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Cover image for Reynella Quarries, Reynella, S. Aust., 1928.
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Loading bin for the aerial ropeway (capacity 200 tonnes) at the Reynella Quarries. Also in photo are Walter Powell, his son Morris, and flying fox derricks. The quarries were the main source of building materials for the roads of the district. In the early days horses and carts were used for transporting the heavy loads but with the arrival of the railway in 1915 this was made it possible to supply further and wider than the local area. A flying fox ropeway was erected to enable the stone to be carried over kilometres from the quarry to the Brighton Cement Company. The quarries were exhausted by the 1950s and closed.
Reynella (S. Aust.)
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Cover image for Rock pool at Gilbertson's Beach where the oil refinery now stands, Lonsdale, S. Aust., 1930s.
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From left: Nancy Watts, Audrey Goldsmith (with Peg, the dog, on her lap), and Mary Watts. The seaside area of what became Port Stanvac was previously known informally to locals as Gilbertson’s Beach, after a local land-owning family. In the early 1900s, brothers Arthur George (George) Gilbertson and Albert Benjamin (Jack) Gilbertson jointly purchased a section of land near the site later occupied by the Port Stanvac oil refinery. George tragically died while fishing off the rocks at Gilbertson’s Beach. Jack later acquired other land sections in the vicinity. The suburb is now officially known as O’Sullivan Beach and the Gilbertson name has dropped from use.
Lonsdale (S. Aust.)
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