Adelaide. Sth Asutralia. Beverley. The brickworks museum. Brick kilns on the site of James brickworks from 1923 until 1974 when bought by the Woodville Council.The clay pug hole used as a rubbish dump. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Adelaide. Sth Asutralia. Beverley. The brickworks museum. Brick kilns on the site of James brickworks from 1923 until 1974 when bought by the Woodville Council.The clay pug hole used as a rubbish dump. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Brick Works at Beverley. The suburb of Beverley is underlain with layers of clays and sandy clays suitable for kiln fired red bricks. In colonial times the Beverley clays were described as incomparable for bricks. Solomon Williams and William Willis bricks began operations in 1876 being the first to do so in Beverley. James brick makers began operations in 1910 at Welland until 1920 when they moved to Beverley. Hallett bricks were established at adjoining Allenby Gardens in 1912. Albert James’ brick yard moved Toogood Avenue to Beverley 1923. Their site is now a museum to Beverley’s brick industry. The James brick works created a huge pug hole and they had round and conventional shaped brick kilns. By the 1950s there were five rectangular intermittent downdraft kilns capable of holding about 150,000 bricks per firing and a circular kiln for pipe production. The James Brickworks ceased production in the early 1970s due to the depletion of the clay reserves and the introduction of pollution controls. The City of Woodville (now City of Charles Sturt) purchased the James Brickworks site in 1974 primarily to use the former pug hole as a rubbish dump. When purchased one vaulted kiln was demolished due to its deteriorated state. Drying sheds, engine house, moulding shed and office building associated with the kilns were also demolished. With other local brickworks winding up operations the significance of the remaining James kilns as relics of the area's history of brick production was soon recognised. The Council wanted to transform the James Brickworks into a brickmaking museum once the pug hole was filled and in the 1990s a number improvements to the site were undertaken. They included the relocation of machinery from Hallett’s Allenby Gardens brickworks prior to its demolition and protecting the remaining James kilns. Once brick making ceased the kilns deteriorate as the process of firing bricks contributes to the stability of the kilns themselves. In 2017 after a community consultation a major preservation commenced. A new steel canopy structure was erected to cover kiln number two the most intact example of the downdraft intermittent kilns on the site. The brick industry had boomed in the 1920s and was slow in the depression years and World War Two but for a while after 1945 there were nine brickworks in Beverley. In 1974 as urbanisation increased and contamination of soils by industrial waste products became an issue James’ brickworks were sold to the Woodville Council. In 1979 the adjoining brick works of Williams and Willis closed. The remaining structures of James brickworks heritage listed in 1994. Freburgs also had a brickworks at Beverley from the 1920s through to the 1960s. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-11-10 13:57:53 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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