Laboratory Wall Colour:N/A the equipment outlasted four corporate

the equipment outlasted four corporate owners before the site closed in January 2012

after the Robertson Land Acts opened Crown land to smallholders

and it produced cement here until November 1991

replacing two earlier premises on Eastment Street where the operation began

Laboratory Wall Colour:N/A the equipment outlasted four corporateA laboratory wall inside the former Peters Creameries factory at Chatham, its paint peeling back in layers that chart decades of disuse. The factory opened in November 1939 and operated as a steam driven dairy processing plant until the late 1990s, when corporate rationalisation under successive owners ended production at the site. Part of the Peters' Ice Cream Factory series.