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Garravembi Press, Publishers and Bookbinders.

Other Name

The Express,

Location

8 Gisborne Road BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

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Statement of Significance

An early brick. partly two-storey. newspaper printing works and publishing office, the earliest section (identified on the accompanying plan) built in l 865. Here was published the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper ( 1866- 1970).

Through its forceful and intelligent editor (until 19 15) and part proprietor, Christopher Crisp, The Express was influential on Alfred Deakin and the Australian Federation movement at the end of the nineteenth century. This is one of a group of three buildings associated with the newspaper (also refs:192 & 194). It contains two presses, a printing machine and a collection of old type blocks.

The building is of state historical significance for its association with the Express, with Crisp and with the development of newspaper publishing and printing in the Community life of Victoria. It is also of Slate historical significance as a rare surviving representative embodiment of the newspaper industry in the late nineteenth century in Victoria. It is finally of social significance as known and valued by the community as pan of its sense of identity of the place and as an embodiment of a sequence of varied approches to conservation action, over twenty-five years.

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