172 A4 PAGES LIMP COVERby Alex McAndrew
172 A4 PAGES LIMP COVER
MAPS, WELL ILLUSTRATED INCLUDING 153 PHOTOS
REGIONAL HISTORY: THE ORIGINS OF MILTON-ULLADULLA BY NARRAWALLEE CREEK, THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS, THE NEW SETTLERS, EARLY CEDAR INDUSTRY, THE SILICA INDUSTRY BY THE SEA, THE BEGINNING OF TOURISM AND THE PRESENT NARRAWALLEE BEACH RESORT.
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PAGE 75 INCLUDING PHOTO OF BRIDGE ACROSS NARRAWALLEE INLET
COURTESY OF THE FAUST FAMILY OF MILTON
In October 1924 the silica work at Bannister Headland ceased in order to allow the construction of the tramline from the Pattemore leases to the wharf. So the old tramlines around Jones Beach which were one foot eleven and a half inches apart were replaced by two foot gauge line of steel rails. Local timbermen, Jim Smith, Bob Higgins, and his son, Frank, cut 3000 sleepers for the whole line. Those sleepers were logs split in halves and placed round side down. Ernie (Doughey) Millard was the blacksmith who made all the bolts on the site at Narrawallee. Frank Higgins worked for him for 1/- (10 cents) an hour. The bridge across Narrawallee Inlet was built at the cost of £2600. The jetty at Bannister cost £5000. Local timber from around Narrawallee Creek was used for the sleepers and the construction of the bridge, but the piles and girders for the wharf were from big turpentine trees (the timber men call them turpies) that had come from the foothills on the range west of Milton. It was "Joe" William Montgomery (born 1889) who brought in the latter timbers. First he ringbarked the chosen trees; six weeks later he felled and trimmed them, then laboriously (perhaps miraculously) drew them with a horse team all the way to the beach. It took a whole day to drag one pile or girder some of which were 80 ft long. We must bear in mind that there was, at the time, no made road down to Narrawallee Beach.
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