66 Stanley Street

Barrett & Burston Co Malting – Timeline

• Charles Smith started the malting industry in Victoria in the mid 1800’s, followed soon after by Samuel Burston

• Barrett family bought out Gough & Sons in 1860

• Smith Mitchell was founded in 1911

• Barrett Bros. & Burston Co. was formed in 1912 as a merger of the two family dynasties

• Smith Mitchell joined forces with Barrett Bros. & Burston in 1973

• The business was bought in 1980 by Henry Jones IXL and became part of Elders in 1981

• In 1984 James Hood (Collingwood) was acquired

• In 1991 ConAgra bought Barrett Burston

• In 2006 BBM became part of United Malt Holdings

• In 2009 UMH was bought by Graincorp

https://cryermalt.com/western-australias-craft-beer-renaissance-and-the-journey-of-the-malt/

Adolphus Herbert ‘Bert’ Frederick Norman Appleroth was born in Stanley Street, West Melbourne.

Adolphus Herbert Frederick Norman Appleroth (1886-1952), jelly manufacturer, was born on 30 December 1886 in West Melbourne, third surviving child of William Appleroth, a Russian-born driver, and his wife Emma, née Audebart, daughter of a Melbourne wine merchant. William had reputedly been a Russo-Finnish sea captain who jumped ship. The family moved to Sydney where Bert began work in 1902 as a messenger-boy at the Lipton’s Tea agency, then took a job as a tram conductor. He began experimenting with mixtures of gelatine and sugar in the bath in his parents’ home at Paddington, and hawked the jelly crystals that he produced door-to-door, using trams as transport. At St Michael’s Anglican Church, Sydney, on 19 February 1910 he married a 19-year-old dressmaker Ferri Marion Wotzasik.

Bert Appleroth named his product Areoplane Jelly in 1927.

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/appleroth-adolphus-herbert-bert-9373