Glenroi Avenue

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Maurice Bowen opened a tannery and boot factory on the Bathurst Road in the 1860s. By 1870 he was treating 4000 hides and 2000 skins annually and turned out 200 pairs of boots a week. He later established a shop in Anson Street for the sale of boots, leather goods etc. In 1876 he built ‘Bowen Terrace’. He built his home in the vicinity of his tannery and called it ‘Glenroi’.

Hughes, L. Streets of town, [Orange and District Historical Society]. n.d.