[8] The shed was constructed on Lot 130, owned by Samuel Evans Burges[9] of Tipperary farm, the first employer of William Marwick.

[12] This business and use of the shed reached its high point during the Yilgarn gold rush, as York was the principal staging post for the goldfields.

[13] Prospectors would arrive in the Swan River Colony through the port of Albany, travel by rail to York and then make their way to the goldfields.

[14] York ceased to be the main staging post for the goldfields after the railway was extended from Northam to Coolgardie in the late 1890s.

The shed is now used as a repository of old and redundant machinery, including old items from the family business, as well as discarded household furniture.