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Watson & Paterson Former Bacon-Curing Factory

Location

Cnr. Dundas Street and Plenty Road PRESTON, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #3

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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City of Darebin Heritage
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City of Darebin Heritage

Statement of Significance

The former Watson and Paterson bacon-curing factory is of historical significance in the metropolitan context.

The Watson and Paterson bacon-curing factory, established in 1862, may have been the first such works in Victoria. The existing buildings, dating from c1900 and the 1920s and still used for smallgoods manufacture, appear to be the last remnant of an important nineteenth century industry in what was then the rural district of Preston. Preston was a centre of pig farming from the 1860s and was the location of several bacon and ham curing works, including that established in 1875 by J C Hutton, later to become one of Melbourne's largest smallgoods manufacturers.

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