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The Goulburn Wetlands project aims to convert an abandoned brick pit into public parkland and a natural storm-water treatment system by restoring local ecosystems. The wetlands is being expanded to cover the existing brickpit excavations — an area of some 2.2 hectares. The water depth will vary according to conditions, and in places be 1-2 metres deep with extensive planted shallow water zones. The new berms (boulder ridges) will assist water movement and treatment, with a sedge meadow taking it back to the river. Planned works aim to improve the aesthetic design, biodiversity, water quality and bank stability of the site, through systematic replacement of weed species with local native plants, creating habitat for native animals.
Walking paths, public spaces, recreation facilities and art works will be included, as well as information about our local heritage, history and environment.
The 13.5ha Council-owned site is bordered by the Goulburn Golf Course on the western and southern sides, May Street to the east and Mulwarree Chain of Ponds to the north. It lies within the Mulwarree flood plain and is not suitable for built development. It currently acts as an informal drainage easement for stormwater run-off from the Eastgrove residential precinct as well as overland flow from the Goulburn Golf Course and the river. S20N_203
This is an old Brick Pit, converted into a Nature Reserve.
'Explored' 12/01/17
- Came across this old wheel during my walk. Apparently this was attached to one of the 'buckets' that travelled 'Cable car' style across the works, carrying the clay from one location to another.
Designed by Durbach Block Architects, the Ring Walk is an aerial walkway and outdoor exhibition twenty metres above the brick pit floor.
The Ring Walk is the 2006 National Trust Heritage Awards Winner.
Photo Award: The International Loupe Awards 2012 Bronze Award - Landscape
Black swan (Cygnus atratus) at the Brickpit Ring Walk in Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush NSW Australia. This historical brickpit site is now a habitat for the Green and Golden Bell Frog and other native fauna.
The Australian wood duck, maned duck or maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) at the Brickpit Ring Walk in Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush NSW Australia. This historical brickpit site is now a habitat for the Green and Golden Bell Frog and other native fauna.
20117 20169 Snarl passed the popular location Singleton Birch Limeworks on a heavy Grimsby Brickpit Tinsley Tripper 12/6/92
This is an elevated circular walkway over the Brickpit, a former brickworks, but now a habitat for the endangered Green and Gold Bell Frog. It is 550m in circumference and 18.5m above the sandstone floor of the pit.
Black swan (Cygnus atratus) at the Brickpit Ring Walk in Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush NSW Australia. This historical brickpit site is now a habitat for the Green and Golden Bell Frog and other native fauna.
This is the Brickpit Ring Walk Bicentenial Park.
The Ring Walk is an elevated circular walkway that allows visitors to access and view the Brickpit from above while preserving the habitat of the endangered Green and Golden Bell frog.
www.sydneyolympicpark.com.au/Visiting/venues_and_parks/br...
On a bright morning 20098 20112 trundle over the junction at hatfield & stainforth on a Tinsley Grimsby Brickpit sidings blooms for export 25/07/90
The 21st Century Housing Developments - The Hamptons are set in a historic landscape whose story stretches back 160 million years to the Jurassic Age.
During the Jurassic, a tropical sea covered the land where the Hamptons now stand. Its rocks gave rise to the rich Oxford clay underlying the Hamptons, which is packed with Jurassic fossils. Plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, ichthysaurs and marine crocodiles excavated from the former Hamptons brickpits can be seen in museums across Europe and the US.
Bricks that built Britain - Oxford clay has been prized for building since Roman times, and the Hamptons was once a centre of a thriving brickmaking industry. In 1850, the opening of the Great Northern Railway main line through Peterborough made it possible to distribute the local Fletton bricks nationwide, and the area was the UK's leading producer of bricks for much of the 20th century.
The brick industry’s unique legacy is embedded in the Hamptons’ landscape. Elsewhere, brick companies dug down to extract clay. But around the Hamptons, where clay was close to the surface, they scooped it out in a series of strips, creating a landscape of ridges and furrows. These have filled with water to create shallow ponds which are now ideal habitats for a wide range of rare and unusual wildlife and plants
Formerly dug for clay for brick making, then used for waste, capped, grass seeded and turned into a nature reserve. We found it by chance and it saved walking along the A59. We had left the War Horse Route as we were having a diversion to Booths to buy some leaf tea.
The gas outlets around the perimeter allow methane to escape.
www.westlancs.gov.uk/leisure-recreation/parks-and-country...
D1524/47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' passes Kempston on the outskirts of Bedford with the 0940 Cricklewood to Forders sidings, conveying London waste for landfill in the former brickpits adjacent to Forders.
In February 1994 47004 was reliveried, renumbered and named at Old Oak Common in West London. At the time the reliverying was considered the best quality return to BR green livery performed to date. The (fixed) 0F74 headcode reportedly was used to denote light engine returns to Old Oak Common.
Becoming something of a minor celebrity for locomotives often increases the chance of that locomotive being preserved: such was the case with D1524 which survives into preservation at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway.
Note also the leading 'container' on the train: this unique Railfreight Construction-liveried box had viewing 'windows' cut into the steelwork to allow a shunter to ride the front of the train during propelling operations at Forders Sidings.
This is an elevated circular walkway over the Brickpit, a former brickworks, but now a habitat for the endangered Green and Gold Bell Frog. It is 550m in circumference and 18.5m above the sandstone floor of the pit.
D1524/47004 'Old Oak Common Traction & Rolling Stock Depot' approaches its destination with the 0940 Cricklewood to Forders sidings, conveying London waste for landfill in the former brickpits.
After shooting one of the celebrity locomotiveso of the day at Kempston ( flic.kr/p/QsxTwA) we decided to try our luck with a further shot from the level crossing next to Forders Sidings.
While my driver Phil ( Phil_Marshall ) was not so lucky I jumped out of the car and just made it into position for this second view of the 'celeb'.
Compared to the other view and contrasting with the otherwise pristine nature of the locomotive's paintwork are roughly painted 'SF's on each snowplough. While the repainting 3 months earlier was performed by Old Oak Common, the locomotive was transferred shortly afterwards to arch-rival Stratford. Perhaps the locomotive was seen as something of a b*stard child from Stratford's perspective?
The Brickpit in Homebush, Sydney, was once a clay quarry that supplied bricks for over a century before being transformed into a unique urban wetland. It is now a protected habitat for the endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog, with a distinctive elevated walkway allowing visitors to view the site without disturbing wildlife. The Brickpit is also known for its striking yellow-ringed walkway, which provides educational insights into the area’s industrial and ecological history.
Working at the coal face.... well clay face. 4wDM (AK 26/1988) is seen about to depart with its next load of clay to the Star Lane Brickworks at Great Wakering. The line was a little over half a mile in length operating to a new face east of the works established in November 1984. The railway lasted until October 1991 when it was replaced by road transport and sadly the works was closed in April 2005 to be replaced by an industrial estate. The brick pit has been landscaped and returned to farmland.
Ring Walk around the Brickpit 'pond' in Homebush Bay.
The 550m long circular walkway is 18.5 metres off the ground, and provided much entertainment for son1 on a rainy Australia Day.
Combination of 2 exposures.
Coal sector liveried 60090 'Quinag' approaches Brocklesby Junction with the 6D34 Tinsley Yard - Grimsby Brickpit Sidings. 13th June 1996.
Brickpit Walk
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