Early Bricks and Brickwork in South Australia, (Heritage Conservation, 3/3)

This booklet gives a brief history of the manufacture of bricks and their use in South Australian buildings, with some advice on the conservation of historic brickwork today.

There was a demand for bricks as a building material from the very earliest European settlement of South Australia; they were being carried ashore from ships within days of the arrival of the first Europeans in 1836, and manufactured on the banks of the River Torrens a few months later.