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Two people stand before the arched entrance of a weathered brick structure topped by a domed roof in a vintage photograph.

Belle View brickyards after closure and flooding.

Belle View Brick Yards, Gamlingay

History of Belle View Brick Yards

An 1886 Ordnance Survey map fragment showing Gamlingay Brick and Tile Works, Little Heath, and Belle Vue Brick Works.

Belle View brick yards, Gamlingay OS 1901

A large group of men and boys in work clothes and flat caps posed in front of a corrugated metal wall with a bicycle nearby.

Belle View brick yards c.1903

The yards closed in 1922 and the pits were flooded.

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