Showing posts with label Cora Lynn Cheese Factory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cora Lynn Cheese Factory. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Cora Lynn October 20, 1937

These are State River and Water Supply Commission photographs taken on October 20, 1937 during the flood, at Cora Lynn.


State Rivers & Water Supply Commission photograph KD 0438

This shows the Cora Lynn Hall, Keast Hall, named after William Keast (1866-1927). Keast was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the area from 1900 to 1917.  It was to have been officially opened on June 13, 1911 however it had three feet of water through it, according to an article in The Argus of June 14, 1911 (see below). The Hall was then officially opened in early August. The Hall closed in the 1980s.


Report of the abandoned opening.


State Rivers & Water Supply Commission photograph KD 0436



State Rivers & Water Supply Commission photograph KD 0439

 The Cora Lynn Store and the E.S.& A Bank. I am not sure when the Bank opened. There was a London Bank (later taken over by the E.S & A bank) in Garfield from 1905 and by 1908 there were Agencies at Koo-Wee-Rup, Iona and Tynong, so I suspect it was around this time. In the 1950s it was staffed about a morning a week and closed in the early 1960s. The Cora Lynn State School, No. 3502,  is in the background, at the right. It opened January 1, 1907 and closed on May 29, 1951. The students and building were transferred to the Pakenham Consolidated school.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Cora Lynn Cheese Factory

The Cheese Factory at Cora Lynn is  a prominent landmark, and as you can see by the date on the factory, it was established in 1910. This photograph was taken in 1998 and it has since been refurbished. I have tried to find out the exact date of the opening, but can only conclude from the following newspaper reports that it was either December 1910 or January 1911. The factory was extended in the 1930s and in 1932 had around 500 regular suppliers, however it was closed in the late 1940s. 


The Argus Wednesday, August 3 1910 page 6

Tenders were accepted in October 1910 to build the factory.
 
The Argus Saturday, October 15 1910 page 20
  
The Factory was under construction in December 1910.

Berwick Shire News   Wednesday, December 7, 1910.

The factory had just been completed in January 1911.



The Argus, Tuesday January 31, 1911 page 6.
From Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper