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The Stirling Water Tube Boiler Co. Camp At Ryde, NSW

c1906. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, postcard format, caption in image, 8.7 x 13.8cm. Silvering.

Stirling Water Tube Boilers were first introduced at Ryde Water Pumping Station in 1906. Built in 1891, the pumping station had significant “impact on Sydney life...[During] the early 1900s, Sydney was not only in continual drought, but water was particularly scarce north of the harbour.” Heritage status was granted to the pumping station in 2017. Ref: Engineering Australia, 2016; SMH, 24.10.2017.

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Item #CL194-99

Price (AUD): $660.00  other currencies