This image shows the demolition of the chimney stacks at the Judd Street, Mortdale Brickworks, in 1973. Courtesy of the Facebook page 'I Grew Up in Mortdale'.
Who was Judd ?
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234985920
The stacks collapsed exactly where they were supposed to, it seems. Was this another triumph for Wheelan the Wrecker?
What Oatley/Mortdale lad did not ride his bike in and out of the old brickworks quarry and other holes and declivities there, fish for tadpoles, and generally explore that site, and like so many of us in those days, escape without injury ?
What took the place of the brickworks was at first the Alexander Mackie Teachers' College, which then became a CAE, and then George's River Senior School, or College, I think. The Wyndham Scheme, only a few decades late...
