| House | $956,600  |
| Unit | $483,400 |
| Land | $645,300  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Ascot Vale | $1,247,900  |
| Flemington | $1,102,200 |
| Kensington | $1,168,500 |
| Maidstone | $886,000 |
| Maribyrnong | $1,064,400 |
| West Footscray | $934,700 |
| West Melbourne | $1,376,000 |
| Yarraville | $1,175,700 |
| House | $578 |
| Unit | $520 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - March 3, 2005 What is significant? Kinnears Ropeworks, Footscray, is a large industrial complex of buildings built between 1909-1969. The buildings reflect the industrial processes of the site and include a number of manufacturing and storage buildings built in a rudimentary industrial manner of brick walls and saw tooth roofs. The earliest and most intact buildings are the service buildings that include the Engineers stores and workshops, Boiler house and chimney and the Spooling room which still displays it original brick paved floor. The internal workings and communications between the various facets of industry on the site are represented by the internal laneway system. The site also includes a particularly rare and fine example of a Rope Walk. Kinnears Ropeworks was established by George Kinnear in Moonee Ponds in 1874. After he died two of his sons, Edward (Ted) Hore Kinnear and Henry (Harry) Humphrey Kinnear moved the works in 1903 to its present location on Ballarat Road in Footscray. The introduction of Federal tariff protection to the industry in 1902 is likely to have influenced this move. The new factory was badly damaged by fire in 1908 and was rebuilt in 1909. Ted Kinnear was the first footballer to play 100 games for Essendon and played in both the 1897 and the 1901 premierships. For around one hundred years, Kinnears Ropeworks produced a large range of rope and twine products for a variety of domestic, commercial, agricultural, fishing, shipping, transport, textile, and other industrial purposes. They also manufactured carpet yarns and were leaders in the innovation of the production of synthetic yarns. Under manpower legislation during World War II, the factory produced a range of materials for military use, but also diversified into new products, such as camouflage netting and parachute cords. The factory struggled during the war due to the loss of essential personnel, and, as a result, employed a large number of women during this period. Manufacturing in Victoria was reinvigorated with postwar immigration, but it was not until the 1970s that Kinnears was employing a significant number of non-British migrants, mainly from Italy, Greece, Macedonia and Turkey. In the post war period, the demarcation of space within the complex was emphasised by the assignment of different migrant groups to different tasks; this segregation was designed to avoid racial conflicts and also to enhance relations amongst workers within each division. Kinnears expanded further in the early 1970s when it made significant inroads into the carpet industry. The following buildings with associated equipment contribute to significance at the State level: B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B9, B10, B13 and B14, and the portions of B7, B8, B11 and B12 which abut the lanes. (see attached map) Multi-lingual signs throughout the site c |
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