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Housing built for employees of the Longburn Freezing Work. The Longburn Slaughtering and Freezing Company Ltd was established as a farmer's co-operative in 1890. Sited at Longburn, just south of Palmerston North, it later became known as the Longburn Freezing Works. It closed in 1986.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
CA: Elmar Negative Collection: (108)
Date
circa 1946
Digitisation id
2011G_ELMAR-2-B14_005333
Held In
"Coolstore"

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Taxonomy

Tags
accommodation,
dwelling,
elmar studios,
meat,
photographs,
workers,
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