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Photograph - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs, Ken Irwin, 18th May 1990

  • 6814.01 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

  • 6814.02 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

  • 6814.03 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

  • 6814.04 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

  • 6814.05 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

  • 6814.06 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

  • 6814.07 - John Darling And Sons Flour Mill Sydney Street Albion 1990 Photographs

Negative (collection) - Sunshine Advocate Negative Collection

Historical information

These photographs, taken by The Advocate newspaper in 1990, show the former John Darling & Son Flour Mill, now owned by Goodman Fielder, approximately twelve months after its closure.

With the mill’s future uncertain, the site has been added to the Victoria's State Register of Historic Buildings.

In 1990, the mill and silos were getting ready to be put up for sale.

Significance

John Darling & Son Flour Mill in Albion is one of the most important industrial heritage sites in Melbourne’s west, a rare, largely intact example of a major early‑20th‑century roller flour mill, and a cornerstone of Sunshine’s transformation into a planned “garden industrial suburb.”

These photographs capture the John Darling & Son Flour Mills when they had the stainless-steel silos which have been subsequently demolished. They also capture the Albion Railway Station and its carpark.

Physical description

Digital scans of black and white negatives

Inscriptions & markings

John Darling Flour Mills Albion 36.1

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