Townley celebrates 100 years as an Australian Manufacturer

Long before Brunswick, in Melbourne’s north, became a trendy suburb filled with latte drinking hipsters, it was a working class area largely famous for textiles manufacturing and the local footy team. It was here in 1914 that a young migrant from Cheshire in England, Fred Townley, dreamt of a new beginning and set about designing his own history by starting Townley Drop Forge.

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