Chimneys of Australia!

got around to scanning some of my thousands of photos.
this is why i fell in love with brick chimneys.
checkout the brickwork and craftmanship in this stack. can anyone guess location?

such a beautiful place. this enormous stack is in perfect condition as its NEVER been operational. and its over 106 years old.










^ heres a recent photo of above stack. its been intergrated into new housing estate.
anyone guess location yet?





Lead stack




View from top





50m newmarket brickworks, brisbane



this pic shows North daltonas Oil refinery located 10km west of melbourne CBD. i found out today main stack= 110m.
the other tall steel flue structure = 90m



cockatoo stack


loyyang b 260m



ive measured the power house stack at 36m/120ft tall. so big for its height
it rises at rear of carrington hotel.landmark in katoomba



lighting system is better then Eurekas.


Wednesday, 14 February 2007

Get swept up in Carrington's chimney-climb
By Jacqui Knox

It could be Katoomba's answer to Sydney Harbour's Bridge Climb: a torchlit scramble, a vertiginous view, and a gourmet lunch to finish.
The Carrington Hotel's chimney, which has dominated Katoomba's skyline since 1912, will open next month to commercial tourists wanting a unique view and a taste of the town's sooty history.

The tours are being run by the Carrington Hotel with adventure company River Deep, Mountain High whose staff have been doing some high altitude cleaning in recent weeks.

"It's absolutely amazing up there," says Craig Albery from River Deep, Mountain High.

"It has 360 degree views and you can see 50 to 70 kilometres on a clear day.

"It still retains the historical flavour - it's really hard to get it spotlessly clean."

The octagonal brown brick chimney was part of the power station that powered the whole of the Upper Mountains until the 1950s.

During World War II there were suggestions of knocking it down to prevent the Japanese using it as a navigational aid. It survived and in the late 1990s a peregrine falcon was regularly spotted on top.

Love it or hate it, the chimney is now heritage listed, and is the first sign of Katoomba when driving up the highway.

"It's a local landmark and we've already had significant interest," said Craig.

"It's something different, it's something novel. We want to open it up and see it on the tourist must-do list."

After making their booking, climbers will be given ropes training before donning head-torches to climb the inside of the 40 metre chimney and later abseil back down to lunch.

With just a few more small shrubs to remove, and a couple of new timbers to place, the first climb could happen "within weeks".

With training and lunch the tour will take around three hours and will cost $125.

And at over 1000 metres altitude Craig Albery says the attraction has an edge on Sydney's hugely successful Bridge Climb: "We are higher," he says.

"We're a bit `up-market', shall we say."

Can you guess how many bricks there are in the Carrington chimney?

The Carrington Hotel and River Deep, Mountain High are giving away a double pass for the climb to the person who comes up with the closest answer.

They've even given a hint to get you started: the chimney is six bricks thick.

Send your guess to "Chimney competition", Blue Mountains Gazette, PO Box 21, Springwood, 2777, before Friday, February 23.

Winners will be announced in the Blue Mountains Gazette on Wednesday, February 28.
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the nice 91ft stack at Kew lumatic asylum
adamd pic



from flickr
taken at Point Nepean Quarantine station music festival on weekend (60km south of Melb -as crow flies)
nice 1939 boiler chimney



Big old chimney at Alderley in Brisbane




yes, thats the 20m sewer stack on Corunna rd,stanmore.as part of the sydney south system which was built around turn of 20thC. Its located btween 2 houses.
Part of the sewer system which includes stacks at Arncliffe,tempe,Glebe ,lewisham.



heres the 26m stack at Arncliffe



premier st stack,MVille



impressive detailed 30m stack at Lewisham


rising right out of back yard


early 30m tall concrete sewer stack at Croydon (1922)



they dont get any bigger. the massive stack at Bondi!



30m stack at falcon st, North Sydney


of only 4 chimney stacks remaining in the CBD
The Alboin Place warehouse chimney.
nice 17m stack from 1875.


a chimney storey from last nite ABC


Former Mount Mulligan residents return home
Hundreds of people travelled to the former coal mining town of Mount Mulligan west of Cairns in far north Queensland over the weekend half a century after the mine closed.

Former residents came from across the country to once again look upon Mt Mulligan's sheer sandstone cliffs.

