extracted to date. The main working area lies to the south of the River Loxley, and covers a surface area measuring four miles from west to east and two miles from north to south, of which, due to the intersections of the valleys, only about four square miles contains the pot clay seam. The majority of the area is under the control of the industry and has been well explored. Some 5 million tons have been extracted, and a further 5 million tons are available as proven reserves. To the north of the River Loxley the seam occurs under a continuous area of about four square miles, but is of inferior quality and thickness, and has been scarcely worked. Only about one quarter of the area is under the control of the industry, and it has not been fully explored, although it is regarded by the industry as a potential source of reserves. Due to the lack of information, calculation of reserves is difficult but might well constitute a further 5 million tons. Extraction at present is at the rate of 100, 000 tons per year, and reserves would appear to be adequate for at least fifty years. Should, however, a substantial increase in extraction occur and the unproved area be found disappointing, some concern over the future mineral resources might be felt. For this reason it is important that the area to the north of the River Loxley should be explored and those areas likely to contain workable reserves be brought under the control of the industry. Existing workings should aim at maximum extraction and steps taken to avoid the sterilization of known reserves. In general the local fireclay should be reserved for the use of the local manufacturing plants, and not used as raw material for other manufacturing areas. 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