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Mortlake Gasworks c1900-27

Mortlake Gasworks c1900-27

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[a106018 / PXA 635, 596]

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Coal lumpers

Coal lumpers were crucial to coal-powered shipping, hauling giant quantities of fuel from ship to ship in appalling conditions. With the disappearance of steam power, a whole occupation, with its own skills, lore and traditions as well as hazards and dangers, faded into history.

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Industrial building

Rivers and Catchments

Mortlake

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Western residential suburb on the southern bank of the Parramatta River, named after the district on the River Thames in England. It developed around the large gasworks built on the river by the Australian Gas Light Company.