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PXA 2156 /Box 7
1-5. Opening the Gas Holders, Chullora, with S. Haviland, Under Sec. of Local Govt.; A.V.Smith; A.T. Anderson, AGL Director; J. Renshaw, Minister for Local Govt.; H.F. Benning, Sec. AGL, ca. 1955
6-9. H.F. Benning drawing the lottery
10-21. John Stevenson, H.F. Benning, Herb Hume, Gordon Musgrave, William W. Pettingell, Peter Andrews, Walter Ralph
22-25. Restoration of Centennial Park Gate gas lights, 7/9/1962 with H.F. Benning, R. Heffron, Premier of N.S.W. and W.W. Pettingell 
26. F.H. Benning, Roy Maher and others
27. Lang Park, Sydney, Gas Light Restoration, 1966
28. Benning Ave, subdivision at Turramurra
29. AGL Board members
30. Marketing Concepts meeting, ca. 1970
31. Mortlake Training Centre, 1979
32-33. Old depot and new Western Service Centre office, Holroyd, ca. 1979
34. AGL Building, North Sydney, ca. 1975
35-36. Old Stove Round-up, Newcastle, ca. 1976
37-39. Haymarket
40. Contact sheet for Mains Training photographs, ca. 1979
41-48. Mains Training
49-53. Suburban pipe laying, rehabilitation of gas pipes, cast iron to goldline
43-58. AGL Gala Ball 50 Years, with Bob Hawke
59-88. Demolition of Riggers’ Shop, ca. 1979
89-90. Presentation of State of Victoria display cheque for nine hundred and fifty million dollars
91-94. Chinatown Centre, Level 5 Restaurant
95. Chinatown Centre, Level 5 kitchen
96-115. Chinatown Centre, Level 2 food area
116-121. View of the Chinatown Centre from Goulburn Street
122. Notes on the development of the 8 level Chinatown Centre bounded by Dixon, Factory, Harbour & Goulburn streets and the quotation for work programme proposed by AGL
123-128. Bathurst Gas Works in flood, 1934 (HCAT 9017-9022)
129. Purifiers, 1955 (HCAT 9120)
130. Head Office, Newcastle Gas & Coke Ltd (HCAT 6115)
131. Unidentified building (HCAT 6117)
132. Northern Territory to Darwin pipeline (HCAT 6086)
133-138. Amadeus Basin to Darwin natural gas pipeline, with letter 5/2/1987 (HCAT 3712-3713)
139. AGL Home Service Centre (HCAT 3509)
140-147. Simulated natural/towns gas plants, Hamilton and Stockton, ca. 1980 (HCAT 4061-4068)

PXA 2156 / Box 8
1-5. Carpenters’ shop, pile stacks, superstructure & tunnel construction and form work at coal storage wharf, Oyster Cove (HCAT 3477-3480)
6-8. Haymarket offices redeveloped into Commonwealth Building, Sydney Central (HCAT 3541)
9-13. Maps of Sydney pipelines 
14-17. AGL Company building, Pitt St. Sydney (HCAT 3203)
18. AGL Building, Parramatta showroom (HCAT 3668)
19-20. AGL Buildings (HCAT 3327-3328)
21. AGL building, ‘Long may they reign’ display, 1937 (HCAT 6028)
22. Gasholders, ca. 1981 (HCAT 6032)
23. North Shore Gas, Oyster Cove buildings plan (HCAT 6033)
24. North Shore Gas Retort Settings (HCAT 6071)
25. North Shore Gas Works, 1890 (HCAT 3685)
26. Ground Floor Plan, AGL new offices, Pitt St., 1921 (HCAT 3544)
27. Pottery Works, Fowler & Son, Camperdown (engraving) (HCAT 3543)
28. Certificate of Registration, North Shore Gas (HCAT 6070)
29. Gas works (HCAT 72)
30. Group on foreshore of Oyster Cove, gasholder in background, 1882 (HCAT 2974)
31. Gas works (HCAT 5100)
32-33. Gasholders (HCAT 2649)
34-36. Gas works buildings & holders (HCAT 2660)
37. Tank (HCAT 2685)
38-40. Gasholder construction (HCAT 5141-5142)
41-50. Duplicates of photos from Hamilton & Newcastle West albums (HCAT 4070-4078)
51. Control panel for carburetted water gas plant (Douglass Baglin) (HCAT 3410)
52. Gas piping (HCAT 3462)
53-54. Gasholders (HCAT 3402)
