Historical information

Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic.) Sat 24 Aug 1935 Page 6 - 1800 Chickens Burnt.
Starting in the incubator room, a fire at the Ashleigh Poultry Farm, Whitehorse Road Blackburn, early on August 20, incinerated 1800 young chickens and 1000 eggs. The incubator room and the chicken pens were reduced to ashes, but a large drum of kerosene standing in the room was undamaged! The owners of the farm, Mrs N. Foote and her sons, have suffered a severe setback, as practically all their chickens and eggs are gone, and it is too late to start hatching again this season.

Physical description

Two maps mounted on green cardboard.
1. Ashleigh Poultry Farm - Layout of weatherboard house and six residential allotments on Whitehorse Road and Ashleigh Street (later Ashburn Place), Blackburn, Victoria.
2. 140 allotments with frontages on Deep Creek Road, Warnes Road, Range View Grove, Tarrangower Avenue, Prince Edward Avenue, James Avenue and White Horse Road, Mitcham, Victoria.