Port of Portland: 16:34:21 Sun 03/08/2025
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Vern McCallum Collection

Vern McCallum Collection

The crusher site at Cape Grant.Building the port.Photo courtesy Geoff Blackman.
Lady Bay Beach Portland.
The Gardens street bridge.
The quarry at Cape Grant.
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Trade grain photo courtesy of Geoff Blackman
Blacknose quarry face 23/2/1952. Building the port Photo courtesy Geoff Blackman.
A view of the harbour at Portland photo courtesy of Geoff Blackman
Building the port, 3/9/1954.Photo courtesy Geoff Blackman.
The Breakwater breached by a gale in 1957 on the 21st of June. The new construction then had on protecting outer slope ,the twelve feet high wall took the full force of the heavy seas. the bed of the breakwater was consolidated by this storm. Photo from the Peter Burch Collection.
Making the piles for the K S Anderson wharf these were cast on site.
Placing the ballast on the railway line.
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Trade grain photo courtesy of Geoff Blackman
Main Break water construction photo courtesy of Geoff Blackman.
Dredging slipway 4/5/1954. Building the port. Photo courtesy Geoff Blackman.
Trade bagged flour and rice laoding from the ocean pier photo courtesy of Geoff Blackman
Building the port.Photo courtesy Geoff Blackman.
The canal bridge.during construction.
Construction of the K S A with th piles being driven in,note the dredge inthe bay pumping sand and rubble behind the wall when the water runs back into the sea the fill is left to be used to reclaim the area behind the wall.

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