55-58. Bridge construction 
59. AGL Building, Newcastle?
60-63. AGL Building, North Sydney (HCAT 3714)
64. Aerial view of Sydney
65. Aerial view of Sydney (HCAT 5021)
66-69. Aerial views of Newcastle (HCAT 5017-5020)
70-75. Aerial views of Sydney
76. Aerial view of new subdivision (HCAT 6065)
77. Gas service van (HCAT 5099)
78. Gas truck (HCAT 6002)
79-83. Pelton Bank (ship) (HCAT 5096, 5051, 5122-5124)
84-85. Access manhole into governor pit, Rockdale (HCAT 3614-3615)
86. Gas works building (HCAT 3562)
87. Haymarket (HCAT 3307)
88-89. New punchcard gas bill, front and back, 1959 (HCAT 3566)
90. Punchcard bill, Dis. Board, computer (HCAT 3587)
91-136. Prints of historic negatives, many damaged, including Millers Point Gasworks, AGL Building at Haymarket (including HCAT 3546-3549, 3554-3556, 3563-3700)
137-148. Contact sheets ((HCAT 3301-3302, 3367, 3371) 

PXA 2156 / Box 9 
1-2. Worker stoking furnace, Katoomba & Leura Gas Co. (HCAT 2367-2368)
3-4. Katoomba & Leura Gas Co., bought out by AGL in 1957 after collapse of carbonising plant (HCAT 2405-2406)
5. Albion lorry KS530 fitted with pressurised tar tank, ca. 1935 (HCAT 2441)
6. Porta-Gas lorry (HCAT 2447)
7. Aerial view (HCAT 2373)
8-11. Gas works, Hamilton, 1969 (HCAT 2796-2799)
12-16. Views of gas works (HCAT 1605-1608)
17. Gas works, 1937 (HCAT 1609)
18. Coke Depot, Blackwattle Bay (HCAT 1620)
19. King St West & The Junction, Newcastle Gas Co. site in background (HCAT 1622)
20-25. Blackwattle Bay Works (HCAT 1626-1632)
26-30. Allen Turbo Reavell Booster, 1926 (HCAT 1243, 1632-1636)
31-50. Gas works (HCAT 1639-1663)
51-58. Repairs to the crown of the Holder, ca. 1949 (HCAT 1664-1670)
59. Neutral Bay (HCAT 1747)
60-61. Nos. 1, 2 and 4 Retort House (HCAT 1761, 1764)
62. AGL Haymarket site after removal of the last gasholder, 1920 (HCAT 1875)
63. Panorama of Bankstown district, 1920 (HCAT 1942)
64-73. Gas works (HCAT 1945, 1988, 1997-2000, 2056-2058, 2063)
74-75. AGL office interior (HCAT 2069)
76-77. Workers outside works and service store (HCAT 2029, 2088)
78. Construction of unidentified gas holders (HCAT 2130)
79. Gas works (HCAT 2345)
80-81. Gas trucks
82. Porta-Gas home at Dapto, 1957 (HCAT 2204)
83. Head AGL office, Flinders St., Melbourne
84. Food being brought in to Mortlake gas works during strikes, Dec. 1946 (HCAT 2149)
85. Striking gas workers meeting at Mortlake gas works, 11/12/1946 (HCAT 2150)
86. Crowds rushing to buy cooking appliances at Brandt’s electrical store during gas strikes 20/12/1946 (HCAT 2163)
87. Improvised cooking methods during power & gas strikes, Rose Bay, 8/1/1946
88-89. Copies of articles from SMH ‘Strike is defiance of arbitration’, ‘Gasless washday for 300,000 Sydney housewives’ (HCAT 2166)
90. Copy of article from SMH, ‘Gas employees out’, 4/9/1917 (HCAT 2173)
91. Depression workers (S.J. Hood) (HCAT 2175)
92. Cartoon from SMH re strikes, 13/1/1947 (HCAT 2199)
93. Volunteer at Mortlake gas works during strike, 17/12/1946 (HCAT 2201)
94. Mass meeting of gas strikers in the Domain, 18/12/1946 (HCAT 2202)
95-106. Photographs from the Fell family collection (James Fell was an engineer with AGL and was instrumental in introducing gas to the North Shore of Sydney. The project was completed in 1877 and led to the formation of the North Shore Gas Company Ltd.) 
