![A view of factory buildings on the bank of a river from the opposite side](/media/17860/banner-kodak-abbotsford-000193844c-39.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=496&height=552&rnd=132713529766170000&bgcolor:fff)
A New Industrial Era
The Abbotsford Factory, 1884–1964
On the banks of the Yarra River, home to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people for many thousands of years, a new industrial era was emerging in Abbotsford, Melbourne, in the late 1880s - in the form of a factory to make photographic products.