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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...
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Industrial Heartland The Coat of Arms of Footscray honours its relationship with industry with unmistakable symbols on the Coat of Arms that relate to local industry. The Written motto, ‘Et Industria’ means basically ‘with diligence’.(There is a factory with smoke...
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River People Maribyrnong River 2017 Bill Jennison Bill Jennison says he felt like the most privileged kid in Australia living down on the docks. There was so much to do and most of it was fun. Bill’s family lived there in the thirties when he was just a lad. He...
