Toowoomba Foundry

at 259 Ruthven St, Toowoomba Australia

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2. Professional Services
3. Landmark & Historical Place

Description

Toowoomba Foundry Pty Ltd is a heritage-listed foundry at 251-267 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1940s. It is also known as Griffiths Brothers & Company, Southern Cross Works, and Toowoomba Foundry and Railway Rolling Stock Manufacturing Company. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 July 2004.HistoryThe Toowoomba Foundry is located in Ruthven Street on a prominent site adjacent to the Defiance Flour Mill and the Toowoomba Railway Station. It was established in 1871 by George Washington Griffiths and has continually operated as a foundry since that time.Owned by Griffiths family descendants until 1987 when it was purchased by National Consolidated, the Foundry is one of the last surviving 19th century industries on the Darling Downs. Among other products, it produced rolling stock for Queensland Railways, and the Southern Cross windmill, one of the most enduring icons on the Downs.The present site of Toowoomba was initially known as the Swamp and during the 1840s was secondary to the principal Darling Downs township of Drayton.European discovery of the Darling Downs occurred in 1828 when Alan Cunningham provided a route through the Great Dividing Range which separated the Downs from the Moreton Bay region. In 1840, Patrick Leslie became the first settler on the Downs, quickly followed by others and in 1842, a more accessible route through the Range was opened. Drayton evolved from a stopping place for those reaching the top of the Range, although by 1848 water shortages prompted moves to The Swamp, which was renamed Toowoomba in 1858.

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Toowoomba Foundry is Toowoomba based place and this enity listed in Landmark category. Located at 259 Ruthven St QLD Contact phone number of Toowoomba Foundry: 1800 632 685