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St James's Brickfields, Postland OS 1887

St James’s Brickworks, Postland, Lincolnshire

History of Brickfields

Mary Liquorice in The Hartleys of Fletton Tower,1996, argues that in The Bricklands, by L P Hartley, ‘The Hollies,’ home of the unhappy Soames family, is situated at these brick pits where Lucy Soames eventually loses her life.

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