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Pumping barge on Tweed Harbour, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, circa 1900, Photographer unknown

Label
Pumping barge on Tweed Harbour, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, circa 1900, Photographer unknown
Characteristic
picture
Main title
Pumping barge on Tweed Harbour, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, circa 1900
Medium
picture
Responsibility statement
Photographer unknown
Runtime
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Summary
"Tweed Heads J.D.W."--Inscription on photographThe Tweed River training walls were being placed at this time with rock quarried from Point Danger. The barge may be pumping sand from the Harbour mouth into the reclamation area formed by the walls. The Pacific Hotel in Tweed Heads is visible in the background on Wharf Street. The postcard was addressed "Beulah Hill, 28/5/08"
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