BRICK PRESSED STATE BUILDING SUPPLY
1652 - 1961Rectangle machine pressed red brick. Double frog on top with stamped text inside [SB] and [SI]
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
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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.
City of Armadale - History House
City of Armadale - History House
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