List of Brick Companies

Alphabetical list of Brick manufacturers in Victoria 

Hoffman Brick and Potteries Limited c 1900

• Arndts Brickworks, 1850s - Gottleib Arndt (Henry Walkerden, 1888 -1926 South Preston Patent Brick and Tile Co.) Raglan & Hotham Sts. Preston "PRESTON" ?
• Ararat Brick Co pty ltd (T Traynor) Western Brick and Tile Co. 
• Auburn Brick Co. delisted 01/09/1935 "AUBURN"
• Austral Brick Co. NSW "AUSTRAL"
• Australasian Brick Pipe & Tesselated Tile Co. Mitcham 1889-c1970 "ATTC" "MITCHAM"
• Australian Gas Retort and Fire Brick Co, South Yarra "AR&FB SOUTH YARRA"
• Barkly Brick Co. Pty. Ltd. 1909-1962, Barkley St Brunswick "BARKLY"
• Benalla Brickworks 1950
• Bendigo Brickworks "BENDIGO"
• Blackburn Brick Co. 1892-1962, (Blackburn Brick & Tile) "BLACKBURN"
• Blains Brickworks 140-150 Plenty Road
• Boral Brickworks, Bulleen "BORAL"
• Box Hill Brick Co. 1886-1980s  (1884 Haughton Park Brick Company Ltd., 1913 Standard Brickworks /Standard Brick & Tile Co. Ltd.; 1938 Co-operative Brick Company 1966 Brick & Pipe Ind.) "BOX HILL"; "STANDARD"
• Brick & Pipe Industries (see Co-operative Brick Co. Pty. Ltd.) "B.P. Ind."
• Brick Industries Limited “BI LTD”
• Brunswick Brick Tile and Pottery Co. (see Hoffman) "BRUNSWICK BRICK&TILECO"
• Builders' Brick and Tile Supply Co. 1872-1895 "BUILDERS Co"
• Bulleen Brickworks 1950-1990
• Burwood Brickworks 1937-1990
• Butler C (see South Brunswick Brick Co.) "C BUTLER"
• Castlemain Brick Company
• Castlemaine Ceramic Industries
• Centennial Brick and Pipe Co. 1890s, Dandenong?
• Chiltern Brick and Tile Company Proprietary Limited
• Chimney Specials
• City Brick Co. Pty. Ltd. Tooronga Road Camberwell (also Malvern Brickworks) "CITY"; "C B"
• Clifton Bricks 1900-c1943, 21-27 Railway Place Preston  "CLIFTON"
• Cobden Brickworks 1909-? Erskine Bros
• Colac Brickworks 1931-1976. Near Barongarook Creek
• Co-operative Brick Co. Pty. Ltd. 1896, (1966 Brick and Pipe Industries Pty. Ltd.)
• Corio Brick and Tile Co. Geelong
  
