Hoffman Brickworks at time of redevelopment. The photograph was taken on 5 Nov 2011.Hoffman Brickworks at the time of redevelopment. The photograph was taken by Laurie Cunningham on 5 Nov 2011. hoffman brickworks

Demolition work at Hoffman Brickworks, Dawson Street, Brunswick. 1999.

Part of Hoffman Brickworks workforce, c1920. At least one of the men is wearing an army jacket. David Ernest Hunt, Don Hunt's father, is at the extreme right of the back row. David Hunt worked at Hoffman Brickworks pre and post WW1.

Hoffman Brickworks - 2 chimneys, part of kiln and other buildings. Some machinery and debris. Grass and shrubs in front. Taken 1999.

Hoffman Brickworks returned servicemen, probably taken 1920. The donor Don Hunt wrote 'Photos like this were quite common in the post World War 1 era'.

Mounted black and white photograph of a derelict area west of the rest area at Hoffman Brickworks, then under demolition, 7 December 1984. Part of 1985 BCHG exhibition held from 7-19 July 1985 at Brunswick Mechanics Institute - 'Brunswick - Pictures Past and Present'. Photographer Ros Kin.

The Hoffman company was established in 1870 to mass-produce bricks using the Hoffman patent kiln and the Bradley and Craven brick press. Once established the company entered a period of expansion aided by Melbourne's building boom from 1870 to 1890. During this time approximately ten brick machines were in operation producing some 18,000 bricks per hour. An extensive pottery works were established initially supplying mainly tiles and drainpipes and later domestic pottery such as the company's Melrose ware. The company even had its locomotive shunt the works siding which connected with the Victorian Railways at South Brunswick. By 1890 Hoffman was the largest brick and pottery works in Victoria, however, the 1890s depression halted company expansion. The company joined the Brick Co-operative when it was formed in 1896. The cooperative regulated prices and output from member brickworks. As the depression ended business picked up and the works were expanded to increase the production of stoneware pottery, especially domestic wares. The brickworks, however, never recovered the momentum of the early period. During the 1920s and 1930s, the works gradually ran down, and following the Second World War, production reached an all-time low. The No.1 works were stripped and sold. (For further information regards Hoffman Kilns see note section of this document.) An item made in Melbourne by at the time the largest pottery works in Australia making industrial and domestic wares for the home and building industries. Stoneware Demijohn jug with cream and brown glaze. Printed around base of jug, MELBOURNE, 1929"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, jug, melbourne, 1929, stoneware jug, hoffman potteries

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