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Workers outside Thomas Daley's brickworks Marri...

Workers outside Thomas Daley's brickworks Marrickville c1916

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Marrickville Council Library and History Services

Marrickville Library and History Services maintains and provides access to Marrickville Council's research collections and cultural heritage material. The research collection includes books, microforms, research files, newspapers, and databases. The cultural heritage collection includes objects, community archives, photographs and oral histories.

Bricks

Sydney is unusual in the extent to which the urban landscape has been profoundly influenced by the basic, yet ancient, building material of bricks. Bricks made by the first convict brickmaker were used in the public buildings of the new colony, and the presence of brickyards influenced a succession of localities, from the inner city to the outer suburbs.

Marrickville

Once the site of a vast swampland, Marrickville became a significant industrial area in the nineteenth century. Today, the industry has largely gone but its multicultural legacy still flourishes in this inner west suburb.

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Henson Park

Sports ground built on the site of Daley's Standsure Brick Company, which became home ground for the Newtown Rugby League club, Newtown Jets. The ground was a cycling venue for the 1938 Empire Games.

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Marrickville

Inner-western residential suburb with an industrial heritage on the Cooks River, named after the Marrick estate of Thomas Chalder which was subdivided in 1855. The post-Second World War period saw the influx of mainly non-English speaking people, attracted by the availability of factory work and cheap housing.

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