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| Early photo of Doncaster orchard region (SLV) |
Early settlement.
When settlers arrived in the Blackburn area in
the 1840s they found it to be thickly wooded and inhospitable.but many made a
modest living by establishing orchards and small farms.
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| Doncaster - loading cherries for packing shed (Australasian Dee 22 1906) |
1882
The Blackburn Railway Station opened.
1918
Local
orchardists built a cool-store in Doncaster
1932
Doncaster growers formed the Southern Victorian Pear Packing Pty. Ltd., to
organise and standardise the export of pears and apples to the United Kingdom
and Europe.
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The Coop.purchased the Blackburn Case Making Pty Ltd business and it became the
Blue Moon Fruit Co-operative Limited. This was located at what is now 11 Solwood Lane, Blackburn (site now occupied by Maddocks Sports Manufacturer) with facilities for storage, fruit packing,
manufacture of cases, and the sale of spray materials and other orchard
supplies. It backed on to the railway line, opposite present-day Morton Park.
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| Image from Weekly Times, August 14.1937 |
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The former factory, looking east towards Mitcham. The photo, from "Places in Victoria" is dated 2003.The words" Blue Moon Fruit Coop" are visible on the near wall.
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| Former Blue Moon factory, looking east in 2007 |
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| Box Hill to Ringwood Rait Trail, April 2020, looking east from Morton Park |
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| Former Blue Moon building, March 2020. Original signage still visible left centre. |
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| Original signage, 2003 photo enlargement (from "'Places in Victoria") |
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| Former Blue Moon building - now Maddocks Sports (Google 2020) |
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| Blue Moon factory - aerial photo of 1945 (Whitehorse Digital Maps) |
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Solwood Lane (Blackburn Central business area) (Google 2019)
Note: This is an article in the series "Victorian Pictorial Heritage", published April, 2020, author Bob Padula OAM.
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