 The name used by the LVC in all its surviving catalogues for clay products is the Lithgow Pottery and Brickworks which produced bricks, pipes, chimney-pots, tiles and, for a time, domestic pottery.The brickworks was the first to be established in 1876 when a brickmaker called Aston was operating a clamp-kiln.This was followed by a pipe-making kiln in 1878, manufacturing both sanitary and agricultural pipes.