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Hotel:Brickmakers Arms
[367] Victoria Street, east of Flockhart Street (then called Brick Lane)
Abbotsford 3067
Australia
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Abbotsford
Brickmakers Arms Hotel (1853 - 1867)
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[367] Victoria Street, east of Flockhart Street (then called Brick Lane)
Abbotsford 3067
Australia
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1853
1867
Demolished
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Part C, p. 655
Volume 2, Building Citations, Part II, pp. 381-382
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Kearney 1855: Y ; Hodgkinson 1858: Y ; MMBW: N/A
The name refers to the early Collingwood brickmaking industry which was based around Flockhart Street. Joseph Shirley, the first publican, was a brickmaker who combined hotelkeeping with his trade; a number of brickyard employees, mainly single men of German origin who worked for Shirley and Stacy, lodged at the hotel.
In 1865 Robert Dehnert, another brickmaker, purchased the hotel, a brick building with eight rooms (RB 1864 and 1865) on a large site with 120 feet frontage to Victoria Street which incorporated a garden. Dehnert was not satisfied with this building and by 1867 he had built a new two-storey Brickmakers Arms a little further to the west, right on the eastern corner of Brick Lane (see hotel #82b). The old hotel was purchased by brickmaker Augustus Fritsch who advertised it to let as an extensive building suitable for manufacturing.
Shirley, Joseph 1853; Abrahams, Joseph 1854; Burke, Thomas 1859-1861; Schmidt, Jens 1862-1865; Landhall, C 1865; Knack, John 1866-1867.