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Geelong Saleyards

Welcome to Geelong Saleyards. This site was offically closed in 2017. Here you can navigate the saleyards and discover how the site worked. There are interviews with ex-workers along with images of day-to-day work.

Instructions

Use your mouse (on a desktop computer) or touchscreen (on a tablet or smartphone) to start your virtual walk-through.

Click or tap on the landscape to move about. You can click/tap on the coloured circles to see images and read stories in the catalogue. Click/tap on catalogue images to enlarge them.

References

Reports

1. Geelong Sale Yards – Conservation Management Plan
   Dr David Rowe (Authentic Heritage Services Pty Ltd) and Wendy Jacobs (Architect & Heritage Consultant), 2007
2. Geelong Saleyards Heritage Interpretation
   Sue Hodges Productions, 2019
3. Saleyards Precinct Plan – First Draft
   City of Greater Geelong, 2020
4. Geelong Saleyards Draft Precinct Plan Engagement Report (Round 2 Engagment: Feedback on the DRAFT Precinct Plan
   The NOA Group, 2020

Private archives

1. Richard Keys collection
2. Lola Gugger collection
3. H.R Richardson collection
4. Malcolm McKinnon video and sound archive

Digital databases (other texts)

1. Trove database
2. Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
3. Geelong Heritage Centre Collection
4. City of Greater Geelong website
5. Geelong Advertiser website
6. The Weekly Times website

Detailed listings for images and videos

A vital part of the city
Published in News of the Week, 13 February 1913, page 16
Geelong Cattle Yards, 1913
Photograph by J Lockwood
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS 2121/3

Not built to look pretty
Photograph from Richard Keys collection (undated)

The social yards
News-clipping from Richard Keys collection (2007)
News-clipping from Lola Gugger collection (2013)

Through good times and bad
News-clipping from Lola Gugger collection (2011)

The weekly ritual
Video clip by Malcolm McKinnon, 2021

The form guide
News-clipping from Lola Gugger collection (2017)

Correct weight
News-clipping from Richard Keys collection (undated)

No shipment too big or too small
News-clipping from Richard Keys collection

The auctioneer’s call
Video clip by Malcolm McKinnon, 2021

Not just animal waste
City of Geelong, Plan of sewerage installation at Cattle Yards, 1941.
Geelong City Council Collection
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS 2031/A502
VPRS 17268/P0002/425

Memorialising a working history
Plan of pen numbering at Sale Yards, 1942.
Geelong City Council Collection
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS 2031/A603
VPRS 17268/P0002/478

Pigs, bobby calves and poultry
Pig and Cattle Markets. Details of various holding Yards (undated)
Geelong City Council Collection
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS 2031/B182
VPRS 17268/P0003/190

Cobblestones and concrete
Plan of Sheep and Cattle Yards, North Geelong. c. 1919
Geelong City Council Collection
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS 2031/A136
VPRS 17268/P0002/112

Posts and rails
Details of Loading Race, north‐west corner of cattle yards, 1929.
Geelong City Council Collection
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS 2031/A361
VPRS 17268/P0002/318

Stock & Station Agents
Photograph from Richard Keys collection (undated)

Picturesque decrepitude
News-clipping from Richard Keys collection (2007)

A-quarter-of-a-million sheep
News-clipping from Richard Keys collection (undated)

Register of Sales
Cattle Sales Yards, sales and health registers 1921 – 1966
Geelong City Council Collection
Geelong Heritage Centre Archives
GRS1193/0003

Once a country town
Photograph from Richard Keys collection (undated)

The end of an era
News-clipping from HF Richardson & Co. collection (2017)

Where to now?
On-line news story from Geelong Advertiser, 8 May 2021

Colophon

This site was 3D scanned during 19–29 April 2021 using Matterport Capture and a Leica BLK360 LiDAR camera. The overall capture comprises of 406 scans.

Credits

Dr. Domenico Mazza
(concept & research, design lead, development, scanning)

Malcolm McKinnon
(historical research, curatorial, filmmaking)

Dr. Sofija Kaljevic
(concept & research, design)

Prof. Tuba Kocaturk
(project lead)

Anahita Sal Moslehian
(assistance)

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