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Board 7: The Back Gate All animals leaving the Saleyards passed through the ‘Back Gate’, in order to cross Epsom Road on their way either to the City Abattoirs, Angliss Meatworks or further afield. In 1911, the Underpass was built and a Melbourne City employee worked...
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Board 6: Going, Going, Gone The Newmarket Saleyards operated on a system of public auction. At 8:00 a.m., the bell signalling the start of the day’s sales rang, and the Conditions of Sale or ‘Prayers’ were read out. The auctioneer, the stock clerks who recorded and...
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Board 5: On the Hoof During the 126 years the Yards operated, cattle and sheep of all breeds came from near and far. They came on foot from as near as Keilor and from as far away as Queensland and the Northern Territory accompanied by drovers on horseback with their...
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Board 4: World’s Largest Buying and selling, supply and demand, owners, buyers, auctioneers, cattle and sheep, horses and dogs, spectators, battlers, S.P. bookies, punters and kids. Newmarket was the sound of the country in the city. It was a meeting place, a...
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Board 3: Lord Mayor’s Message The Newmarket Saleyards operated for more than a century on the corner of Smithfield Road and Racecourse Road until they were closed in 1987 and transformed into a housing estate called the Lynch’s Bridge Project, with a population...
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Board 2: The Lynch’s Bridge Project This History Trail is about a market place – a place where livestock and money changed hands, a meeting place where city and country met, a work place. It was the everyday life of thousands of people in its time and...
