Identity area
Reference code
AU NBAC P10-334
Title
Yarra Falls Ltd
Date(s)
- 1924 - 1971 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
(c. 1917 - 1972)
Administrative history
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.