Talk:Brickfielder

"southern Australia" ? incorrect?

Article says "southern Australia" but I can only find 1 instance (in 1915) of the term being applied in Perth (which is in southern Australia). Additionally "brickfielder"'s use is implied to be restricted to Sydney in this newspaper article; WHY doesn't Melbourne have a name for its hot northerly summer wind? Perth has the Fremantle Doctor, Sydney the Southerly Buster and Los Angeles the hot Santa Ana, so why not Melbourne's hot summer northerly? This is the question being posed by the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. AMOS is launching a public competition to name the blistering breeze that afflicts Melbourne and its surrounding regions for several days each year, often causing the hottest of Melbourne’s summer temperatures. "It is unusual that Melbourne doesn’t have a name for this wind," AMOS president Prof Neville Nicholls of Monash University said. "Many other locations worldwide have names for such winds, like the hot Santa Ana that affects Los Angeles. Sydney has a named wind: the southerly burster (or buster) for instance, and, in the old days they had their own name for their hot winds – the "brickfielder". "This name has also been used in the past for hot winds occurring across all of southern Australia, but it certainly hasn’t caught on with the general public here." AMOS is challenging Melburnians to come up with a name that is both easy to remember and descriptive. http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/article/2010/11/12/259271_latest-news.html

Additionally, the SMH 1896, gives alternate meanings to the one given in the article; BRICKFIELDER. We have received some communications from correspondents in answer to one inquiry by Professor Morris, of Melbourne University, in his letter to the Herald of Tuesday about the words " brickfielder " and " brumby " Mr. Robert C Gilmour explains that in Adelaide, as at one time in Sydney, the word ' brickfielder " was applied to a violent wind, which may be hot as in Adelaide or cool as in Sydney, but which blows to the city from the districts where bricks are made, and accordingly brings with it quantities of dust, whence its name. Mr Lovegrove writes as follows -"Mr Morris may treat this word as extinct owing to the improvements in Sydney. When I arrived in 1852 the word was applied to the southerly-burster, hot or cold, whIch, sweeping down the grassless slope about Brickfield Hill, became charged with yellow dust, and being further added to in its course along unpaved and irregular George-street and Pitt-street, reached the Circular Quay as a blinding yellow storm equal to a London fog, plus wind and clay and sand. A fine vessel lying out in the stream, midway between Dawes Point and Milson's Point, had just employed her crew in repainting the ship from truck to water line. She was completely spoilt by the ' bnick- fielder,' and the captain informed me he would never try to paint again in Sydney Harbour. Brickfield Hill is now covered with houses and the streets are paved, including the footpaths, hence the disappearance of ' brickfielders ' " http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14060375 124.148.162.51 (talk) 05:18, 11 January 2013 (UTC)