An establishment where raw wool is washed to remove dirt and natural grease.
the historic wool scour is now a living museum and a direct physical link to Australia's pioneering era
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The drying room of the woolscour was destroyed by fire on 5 September 1895.
The second largest dairy factory in the world is on its doorstep, as is the largest wool scour in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Wool Scour is now fully restored to its 1908 condition.
In 1918, she sold the wool scour and shifted to Timaru just after I started at college.
Sunday excursions were by courtesy of Jack, my mother's manager of the wool scour.
This was a thriving community with a quarry producing limestone, building stone and coal, a saddlery, a railway station, a post office and a wool scour.
The sheds at the woolscour were a haven for sparrow nests and easy to climb to.
She leased the fifty odd acres with the Wool Scour, but we had the grazing for the cows, always one, sometimes two.
He started the Epworth woolscour at Temuka in 1873 and later another at Silverstream near Fairlie.
The charming town I had the privilege of visiting has long played second fiddle to its neighbour, which is well known for its colossal Wool Scour.