Merchant stores, warehouses and more housing (leading to slum conditions) helped fill the void in Brickfield Hill (Varman). In it’s place small brick-making concerns in private hands fanned out in directions south and west to suburbs such as Newtown, Camperdown, Pyrmont, Glebe and to St Peters which eventually emerged as the premier site for brick-making in Sydney. In 1841 the government ended the brick industry in the locality. Its dingy, seedy taverns were dens of crime and rampant practices of bestial cruelty. By 1840 the public brickfields had become a blot on the landscape…the dusty brick pits and polluting kilns were not conducive to the increasing residential composition of the village.
The “exceedingly unpleasant” place, “covered by a filthy brown haze and choking dust storms of windy days” the southerlies that swept along the street were given the name the ‘Brickfielder’. īrickfield Hill, George Street (Photo: JR Clarke / State Library, NS W)īy 1804 there were 72 houses within the village of Brickfield Hill, but it wasn’t the most salubrious part of Sydney to live…that part of George Street was “infamous for its steep, dangerous and dusty road” (Varman). The public brickfield on the ‘Hill’ became such a hub of activity that in 1799 it was described as “a suburb of the town of Sydney … within a few yards of the main road” (George Street) [‘Bricks and Nails: Building Materials as Criteria for Dating in Sydney and Environs from 1788’, Robert Victor Johannes Varman, (Unpublished PhD thesis from the University of Sydney, Sept. Bloodworth was immediately appointed master brick-maker for the Port Jackson colony by Governor Phillip, assigned labourers and tasked with the job of manufacturing 30,000 tiles per month. With only makeshift accommodation in the form of canvas tents, the construction of more secure and permanent housing was of the highest priority. This endeavour started virtually from year one of the European takeover of the Great South Land…the First Fleet in 1788 included convicts with brick-making experience – James Bloodworth, the most significant of them was to prove invaluable to the embryonic settlement’s progress.
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Located on indigenous Gadigal country at the south end of the CBD, Brickfield Hill is a loosely-demarcated area ❋ with a small hill, the place where the early colony’s clay was sourced for the making of bricks and tiles…bricks plus a hill, hence the name “Brickfield Hill”. One of the earliest in the Sydney colony with an interesting back story is Brickfield Hill. ‘Plan de la Ville de Sydney’ (Le s ueur’s Ma p, 1802) (Source: State Library, NS W)
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This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates.Sydney is chock full of locality names-names like Taverners Hill, Clifton Gardens, Pearces Corner, Tom Ugly’s Point, Russell Lea, Camp Cove, Tumble Down Dick, Bushrangers Hill, Brush Farm, Strawberry Hills, Charing Cross, etc-places on or off the map not big enough or important enough to warrant the status of ‘suburb’ in their own right. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Year should not be greater than current year Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Sorry! There are no volunteers for this cemetery.
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