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Lanes and Other Remains A lane running up the side of the Footscray Community Art Centre from Maribyrnong Street Most of us can tell an old building from a new one and with a smattering of experience might even be able to say roughly when it was built. However, there...
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Bridges First road bridge across the Maribyrnong River at Hopkin’s Street built in 1863. River crossings are always an issue in early settlements of this nature. The problem was first dealt with by a system of punts and ferries, which operated under special licences....
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Railways Construction of the Bunbury Street Railway Tunnel in 1928 Train coming out of Footscray Railway Station on the main line built in 1859 The first bridge over the Maribyrnong in this area was a railway bridge, not a road bridge, just a little north of the...
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Pubs Renata Slusarski, proprietor of Big Fish, in the workshop at 47 Moreland StreetThe Ship Inn Hotel, formerly on the corner of Maribyrnong Street and Bunbury Street ‘The rollicking waterfront with the sailors of the seven seas making merry at the closely...
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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...
