Brick Press
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED
- Settings
- 15mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A formidable brick press occupies the main hall of Box Hill Brickworks. Its massive cast iron frame and heavy mechanisms stand idle, witnessing the site's industrial decline.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Brick Press
- Series
- Box Hill Brickworks
- Catalogue
- BHB-002
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 24 December 2011
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 5s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 15 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
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One of the remaining brick presses which used to be used while the site was still in production.
Brett Patman
The series
Box Hill Brickworks
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.
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