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TitleLater Brookside industry
DescriptionFlour milling and blacksmithing were early industries in the Brookside CBD.
Later industry moved into the suburbs with the establishment of a creamery and an electricity substation.
Brookside Creamery
A meeting to set up a Dairy Factory Company was reported in the Press ( 21 May 1888) Withell, Cunningham and Watson from Brookside were appointed to a Provisional Committee along with many others from districts around Christchurch.
In 1892 a meeting of the Central Dairy Company was held at the Brookside schoolroom where it was considered advisable to establish a creamery in the district.
Messrs Hight, J. Gilbert, C. Withell, Belton, J. Grigg and R. Withell were charged with finding more support and selecting a site (Press, 30 Sep).
On the 25 August 1894, the Killinchy correspondent from the Ellesmere Guardian reported that the “new creamery near Brookside when erected will be a boon to the farmers in the district”.
By 10 November 1894 it was reported that the creamery was operational.
Farmers brought their milk to be separated and cream was taken by horse and dray to the railway at Selwyn Lake Road, Irwell, then sent to Canterbury Central Dairy Factory, Addington, to be made into butter.
Mr W. Donaldson, took over from Mr J. Stewart in September 1898 and Mr Rose was presented with a tea set in appreciation of his work from 1916-19.
The creamery closed in 1920 and in August 1920 the building was passed in at an auction conducted by Messrs H. Matson and Co.
Even the concrete foundations have now disappeared but the macrocarpa trees still remain.
Electricity
In 1915 a church group was discussing the topic, “Would electricity from Lake Coleridge be the most efficient and economical method of supplying light and motive power to Leeston.
Five years later, in May 1920 the Springs and Ellesmere counties were still trying to set up a power board but by September 1920 the distribution of substations was being worked out.
In April 1921 it was found to be necessary to run a branch 11,000 volt line up the Brookside Road and install a substation at Hight’s corner and prices were called for a transformer in March 1922.
This arrived in July.
The power board was most anxious to provide electricity to run milking machines.
The substation has increased in size over the years.
Photos:
The Brookside Creamery some years after it ceased operation. Photo courtesy of the Ellesmere Camera Club.
The Brookside substation in earlier times. Photo courtesy of Allan Chapman
Mike Noonan
Ellesmere Historical Society
Date6 July 2017SourceThe Ellesmere EchoPhotographerEllesmere Camera ClubAllan ChapmanLocationBrookside
DescriptionFlour milling and blacksmithing were early industries in the Brookside CBD. Later industry moved into the suburbs with the establishment of a creamery and an electricity substation.
Brookside Creamery
A meeting to set up a Dairy Factory Company was reported in the Press ( 21 May 1888) Withell, Cunningham and Watson from Brookside were appointed to a Provisional Committee along with many others from districts around Christchurch.
In 1892 a meeting of the Central Dairy Company was held at the Brookside schoolroom where it was considered advisable to establish a creamery in the district.
Messrs Hight, J. Gilbert, C. Withell, Belton, J. Grigg and R. Withell were charged with finding more support and selecting a site (Press, 30 Sep).
On the 25 August 1894, the Killinchy correspondent from the Ellesmere Guardian reported that the “new creamery near Brookside when erected will be a boon to the farmers in the district”.
By 10 November 1894 it was reported that the creamery was operational.
Farmers brought their milk to be separated and cream was taken by horse and dray to the railway at Selwyn Lake Road, Irwell, then sent to Canterbury Central Dairy Factory, Addington, to be made into butter.
Mr W. Donaldson, took over from Mr J. Stewart in September 1898 and Mr Rose was presented with a tea set in appreciation of his work from 1916-19.
The creamery closed in 1920 and in August 1920 the building was passed in at an auction conducted by Messrs H. Matson and Co.
Even the concrete foundations have now disappeared but the macrocarpa trees still remain.
Electricity
In 1915 a church group was discussing the topic, “Would electricity from Lake Coleridge be the most efficient and economical method of supplying light and motive power to Leeston.
Five years later, in May 1920 the Springs and Ellesmere counties were still trying to set up a power board but by September 1920 the distribution of substations was being worked out.
In April 1921 it was found to be necessary to run a branch 11,000 volt line up the Brookside Road and install a substation at Hight’s corner and prices were called for a transformer in March 1922.
This arrived in July.
The power board was most anxious to provide electricity to run milking machines.
The substation has increased in size over the years.
Photos:
The Brookside Creamery some years after it ceased operation. Photo courtesy of the Ellesmere Camera Club.
The Brookside substation in earlier times. Photo courtesy of Allan Chapman
Mike Noonan
Ellesmere Historical Society
Date6 July 2017SourceThe Ellesmere EchoPhotographerEllesmere Camera ClubAllan ChapmanLocationBrooksideRight- Brookside Substation
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