16. Phoenix Foundry Plaque

"The Phoenix Foundry began as a private foundry on its Armstrong Street South site in February 1856 manufacturing machinery for the mining companies. In 1871 it made its first locomotive for a West Australian timber company and two years later built the first of 352 steam engines for the Victorian Railways. The opening of the Newport Railway workshops forced this once great firm that employed up to 700 men to close in July 1906."
Ref: Ballarat Golden City : A Pictorial History (1989) John Reid and John Chisholm, Photography by Max Harris, Joval Publications, Bacchus Marsh, p76