After reaching a peak production level of 738 million bricks in 1973, demand for bricks declined and the LBC (trading as Easidispose) signed an agreement the following year to re-use its empty clay pits as landfill transported from London. One or two daily container trains began transporting 1,000 tons of waste from Hendon to handling facilities at Stewartby.
In 1973, brick production reached a high of 738 million units before decreasing. The LBC (Easidispose) agreed the following year to use its clay pits as landfill for waste transported from London by container trains daily. These trains carried up to 1,000 tons of waste to handling facilities at Stewartby.