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Australian Sugar Company's Works, Canterbury c1842

Australian Sugar Company's Works, Canterbury c1842

By

Frederick Garling

From the collection of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a128247 / DG SV1A/13]

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Bark huts and country estates Canterbury Sugarworks Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd Damming the Cooks River

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Australasian Sugar Company Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd

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Garling, Frederick

State Library of New South Wales

Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd

Founded in 1855, CSR had refineries in Canterbury, Chippendale, Pyrmont and later around Australia. It became a large and influential industrial company, with city offices and diversified business interests.

Canterbury Sugarworks

As the earliest surviving element of the Australian sugar industry, the Sugarworks has endured a variety of industrial uses to become an intrinsic part of Canterbury's heritage.

Bark huts and country estates

In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements'

Damming the Cooks River

Once considered 'the greatest boon ever conferred upon the town', the Cooks River dam became an endless source of environmental blight and misery to Sydneysiders and by the turn of the century was demolished

Industrial building

Manufacturing

Food processing

Australasian Sugar Company

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Early sugar producer, with factories at Canterbury and in central Sydney from 1842.

Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd

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Sugar refining company whose factories left a mark on many areas of Sydney and which later diversified into building materials and aluminium.

Canterbury

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Inner-western suburb bisected by the Cooks River which was a hub of industry during the nineteenth century. The area's first land grant was to the Rev. Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, who named it as a tribute to Canterbury in England.

Canterbury Sugarworks

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One of the oldest factory complexes in Australia, the site in Sugar House Road Canterbury has housed a variety of manufacturing and processing companies including sugar, bacon and engineering before conversion to residential apartments.