Industry

1. Industry In the 1830s Marrickville was a patchwork blanket of gardens, brick pits, cattle grazing, neat farms, quarries and tanneries. Brick making was all hand made sand stone bricks until the 1880s. The Goodsell family started making steam produced bricks and the machine produced bricks were much stronger. Thomas Daley and the Johnston Brothers mass produced over 250,000 bricks a week in Marrickville. Robyn Atkins and Patricia Lawther, 23 Mar, 2008, Goodsell Family Tree: Australia, [online accessed 8 Sep , 2009] http://users.bigpond.net.au/james.elizabeth.goodsell/GoodsellBrickmaking01.htm Henry Knight was a prominent brick maker in the 1840s – 1880s. He supplied the bricks for St Peters Church of England on Cooks River Rd. Case study with photos is available on: http://www.brucehassan.id.au/KnightH.html Bruce Baskerville, July 2003, Henry Knight: Brick maker of Macdonaldtown, 1840s – 1880s, Historymatrix, [online accessed 8 Sep, 2009] http://www.brucehassan.id.au/KnightH.html In 1836 Fowlers Potteries made tableware, drain pipes and toilet bowls . In 1885 John White built the first spring making factory in Australia. In 1893 Marrickville Metro Shopping Centre was the site of Vicars woollen Mills. It was the first and the largest of all the woollen mills in Marrickville. In 1910 Sydney Steel Company was established in Marrickville. It provided steel for the railways, Qantas building and the Harbour Bridge. DaleysBrick works were established in 1888 on Sydenham Rd, employing 60 people. In 1936 General Motors Holden in Carrington Rd Marrickville, produced 70 cars a day. See photos and read about these industries in the online link: http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/community/history/summary.htm Industrial Heritage Exhibition, Marrickville Council: Community, [online accessed 8 Sep, 2009] http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/community/history/summary.htm