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Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) [B 71135/1-220] • Photograph

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/151

raising trestle

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/151

raising trestle

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/152

navigable pass and lock at flooding coffer dam

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/152

navigable pass and lock at flooding coffer dam

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/153

transporting material across completed part of structure

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/153

transporting material across completed part of structure

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/154

first lock wall pour

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/154

first lock wall pour

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/155

downstream end of southern wall

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/155

downstream end of southern wall

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/156

downstream end

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/156

downstream end

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/157

cellular wall - gate recess in foreground

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/157

cellular wall - gate recess in foreground

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/158

reinforcements - nav. pass face

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/158

reinforcements - nav. pass face

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/159

steel at corner of gate recess

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/159

steel at corner of gate recess

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/160

valve tunnel and shaft - reinforcements

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/160

valve tunnel and shaft - reinforcements

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/161

valve tunnel and shaft - complete

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/161

valve tunnel and shaft - complete

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/162

upstream valve shaft

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/162

upstream valve shaft

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/163

upstream valve shaft

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/163

upstream valve shaft

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/164

valve

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/164

valve

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/165

lock wall reinforcement

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/165

lock wall reinforcement

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/166

lock walls during construction 1936

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/166

lock walls during construction 1936

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/167

lock walls during construction 1936

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/167

lock walls during construction 1936

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/168

lock walls during construction 1936

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/168

lock walls during construction 1936

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/169

upstream valve fully open

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/169

upstream valve fully open

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/170

downstream valve shaft

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/170

downstream valve shaft

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/171

U.S. gate recess

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/171

U.S. gate recess

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/172

[US gate during assembly]

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/172

[US gate during assembly]

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/173

[US gate during assembly]

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/173

[US gate during assembly]

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/174

U.S. gate during assembly

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/174

U.S. gate during assembly

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/175

D.S. gate

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/175

D.S. gate

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/176

lock walls

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/176

lock walls

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/177

swing bridge - cantilever end

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/177

swing bridge - cantilever end

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/178

swing bridge joining up

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/178

swing bridge joining up

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/179

test loading

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/179

test loading

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/180

swing bridge open and closed

Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1) — Development of locks on the Murray River (volume 1)

Beaney, Harold, c. 1932-1938, Photograph, B 71135/180

swing bridge open and closed

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Summary

One of a set of three photograph albums (B 71135 - B 71137) featuring photographs of construction of the Goolwa barrage and locks 7 and 8. Title on spine of volume is 'Locks - Goolwa 1' and contains some over-arching captions: 10-18. lock floor details; 79-82. Goolwa barrage 1935 - tension test piles; 83-86. Goolwa barrage 1935-36; 123-126. R.L. 95.00 sluices; 139-151. navigable pass; and 154-161. lock walls under construction. See 'contents' for details of items, where the captions/descriptions are as provided by photographer.

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Physical description

Photograph album; 21.5 cm x 27.6 cm x 3 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1932-1938

Photographer

Beaney, Harold

Collection

Part of Album Collection

Subject

Barrages -- South Australia -- Murray River Estuary -- Design and construction
Goolwa Barrage

