There the sheep were washed in a clean waterhole before shearing.

The original pot stick scour... "a sheet gate in the dam wall which could be lifted to let the water through into the square tanks cut from 500 gallon tanks.

The tanks had wood fires to heat the water and they used pot sticks to stir the wool to clean it.

It was dried on woolpacks cut down and made into sheets and the wool was baled in a screw press..." (Liz Chappell - Chappell Family History Album , 2011).

This basic scouring resulted in wool of high quality, even winning a silver cup at the 1876 Intercontinental Exhibition in Sydney.

A new, mechanised plant opened in 1904.

Following 1920 the wool scouring operation was run by William Robert, son of the founder.

His two elder sons were employed as works managers, John Robert in the greasy wools section and William Henry in the scoured wool.

Prior to 1922 dead wool was hand teased before scouring - daily four men working on this revolting smelly job could each fill a bale.

In 1922 upon the installation of a teasing machine, capable of processing five bales daily, only one man was needed to feed the machine.

The works closed in 1925 but re-opened in 1930 with the three younger sons Robert DS as principal, Walter, and Lindsay.

On a 48-hour week men started at 7.30am finishing at 5.50pm - wages 12/- a day or £3/12/- a week in 1922, rising to 16/- a day or £4/16/- a week in 1940.

In 1938 greasy locks were worth one penny to one and a halfpenny a pound.

The same scoured, over six times as much.

The scour closed in 1940 due to the rapid rise in greasy wool prices following World War II.