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Brickworks, Christchurch

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Brickworks, Christchurch

Brick production was mechanised but the product was still moved in hand barrows when Reece Brothers brickworks in Christchurch was photographed in the early 20th century. Small brickworks like this were built wherever there was a suitable supply of clay and a market for the bricks.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)

Reference: 1/1-005101-G

by Steffano Francis Webb

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ian Hunter, Workshop industries – The first New Zealand workshops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26024/brickworks-christchurch (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian Hunter, published 26 February 2010.