• Cornwall Brick and Pottery Co, Albert Street Brunswick 1880s - 1920s
• Creswick Brick Tile & Potteries Ltd. Creswick
• The Dandenong Steam-Press Brick and Tile Company Limited
• Darley Fire Brick Co. c1880-1990, Bacchus Marsh "DARLEY"
• Dixons Brickworks 1892-96, Park Road Oakleigh
• Essendon Brick Company Limited. 1884-c1898
• Evans Brothers (Bricks) Pty. Ltd. 1912-1972 (Sold Oakleigh site in 1969) Park Road Oakleigh
• Erskine Brickworks Shepparton (Shepparton Brick and Tile Company Proprietary Limited) "ERSKINE"
• ExcelsiorBrick Co. "E. B. Co" c 1908-1940 Chapel Street, South Yarra, opposite Malcolm Street "EXCELSIOR"
• Ferry Pottery
• Fitzroy Steam Brick Pipe Tile and Pottery Works, 1878-1893, (F A Harris,  1888 Builders’ Brick and Tile Co.) Collier St Preston, Cochrane Reserve.
• Frankston Brick Company, Colortone Holdings "FRANKSTON”  1932-1961.  Calsil. cnr Lee Street & Cranbourne Rd.
• Fritsch, Holzer, and Co. c1902-1930s Hawthorn "FRITSCH HOLZER"
• Gamble Brick Company, 1911-1982 New Gamble Brick and Quarrying Company Pty Ltd. Ferntree Gully Road near Gamble Street "GAMBLE" "N. G. B. C."
• Glen Iris Brick Co. 1912-1972  (Glen Iris Brick, Tile, and Terra Cotta Co. Pty, Ltd., 2 Watt St Thornbury) Stamford Road Oakleigh "GLEN IRIS"; "G. I. B. Co."
• Glenthompson Brickworks Forbes St Glenthompson: 1900, "GLEN"
• Glew, John, 1849-57 Hodgson Street  & Union St Phillipstown (Brunswick); 1860 Brunswick?; 1866-72 Poheman's Paddock Brickmaking Company Brunswick; 1871 Essendon; c1890s-1907 Weston St Brunswick 1890s-1907.  "GLEW"
• Hamilton Brick and Tile Company Proprietary Limited (Glenthompson?)
• Haughton Park Brick Company Ltd 1884- (see Box Hill Brickworks)
• Hawthorn Brick Co. (see Fritsch-Holzer)
• Hoffman Brick Works  1870-1990 (Brunswick Brick Tile & Pottery Co.; Hoffman Brick and Potteries Limited) "HOFFMAN"
• Horsham Brickworks 1949-
• Jefferson's brickworks, Garfield
• KnightsBrickworks Lal Lal
• Latrobe Brickworks, Traralgon? 'LATROBE'
• Leongatha Brickworks 1922-27
• Lucknow Brick Co
• H Leigh Brickworks
• Lilydale Brick Tile & Pipe Works Ltd.
• The Macedon Steam Brick Tile And Drain Pipe Company Limited
• Maffra Brick Co 
• Malvern Brickworks 1903-? 65 Elizabeth Street, Menzies Park Malvern (City Brick Co.)
• McIvor Brick Co Ltd, Bendigo, c1950s
• Melbourne Brick & Tile Co. Ltd.
• Mitcham Brick and Tile Co. (see Australian Tesselated Tile Co.) " MITCHAM"; "A.T.T.Co."
• MNBC. “M-N"
• Montrose Brickworks
• Mornington Brick and freestone quarries Co.
• Morwell Brick Tile and Pottery Co. (1890-1918) "MORWELL TILE & POTTERY- MORWELL"
• New Brunswick Brick and Pottery Co Pty Ltd c1957-9
• New Gamble Brick and Quarrying Co Pty Ltd, 1916-82 off Ferntree Gully rd Oakleigh
• New Northcote Brick Co. Ltd 1886-c1960s? (John Roberts 1866 and Groom Brothers Patent Brick c1876) "NEW NORTHCOTE"; "N N" "N N B"
• Nolan brickworks?
• Northcote Brick Co.  1882-1977 Separation St. (Northcote Brick Company Limited) "NORTHCOTE"; "NBC"
• North Geelong Brickworks Pty Ltd. Moorabool St Geelong, c1911. 1926-30, "NORTH GEELONG"
• Notting Hill Brick Company1889-98 Oakleigh Black Brick Tile and Pipe Company Limited
• Nubrik, 1962- main brand of Brick and Pipe Industries
• Oakleigh Brick Co. Pty. Ltd., 1917 - c1970s,  "OAKLEIGH"
• Oakleigh Junction Brick Company (1912 Junction Steam Brick Co. J. Hendy) Dandenong Rd. Oakleigh.
• Ordish Fire Brick Co. c1890-1975 Dandenong  "ORDISH"
• Patent Brick Company  1870s -1884 South Yarra
• Pioneer Brickworks "PIONEER"
• P G H Bricks
• The Portland Brick and Tile Company Limited
• Portarlington Brickworks
• Preston Brick and Tile Co. Ltd. 1886-1935 (Raglan Street, between Hotham and Collier Street)
• Ringwood Brick Co.
• Sale Brickworks Co. 1900s
• Sandhurst Brickworks, Bendigo (The Sandhurst Steam Brick and Tile Company Limited) "SANDHURST"
• Selkirk Brick Co. Bendigo "SELKIRK"
• Shepparton Brickyard, Drysdale c1880, Pomberton c1900 Tuttle 1914-17, 
• Shepparton Brick and Tile Co Pty Ltd  c1920-1970  (M. J. & A. G. Erskine) "SHEPPARTON"; "ERSKINE"
• Somerville Brick Tile and Pottery Co 1902 - c1930.
• South Brighton Brick Co. 1890s-
• South Brunswick Brick Co. (C Butler) Albion St Brunswick, "S.B.B.C."
• South Preston Patent Brick & Tile Co.  1888-1826, Milton Crescent off Raglan Street Preston, Adams Reserve
• South Yarra Fire Brick Co. (AFFBCo) "SOUTH YARRA" "AF&FBCo.
• Spear's Brick Co. Pty. Ltd. (Brick & Pipe Works Pty Ltd) "SPEAR", (F. Spear was manager of the City Brickworks around 1905)
• Stamford Brick Co (parent  company of Glen Iris Brickworks) "S.B.C. Co."
• Standard Brickworks Pty Ltd (see Box Hill Brickworks) "STANDARD"
• State Brickworks (State coal mine, Wonthaggi) 1909-1914 "SCM"
• St Arnaud Brick Co Pty Ltd
• Stawell Pressed Brick works c1900s-1940s
• Sweet ? Brick Co.
• Thornbury Brick Works (State Brickworks?)
• Traralgon Brickworks 
• Tunstull Brick And Pottery Company (Nunnawading) “TUNSTULL”
• Upper Hawthorn Brick Co.
• Walkenden Patent Brick and Tile Co. Ltd. Oakover Road South Preston Harry Swain Reserve "WALKERDEN"
• Wangaratta Brickworks Pty Ltd 
• Warragul Brick & Tile Pty. Ltd.
• Warburton Brick Coy.,
• Whittlesea Brick, Tile, and Pottery Co.
• T H Widdicome, Portarlington
• Wilsmore Brick Co. 1888-1893, Albert Street Brunswick "WILSMORE"  (backward S)
• Wodonga Brick & Tile Co. Pty. LimitedYarrawonga Sawmill and Brick Co. 1930s
• Yallourn Brick Works “YALLOURN" 1920s

