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EXTRUDED SOLID WIRE CUT BRICK

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State Brickworks

1952 - 1961

Overview

Dirty red coloured, machine made rectangular brick

Historical information

In the late 1940s the state government was faced with the option of either upgrading the Byford State Brickwork site or building a new one. They chose to build a new brickworks in Armadale which opened in 1952. It ran until 1961 when it was sold by the government to a private brick making company. The site was known as the State Brickworks and later the State Building Supplies

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2012.23

Item type

Buildings

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Clay

Width

223 mm

Height or length

100 mm

Depth

70 mm

Keywords

Made in COA

State Brickworks Armadale

Armadale

State Building Supplies

Place made

Armadale
Western Australia
Australia

Year

1952 - 1961

Statement of significance

Brickmaking has been an important industry within the City of Armadale from the early to mid 1800s to today. It started with families making hand pressed bricks from locally sourced clay for homes and community buildings. In the late 1890s and early 1900s commercial production of machine made bricks started and soon the district was supplying bricks for the entire state. In 1913 the Scaddan Labor Government opened the first government brickworks Byford. It was a part of a program of government operated factories opened during this period.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

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