Later
Reliance Tiles Pty Ltd
Then the
Wellburn Tiling Co.
Location -37.894355,
145.107679
Whitton Street to the South, Parkinson
Street to the East, Huntingdale Road to the West and Scotchmans Creek Catchment
to the North.
Most people
would never have heard of this small company that made roofing tiles from a
plant in East Oakleigh partly on the site now occupied by the Monash University
Regiment between Huntingdale Road, Parkinson and Whiton Streets.
This was the location of their pit and later a kiln. The rest of the
works was on the diagonally opposite corner.
The Site, 1931
Originally
known as “Reliance Tiles Pty Ltd”, they began operating at this site from the
21st of December 1921 making “Star” brand roofing tiles. This Company was originally located in
Jasper Road Bentleigh and owned the property until the 27th of August 1941.
The Site, 1945
Roofing tiles had previously been made at their works in Brighton, but
production there had ceased. The
company was originally owned by Thomas Ethell.
See more about him on another post on the Ethell family. From then it was owned by James Henry Dee
and Percy Victor Dunn, operating as the Wellburn Tiling Company, continuing
through the Second World War until 1962 when some of the site was sold to the
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, (MMBW).
The Site in
1968
The regiment, which is known as MONUR traces its origins back to 8 March
1966, when the Monash University Company was formed as a detachment of the
Melbourne University Regiment (MUR). On 23 February 1970 it ceased to be
the Monash University Company of MUR, and became its own regiment. The Regiment
recently celebrated its 40th birthday. However on the 1st of
January 2013 the Regiment again became a company sized unit within Melbourne
University Regiment.
The Site In
1972
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