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Yarra Falls Limited
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c. 1917 - 1972
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Yarra Falls Spinning Co Pty Ltd was founded between 1916-1917 by three UK textile manufacturers Sir Henry Whitehead, Mr Gates and Mr Hill. It was located it was Johnston Street Abbotsford. Its main business at that time was spinning, using machines and skilled labour which had come out from imported Yorkshire. During the 1920s Yarra Falls expanded its business and built a weaving mill in Trenerry Street in 1928 and its administrative complex in a nearby building in Johnston Street.
In 1972 they were taken over by Claude Neon Limited.
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Description added 27 Oct 2020
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Trove, https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1474862 (accessed 27 Oct 2020); Encyclopedia of Science, https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A001577b.htm (accessed 27 Oct 2020