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Stockton Borehole Colliery, hose limmers
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…Media … Stockton Borehole Colliery, hose limmers … Photo Ref: 976 … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … industries … mines … teralba…
Unidentified mining photograph.
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…Photo Ref: 1333 … Tying up cables and hoses in main gate (unidentified mine) … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … industries … lake macquarie … mines…
Monkeys at Carey Bay Zoo c.1950s. Postcard donated by Ms R Dewick. The Zoo opened in the mid 1940s and closed in July 1958.
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…Photo Ref: 6071 … Creator: Dewick, Ms Ros … This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License … Related search terms … buildings … carey bay … carey bay … carey bay zoo … enclosures … hoses … monkey … monkeys … toronto … water … …
Charlestown fire brigade history
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…The Newcastle Sun of Wednesday 1 January 1930 … reported: … Charlestown debacle: Rotten Hosing - firemen's plight … Charlestown wants an up-to-date and efficient fire-fighting plant.……Rotten hosing which burst almost as fast as it was laid down hampered the fighters on that … occasion. On the occasion…
Interview with Jim and Merle Rawson, February 6, 2016
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…And if they saw me coming, wearing khaki, they'd get the hose, and I'd end up covered in the stuff. That was their idea of a joke. It was because I was wearing the salaried employees' colour. … Merle: … There was a definite distinction between salary and wages.…

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