Garravembi Press, Publishers and Bookbinders.
8 Gisborne Road BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
An early brick. partly two-storey. newspaper printing works and publishing office, the earliest section (identified on the accompanying plan) built in l 865. Here was published the Bacchus Marsh Express newspaper ( 1866- 1970).
Through its forceful and intelligent editor (until 19 15) and part proprietor, Christopher Crisp, The Express was influential on Alfred Deakin and the Australian Federation movement at the end of the nineteenth century. This is one of a group of three buildings associated with the newspaper (also refs:192 & 194). It contains two presses, a printing machine and a collection of old type blocks.
The building is of state historical significance for its association with the Express, with Crisp and with the development of newspaper publishing and printing in the Community life of Victoria. It is also of Slate historical significance as a rare surviving representative embodiment of the newspaper industry in the late nineteenth century in Victoria. It is finally of social significance as known and valued by the community as pan of its sense of identity of the place and as an embodiment of a sequence of varied approches to conservation action, over twenty-five years.
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Garravembi Press, Publishers and Bookbinders. - Physical Conditions
Reasonable. There is cracking to all rendered stone, especially in front,centre. The ground level has risen above the floor level, allowing damp penetration. Difficult access and car parking may limit its continued commercial use. It is unclear if all of the schednled significant equipment survives.
Garravembi Press, Publishers and Bookbinders. - Intactness
Reasonable. First floor windows have been replaced. Two of the verandah brackets are lacking. Glazing bars from the right-hand display window are missing and replaced with otto metal. Roofing and roof-plumbing have been replaced in quadrant profile oddly. There is a recent addition at left.
SIGNIFICA~l INTACT ELEMENTS:
MATERIALS. FORM. FACADE. VERAJ'IDAH. USE.
VERANDAH DECORATION.
DOORS. WINDOW
Garravembi Press, Publishers and Bookbinders. - Physical Description 1
An L-shaped, shallow two-storey, commercial building, gableroofed across the site, with a wing extending at rear. It has two bays with a display window in each and french doors on the right, where there is a continuous timber lintel. The left and window has a pair of sashes with segmental heads and 12 panes. There are two windows to each bay at first floor level, with sequential heads. The first floor level has rendered brickwork, otherwise brickwork is exposed. Ground floor level, is stone, rendered. There is a low concave verandah with cast-iron lave brackets. Quadrant roof gutter links front and rear gutters to form a pediment effect. Inside are various items of printing equipment:
1. 'Eagle' hand printing press. Old and possibly unique.
2. 'Wharfedale' flatbed printing press, manufactured Yorkshire, England (cI880s, 60s) .
3. "Chandler and Price", hand-platen printing machine (cI88??).
4. Mostly modem type blocks.8
8 Letter to Mrs S. Hawker, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), from P Milner and L.J. Jones, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Melboume, 23 April 1981.
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Garravembi Press, Publishers and Bookbinders. - Historical Australian Themes
Townships/Community Life/Industry/ Conserving.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0503
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0505
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