Industry & Business
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The parcel of land immediately to the north of Westgarth Street Northcote was solid in 1837 to George...
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Drawing from a number of sources, including local newspapers and street directories, this history gives a...
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A. H. and W. Richardson were brothers who, in January 1888, founded the Northcote Leader and District Record....
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For over fifty years Arthur Adamson operated as a wine merchant in High Street Northcote. He started his...
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Agnes Glew and her husband George arrived in the colony of Victoria 1852. They immediately began a family....
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Alberto Sanguinetti arrived in Northcote in 1889 and established his paint and decorating store at 320 High...
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Alexander Marshall arrived in Victoria in 1853, making his living both as a carpenter and on the diggings....
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William Alexander opened his slaughter yards in Oakover Road Preston in 1896. Like all businesses located...
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Alfred Hurlston came from a milling family. His father Peter had managed a mill in Janefield. In 1856...
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Born in South Australia on 12 June 1852, Edmund Allchin arrived in Preston in 1890 with his wife Amelia and...
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Samuel Ramsden, a Yorkshire man, founded first paper mill in Victoria on the banks of the Yarra River. This...
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Under the management of William Cox the American Carriage Company made buggies, carriages and wagons for the...
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Horace and Edwin Bastings arrived in Victoria in 1849 and after a period on the goldfields, established...
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Benjamin Johnson (1865-1939) was one of Northcote’s early pioneers. He was born in the town about 1865, to...
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In January 1900 Sydney was terrified by an outbreak of bubonic plague. In May a case was reported in...
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Bullen’s Drain was a watercourse which ran down from Preston, along Oakover Road and then down the...
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Initial white settlement of the area occurred around 1837. The land was used for dairy farming by various...
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In 1879 Gottlieb Seeber set up a butcher's shop on the northwest corner of High Street and Regent Stree...
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Gioacchino and Domenico Carelli came out to Australia from Vizzini in Sicily in 1952. They were tailors and...
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German born Carl Oldenberg started his saddlery in High Street, South Preston in the early 1890s.
Around...
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Catherine Oliver arrived in Northcote about 1850, establishing the townships first butchers shop. By the...
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The Centenary Dairy in Alphington, started in 1934 when George and Agnes Cutts built a dairy and milk bar on...
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The first Chinese market gardens appeared in Northcote in 1887. The Chinese had arrived in Victoria in large...
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The discovery of high quality clay in Northcote and Preston in the 1860s led to a booming trade in clay pit...
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No. 215 St. Georges Road, Northcote represents the typical shop found on this road during the 1920s and 30s....
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In 1915 a combined corner store and home was built on the corner of Wales Street and Speight Street...
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No. 65 Jessie Street Preston began life as a normal double fronted Edwardian home but in 1921 a small shop...
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Sands & McDougall Street Directory first lists a dairy being operated out of 16 Dundas Street Thornbury...
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During the 1920s Preston had a strong dairy industry. The suburb was still largely undeveloped, especially...
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This curious photograph features a humorous moment arising from dairy farm work in Fairfield. A farmer is...
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Daley’s Dairy was established in 1934, by Frank Daley, on the corner of Collins Street and James Street,...
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Like neighbouring Brunswick, Darebin became a centre for quarrying. From small beginnings in the...
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The Doolan brothers arrived in Preston in 1848 and soon established a blacksmiths on the west side of Plenty...
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In May 2004 Joseph Brown (1918 - 2009) donated the major part of his collection of Australian art to the...
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During the inter-war period, a rise of car ownership led to the need for service stations throughout the...
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The Wood family arrived in Preston in 1850 well prepared for their new life. Equipped with household...
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Fern Confectionary Palace was opened in 1914 at 222 High Street Northcote. It was run by Mrs West and was...
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The Fitzroy Steam Brick Pipe Tile and Pottery Works was on Collier Street in Preston. The company was...
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Francis Watson established his blacksmith’s business on the corner of High Street and Robbs Parade in...
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Frank Arthur Harris was born in Melbourne in 1853 and died in 19??. Harris became prominent in Preston in...
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Frank Lanteri was a wine merchant who ran a successfulbusiness on High Street, Thornbury from around 1914 to...
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Fred Poole opened his coffee palace in 1891 only a block up from Mary Cunningham’s Coffee Haven at 77...
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In 1870 Frederick Walker (c.1820-1896) established the Preston Glue and Oil Manufacturing Works. Starting...
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Frederick Yann was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1840 before migrating to Australia. He first settled on the...
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The Beaufort was a twin-engine aircraft designed for torpedo or bomb carrying and produced by the Bristol...
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George Hatfield was a local businessman and strong promoter of youth movements in Preston. Born in Richmond...
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The first ironmonger/produce store at 795 High Street was established by A. Freeman in 1911. Four years...
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Gibson’s Paddock was the name given to an area of real estate in Northcote which was advertised for sale...
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In 1881 Harry John Ramus Gill arrived in Northcote and set up refreshment rooms on the west side of High...
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The Glen Iris Brick Company’s quarry and brickworks were located on St Georges Rd in Thornbury,...
