Port of Portland: 11:43:22 Wed 21/10/2026
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Vern McCallum Collection

Vern McCallum Collection

Setting up the reinforceing ready for the concrete for the K S Anderson warf.
Placing the piles.using the Marrion crane.
The K S Anderson wharf being constructed.
Building the port.
Driving piles at an unknown location this glass neg was from the port of portland collection
An aerial photo of the Portland harbour circa 1950. From a glass negative.
An International TD 24 dozer at work at the Portland harbour. Circa 1950. scanned From a glass negative.
Blasting the face at Cape Grant for more rock to be used in building the Port of Portland. Scanned from a glass negative.
Portland from Battery Point, circa 1873. A Washbourne photo. This was done from a glass negative but is not from the same one as the next photo.
The spit from Battery Point. A Washbourne photo taken in 1873. Schofields lived in the house centre of this photo. This was done from a glass negative.
A view of the bay taken from below Battery Point at the start of building the Port, circa 1950. This photo is done from a glass negative.
An aerial view of the Cape Grant Quarry where all of the rock for the building of the Port of Portland was quarried, circa 1950. This was done from a glass negative.
A ship moored on the Ocean pier Portland . This was done from a glass negative .
An early plan of the portland.
An aerial photo of the Portland harbour, circa 1953. This photo is from a glass negative .
Blasting rock for the harbour. This photo is from a glass negative.
A ship docked at the Ocean pier, Portland This was done from a glass negative.
Rough seas in Portland Harbour before the port was built .There was very little protection for the fishing boats from a n easterly gale and as a result many boats were wrecked over the years.This was done from a glass negative .
Unknown.
The Jaques shovel at Cape Grant.
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