A brickmaker making bricks and roofing tiles: others carry them away in wheelbarrows to be fired in a kiln. Woodcut by J. Amman.

A man holding a spade; two men cutting slates. Lithograph by T. Barker of Bath, ca. 1807.

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Tile industry

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A man holding a spade; two men cutting slates. Lithograph by T. Barker of Bath, ca. 1807.

A brickmaker making bricks and roofing tiles: others carry them away in wheelbarrows to be fired in a kiln. Woodcut by J. Amman.