Lit Stairs at Box Hill Brickworks, a stairway leading up to the upper levels of the brickworks.

01 Box Hill BrickworksBox Hill2011

ISO 10010sf/8.057mm

Series · 7 prints

Box Hill Brickworks

Photographed 2011
Frames 7
Camera NIKON D7000
Location Victoria, Australia
Status Vacant since 1988
Years 1884 to 1988
Heritage VHR H0720
Specs 18-chamber Hoffman patent kiln · Original site 30 acres · Continuous-firing brick production
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

Box Hill Brickworks ran intermittently for almost a century at the corner of Elgar and Canterbury Roads in Box Hill, east Melbourne. The Haughton Park Brick Company Ltd issued its prospectus in 1884 to make machine and hand-made bricks, tiles, earthenware, and porcelain on a 30-acre site, and renamed itself the Box Hill Brick Co Ltd in 1886. The 1890s industry collapse forced production to suspend in 1892. Standard Brickworks reopened the kilns in the mid-1910s. The Co-operative Brick Company took over in 1938. Wartime conditions closed the works between 1942 and 1946. Production resumed and continued until 1988, when the works were finally abandoned. The site is on the Victorian Heritage Database (place 154). Almost every interior surface has accumulated graffiti since the 1988 closure.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Hand-signed and numbered, printed from the original RAW file. Open editions in the two smallest sizes; limited editions of 100, 50 and 25 in the three larger, never reissued once they sell through.

Lit Stairs at Box Hill Brickworks, a stairway leading up to the upper levels of the brickworks.
Lit Stairs
Feeder Bin House at Box Hill Brickworks, you can see the feeder bin to the right and at the top of the frame, you can just.
Feeder Bin House
Stairs Down at Box Hill Brickworks, everything was made of such solid pieces of wood that have really stood the test of time.
Stairs Down
Feeder Bin at Box Hill Brickworks, the bottom of the bin that was used to store and feed the clay or brick-making material.
Feeder Bin
Attic Space at Box Hill Brickworks, boring caption.
Attic Space
Gantry at Box Hill Brickworks, this area of the building was where the water tank was kept which probably fed to the brick.
Gantry
Brick Press at Box Hill Brickworks, one of the remaining brick presses which used to be used while the site was still.
Brick Press
04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.

Paper

Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.

Editions

Open in XS and S. Limited in M (100), L (50), XL (25). From $100.

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Lead time

Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.

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