Marghanita da Cruz - Pottering Around

Clay, Bricks, Tiles & Pipes in Sydney

Raising the road to level of new bridge

When the new swing bridge was constructed to replace the black butt bridge to Glebe Island, the road level had to be raised and this was done by constructing brick ramparts...Photographs of Construction ca1900

Liebentritt/ Cumberland Pottery & Tile Works

At the entrance to Chullora Marketplace there is interpretive signage about Leibentritt's patent liquid fuel boiler.

In 1857, Paul Liebentritt travelled with his wife and four sons from Germany to Australia.

Liebentritt started a small pottery virtually opposite the Lion Tile Works on the Liverpool Road (Hume Highway) near Enfield.

In 1863 he purchased approximately 30 acres and established Cumberland Pottery and Tile Works. The area was known as "Barks Hut Estate", later "Druitt Town", then "near Enfield" and today Chullora.

Clay Pit on the Annandale Estate

There were two brick pits on the Annandale Estate and a Brickmaker's hut under what is now Young St (between Albion and Reserve Sts) - 50s Annandale: A Short Walk Title Annandale, 1877 / Samuel Elyard; Caption Annandale, 1877 / Samuel Elyard; Creator Elyard, Samuel, 1817-1910; Call Number DG V* / Sp Coll / Elyard / 8
Digital Order No. a9217001; This image may be used freely without requesting permission. Please acknowledge that the image is from the collections of the State Library of NSW. Johnston's Estate, Annandale, 1877 by Samuel Elyard, collections of the State Library of NSW, a9217001

Sydney Railway

Bricks were needed to construct the Sydney Railway which opened in 1855. 200,000 bricks were fired at Annandale.(p168, Marine Officer: Convict Wife:Johnsons Of Annandale)

Marghanita's notes on Clay

Clay, Bricks, Tiles & Pipes in Sydney

Raising the road to level of new bridge

Liebentritt/ Cumberland Pottery & Tile Works

Clay Pit on the Annandale Estate

Sydney Railway