Pipemakers Park is located in the inner western suburbs of

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in the city of Maribyrnong, on the western bank of the

Maribyrnong River The Maribyrnong River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the northwestern suburbs of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Course The Maribyrnong River draws its headwaters from near ...

near

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. The park was created on the site of a former pipe works and meat preserving company, and retains historic buildings adapted to a museum (

Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Melbourne's Living Museum of the West is an ecomuseum and community social history museum in Melbourne's western suburb of Maribyrnong. It was established as part of Victoria's sesquicentenary (150 year anniversary) in 1984, along with the Chil ...

). and interpreted industrial ruins. The park was formerly managed by

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but in 2014, Maribyrnong City Council took over management of this and the adjacent Burndap Park and Frog Hollow.

History

Joseph Raleigh established a boiling down works on the banks of the river in the 1840s. the buildings were adapted to the Melbourne Meat Preserving Company works in 1868, and then taken over by Humes Pipe in about 1911. In the 1980s the

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purchased the site and developed it as parkland and home to the Living Museum, opening in 1984.Onmydoorstep, Pipe Makers Park Complex
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Geography

The park sits on the floodplain of the Maribyrnong river below a steep escarpment of the western basalt plains.

References

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