Historical information
Depicts the woollen spinning room from one of the Godfrey Hirst mills in 1966. In 1966 McKendrick Consolidated Industries Ltd purchased Godfrey Hirst Ltd to operate a carpet manufacturing company and this photo was taken at the time of the takeover.
Physical description
Photograph, black and white. Depicts a room filled with horizontal spinning machinery, powered by drive shafts. There are cases and skips in the foreground.
Inscriptions & markings
Proof IAN HAWTHORNE / PHOTOGRAPHER / Commercial, Portrait, Wedding, Colour Processor / Upstairs, 140 Moorabool St., Geelong Ph. 98096
