Talbots Place Colour:White By the 1970s the factory

By the 1970s the factory was trading as Purnell Shoe Company

ground broken in 1880 and first occupied in 1884

The office once coordinated a steam-driven dairy plant that opened in 1939 with a capacity for 70 to 80 workers across three shifts

receiving raw clay before it moved through the grinding pans and presses

The rear mezzanine of the ABBCO Bakery sits under a layer of dust

Talbots Place Colour:White By the 1970s the factoryA corrugated iron shed bearing the painted name "J. E. Talbot" stands in rural New South Wales, its rusted roller door flanked by old drums, timber pallets, and a weathered bowser. Grass and wildflowers have taken back the yard. Part of the A Place to Call Home series.