Historical information
Four documents about the history of this site pre Classic Retirement Village:
1/A copy of a description of the sale process of the Gascor site, cnr Nepean Highway and Thomas Street, to Becton Corporation in 1997 And 1998. Printed on 31/07/2010 from the Victorian Auditor General’s Department website with aerial photograph
2/A copy of page one of the Gleneira Planning Scheme dated 19/01/2006 which mentions the Gascor site.
3/Research note by Andrew Frederick dated August 2010 listing occupiers of the site in the 1960 and the 1970 Sands and Mc Dougall Directories.
4/Research note by Claire Barton dated May 2010 containing Ian Swan’s recollections of working at Daylesford Worsted Woollen, occupier of the site, in the 1960s.
Subjects
- thomas street,
- brewer road,
- bentleigh,
- gascor,
- becton corporation pty ltd,
- virginia park,
- gas and fuel,
- hughesdale dairy,
- east boundary road,
- moorabin,
- east bentleigh,
- hooblerstone,
- clairmont avenue,
- glen eira,
- daylesford centenary woollen and worsted mills pty ltd.,
- nepean highway,
- f and j industries australia plastic and rubber division.,
- swan ian,
- korman stanley,
- mills,
- wool industry,
- weaving mills,
- textile factories,
- textile manufacturing,
- manufacturing industry
