Somebody recently mention "brickpits a bit south of Newtown" Could this be the one on the corner of what is now Sydney Park Road and King Street/The Princes Highway? I know nothing about the history of these brickpits, but I do know that part of them has been preserved (on the Princes Highway frontage). According to the Sydney Street Directory this whole area is now called "Sydney Park" has lots of walking tracks, lakes, and a barbeque/picnic area and toilets/ on the Campbell Road/Euston Road corner. No car? Where the preservation part is - is just a very short walk from St Peters railway station. I guess more information could be found from the Sydney City Council archives. Joan Nichols
Hello Joan, Yes, those are the ones. One of the Robert Marjoram's worked there back in the mid-to-late 1800s, and he also worked at the Mudgee brickworks, but I can't remember which one came first - I think Mudgee. This Robert was the son of William Marjoram the convict, and grandson of Robert Marjoram, the other convict with that surname. I have just received from my Suffolk friend a lovely photo of a street in Woodbridge in Suffolk, and it shows the old Bridewell (prison) where the Marjorams were held for a while before their trial. Liz W. L Nichols wrote: > Somebody recently mention "brickpits a bit south of Newtown" > > Could this be the one on the corner of what is now Sydney Park Road and King Street/The Princes Highway? I know nothing about the history of these brickpits, but I do know that part of them has been preserved (on the Princes Highway frontage). According to the Sydney Street Directory this whole area is now called "Sydney Park" has lots of walking tracks, lakes, and a barbeque/picnic area and toilets/ on the Campbell Road/Euston Road corner. > > No car? Where the preservation part is - is just a very short walk from St Peters railway station. > > I guess more information could be found from the Sydney City Council archives. > > Joan Nichols > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >