32 - 36 WILLIAM STREET - TASMANIAN FLOUR MILLS |
Although the address Tasmanian Flour
Mills in 32 – 36 William Street, this view is of the corner of
Shields Street (also known as lower George Street) and the Esplanade.
Most parts of the building date back to around 1908, but the
earliest parts are from an 1860 warehouse on the site that pre-dated
the mill. There is also architecture dating from the 1940s. (Someone more knowledgeable than me can probably
identify which bits were built when!).
Still probably best known as “Monds
and Affleck” the association with these early names (Thomas Wilkes
Monds who founded the Albion Mill on the North Esk in 1865, and
Affleck who built the crown mill in Cameron Street in 1897, after
earlier ventures in Longford) began when the company formed in 1918
and ended in 1995, when it was sold and renamed Tasmanian Flour
Mills. A more complete account of the development and ownership of
the mill can be found at
http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/upfiles/qvmag/imglib/collections/CHS68%20Tasmanian%20Flour%20Mills%20Pty%20Ltd.pdf.
If you look up The Examiner of Saturday 10 September 1927 on TROVE you
will find a photograph of the buildings at that time, as well as an
article that is very much of its time (to quote: “the age of
flapperdom”).
Thomas Affleck migrated to Tasmania in 1860 When he died in 1898, The Examiner noted that the funeral procession stretched on for almost a mile, and was the largest local funeral ever seen. He was buried in a coffin of Huon Pine.
Thomas Wilkes Monds was born in
Tasmania in 1829. A picture, and more information about him can be
seen on the “Launceston Family Album” site
(http://www.launcestonfamilyalbum.org.au/) which has photographs, and
details of people who visited the Tasmanian Exhibition of 1891-2.
The mill he owned at Carrick remains
one of the most noteable buildings in that town. The Monds family
played an important role in the civic life of the north of the state,
and additional information is readily available on-line.
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