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fletton

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fletton
An English brick made from Oxford clay; manufactured by the semi-dry-press process; represents over 40% of current British brick production.


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For making Fletton style bricks in Marston Vale, local clay is used.
Few brick workers live there now, but the garden-city houses in rustic fletton brick still stand neatly behind their lawns outside the factory entrance, a Utopian scene marred only by the faint smell of something like rotting cabbages which comes from the release of organic chemicals trapped inside the Lower Oxford clay since the age of the sauropods.
Dewhirst's barrister Mark Fletton said his client's guilty pleas had spared his victims the ordeal of reliving their experiences in court.
 
 
 
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