Henry Hunt's phone has never blown up with messages quite like it did when he raised the bat this week.
Times Past
Things might've ended up quite differently for the third little pig if he'd bought bricks from Canberra in 1957. The Department of the Interior was in on an urgent recall on this day in 1957, looking for about 45,000 defective bricks that had been sent out to building sites. A new clay pit had recently been opened at the brickworks and it turned out the quantity of lime in the bricks meant they were susceptible to expanding and breaking up when wet. Hardly ideal for the famously sturdy material. A Canberra businessman had "pointed to a crumbled stack of what he described as 'beautiful' bricks" and described how they expanded in the wet and burst. READ MORE
