BRICK PRESSED STATE BRICKWORKS
1913 - 1964Rectangle machine pressed red brick. 2 square frogs on top with moulded text on top. [S] in first frog and [B] in second.
Machine pressed brick made at the State Brickworks in Byford. The brickworks operated from 1913-1964. The brickworks was part of a series of government factories started in the early 1900s by the Labor Government.
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[S] [B]
Western Australia
Australia
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.
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