95-96. Members of the Goldie family with 1925 Chrysler car (HCAT 2059-2060)
98-100. Fell family photographs of North Sydney from Alfred St. (HCAT 2089)
101. Interior of Fell family house Branxholme, ca. 1880 (HCAT 2093)
102. Alfred St. (HCAT 2094)
103-104. Looking up Alfred St., 188- (HCAT 2095-2096)
105. Ferry, North Sydney (HCAT 2097)
106. North Shore Gas. Fell and Anderson families picnic on harbour beach (HCAT 2098)
107. Contact sheets (HCAT 2089-2108)

PXA 2156 / Box 10 
1-6. Prints from glass plate negatives, Oyster Cove (HCAT 936-943)
7-9. Building Retort House (HCAT 944-945)
10. Old boilers used as tar tanks, Oyster Cove (HCAT 946)
11-12. C.R. McKenzie’s punt, carried steam cranes & steam pile drivers to Oyster Cove (HCAT 947-948)
13. Foundation of holder half cut out from cliff (HCAT 949)
14. Building holder (HCAT 950)
15. Laboratory & governor house, ca. 1915 (HCAT 951)
16-18. Gas works interiors (HCAT 954, 1029)
19. Gas works, copy of painting (HCAT 1033)
20-21. Gas works, Newcastle (HCAT 1034-1035)
22-23. Building No. 6 (HCAT 1088)	
24-26. Gas works interiors (HCAT 1035-1037)
27. Darling Harbour gas works, ca. 1880 (HCAT 1153)
28-30. Gas works (HCAT 1143-1144, 1147)
31. Gas works, July 1929 (HCAT 1159)
32-34. Road works, ca. 1920 (HCAT 1183-1185)
35. Suburban street, unsealed (HCAT 1186)
36. Country road (HCAT 1187)
37-42. Tar sealing roads (HCAT 1188-1193)
43-47. Tar sprayer, late 1920’s (HCAT  1194-1198)
48. Bitumen (HCAT 1198)
49-51. Sealed and unsealed streets, ca. 1930 (HCAT 1200-1202)
52-60. Tar sealing roads, West Wyalong & Colyer St., Crookwell 1938 (HCAT 1203-1212)
61. Copy of J.B. Henderson watercolour of Robeys Sugar Works, site later occupied by Oyster Cove gasworks (HCAT 1242)
62. View of works & harbour, taken from Engineer’s residence 8 Carey St. Manly, 1925 (HCAT 1245)
63. View of Store Beach & Quarantine land, taken from Mr Ambrose’s back steps (HCAT 1246)
64. Gas works and beach. On rear ‘We are going to put in a hedge all round to make the house & ground more private from the works’, ca. 1925 (HCAT 1247)
65. Carey St., in front of house leading down to the works on the point (HCAT 1248)
66-68. View of works from Quarantine Jetty, 1925 (HCAT 1249-1251)
69. Western reclamation, 1926 (HCAT 1252)
70. Wharf & collier (HCAT 1253)
71. Gas works (HCAT 1261)
72-73. Gas works from 59 Stuart St., Manly, 1940 (HCAT 1254)
74. Balgowlah holder site & booster building, staff identified on rear (HCAT 1255)
75. Complete gasification plant being erected at Bathurst (HCAT 1256)
76-77. Hortonsphere at Balgowlah Depot, ca. 1932
78. Head Office, Manly Gas Co. (HCAT 1257)
79. Large gasholder erected 1909 (HCAT 1258)
80. Tar storage tank, Western Reclamation
81. Vertical carbonising plant being constructed
82-83. General view of works, 1926 & 1933
84. Vertical carbonising plant completed 1928
85. No. 2 gasholder erected 1888
86. Manly Gas Co. manager, chairman & engineer
87. Company exhibition at Brookvale Show, 1933
88. Old Photographic Section (HCAT 142)
89. AGL yard with Sulphate of Ammonia bags and gas appliances (HCAT 1181)

PXA 2156 / Box 11
1-8. Katoomba gasworks (HCAT 1)
9. AGL mains truck, ca. 1940 (HCAT 5)
10. Train at works (HCAT 7)
11. AGL’s first showroom at Haymarket (now Gipps St.) with Welsback incandescent gas light burners, 1896 (HCAT 20)
12. Postcard of gasworks (HCAT 31)