Denise, Shirely and Patricia Denman had not been back to see their childhood home in 50 years.

"We found our home. Cried when the chimney was lit up," one of the women said.

Mt Mulligan was the site of Queensland's worst mining disaster after a coal-dust explosion killed 75 men in 1921.
But former miner Joe Forrest says many people were distraught when the mine was closed in 1957 and the town dismantled.

"The people that were born here and lived here all their young lives, they didn't want to leave," he said.

The town's remains are now clearly visible after former residents cleared the rubber vine that was choking area.


Rydlemere uni campus
built-1893
i measured stack at 22m


cul, have you been able to find out what happened to that matraville chimney? it all seems so wrong, like something got snuck under the radar. after extensive searches, i haven't been able to find anything on the net about why it went but i did find the demolitian company that did it. if you suss out their website they destroy a lot of things! surely randwick council would have an answer for you!

Metropolitan Demolitions Group - CONCRETE VENT STACK



oh, the demo people may be/have demolished another chimney -

Metropolitan Demolitions Group - TOTALCARE MITCHELL CHIMNEY




a couple collected during recent armchair outback travels:
Nuccaleena, in Flinders Ranges, SA.




overview



lost track of the note for this one, but it is in Queensland, maybe around Mt Morgan, or the old Palmer goldfields





nearly 170 years old now, this is another view of one of the Cornish cottage chimney relics of the tragic Port Essington settlement on the Cobourg Peninsula, N.T. discussed on the outback ruins thread




i assume you've got this one, the 1869 Duke of Cornwall quartz battery and chimney on the Fryerstown- Chewton road in Central Victoria. My childhood home area, and for most of my life it looked like this NLA photo:



another view



in the past 10 years its undergone a kind of protective restoration. i posted this family visitors snap on a 'castlemaine' thread not long ago...





don't know the dimensions (15-20m?) but Richard Kitto (originally from Redruth Cornwall) purchased the site in 1867, issued a prospectus in 1868, and the works were built in 1869. It was unsuccessful, and closed in 1875.

these notes were on a Cornish heritage mining site:

"The "Duke of Cornwall" Engine House is located in Fryerstown along the Chewton Road and is on private property. Thus it can only be viewed from the road.

It was erected in 1869 by R. L. M. Kitto for the Australian United Gold Mining Company and was subsequently owned and operated by the Rowe family of Fryerstown (formally of Camborne, Cornwall).


It was modelled on the engine houses of the tin mines of Cornwall, however it was used to extract gold."

Also presume you've come across the site from which the (above) link was taken - with nice pictures of the chimneys and mine works from Moonta and Wallaroo SA down the middle of the page:

The Cornish Engine House



have all the cornish stacks. that Duke of Cornwall is excellent.ive estimated it at 50ft/15m.
thanks for link.
years ago i spent a while walking around old mine locations west of newcastle. great stuff out there.i measured many chimneys.
heres a pic of Paxton mine with 43mchimney and retort buildings



also there are fantastic mins relics out near Blue Mountains.

heres a chimney at Sunny Corner

1. The Beehive mine in Maldon, Central Victoria.







2. Bryant & May Matches, Richmond





Bit of info / history here

Originally Posted by CULWULLA

just found out a few more brick chimneys in suburban melbourne.
a friend from work drove past a stack at Fairfield. its on Heidleberg rd near Yarra bend park. it has letters PORTA running down side.after bit of research its an old tannery and was built 1925. probably 20m tall.
Another nearby in NMIT former hospital. which is 33m built 1917.
Also found another out at Charles Street, Coburg. Anyone live out there? i would love a pic. Apparently it has great brickwork ornate details.The landmark chimney (LINCOLN running down side)is to be saved while the adjacent Lincoln Mills are being demolished for new Bunnings.
old pic>

trennery cres stack far right


yes thats the original Pyrmont Incinerator.the 35m chimney was built in 1888 and pulled down in 1936 to make way for Burley Griffiths art deco concrete masterpiece/ which inturn was demolished in 1972 to make way for a meriton block.

old incinerator and new


so nice and neat on completion








the patterned concrete was exceptional. should of been rebuilt not bulldozed.


1977
looking horrible