Description:Cobridge Refractory works was off Gresham Street in Cobridge. This street and works have been demolished but were just to the east of Forest Park Primary School.
The works has both bottle and beehive kilns, in front of which are stacks of saggars. There are heaps of refractory bricks, probably rejects, around the edge of the site. The clay pit which supplied the works was off to the right and is now on the edge of Central Forest Park. Faintly in the distance is the spoil tip of Sneyd Colliery.
During 1975, the works was owned by Stan and John Stoddard and employed 8 people:
Dennis Perry – sagger maker
Jim Wakefield – foreman
Dave Sims – press operator
Barnard (surname unknown) – fitter
Wilf (surname unknown) – driver
Ken Lowndes – night fireman
Kenny (surname unknown) – crusher operator
Anthony Crutchley – press operator
(Additional information kindly provided by Anthony Crutchley)