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01 Box Hill BrickworksBox Hill2011
ISO 10010sf/8.057mm
Series · 7 prints
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.
Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.
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.
Lead time
Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.
People talk about what it was like to work or stay in these places, who they knew, what they did, how great the Christmas parties were, that store man nobody liked, what all the different machines were, how they worked and what became of them.
Broadsheet
On the LC archive.
There's this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
I'm often contacted by people who used to frequent the places I photographed. They share stories that enter the collections as additions or corrections. Sometimes they send their own photos from the same viewpoints, taken decades earlier.
The Guardian
On the LC archive.
