Brickpit Ring Walk

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Brickpit Ring Walk
Green and Golden Bell Frog
(Litoria aurea)
Parkingoff Marjorie Jackson Parkway
Connecting transport
In development:
WebsiteBrickpit Ring Walk at SOPA

The Brickpit Ring Walk is an

Green and Golden Bell Frog
(Litoria aurea) placed a hold on developments. The urban nature park and walkway was established in 2006.

History

The site of the Brickpit Ring Walk is on the traditional lands of the Wann clan, known as the

limekilns in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and subsequent alterations to the shoreline.[1]

State Brickworks

Following a

state-owned State Brickworks commenced on 1 November 1911 and the output for the first trading period was wholly absorbed on Government works.[2][3] During the economic depression of the 1930s, the brickworks operated at a significant loss.[4] In 1936, they were sold to private enterprise and closed in 1940. A train station for workers to use opened on the site in December 1939.[4][5][6]

After

Blacktown and built new facilities on this site. The first pit was closed and filled in during the 1960s.[1] In 1988, the NSW Government announced plans to close the operations at Homebush and to sell the Blacktown site as a going concern.[9][5]

Popular culture

During the 1960-80s the Brickworks was known as "Brickies" a popular place for drag racing on a Friday or Saturday night.[10] Drivers set off from the Big Chiefs (Beefy's) burger joint on Parramatta Road, racing up Underwood Road towards Brickies Hill. This circuit can be seen in the 1977 film The FJ Holden.[4] The Brickworks was also used as a filming location for Bartertown scenes in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.[11]

Brickpit Ring Walk

Following cessation of

Environmental Impact Statement for the 2000 Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games. The site was proposed to be redeveloped as a tennis centre; however was halted on discovery of the frogs.[5][12]

The remaining brick pit is now an adopted home of the Green and Golden Bell Frog. Above the brickpit is the Brickpit Ring Walk,[1] a 550-metre (1,804 ft) elevated walkway and outdoor exhibition, sited 18.5 metres (61 ft) above the brickpit floor.[13][14] The walkway allows visitors to view the nature park, water storage facility, and frog habitat without causing damage to the Green and Golden Bell Frog.[15] Designed by Durbach Block Architects in 2005,[16] in 2006 the walkway was featured in the Venice Biennale, and won the RAIA (NSW) Lloyd Rees Civic Design Award, the ASI Architectural & Engineering Innovation Steel Design Award (NSW),[14] and the National Trust Heritage Award.[15]

Gallery

  • Brickpit Ring Walk, Bicentennial Park
    Brickpit Ring Walk, Bicentennial Park
  • Litoria aurea (Green and Golden Bell Frog)
    Litoria aurea
     (Green and Golden Bell Frog)
  • State Brickworks, Homebush in 1911
    State Brickworks, Homebush in 1911
  • Workers at State Brickworks, Homebush in 1911
    Workers at State Brickworks, Homebush in 1911

See also

  • Parks in Sydney

References

  1. ^
    Sydney Olympic Park Authority
    . January 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b "State Brickworks [I] (1911-1936)". NSW State Records. Government of New South Wales. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  3. ^ New South Wales. State Brickworks, Homebush Bay; New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Assembly (1916), State enterprises-State Brick Works, Homebush Bay : balance-sheet, manufacturing account, trading account, and profit and loss account, for year ended 30 June, 1916, William Applegate Gullick, Govt. Printer, retrieved 12 September 2018
  4. ^ a b c "NSW State Brickworks/Brickpit Ring Walk – Homebush, NSW". Past/Lives of the Near Future. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  5. ^
    Sydney Olympic Park Authority
    . n.d. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  6. ^ Bozier, Rolfe (n.d.). "Brickworks Platform". NSWrail.net. Rolfe Bozier. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  7. ^ New South Wales. State Brickworks (1940), State Brickworks, Underwood Road, Homebush Bay, manufacturers of common and moulded bricks : [range of moulded bricks available from State Brickworks], State Brickworks, retrieved 12 September 2018
  8. ^ "State Brickworks". The Biz. New South Wales, Australia. 6 August 1953. p. 3. Retrieved 12 September 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "State Brickworks [II] (1946-1988)". NSW State Records. Government of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  10. ^ Lewis, Daniel (6 December 2009). "Olympic Park street circuit transformed from 'Brickies' to big bickies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Filming Locations - Bartertown". www.madmaxmovies.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  12. ^ Wayne, Michael (14 June 2012). "NSW State Brickworks/Brickpit Ring Walk – Homebush, NSW". Past/Lives of the Near Future. Michael Wayne. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  13. Sydney Olympic Park Authority
    . n.d. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  14. ^ a b "The Brick Pit Ring". Landezine. Slovenia: Landezine Media LLC. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  15. ^ a b "Brickpit Ring Walk". Time Out. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  16. ^ "Brick Pit Ring". Selected works: Commercial. Durbach Block Jaggers. n.d. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

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