Summary

Photograph is located in an album: Volume No.1: 'Views of Factories and Branches', page 170. This is one of 25 albums that provide detailed visual documentation of the activities of the McKay enterprise.

This image forms part of the extensive McKay Sunshine collection which includes images, film, objects, trade publications and oral histories.

Description of Content

These gates formed the entrance to the 'Barclay Reserve' which was diagonally opposite the H.V. McKay memorial gardens. Mr Reg Barclay was a McKay employee and an ex-mayor of Sunshine. The gates were removed for road realignment in the mid-1970s, and rein.

More Information

  • Collection Names

    H.V. McKay Sunshine Collection

  • Collecting Areas

    Images & Image Making, Sustainable Futures

  • Acquisition Information

    Donation from Massey Ferguson Iseki Australia Ltd, by Mar 1995

  • Place & Date Depicted

    Anderson Road & King Edward Avenue, Sunshine, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Oct 1954

  • Format

    Photograph, Black & White

  • Classification

    Manufacturing & industry

  • Category

    History & Technology

  • Discipline

    Technology

  • Type of item

    Image

  • References

    [Link 1] Viewed 7.5.09. [Link 2] Viewed 7.5.09. Perry, Warren. 'The Science Museum of Victoria'.
    [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza, et al. 'The McKay Collection', in Rasmussen, Carolyn. A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its predecesors, 1854-2000. pp.271-273., 2001
    [Article] 2003. "Resurrecting the Sunshine Harvester Works: Re-presenting and Reinterpreting the Experience of Industrial Work in Twentieth-Century Australia", Labour History., 2003
    [Article] Dale-Hallett, Liza. 2004. "Collecting by Stealth: the HV McKay Collection", Museum Victoria Magazine., 2004

  • Keywords

    Gates, Workers