The layout and workmanlike construction of this kiln is remarkably
similar to the previous example. In this case there is no wall
dividing the stoke pit and coal cellar at the surviving level.
See Figure 86.
CPL...Canterbury Public Library.
Excavated in 1989 by this author for the Canterbury Archaeological
Trust Ltd. The site is as yet unpublished. The figure is a true
representation of the site plan. The photographic record in this
author's possession consists of 17 black and white photographs
and 6 colour transparencies. There are additional photographs
at the Trust's offices. Documentary evidence records William Brisley
as a pipemaker working in Canterbury in 1845 (Oswald 1975, 175).
In the 1851 census he is recorded as a pipemaker in Northgate
Street, aged 23, born at Sheerness (CPL H0107 1624 1-364). By
the time of the 1861 census he is married to Jane, with a daughter
aged 5 and a son aged 4 (CPL RG9 519). He is listed again in the
Maidstone, Canterbury, Dover and Tunbridge Wells Directory and
Court Guide 1865, but in the 1871 census his former abode is occupied
by Thomas Brice, a butcher (CPL RG 10 1871 R). The typological
date for the pipes found in the later repairs to the kiln structure
are consistent with a working period circa 1840 to 1870.