13-20. Mechanisation of mains laying, with demonstration of Barber Greene trench digger (HCAT 32-29)
21. Repairs to slew ring of Coles Crane, 1953 (HCAT40)
22-28. AGL crane (HCAT 41-47)	
29-30. Gantry crane and other machinery (HCAT 48-49)
31. Coke delivery wagon, ca. 1890 (HCAT 50)
32. Kent St., Gas Lighting exterior (HCAT 51)
33. Building exterior (HCAT 52)
34. First shipment of refrigerators after unloading from the Manoora (HCAT 63)
35-36. Exterior of AGL office & showroom (HCAT 68-69)
37. Kent St. works, towns gas manufacturing , 1870’s (HCAT 73)
38. Line up of 1st AGL fleet of cars, Ford vehicles, 1936 (HCAT 75)
39-42. Head Station coke yard (HCAT 87-89)
43-44. Kent St. Office? (HCAT 92-93)
45. Removal of the last gas lamp in North Ryde, ca. 1928 (HCAT 107)
46-53. Gas works (HCAT 94-117)
54. Haymarket, mains laying high pressure main, Ultimo, 1911
55-57. AGL building (HCAT 125-127)
58-60. AGL buildings and office (HCAT 128-129, 133)
61. Train at works (HCAT 136)
62. Gas meter (HCAT 139)
63. Interior of plant (HCAT 139)
64. Head Station – No. 2 Gasholder (HCAT 145)
65. Parramatta Gas Co. Ltd (HCAT 146)
66. Service Store  (HCAT 173)
67-68. Research & Industrial Gas Laboratories exterior  (HCAT 174-175)
69-81. Gasholder construction, Mortlake, Holroyd and other locations  (HCAT 176-188)
82. Apprentices in AGL dungarees removing street lamps, ca. 1930  (HCAT189)
83. AGL advertising on lorries, ca. 1920  (HCAT 193)
84-85. Service Cleaning lorries  (HCAT 196-197)
86-87. Unloading punt  (HCAT 200)
88. View of works from Parramatta River  (HCAT 201)
89. Holmes Vertical Washer Scrubber (HCAT 202)
90. Turners shop (HCAT 203)
91-92. Parsons Steam Turbo Blower & Exhauster (HCAT 204-205)
93. Coke screens & hoppers (HCAT 206)
94. Coal breakers (HCAT 207)
95. Kent St. Works from roof of main office, ca. 1900 (HCAT 27)

PXA 2156 / Box 12	
1. Shoots for loading telpher (HCAT 208)
2. Coke telpher, no. 3 Retort House (HCAT 209)
3. Purifiers (HCAT 210)
4-5. No. 4 Retort House coal bunker & chambers (HCAT 211)
6. Spiral lowerers for telpher (HCAT 212)
7. Workshops & cold store (HCAT 213)
8. Gasholders & tar distilling plant (HCAT 214)
9. Coke screens
10. Waller’s Exhauster (HCAT 216)
11. Generating Set (HCAT 217)
12. Parsons Steam Turbo Blower (HCAT 218)
13. Shoots for loading telpher (HCAT 219)
14. No. 4 Purifier (HCAT 220)
15. Spiral elevator
16. Boilers of generating plant (HCAT 222)
17. Interior of electric generating station (HCAT 224)
18-19. Travelling gantry (HCAT 225-226)
20. Telpher (HCAT 227)
21. Gasholder (HCAT 228)
22. Coal receiving wharf with SS Pelaw Main alongside, 1918 (HCAT 229)
23. Blacksmiths shop (HCAT 233)
24. Spiral elevators (HCAT 230)
25-26. Machinery (HCAT 352-353)
27-28. Mains laying (HCAT 355-356)
29-30. Katoomba, 1879? (HCAT 362-363)
31. Bedford Lorry, 1936 (HCAT 364)
32-37. Gas works (HCAT 366-371)
38. Back courtyard of Parramatta showroom (HCAT 373)
39-40. Site of Holroyd holder, ca. 1928 (HCAT 374, 380)
41-42. The Mortlake Bank collier (HCAT 385-386)
43-44. Works interior (HCAT 387-388)
45-46. Holder construction (HCAT 390-391)
47. Benzole Recovery & Refining Plant, begun in 1942, completed 1946 (HCAT 392)
48-49. Gas works (HCAT 393-394)
50. Old method of coal unloading (HCAT 393)
51. North Shore Gas Co., Oyster Cove, 12th Oct. 1916 
52. North Shore Gas Works, Neutral Bay, 1927 (HCAT 396)
