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Brickworks is Australia's largest brick manufacturer, [1] consisting of four divisions – Building Products Australia, Building Products North America, Industrial Property, and Investments. [ 2 ] Building Products Australia includes Austral Bricks (the country's largest producer of bricks), along with other brands such as Austral Masonry ...
Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site. In earlier times bricks were made at brickfields , which would be returned to agricultural use after the clay layer was exhausted.
Faces of brick. As the most common bricks are rectangular prisms, six surfaces are named as follows: Top and bottom surfaces are called beds; Ends or narrow surfaces are called headers or header faces
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The brickworks opened in 1927 when the Maylands peninsula was largely undeveloped. The only other significant structure at the time was the Maylands Aerodrome , and both were surrounded by farmland. The Maylands site was considered ideal as the peninsula had an abundance of clay, and was close to the Perth central business district but isolated ...
The brickworks today is closed to the public, but has had various uses over the past 20 years. There have been several recent ideas that haven't eventuated, including using the site for Canberra's new gaol, making the site the new permanent home for Floriade (a yearly Canberra flower festival) or to turn the brickworks into a holiday resort ...