Historical information
Deer Park is named after a park for deer, established by the Melbourne Hunt Club in the late 1800s. The area was initially a rural district with large pastoral estates but its location on Kororoit Creek plus its relative isolation from Melbourne, meant it was ideal for the establishment of Melbourne's first explosives factory in the 1870s. These explosives were used initially in the gold mines in Bendigo and Ballarat and then for ammunition in the World Wars.
Although some factories remain in Deer Park, the area is now primarily residential
Physical description
Audio tape
This tape has not been digitised due to the poor-quality recording.
Inscriptions & markings
Deer Park History 2003
An afternoon at The Hunt Club
