This is why it can be used to make lots of things like plates, cupsand bricks. Clay is the main ingredient to make a brick but a lot has to be done to the clay before it can hold up a building.

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From the 1850s (after the brick tax was repealed) to 1971 many brickworks were set up in Cornwall. Waste sand and clay were used to make bricks in clay drying kilns, too.