Sunnyside Wool Scour includes Humble & Son Wool Scouring Plant including interior

The area downstream from the Breakwater was the earliest major industrial area of Geelong, being developed from the 1840's onwards predominantly with wool scours, fellmongers, tanneries and boiling down works. The wool industries of Geelong came to have national importance until after world war, as a wool processing and manufacturing centre. The Sunnyside Wool Scour, incorporating components of buildings and equipment from throughout its period of operation, remains as the only intact complex downstream of the Breakwater. The full range of equipment including the soaking tanks, sweat house, locally manufactured scour and press, survive. The site is of outstanding importance to the industrial and technological history of Geelong and Victoria.

Geelong Regional Commission Register

Historic Buildings Council Register

Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register

Smith W - "The Break" privately produce film.

Smith, W - Unpublished Research Notes and personal communication.

Historically, a small remnant of the early fellmongery works which led to the industrial developments of South Geelong and the continued prosperity from wool-oriented industry.

EXTERNALLY INTEGRITY: - The complex is all but gone with the exception of the earliest basalt section.

STREETSCAPE: - Visually connected to the adjacent Sunnyside complex, this site to be redeveloped.

Group

Manufacturing and Processing

Category

Other - Manufacturing & Processing