Wyong Produce Store Heritage Assessment Prepared by AMBS Ecology & Heritage for CCHD FINAL REPORT July 2016 AMBS Reference: 15254 AMBS Ecology & Heritage www.ambs.com.au [email protected] 02 9518 4489 Wyong Produce Store Heritage Assessment Document Information AMBS Ecology & Heritage 2016, Wyong Produce Store Heritage Citation: Assessment. Consultancy report to [add client name]. AMBS Ref: 15254 Version 1: Draft Report issued May 2016 Version 2: Report issued June 2016 Versions: Version 3: Report issued June 2016 Version 4: Final report issued July 2016 Adam Hillard Recipient: Senior Civil Designer CCHD Pty Ltd Jennie Lindbergh, Approved by: Director historic Heritage AMBS Ecology & Heritage AMBS Ecology & Heritage II Wyong Produce Store Heritage Assessment Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1 The Proposal .......................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Methodology.......................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Authorship ............................................................................................................................. 2 2 Historic Context ................................................................................................. 3 2.1 Early Settlement of Wyong .................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Timber-Getting ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.3 The Coming of the Railway and Establishment of Wyong Township .................................... 8 2.4 The Timber Industry and the Saw Mill at Wyong ................................................................ 10 2.5 Mixed Farming and Dairy Industries .................................................................................... 12 2.6 D’Arcy Rose’s Produce Factory ............................................................................................ 14 2.7 The Present Day ................................................................................................................... 17 3 Analysis of the former Produce Store ................................................................ 19 3.1 The Warehouses .................................................................................................................. 20 3.2 Railway Siding & Weighbridge ............................................................................................. 24 3.3 Discussion ............................................................................................................................ 26 4 Assessment of Significance ................................................................................ 29 4.1 Assessment against Criteria ................................................................................................. 29 4.2 Statement of Significance .................................................................................................... 30 5 Conclusion & Recommendations ....................................................................... 32 5.1 LA Group .............................................................................................................................. 32 5.2 Heritage Significance of the Produce Store Group .............................................................. 33 5.3 The Physical Condition & Integrity of the Produce Store Group ......................................... 33 5.4 Alternatives Considered ....................................................................................................... 34 5.5 Recommendations ............................................................................................................... 35 Bibliography ............................................................................................................ 37 Tables Table 1 Relative significance of the elements associated with the former Produce Store ................ 31 Figures Figure 1.1 The local environment of the former Produce Store (https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/). ....... 1 Figure 1.2 The car park design showing the footprint of the existing car park and the proposed extension along Howarth and Rose streets (Jackson Teece). ....................................................... 2 Figure 2.1 Early parish map of Munmorah (1940, map 108756), showing land owned by William Cape and his son William Timothy Cape. William Alison later purchased land in the vicinity of the study area. ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Figure 2.2 Detail of This Map of the Colony of New South Wales, 1837, by Robert Dixon, engraved by J.C. Walker, showing the first land grants and bullock tracks in the Wyong area (Source: National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm831). .............................................................. 4 Figure 2.3 Oil painting by Conrad Martens, 1848, titled Bush Scene Brisbane Water (http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemLarge.aspx?itemID=866997). ............................................ 6 Figure 2.4 A sleeper-getting team cutting sleepers from a substantial gum, Wyong district, c.1909 (Source: Gosford City Council Library 001\001567). ..................................................................... 7 Figure 2.5 Undated photograph of bullock and horse timber teams on the Central Coast area (The Harry Lindner Collection https://uoncc.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/the-harry-lindner- collection/). ................................................................................................................................... 7 Figure 2.6 Frederick Carson standing on the running board of one of his trucks transporting turpentine piles and girders (The Harry Lindner Collection https://uoncc.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/the-harry-lindner-collection/). ................................ 8 AMBS Ecology & Heritage III Wyong Produce Store Heritage Assessment Figure 2.7 Plan of Wyong railway station in 1899, with the siding to O’Neil and Goldsmith’s Saw Mill (Singleton 1965:217). .................................................................................................................... 8 Figure 2.8 An 1886 survey for a proposed subdivision of the Wyong Gosford Estate, to the west of Wyong and which did not however, eventuate. The (Wyong Historic Subdivision Plans S601522014, http://www.picturewyong.com.au/cdm/singleitem/collection/p20041coll4/id/31/rec/41). ..... 9 Figure 2.9 Detail from a layout plan of Wyong railway and station dated 19.2.32. The Mill Siding, presumably extending to the mill at the present day Racing Ground is indicated in red. The siding passes the ‘Fruit Packing Shed’ on the westside of Howarth Street and the Produce Store is not indicated (Sydney Trains Plan 0059830_00C). ............................................................................ 11 Figure 2.10 Squared turpentine beams on a railway wagon, Wyong railway yard, c. 1909 (Source: Gosford City Council Library 000\000973). ................................................................................. 11 Figure 2.11 Photograph dated c.1904, looking south along the rail yard of timber being loaded onto rail trucks (Wyong Library – Picture Wyong image No. S482011012 http://www.picturewyong.com.au/cdm/singleitem/collection/p20041coll6/id/2/rec/1). ....... 12 Figure 2.12 Photograph of the Butter Factory’s storeroom on the Warner Estate, Wyong, taken between 1907 and 1921 (Source: Wyong District Pioneers Association, http://alisonhomestead.wordpress.com/). ................................................................................ 13 Figure 2.13 Newspaper advertisements indicating the range of produce traded by D'Arcy Rose. The advertisement for Krempin’s seeds is for 20 April 1934, and for Jeffs Chemicals is for 2 October 1951. ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Figure 2.14 Advertisement for Rose’s grain and produce merchants and grist mill for 9 January 1947 (Carste Studio 2016:4). ................................................................................................................ 15 Figure 2.15 The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate of 2 September 1953 advertising the association between Steggles and Rose. ..................................................................................... 16 Figure 2.16 One of many political advertisements for D'Arcy Rose in the Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate, with this dated 23 September 1939............................................................... 17 Figure 2.17 The Canberra Times report on the spectacular fire that destroyed the Steggles warehouse. .................................................................................................................................. 18 Figure 3.1 View north-east to the former Produce Store building and warehouse. .......................... 19 Figure 3.2 The boundary of DP17285 Lots 10A, 11A and 12A showing how the alignment of the old Mill Siding has determined the form of the Produce Store buildings (https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/). .................................................................................................