IEAust Engineering Heritage Branch invites you to a presentation entitled:

Down by the Falls

Speakers:	Matthew Churchward, Senior Curator with the Technology Program at Museum Victoria,
	Robin Riddett, Senior Associate Director, Allom Lovell and Associates Pty. Ltd., Conservation Architects, Melbourne.
Date and Time:	Thursday, 14 September, 2000 at 5.30 for 6.00 pm.

Situated by the Yarra River in Collingwood is the industrial relic known locally as "Dight's Mill", one of Melbourne's oldest and most significant industrial sites. In the early 1840's John Dight established Melbourne's first water-powered flour mill on the site. In 1888 Yarra Falls Roller Mills built a water-turbine powered mill, which was the largest and most sophisticated of the thirty two water powered mills built in Victoria before 1900.

The speakers will talk about the history of the mill and the architectural and conservation works that they were associated with in the early 1990's, including the rediscovery of the buried turbines.