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Around 1885 Thomas Standen established a grain store on the east side of Plenty Road just below Gower Street....
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H. R. Crapper was a local business man, active in Fairfield from the 1930s to the 1980s. As early as...
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The Hamilton Soap Company was established in Showers Street Preston around 1890 by Mr G. W. N. Hamilton. It...
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Joseph Harvey arrived in Preston around 1893/94 and established himself as a grocer on the west side of High...
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The McCrohan Hat Factory first opened in 1906 on the current site of 159-79 Heidelberg Rd Northcote. They...
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German born Heinrich Lehrke (1841-1935) arrived in the colony of Victoria in 1858. He spent many years gold...
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The tanning of animal hides and skins into leather was a major industry in Preston which began in the 1860s,...
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Horace Bastings was born in Islington, London in 1831 and arrived in Northcote either in the late 1840s or...
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Hubert Leslie Wood (1874-1940) was the third generation owner-operator of the General Store on High Street,...
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James Carruthers Hutton established a 3 storey bacon factory in Preston (off 59 High Street/Oakover Road) in...
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J. M. Howard established his small boot making business on the west side of Plenty Road in 1912. Near the...
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At 4 o’clock on the afternoon of 9 March 1921 Northcote’s High Street was shattered by the sound of three...
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James Lambert (1838-1914) was a Londoner who arrived in Victoria in 1852. Coming from a family of tanners,...
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Johann Gottleib Arndt was a pioneer of the Preston brick industry. A German born immigrant, his brickworks...
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John Howse established his butchers shop at 181 Plenty Road in 1893. Within a couple of years he was trading...
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John McNamara was born in Collingwood in 1859. He started his career at a oilcloth factory in Northcote...
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John P. Howe (1854 - 1917) established, in partnership with Sir Herbert Onley, the Howe & Co. Tannery in...
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Joshua Pitt was born in 1857, the son of George and Anne Pitt (nee Flashington). In 1886 he married Louisa...
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Kerryl Pottery was established at 53 Banbury Road, Reservoir after Premier Pottery Presrton closed its doors...
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During the early 1880s Kinsella’s farm on St. Georges Road was the site of one of the first tobacco farms in...
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Wine halls have a dubious history, often catering for the lost souls of the community, the alcoholics,...
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Mark Sharp established a business as a bootmaker at 394 (later renumbered 422) High Street Northcote in 1896....
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Mary Cunningham operated one of two coffee palaces which opened in Plenty Road Preston in 1891.
Coffee...
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From the early 1900s the Italian Government had been keen to alleviate the suffering of its poorer citizens...
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In 1922 S. K. Dixon established a flour manufacturing business in Eastman Street Northcote. By 1925 Dixon...
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The first chemist in Northcote was established on the corner of High Street and Separation Street Northcote...
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The Munro Bros Timber Merchants Northcote was established in 1892 before quickly receiving its first of many...
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The Myrl shoe factory was established in 1919 by Harold Hayden in Pender Street Thornbury.
In 1923 Hayden...
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William C. Neeland arrived in Northcote, aged only 18, from Euroa. He got a job working at Alfred Tharrat's...
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The Nelsons were living in Madeline Street (now the Carlton end of Swanston Street) in 1877 when their tenth...
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The Northcote Biscuit Company opened at 1 Bent Street Northcote in 1936/7. A building had been there since at...
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The Northcote Brickworks had its origins in 1866 when publican John Roberts discovered quality clay soil at...
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The Northcote Felt Hat Manufacturing Company started business on the south corner of Bridge Street and Merri...
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The Northcote Shoe factory began in a small building in Eastment Street. After expanding its business to...
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Started in 1897 by George Westmoreland, the Northcote Tile and Pottery Company remains in business today at...
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All Nations Park in Separation Street, Northcote is situated on a 13 hectare site with grassy play and picnic...
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Northland was originally built and owned by the Myer Emporium. When it opened for business on Tuesday 4th of...
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Oakover Road's origins stretch back to the early days of Preston's settlement, leading as it did to Oakover...
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Oliver Gilpin was a well known chain store proprietor in the early 1900s. Experienced in the drapers...
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Harry Gill had been operating a wine café in High Street for several years before S. Salinger opened his café...
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Norman Outram established his hairdressing business in High Street Thornbury in 1922. As was common in those...
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Sands and McDougall’s Melbourne and Suburban Directory 1864- 1974. [Microfiche]. (1974). Melbourne,...
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The Tomkins family were well known dairymen in the Thornbury area. S. G. Tomkins started his business at 40...
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In late October 1912 Percival Brewster aged 7 years, drowned at the Northcote Brickworks. The water's...
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The general store on the corner of Darebin Road and Salisbury Grove opened in 1890 with Mark Peters as the...
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Philip Gough was born in Ireland and arrived in Victoria in 1854. He found work as a farm hand. He prospered...
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The store at 625 High Street Regent was to see a relatively high turnover of owners during the first quarter...
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The Platypus Sporting Goods factory opened at 442A Plenty Road in 1957. For the next twenty eight years they...
