SPC / Blue Circle annual volume 1969

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Browse the original annual volume for company news, photographs and stories of the people and places connected with Southern Portland Cement and Blue Circle.

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From Berrima to the Snowy Mountains

The January newsletter photographed a bulk cement carrier leaving the works with its first load for the new Tumut depot. The vehicle was to carry cement from Tumut to the Talbingo Dam site, with further cement from Berrima travelling by rail.

See the carrier in the newsletter

A school and its community

Later that year the newsletter looked forward to the centenary of Berrima Public School, expecting former pupils with connections to the cement company to return. It also described work to restore the old village well as a memorial to the district’s pioneers.

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