Modern Brickmakers

Austral Bricks, Wollert

Bendigo Brick Pty Ltd Bendigo, Australia

Daniel Robertson Holdings Pty Ltd. 58-74 Station St, Nunawading, Australia

Phillips Bricks & Pottery Proprietary Limited 280-310 Mcivor Rd, Bendigo, Australia 

Selkirk Geelong Pty Ltd 630 Howitt St, Ballarat, Australia

Sources

Victorian Government Gazette Jan-April 1893

Di MacLeod & Ian Newman, Clay Industries of Brunswick 1849 to 1900, 1990

Miles Lewis, Australian Building, section 6 Bricks and Tiles:

Iain Stuart, Why Did the Hoffman Brick and Pottery Works Stop Making Bricks? Australian Historical Archaeology 7, 1989

lain Stuart, A History of the Victorian Brick Industry: 1826-1920, Australian Archaeology  No 24 (1987), http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ojs/index.php/aa/article/view/1534/1522

Iain Stuart, The Analysis of Bricks from Archaeological Sites in Australia, Australasian Historical Archaeology, 23, 2005 http://www.jcis.net.au/data/23-04-Stuart.pdf

A Story of Brick, Tile & Pipe Making in Oakleigh Victoria & its context, http://wuxtiple.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/a-story-of-brick-tile-pipe-making-in.html

http://wuxtiple.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/oakleigh-brick-company.html

Ron Ringer, The brickmasters: 1788-2008, Wetherill Park, N.S.W. : Dry Press, 2008.

Bell, Geoffrey B.Sc & Victoria. Dept. of Mines (1962). Victorian fire-clays and fire-bricks. Part III., The South Yarra Fire-Brick Co. Pty. Ltd. Mines Dept, Melbourne

Alfred B. Searle. Modern Brickmaking, London Scott, Greenwood & Son "The Pottery Gazette" Offices 8 Broadway, Ludgate Hill, B.C. D. Van Nostrand Company New York 1911

Early Bricks and Brickwork in South Australia, Department for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs & the Corporation of the City of Adelaide 1998 Early Bricks and Brickworks in South Australia - Department of ...

South Australia brick images

Frankston Brick Company