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Plenty Motors opened its doors in 1925 and continued operating from the same site on the corner of High...
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Premier Pottery in Preston commenced in 1929 by friends David Dee and Reg Hawkins. Both men had had much...
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Construction on the Preston Market began in October 1969 when Preston Mayor W. K. Larkins drove home the...
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Arthur and his brother, Charles Sandland moved into Preston around 1911 and very soon established themselves...
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William Archibald Rhodes and Hugh Heron began their carriage works and motor repair in St. Georges Road in...
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Robert Broadhurst was born in Preston in 1884. His father, Thomas had established the Thos. Broadhurst...
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Robert Simpson started his wheelwright and blacksmithing business at 173 Plenty Road in 1886. J. T. Peters...
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Rona Street and the Rona Estate was named after a Dairy Farm situated on Spring Street, Preston.
In April...
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Thomas White established his saddlery at in a timber building at 759 High Street, Thornbury in 1887.
In...
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The first Chemist store in Northcote was established by a Mr. Turner who operated his business from a timber...
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Arriving in Preston in 1875 with his wife Anna (1844-1927), Samuel Bartett purchased seven acres of land on...
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Samuel White set up his boot making business in a small weatherboard building on the east side of High...
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Sargent’s Cakes at 40 Edwardes Street Reservoir was established in 1952 by James Percy G. Sargent and his son...
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Separation Street, Northcote came into existence in July 1851 when property owner Peter Macarthur sold a few...
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The first known shop in Northcote was an ironmongers operating from a tent and started by William Shade in...
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The first store in Preston was probably Woods general store on the corner of High Street and Wood Street. It...
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Sir Herbert Olney (1875 – 1957) was born in Ballarat in 1875, the eighth child of Charles Olney and Annie...
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The South Preston Patent Brick and Tile Company was formed in 1888 to develop a clay hole at the end of the...
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In the 1890s Paul Hardenack ran a tannery from 46 High Street South Preston. High Street has subsequently...
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Charles Stephenson opened his grocery store in Plenty Road, South Preston in 1903. In 1911 he moved to 357 -...
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Ernest W Mylius originally operated a soap manufacturing business in Adam Street, Richmond, until 1909 when...
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The Sutton Tool and Gauge Company opened its factory on corner of Union and Plant Streets in 1917. The...
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The Adams Quarry was located in Alphington, bordered by the Darebin Creek to the east and north, Yarana Rd to...
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Thomas Broadhurst was born in Windsor, Victoria in 1858. In 1874 he began working at Braithwaite's tannery in...
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In around 1863 Thomas King owned a bluestone building at 756-8 Heidelberg Road, Alphington. It was one of the...
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Thomas Weatherall (1835-1897) arrived in Victoria from the north of England in 1859 and pent ten years on the...
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Sands and McDougall’s Melbourne and Suburban Directory 1864- 1974. [Microfiche]. (1974). Melbourne,...
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Thomas Mason was a well known figure in the manufacturing trade between 1854 until his retirement in the late...
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On the morning of 5th January 1940 there was a break it at Twomey’s Garage at the back of 411 High Street...
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In 1903 Edward Fellowes established the Universal Carriage Works at 285 – 287 High Street, just across...
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The Vine Tree Hotel opened on Heidelberg Road in Alphington in 1868. It was probably located in a small...
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W. A. Tacey operated a wholesale butcher shop from 322 High Street from 1898 to 1909. Tacey had taken over...
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The W. J. Inglis store at 188 Plenty Road Preston was established in 1921 by William Inglis (1873- 1944), on...
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Walkerden Brickworks stared in Oakover Road in around 1890 under the general managership of John Walkerden....
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The factory was built in 1862 on the corner of Dundas Street and Plenty Road, Preston by 2 Scotsmen - William...
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Richard Weaver operated a grocery store in High Street, Northcote in the 1860s. It was located on the east...
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Robert Whalley (1816-1891) was working as a news vendor in Creswick when his wife Joan gave birth to twin...
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William Howe was the son of J. P. Howe, founder of the Howe & Co. Tannery in High Street Preston....
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William Inglis was the founder of a well known timber and hardware store on the corner of Plenty Rd and...
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William Madsen arrived in Victoria in 1878 and was a journeyman tanner before starting his own business in...
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The Paterson family arrived from Scotland in the early 1860s and in 1862 established a ham and bacon curing...
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After many years working with Frederick Yann, a prominant and successful Preston wheelwright and blacksmith,...
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When William Shade arrived in Northcote in 1848 the town was little more than a few scattered huts with High...
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Ward, Andrew (2001). Darebin Heritage Review 2000. Burwood, Vic: City Of Darebin.
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With William Patterson, Watson established the Watson and Paterson Bacon Curers factory on the corner of...
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The Wollert Dairy operated at 204 High Street Preston between the years 1936 and 1954. By 1955 the location...
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The Wood family was one of Preston’s pioneer families, arriving in the district in 1850 as part of a large...
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In 1892 Mr Caulfield established his wool scouring factory at what would later become 74 Oakover Road...
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