J. Hollway and Sons' Foundry
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Background
John Hollway and sons sheetmetal engineers was established in 1856. [1]
History
John Hollway was a tinsmith with a shop in Creswick Road according to the 1866 Ballarat Burgess Roll.
J. Hollway & Sons were tinsmiths operating from premises on Armstrong Street, Ballarat in 1887.[2]
Site
In the 1970 Sands and McDougall Directory of J. Hollway & Sons were listed as tinsmiths situated at 40 Armstrong Street North, Ballarat. They were still located there in 1967[3], but by the latter part of the 1900s the business moved to Wiltshire Lane.
Innovations
Community Involvement
Works Produced
Workplace Relations
The People
- Ballarat's Oldest Residents
- One question asked at a meeting of Ballarat Historical Society was: "Who is the oldest living miner in Ballarat?"
- Mr. N. F. Spielvogel (president) said that he was Mr. Joseph Oringe, Ligar street, who was 97 years of age. As a lad he was employed as a whim boy at Post Office mine, Ballarat East.
- Another question sought the identity of the oldest industry in Ballarat. This was stated to be Foord's bacon works, founded by John Foord in 1856 on its present site in Eureka street, opposite where Bentley's Hotel stood. That hotel was burned in sensational circumstances prior to Eureka.
- The second oldest firm was stated to bee that of John Hollway, tinsmith, Armstrong street, established in 1857.[4]
Robert Kerr (1), Traveller[5]
Legacies
See also
Recommended Reading
References
- ↑ The Courier Supplement, 10 June 1967, pg14.
- ↑ Rogers, J. W. F. (ed.). (c. 1887). The Australasian Federal Directory of Commerce, Trades & Professions. Melbourne: J. W. F. Rogers.
- ↑ The Courier Supplement, 10 June 1967, pg2.
- ↑ Port Pirrie Recorder, 21 October 1939.
- ↑ Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc Newsletter, No. 205, May 2020.