The Brick Mile – Sydney Park Brickworks

A tour with Ron Ringer

When: Saturday 24 May 2025

Where: Meet outside St Peters Station 9.45 for 10.00am.

Bookings: Richard 0413 335 897 or via marrickvilleheritagesociety@outlook.com

Travellers along the Prince’s Highway at St. Peters are often surprised and impressed with the imposing brick chimneys in Sydney Park.

These chimneys and the large kilns nearby are the remains of a vast industrial enterprise that stretched from St Peters to the site of the modern day IKEA store. For over 100 years the bricks that were made here helped build the city of Sydney as we know it today.

St Peters tip and brickwork chimneys 1971. Looking towards Newtown.
Image: City of Sydney Archives (ID: A-00052Ark>9Ark>45)

Find out more about the brick making, and quarrying and the people who worked in this place on a walking tour with Ron Ringer, author of ‘The Brickmasters: 1788-2008.’

Ron is an independent academic, consulting historian and technical writer. He has written extensively on bricks, brick making and the use of bricks in contemporary architecture. His writing has also covered engineering history, church history, and education.