Lever Brothers Factory

The factory was on a 10-hectare (25-acre) site near Booth Street and Punch Park at the western end of Balmain, adjacent to White Bay.

[1] Soon after this, in 1897, Lever Brothers established a plant at Balmain to extract oil from copra which was shipped back to Liverpool, England.

During the visit, he met with the owners of J.Kitchen & Sons, who were established local soap manufacturers, and offered to amalgamate the two firms.

The complex contained a glycerine refinery, toilet soap plant, and an oil refining and hardening works,[2] as well as many storage tanks, extensive wharves, and a small fleet of lighters and workboats.

Together with the adjoining Ampol site, the area was sold in 1996 for the development of the Watervale, Dockside and Somerset Mews apartment complexes.