53. No. 1 Gasholder, Oyster Cove Works, 1933 (HCAT 397)
54. North Shore Gas Works, Neutral Bay, 1937 (HCAT 399)
55. North Shore Gas Works, 1917 (HCAT 400)
56. No. 3 Gasholder, Neutral Bay, 1926 (HCAT 403)
57. View from top of the tank (HCAT 404)
58. Cooks in commercial gas kitchen (HCAT 413)
59-60. Gasholder (HCAT 414-415)
61. No. 13 Spiral Drive, 1923 (HCAT 416)
62. No. 5 Condensers & Interceptors, 1923 (HCAT 417)
63. 3 Way Pump Cylinder, 1923 (HCAT 418)
64. Elevator to high level area, 1923 (HCAT 419)
65-68. AGL buildings (HCAT 422-425)
69-70. AGL vehicles (HCAT 426-427)
71-72. AGL office and shop front display ‘God Save the Queen’ (HCAT 428, 430)
73. AGL lorry unloading (HCAT 429)
74. Gasworks (HCAT 431)
75-82. Gasworks, Hexham Bank collier and wharf (HCAT 435-443)
83. Head Station & Rountree Dock, 1860 (HCAT 444)
84-85. Sulphate House, 1923 (HCAT 449-450)
86. Exhaust House excavations (HCAT 448)
87. No. 1 Holder, 1923 (HCAT 449)
88-90. Gasworks, 1923 (HCAT 450-452)
91-98. No. 5 Retort House, 1923 (HCAT 453-360)
99-102. Telpher Repair Shop, 1923 (HCAT 461-464)

PXA 2156 / Box 13	
1-6. High level Screening Plant, 1923 (HCAT 465-470)
7-10. No. 6 Purifiers (HCAT 471-474)
11-13. New station meter, 1923 (HCAT 475,477)
14-16. New coke loading jetty, 1923 (HCAT 478-480)
17-30. Gordon, 1923 (HCAT 483-499)
31. Hexham Bank collier (HCAT 732)
32-33. Pipelaying at Ashfield (HCAT 743-744)
34. Leyland truck at Ashfield (HCAT 745)
35-43. Pipes & cutter, Ashfield (HCAT 747-754)
44-48. Pipes, Camperdown (HCAT 755,759)
49-50. Sink heaters, later 1930s (HCAT 760-761)
51-54. Woolloomooloo transport
55-57. Product of boilermakers shop
58-72. Gasholders & works (HCAT 810-833)
73. Head Station, from Darling Harbour (HCAT 837)
74-75. Workshop interiors (HCAT 848-849)
76-77. Pipe laying (HCAT 857)
78-80. Gasworks (HCAT 866, 868)
81-83. Pumping station near gate (HCAT 869-871)
84-85. Aerial views (HCAT 872-873)
86-88. Gas pipes 
89. Construction of Retort House (No. 6, Mortlake?)
90-96. Gasworks & buildings (HCAT 883-890)
97. Vehicles outside gas plant (HCAT 894)
98-100. Works interiors (HCAT 895-896)
101. Works exterior (HCAT 899)
102. No. 1 Retort House when demolishing railway, 1949-1950 (HCAT 905)
103. Telpher, Oyster Cove (HCAT 934)
104. Coal store & Retort House (HCAT 935)
105. Mossman’s Bay (HCAT 3007)
106-119. Camperdown Store (numbered 1-14 with index, no. 6 & 11 missing) (HCAT 340-349)
120-127. Mortlake Store (numbered 1-9 with index, no. 1 missing)
128-133. Ashfield Store (numbered 1-9 with index, no. 3-4 missing)
134. Refrigerators lined up for testing at Camperdown (HCAT 509)
135. Duratenax tar spraying operations in suburban street (HCAT 194)
136-137. Leyland ‘Beaver’ tar sprayer, 1937 (HCAT 612-613)
138. Duratenax lorry 
139. Duratar storage tanks, Blackwattle Bay Depot (HCAT 64)
140. Tar surfacing with Duratar mechanical sprayer (HCAT 66)
141. Flavelle St., Concord road surfacing (HCAT 78)
142. Tar spraying in inner Sydney (HCAT 195)
143-144. ‘Albion’ KS530 Lorry (HCAT 618-619)
145. Tar sprayer in operation, 1938 (HCAT 615)
146-147. Leyland ‘Beaver’ tar sprayer (HCAT 616-617)

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Christine Laurence papers relating to Sydney sustainable transport movement, ca. 1975-2007

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