Local Government
Bayswater
Region
Metropolitan
59-71 Wyatt Rd Bayswater
Between Wyatt Rd/Wright Cr
Bayswater
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1887, Constructed from 1970
| Type | Status | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage List | Adopted | 25 Feb 2020 |
| Type | Status | Date | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| (no listings) |
| Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | ||||
| Local Heritage Survey | Adopted | 25 Feb 2020 | Classification 2 | |
| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 24 Feb 1998 | Classification 5 | |
The place is significant for its associations with the brickmaking industry and with Henry Walkenden, an influential member of the Bayswater community. It is one of the oldest man made features within Bayswater.
A small, man-made lake, originally a clay pit which is now flooded, now largely overgrown with natural vegetation.
This small lake is important as the remnant of the earliest industry in Bayswater, Walkenden's brickworks, which was established c1887. The growth of small brickworks along the riverbank represented a phase of brickmaking which was superseded by the establishment of large centralised industries. In its heyday, Walkendens had two kilns operating and employed eighteen hands, some of whom camped around the works. Legend has it that the bricks were transported down the river by barge and that there was a landing place on the river known as "Walkenden's Landing". However, the works were strategically close to the racecourse branch line and it appears that this was the main method of transport. Henry Walkenden himself was a member of the Road Board for a short time, as were most 'leading citizens' of the day. The works closed in the early years of the century before Swan Location T was acquired by Gold Estates in 1911 and Walkenden moved on to another brickworks at Cardup. The old pit from which clay was excavated filled with water and later abutted the Old Pensioners' Camp by Whatley Siding. As the whole landscape in that area has been so radically altered by the addition of Tonkin Highway, it is important to preserve an original and one of the oldest made features of the Bayswater landscape.
Integrity - Low (extensively modified) Authenticity - High
Fair
| Ref Number | Description |
|---|---|
| 98 | Local Heritage Survey Number |
| Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7196 | Conservation plan for colonial sites on the City of Bayswater foreshore. CONFIDENTIAL | Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} | 2004 |
Landscape
| Epoch | General | Specific |
|---|---|---|
| Original Use | INDUSTRIAL\MANUFACTURING | Brickworks |
| Present Use | OTHER | Other |
| General | Specific |
|---|---|
| OCCUPATIONS | Manufacturing & processing |
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