WALL2WALL - Sydney - Leichhardt Municipal Council

WALL2WALL
SITE 1
MURAL COMPETITION 2016: 10 YEARS
Location:
63-65 Pyrmont Bridge Road, Camperdown
Additional Information:
Bignell Lane is named after one of the Bignell family of
Camperdown who ran Bignell & Clarke. This firm was a building
contractors that built such auspicious buildings as Sydney Town
Hall and The Strand Arcade in Pitt Street Sydney. The firm also
re-built the Bondi Aquarium in eleven weeks after it was burnt
down in 1891. The firm included the Camperdown Steam Joinery
at 132 George Street Camperdown. It was alleged that smoke,
smell and noise from the joinery constituted a nuisance.
Alfred Bignell Senior was born in 1840. His son, Alfred Bignell
Junior was born in 1874, and was an alderman on Camperdown
Council in 1899. He died in the Blue Mountains at age 26.
Currently the building on the corner of Mallett and Bignell is
occupied by WineSquare, which is an online/call centre
wine-only arm of Balmain’s Sixty Darling Street Fine Wines, a
family owned business operating for 28 years. WineSquare is a
bulk warehouse & distribution centre where you will find wines
from Argentina to Australia, France to New Zealand and
everywhere in between WineSquare hold wine classes, seminars,
wine dinners or regular wine tastings.
Please note that the succesful artist can only paint the roller
door on Sundays when the door is closed. Possible Saturdays by
negotiation.
Wall size:
This photograph by Henry King shows the Bondi Aquarium, an aquarium fun
pier built around 1890. And rebuilt in 1891 by the firm Bignell & Clarke.
4650mm
2220mm
9070mm
4580mm
NO PAINT AREA
NO PAINT AREA
3650mm
WALL2WALL
SITE 2
Location:
MURAL COMPETITION 2016: 10 YEARS
1-5 Chester Street, Camperdown
Additional Information:
Peter J Fitzhenry’s Panel Beating and Spray Painting
Body Shop was established in 1971 and specializes in the
repair and restoration of vintage and prestige cars.
The company is renowned for their attention to detail and
perfect colour matching skills. They have an amazing
colour swatch board in the office that has hundreds of
variations of each colour. In addition to collision repair
and restoration, they also specialize in the painting of
boats, motorcycles, or anything that requires quality and
craftsmanship.
This wall will be a feature of a delightful pedestrian link
between Booth Street Annandale to Pyrmont Bridge
Road, Camperdown.
Images top right show the playground and small bridge
leading up to the Peter J Fitzhenry auto shop. The
playground has recently been upgraded, and the park
renamed Douglas Grant Memorial Park.
Please note that the succesful artist can only paint
the garage door on Sundays when the door is closed.
Possible Saturdays by negotiation.
Wall size:
3000mm
3500mm
14000mm
3600mm
7300mm
5600mm
WALL2WALL
SITE 3
MURAL COMPETITION 2016: 10 YEARS
Location:
469-483 Balmain Road, Rozelle
Additional Information:
This site was used a large scale bakery from 1907 until
1990 when it became a laboratory for ten years. It is
currently occupied by creative industries, including a
jeweller and the large scale One Plus 2 Artist’s Studios.
Pilcher’s Bakery 1907 – 1926
Frederick Elias Pilcher arrived in Sydney in 1882,
aged seventeen. He reputedly followed his father and
grandfather into the bread-making business.
A newspaper described the bakery in 1907 as:
‘…almost opposite Callan Park and covering…a larger
area than any other in the Commonwealth’.4
…As you enter from the front, you find yourself in the
loading yard with a brick floor, 94 x 26 feet, at the side of
which are the public office and private offices, also built
of brick, and fitted with gas, telephone, etc.
The bakehouse is a very fine, lofty and well-ventilated
room, 74 feet by 25 feet, with a granolithic floor. It is
fitted with five ovens…The bakehouse is two storied and
the upper level extends over the lane which connects the
loading yard with the stables. The whole of this floor is
used as a flour store and for blending purposes.
The stables are lofty and well ventilated, with
accommodation for thirty horses…
The bakery was then sold to “The Automatic Bread
Baking Company” in 1927 who developed the first
automated operation in Australia. The old bakery was
extended and upgraded into as a fully automated bakery
producing ‘hygienic wrapped bread at ordinary prices’.
In 1937, The Union Bank of Australia sold the property to
Abbco Bread Company Pty Limited (a derivation of the
Automatic Bread Baking Company) who continued to
operate the bakery.
2400mm
In 1990 the bakery was sold to C.H Laboratories Pty
Limited and converted for use as a laboratory. The
property was sold in 1999 to Roche Group Pty Limited
who is the current owner of the site.
Wall size:
5000mm
In 1979 the Abbco Bread Company, then the largest
independent bakery in Sydney, was acquired by Fielder
Gillespie Limited which notionally increased their share
of the Sydney bread market. Another company merger in
1986 saw the creation of Australia’s largest food group,
Goodman Fielder Ltd. This had enormous effects on
the nation’s baking industry and saw the closure of the
bakery in Balmain Road.
8000mm
JEWELLERY SIGN MUST STAY
Faded remnant of the Pilcher’s Baking Company signwriting pre 1926
5500mm