00:00Beamish Museum is hoping to shine light on the region's overlooked brick-making history.
00:07The County Durham Open Air Museum will host workshops and an exhibition later this year,
00:13encouraging people across the northeast to get involved.
00:17Staff say brick-making shaped communities, yet remains poorly documented compared with coal or steel industries.
00:25Daniel Borner Fickett said the project aims to connect people with a missing part of local history.
00:31Historian Alexander Appleton said very little is written about the trade, despite its major regional impact.
00:38He said many collieries once had brickworks, employing thousands locally, including many women workers.
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