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New Business’s Renata Slusarski, proprietor of Big Fish, in the workshop at 47 Moreland Street Most of the original businesses have left years ago, although CSR is still shipping sugar locally. Many of the large industrial sites have been converted to...
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Port Phillip Mills Work at Port Phillip Mills on bales of wool Port Phillip Mills is an example of the type of large scale industry to be found here on the wharves. It was built in 1920 over an old quarry. Wool was brought to Port Phillip Mills in bales then sorted...
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Tannery The Michaelis Hallenstein Tannery in 1879 The unremarkable group of townhouses and flats on the corner of Hopkins Street and Moreland Street, Footscray, replaced what was once one of Footscray’s and Australia’s largest establishments, the...
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Ship Building The ship called ‘The Lady Loch’ built in 1885 by a company called Campbell, Sloss and McCann.The Lady Lock was 182 feet long, 487 tons (registered tonnage) and cost 24,000 pounds to build. A shipbuilding industry was so busy on the banks of the...
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Piggery Painting by S.T. Gill of Henderson House and the activity on the wharves in 1873 Henderson House, Henderson’s Piggery or simply just the Piggery, as it is still affectionately called, has been described as the jewel in the crown of the current...
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Bluestone The Victorian Volcanic Plains. (Image courtesy of ‘Volcano Dreaming’.) The Victorian Volcanic Plains begin at the Maribyrnong River and stretch across western Victoria and beyond the state border with South Australia. Bluestone rock, otherwise...
