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[Jim's Story]

Australia, 2005
film

Jim Melmoth began working at the Truganina Explosives Reserve in Altona at the age of 20 as part of the maintenance crew. He helped to build the extension on ..

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[Celebrating the Site's Industrial Life]

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Unreserved : stories from Truganina Explosives Reserve

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[The Dead Table]

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[The Vault]

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[Celebrating the Site's Flora and Fauna]

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Australian diary. No. 098

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First job after leaving school (c.1916)

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[Construction of the Water Tower at Fletcher Jones Factory, Warrnambool, 1967]

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The Miners of Melbourne

Australia, 1971
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The City of Melbourne

Australia, 1965
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Explosives: the two metre lifeline

Australia, 1974
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Reminiscing

Australia, NOV 2010
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Project expansion

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[Robert Lennox Suggett Collection]

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The Corinella Jetty

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Two thousand million years later

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[Melbourne]

Australia, 1935
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Tall timbers

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