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	Former Newport Workshops 2-78 Champion Road,, NEWPORT VIC 3015 - Property No B4019	Built in 1884-88 at the height of the long boom, the Newport Railway Workshops were the largest industrial concern in the colony of Victoria, then the industrial centre of Australia. They are one of only two operating nineteenth-century work-shops in Australia retaining original structures and equipment on a large scale. The magnitude and variety of industrial processes, trade skills practised at this site and the extensive collection of working machinery qualifies the Newport ... more	B4019	State
	Former Post Office Newport TAFE 1 Parker Street & Cnr Cole Street,, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B2737	The oldest Post Office building in Victoria and was, at the time of its erection, one of the largest and most important, as it was the centre of the Maritime mail. Built in 1859 to a Public Works Department design, it was a simple, slate-roofed, two-storey stone structure with stucco facades and with a single-storey verandah facing Hobsons Bay. The first floor provided living quarters for the Postmaster; the ground floor contained kitchen and mail room. Extensions in 1895 ... more	B2737	Local

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Former Newport Workshops

2-78 Champion Road,, NEWPORT VIC 3015 - Property No B4019

Built in 1884-88 at the height of the long boom, the Newport Railway Workshops were the largest industrial concern in the colony of Victoria, then the industrial centre of Australia. They are one of only two operating nineteenth-century work-shops in Australia retaining original structures and equipment on a large scale. The magnitude and variety of industrial processes, trade skills practised at this site and the extensive collection of working machinery qualifies the Newport ... more

B4019

State

Former Post Office

Newport TAFE

1 Parker Street & Cnr Cole Street,, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B2737

The oldest Post Office building in Victoria and was, at the time of its erection, one of the largest and most important, as it was the centre of the Maritime mail. Built in 1859 to a Public Works Department design, it was a simple, slate-roofed, two-storey stone structure with stucco facades and with a single-storey verandah facing Hobsons Bay. The first floor provided living quarters for the Postmaster; the ground floor contained kitchen and mail room. Extensions in 1895 ... more

B2737

Local