Brickworks Weekend

Bedfordshire Brickworks Day and the Invisible Folk Club Festival

Saturday 25th May

'Fuelling the brick firing kilns,
London Brick Company,
Stewartby', 1952 © The Mutual Security Agency

11am - 4pm, Free

Explore all things brickworks in a day filled with music, talks, activities and sharing memories.

Enjoy a variety of folk songs and stories, with performances from local musicians and the Invisible Folk Club. Join in a ‘Brickworks Questions Time’ with two Former Directors of London Brick Company, David Szymanski and Richard Manning, to share memories of Bedfordshire’s Brickmaking industries and help build our wall of inspiration.

All shared memories and stories will become part of the museum’s archive of brickworks and will enrich our knowledge and understanding of the social history of Bedfordshire Brickworks for future generations.

Working in Collaboration with SHARE Museums East, Invisible Folk Club, John Bunyan Museum & Library, The Bedford Chronicles, Heritage Lottery Fund and Greensand Country Festival.

Displayed in current exhibition
'The Journey From Bunyan to the Brickworks'.

From Open Fields to Fletton Bricks: a History of Landscapes in Bedfordshire from John Bunyan to Sir Malcolm Stewart by Brian Kerr

Sunday 26^th May

2pm, Free

Discover the stories of two historical Bedfordians and how they navigated through a period of change in the town.

Join Brian Kerr as he discusses John Bunyan’s use of Bedfordshire’s topography to inform his writing, and Sir Malcolm Stewart’s legacy in the village built for the workers at London Brick, Stewartby.

Brian Kerr recently launched his new book, ‘A Certain Degree of Magnificence People in the Bedfordshire Landscape’, and will be on hand after the talk for book signing for visitors who would like to purchase a copy.

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