The South Yarra Fire Brick Company was founded by Robert ‘Daddy’ Davies. It was the last of a number of brickworks to operate either side of Chapel Street near the Yarra river. It appears to have been the successor to the Australian Gas Retort and Fire Brick Manufacturing Company Pty Ltd (sometimes stamped AR & FB Co.) established in 1869, and operated in Chapel Street South Yarra until the late 1930s, which manufactured fire clay goods, supplying to such companies as the Metropolitan Gas Co Ltd and Victorian Railways and Government.
The South Yarra Fire Brick Co Pty Ltd operated in Chapel Street South
Yarra from around 1940, manufacturing and selling a wide range of
medium and high duty fireclay products and a range of refractory, airsetting and
heatsetting cements, castables and mouldables.
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| South Yarra and Newbold (NSW) fire bricks |
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| Standard house brick - assumed by the South Yarra Fire Brick co |
Thank you for the information. I have just cleaned an old forge which has been sitting in my families farm shed for decades. It is in very good condition overall from its keeping from weather and damp. Upon my doing so, was I to notice at its base, many these white coloured bricks with South Yarra inward stamped from manufacture. Alike an archeologist digging for treasure, I have just uncovered some great Melbourne history. ... Great Blog ...Cheers!
ReplyDeleteWe have bricks from this company in Eurobin Vic. Vic Railways operated and employed from Mt. Buffalo.
ReplyDeleteWe also have around 100 bricks in great condition in Bulleen if anyone wishes to purchase.
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ReplyDeleteI have a brick with the name South Yarra embossed on it. I am on the south coast of WA and rescued these bricks from what was a farm but had been subdivided into ~ 8 acre hobby farm lots. The bricks came from the fireplace in a very tiny forest workers shed with a bush pole verandah. It would have been freezing to live in that tin shed with no lining. When the shed was being demolished we knocked down the fireplace and took the bricks. I love them and use them in several places on my bush block.
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