Porth Wen Brickworks, Wales: The ruins of the old factory ...
Porth Wen Brickworks was a Victorian brick factory that produced fire bricks made from quartzite (silica). These bricks were capable of withstanding a higher temperature than usual red house bricks and were mostly needed for the steel industry, to line steelmaking furnaces and kilns. Now the site is abandoned and in ruins. The remains of [.]