#bricked in

[vanishingsydney]

Church hall, 1920's vintage, with oddly bricked in and altered windows, replacing what might have once been stained glass. Marrickville.

[theseasonedeye]

Hidden in the Wall

[vanishingsydney]

Cup and Saucer Creek. Natural watercourse that was bricked-in for flood mitigation as a job creation project during the 1930's Great Depression, becoming a polluted drain. Earlwood.

[vanishingsydney]

Absolute shocker. Bricked-in facade of what was probably a late Victorian-era lodging house (c.1884-89) to create extra flats in what is now an apartment building. Only the very top of the original facade survives and is mostly obscured from view at street level. Obviously added-on well before heritage regulations became a thing in the planning approval process. Just plain awful. Camperdown.

[allupinmygrille]

Via @hpstorian on twitter who is in Massachusetts. I have no idea what’s going on here. Presumably this was once a window to a basement, protected from collisions with a decorative grille.

Obviously it is now bricked up (badly) and the grille has been reinstated (badly). There’s an indication that it’s not even the original grille—note that there’s shadow of fixings on the left and right sides.

This is a bad grille.

[lordofthenorth-blog]

My newest attempt to get Threadless to give me money. I hope it works.