1922 New Gibsonia Mill - Cambridge St., from South

ID: 21121
Photographer: William Sadler, 214 Russell Street, Melbourne
Copyright: library owns image (image on public access)
Org ID: CL PIC 775

Description: The most recent Foy & Gibson factory which extends from Cambridge Street to Wellington Street. In the distance, buildings on the north side of Stanley Street, (now demolished)are visible. This is one of 30 photos in an album prepared for the firm in 1921 or 1922. On the cover is embossed in gold lettering: Foy & Gibson Pty. Ltd., Melbourne. Gibsonia Woollen Mills, exterior views. Handwritten inside the cover is 'James Wood, March 1922'. After commencing in 1883 with a shop in Smith Street, the first of the Foy & Gibson warehouse/manufactories in Oxford Street was built by 1895, to the design of William Pitt, architect and Collingwood councillor. From this time until the 1920s, the entire block bounded by Smith, Wellington, Peel and Stanley Streets, previously occupied by houses, small factories and hotels, was to undergo a transformation into an industrial landscape of woollen mills, clothing manufacture, hosiery, bedding, metal goods and cabinet manufacture on a scale unprecedented in Melbourne at the time. James Wood was the firm's accountant.
Subject: woollen mills

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