The works was also known later as the New Brunswick Brick and Pottery Co Pty Ltd in about 1957-9. Operations continued until about 1962, when the quarry hole was filled (with rubbish as usual). Subsequently the Barkly Square shopping centre was built on the brickworks site, and the land over the clay pit became car parking.
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Two bricks from a c 1920s house in Brunswick
Concerning Gamble Bricks.
ReplyDeleteThe above information is not correct as the date for the start of New Gamble Bricks is after the death of the "Joseph A Gamble" (26 Apr 1896)
It is in the same family and so hard to follow.
Father : Joseph Gamble (No "A" ) [1836 - 1896]
Son : James Alexander Gamble [1864 - 1926] (My GGrandfather)
JA Gamble (known as Alik) worked with his father at the Patent Steam Pressed Brick Works - J Gamble & Son in Plenty Road, South Preston . This being part of the carting and Tar business as you have described.
It was Alik who drove by and found the clay seem and then eventually started New Gamble Bricks long after his fathers death. Other family Gamble members were employed their such as my grandfather Herbert "Herbie" Joseph Gamble.
I have an image from Trove advertising the original South Preston brickworks if you like.
It would be nice if this article could be reworked as two distinct companies.
Many Thanks Andrew Clark
This should be under Gamble Bricks. Don't know what I did wrong to get it here. AC
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