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Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections. This application requires JavaScript to be enabled. Local Heritage Place Since — 1 January Date of Citation — December City Plan Interactive Mapping. In connection with the works, the company erected a wharf and store about half a mile down the Brisbane River, which was used for landing and storing imported raw materials, comprised mainly of hemp from Manilla and flax from New Zealand.

In October , Archibald Forsyth joined Thomas McIlwraith in a deputation to the Queensland Treasury to criticise the levying of a heavy duty import duty on Manilla hemp by Queensland Customs authorities. The nearby parallel street, originally named Factory Street on the Ropeworks Estate Map of , was changed to Manilla Street by , in reference to the hemp imported for rope manufacturing from the Philippines.

The form of the ropewalk reflects the process of ropemaking used in Australia for over a century. The first process involved making the strands by securing the base yarns to hooks on the traveller cart which turned whilst the traveller progressed along the rails for the length of the ropewalk.

A creel or frame bunched the yards together to form the strand and brackets supported the length of the strand as it was twisted. The Manilla Street ropewalk was feet long and 15 feet wide. Forsyth and his relatives held the 65, shares.

By the Brisbane works were producing over two hundred tons of rope annually and was an important source of employment in the local area. This continuity was considered an important factor in the rise of the firm as one of the largest and most successful rope makers in Australia. In when fire destroyed the buildings and large stocks of raw material, the employees took a cut in wages and helped in the rebuilding of the plant.

Only the external walls survived and subsequent reconstruction by Baxter and Hargreaves included strengthening these with concrete columns. The company recovered and by the Brisbane factory was again working full time.