The Farmers' Market Trust Ltd building, Phillip Street, Parramatta

Subject date

Dec 1931

Brief description

Image shows the front of the market building around the time of its opening. This site may have been part of 30 Phillip Street which had a house named “Ellimatta”. (Elimatta is an Aboriginal word meaning 'my home' (Source: “Aboriginal Words of Australia” by A.H. & A.W. Reed). Ellimatta was owned by Mrs Shepherd Smith and then John Brown Smith a produce merchant, former alderman of Parramatta and a sergeant major in the Parramatta Lancers. The land was subdivided in 1916? and factory later built. In the 1920s it was a furniture factory and in 1931 it became the farmers market that operated from 1931 until mid 1940s. The land was owned by David Frater and Harold Saunders.

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Local Studies Photograph Collection
Local Studies Library

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LSP01071

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Photographic print - reproduction

The Farmers' Market Trust Ltd building, Phillip Street, Parramatta

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