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Forbes, Pam

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Forbes, Pam

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Pam Forbes is an archaeology student at the University of Sydney. Prior to this she had a teaching career at TAFE.

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Working the Tides

Two watermills existed on the Georges River in the 1820s. In 2013 a research team sought to discover how the maritime landscape of the Georges River and its tributaries sustained the transport of wheat, flour and manpower between the two mills in order to better understand the trials and tribulations of the early colonial settlers and their reliance on the waterways and landscapes of the Georges River.