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Canterbury NSW (including JC Hutton Pty Ltd, Ham & Bacon Curers) c1915

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Broadhurst Post Card Publishers
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a105124 / PXA 635,123]
(Mitchell LIbrary)

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Canterbury Sugarworks Damming the Cooks River Industry in the Cooks River valley
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Food processing Industrial building
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Canterbury Canterbury Sugarworks
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J C Hutton Pty Ltd

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State Library of New South Wales

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.

Industry in the Cooks River valley

As industry took hold in Cooks River valley, pollution and drainage became entrenched problems accompanied by flooding and public health concerns.

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

Food processing

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.

J C Hutton Pty Ltd

Smallgoods and curing manufacturing company established by James Carruthers Hutton in Melbourne in 1873.

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