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Sydney, Australia - April 29, 2014: A forklift lifts a shipping container off the back of a truck at a yard in Port Botany.
Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.
Norimbergae : Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London.
London.Printed for the Royal Horticultural Society by Spottiswoode & Co.
CANAL MILL WAS BUILT IN 1855 ALONGSIDE THE LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL, WHEN LANCASHIRE COTTON INDUSTRY WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF COTTON MANUFACTURING. THE MILL OPENED IN 1856 AND WAS BUILT FOR RICHARD SMETHURST A PIONEER IN THE CHORLEY COTTON INDUSTRY.
AFTER RICHARD SMETHURST’S DEATH IN 1860, THE MILL WAS SOLD TO WILLIAM AND CHARLES WIDOWS WHO WERE BUSINESS ASSOCIATES OF THE SMETHURST’S FAMILY. IN THE EARLY 1860’S DISASTER STRUCK THE LANCASHIRE COTTON INDUSTRY WHEN “THE COTTON FAMINE”, WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, MEANT THAT SUPPLIES OF RAW COTTON WERE NOT REACHING THE LANCASHIRE MILLS, IT APPEARS CANAL MILL WAS NO EXCEPTION AS IT CEASED PRODUCTION IN 1861.
VARIOUS FAMILY BUSINESSES BOUGHT AND MANAGED TO KEEP THE MILL UP AND RUNNING TO MANUFACTURE VARIOUS COTTON GOODS UNTIL EVENTUALLY IN THE VERY LATE 1950’S THE MILL EVENTUALLY CLOSED DOWN DUE TO A GENERAL DECLINE OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
IN 1968 PLANNING PERMISSION WAS GIVEN TO USE THE MILL FOR TRUCK AND VEHICLE REPAIRS AND THE BUILDING WAS SOLD TO GILBRAITHS COMMERCIAL LIMITED. GILBRAITHS EXTENDED THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTING A WORKSHOP FOR TRUCKS REPAIRS.
IN 1969 WORK BEGAN TO CONSTRUCT THE M61 MOTORWAY, FOLLOWED BY THE BUILDING OF CHORLEY NORTH INDUSTRIAL ESTATE IN 1972. IN 1991 GILBRAITHS STARTED TO SCALE DOWN THEIR OPERATIONS. IN FEBRUARY 1992 PLANNING PERMISSION WAS APPLIED FOR TO TURN THE MILL INTO A “THEMED VISITOR ATTRACTION” TO SUIT ALL AGES.
IN 1994 TIM KNOWLES A LOCAL PIONEERING BUSINESSMAN, PURCHASED THE MILL AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED AND RESTORED THE BUILDING AT A COST OF NINE MILLION POUNDS. BOTANY BAY VILLAGES WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED ON THE 1ST DECEMBER 1995.
Herbarium Blackwellianum emendatum et auctum, id est, Elisabethae Blackwell collectio stirpium.
Norimbergae : Typis Io. Iosephi Fleischmanni, 1750-1773..
Chelmsford Avenue, the terminus cut back on the Botany tram line.
Last footboard tram tour of Coogee & Botany tram lines.
Taken by Peter Sage and uploaded with his permission. Kodachrome slide PS05
Botany Bay is a stunning beach that lies between Margate and Broadstairs. Golden sand, rockpools and chalkcliffs.
442s2 departs Botany Yard with a container trip train bound for Leightonfield, operated by South Spur Rail Services.
If some of these photos look familiar, they probably are - I'm organising my photos from 2008, and taking the oppertunity to rework some of them and either upload for the first time, or replace older photos.