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Gully checks on the Sturt Highway, Wagga Wagga

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • Lake Macquarie said:
    The Lake Macquarie & District Historical Society hold an original of this photograph, the caption reads as follows; Roadside erosion is also a serious problem. Gully checks have been used to satbilise a bad gully and thus protect the Sturt Highway near Wagga Wagga. Advise on soil conservation is freely available from local Conservation Offices or the Secretary, Department of Conservation, Sydney.
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    Lake Macquarie Thanks for the extra info. AB

Landscape, Wagga Wagga

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • jennys old cars said:
    The car is probably an English make and of the mid 1930s to immediate pre-war styling. Can't get enough definition to determine much about the 2 trucks but I'd estimate them to be somewhere between late 30s thru to 50s so that gives the earliest this photo could be of mid 1930s. What memories of driving around country NSW the white paint topped posts and wire mesh fence on the slopeside of the road bring back.
  • Mich said:
    Thats a rather well built road. Also hillier than most of the roads around Wagga. I think it might be the Hume Highway somewhere between Gundagai and Holbrook, several places look like that.

Railway bridge at Wagga Wagga

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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  • pellethepoet said:
    Australian Heritage Database - Place ID: 15910 - designed by Sir John Fowler (codesigner of the Firth of Forth Bridge) - fabricated by P W McLellan, Glasgow, Scotland - load tested on 16 December 1880 and placed in service on 23 January 1881 - originally connected together by arched latticed braces, but now replaced with more modern squared braces
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Replaced December 2006 -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The photo must have been taken soon after the bridge was completed - it looks shiny and new except for a few soot stains on the arched latticed braces. There are another two images in the series, very reminiscent in style / composition to the bridge at Gundagai Cowra, but ten years earlier. These look too good quality for the early 1880s - investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp... investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/asp/photosearch/photo.asp...
  • pellethepoet said:
    The Australian Heritage Database entry states that this bridge "was one of the subjects of the 1884-86 railway bridges enquiry". Maybe the photos were taken for the enquiry? Just a thought.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [pretentious comment alert] I wonder if our old friend John Rae was the photographer? In the 1880s he was chairman of the Board for Public Tenders (Works), but would surely have an interest in the longest railway bridge(s) in NSW from his time as Railway Commissioner. Or even a very young John Degotardi Junior (1860-1937) ? The three photos show a strong sense of perspective. [alert over]