Chamber 14 - Display and Chamber 15 - Museum
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Chamber 14 - Display and Chamber 15 - Museum were listed on the earliest map drawn up for Tyabb Packing House Antiques as two separate chambers, and were originally separated by half a wall, with a corridor running through the space to the side. Accessed from Chamber 10 - Crofton or from Chamber 19 - Packham.
Exterior of the Packing House, before the renovation. The open section is where part of these chambers were, before being incorporated. (Photo: 1993-03)
Before the Packing House was opened in 1993 this area was somewhat of a disparate collection of spaces, with half being open to Peacock Road, but through the renovations of the building these were consolidated and closed in.
From 1993-1995 both Chamber 14 and Chamber 15 were held by Industria, they were in this space for some time before deciding to leave the Packing House to trade in their own store closer to the city. They traded in industrial items. They went on to open their own shop in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy in the later 1990s. Industria later returned to the Packing House in 2013, taking up a space in Chamber 1 - Tycos.
Then from 1995 Unique & Antique held this space until 2009; when they moved to Chamber 2 - Glenburn, they traded in kitchenalia, coins, petrol & oil items and general antiques and collectables.
Following on from Unique & Antique's move this the space was divided between Bell’s Antiques, taking Chamber 14 - Display and John Rolls, taking Chamber 15 - Museum. Bell’s Antiques specialised in rare and different lamps, objects de vertu and other museum-quality lamp and vase-related items. Whilst John Rolls sold antique furniture. John Rolls passed away in late 2010.
In 2011 Bell’s Antiques took over both Chamber 14 - Display and Chamber 15 - Museum.
Note: Images have dates written in YEAR-MONTH-DAY format, as there is a mix of mediums of images with some having more exact dates than others.
More information
Chamber 14 is the only chamber to contain a heater within the chamber as the wall of the Packing House is on its boundary, see here for more heating related information.
Several angles of these chambers were featured on the Nine Network tourism show “Postcards” in 2007.
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