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Formatted content

B 71135/1: Goolwa barrage
B 71135/2: Lock No.7 - No.1 cofferdam, March 1932 (panorama)
B 71135/3: Cofferdam and ferry
B 71135/4: No.1 cofferdam - excavation and pile foundations Jan-Feb 1932
B 71135/5: No.1 cofferdam - excavation and pile foundations Jan-Feb 1932
B 71135/6: No.1 cofferdam - excavation and pile foundations Jan-Feb 1932
B 71135/7: Lock chambers - pile driving March 1932
B 71135/8: Lock chambers - pile driving March 1932
B 71135/9: Lock chambers - pile driving March 1932
B 71135/10: Glazed earthenware drains
B 71135/11: Island floor monoliths
B 71135/12: Small end trestle anchor bolts
B 71135/13: Driving round piles pass sluice pier
B 71135/14: Lock walls May 1932
B 71135/15: Lock walls May 1932
B 71135/16: Downstream end of river wall
B 71135/17: Valve recess
B 71135/18: Formwork for valve tunnel
B 71135/19: Land wall step forms
B 71135/20: Land wall step forms
B 71135/21: Forming a twist batter
B 71135/22: Shift work [night shot]
B 71135/23: Navigable pass - Wakefield steel & temporary 6 in. piling
B 71135/24: Flooding cofferdam - high river Sept. 1932
B 71135/25: [Filled coffer dam]
B 71135/26: Downstream protection
B 71135/27: Bottom seating of needle beams
B 71135/28: Upstream clay blanket
B 71135/29: Trestle
B 71135/30: Lock gate prior to sheathing
B 71135/31: Assembling nav. pass with cableway
B 71135/32: Connection of pass sluice pier and no.2 cofferdam
B 71135/33: Nav. pass from d'stream
B 71135/34: Lock chamber from d's
B 71135/35: Starting to remove no.1 cofferdam
B 71135/36: Upstream end of no.1 cofferdam
B 71135/37: Lock no.8 - navigable pass and lock river wall
B 71135/38: Lock no.8 - navigable pass and lock river wall
B 71135/39: Lock no.8 - navigable pass and lock river wall
B 71135/40: Lock no.8 - navigable pass and lock river wall
B 71135/41: Lock no.8 - two views of upstream end of lock
B 71135/42: Lock no.8 - two views of upstream end of lock
B 71135/43: Lock no.8 - downstream end of river wall
B 71135/44: Lock no.7 - lock chamber from downstream 1933
B 71135/45: Lock no.7 - downstream lock gates
B 71135/46: Lock no.7 - downstream lock gates
B 71135/47: U.S. type cofferdam piles after pulling
B 71135/48: Lock no.8 - no.2 cofferdam
B 71135/49: lock no.7 - navigable pass trestles with experimental maintenance c'dam
B 71135/50: lock no.8 & 7 - driving sluices round piles
B 71135/51: lock no.8 & 7 - driving sluices round piles
B 71135/52: lock no.8 & 7 - driving sluices round piles
B 71135/53: lock no.7 - sluices crib
B 71135/54: lock no.7 - sluices base slab
B 71135/55: lock no.8 - formwork for sluices base slab
B 71135/56: lock no.7 - sluices piers and formwork
B 71135/57: lock no.7 - sluices piers and formwork
B 71135/58: lock no.7 - sluices piers and formwork
B 71135/59: lock no.7 - sluices piers
B 71135/60: lock no.7 - sluices piers
B 71135/61: lock no.7 - sluices piers
B 71135/62: lock no.8 - sluices piers
B 71135/63: lock no.8 - sluices piers
B 71135/64: model experiments - nav. pass discharge
B 71135/65: model experiments - nav. pass discharge
B 71135/66: model experiments - nav. pass discharge
B 71135/67: model experiments - nav. pass discharge
B 71135/68: model experiments - nav. pass discharge
B 71135/69: model experiments - sluices discharge
B 71135/70: model experiments - sluices discharge
B 71135/71: model experiments - sluices discharge
B 71135/72: C.Y. dipper dredge
B 71135/73: training spur no.6 - pile driving 1033
B 71135/74: Str.[steamer] Captain Sturt travelling light
B 71135/75: cableway hoist
B 71135/76: cableway headtower lock no.7
B 71135/77: Goolwa bound - lock no.8, Nov 1934
B 71135/78: flooding flume - lock no.7 Sep. 1932
B 71135/79: rig for no.1 test pile
B 71135/80: original type of gauging level
B 71135/81: no.4 test pile - counterweighting the beam for low initial loads
B 71135/82: attachment of loading strop to pile
B 71135/83: modified gauging lever attachment
B 71135/84: guaging device with telescope used on all later series of tests
B 71135/85: two views of trial rig for driving 1 in 3 batter piles
B 71135/86: two views of trial rig for driving 1 in 3 batter piles
B 71135/87: R.L. 102.00 sluices - heads of batter piles
B 71135/88: R.L. 102.00 sluices - base slab reinforcing steel
B 71135/89: navigable pass - pile heads and bottom reinforcements
B 71135/90: R.L. 102.00 sluices - placing top slab rods
B 71135/91: R.L. 102.00 sluices - screeding off and floating surface
B 71135/92: general view of shore end of no.1 cofferdam
B 71135/93: no.1 cofferdam - sluices and lock piles
B 71135/94: R.L. 102.00 sluices - placing concrete in 12 ft. pier form
B 71135/95: R.L. 102.00 sluices - piers and intermediate formwork
B 71135/96: batter pile frame - lock piles - stiff leg derrick for upstream lock construction
B 71135/97: R.L. 95.00 sluices
B 71135/98: R.L. 95.00 sluices looking south to navigable pass and lock March 1936
B 71135/99: lock and lock and navigable pass March 1936
B 71135/100: lock and lock and navigable pass March 1936
B 71135/101: R.L. 95.00 sluices - base slab - 42 ft. wide by 3 ft. deep
B 71135/102: R.L. 95.00 sluices - piers 30 ft. long and 19 ft. high - pass sluice pier in foreground
B 71135/103: lock chamber from upstream
B 71135/104: lock - swing bridge foundation
B 71135/105: driving Larssen steel shaft piles along centre line of barrage as watertight cut off - piles 40 ft. long - piles part driven in with a no.2 Warrington hammer and then in stages with a 9.B.2 McKiernan-Terry hammer
B 71135/106: R.L. 102.00 sluices - completed structure
B 71135/107: R.L. 102.00 sluices as seen from southern end
B 71135/108: panorama from Sir Richard's peninsula
B 71135/109: looking towards no.2 coffer dam
B 71135/110: no.1 coffer dam flooded
B 71135/111: crushed metal stacks with derricks and hoppers serving 3 ft. 6 in. gauge railway to concrete mixer and coffer dam
B 71135/112: rip rap stacks
B 71135/113: placing concrete in base slab
B 71135/114: placing concrete in pier
B 71135/115: the first pour - southern abutment base slab
B 71135/116: R.L. 102.00 sluices - bottom rods and spirals
B 71135/117: southern abutment
B 71135/118: downstream wing wall
B 71135/119: two view showing trestle railway into no.1 coffer dam
B 71135/120: two view showing trestle railway into no.1 coffer dam
B 71135/121: cut off wall - incomplete - southern abutment
B 71135/122: 12 ft. pier - R.L. 102.00 sluices
B 71135/123: travelling derrick with 80 ft. boom used for placing concrete in 42 ft. base slab
B 71135/124: pier form and concrete platform
B 71135/125: view of piers and downstream rip rap
B 71135/126: completed piers
B 71135/127: sluice slab foundation at step from R.L. 95.00 sluices to R.L. 99.00 sluices
B 71135/128: formwork for upstream wing wall of northern abutment
B 71135/129: two views of sluices in no.2 coffer dam April 1939
B 71135/130: two views of sluices in no.2 coffer dam April 1939
B 71135/131: handling 12 ft. concrete platform
B 71135/132: stiff leg derrick at 2 in. metal dump
B 71135/133: hand crane used to handle girders & derrick stone
B 71135/134: dumping large stone from derrick
B 71135/135: diver working on test pile anchorage
B 71135/136: loco. entering dam on trestle railway
B 71135/137: upstream fender - lock and navigable pass
B 71135/138: upstream fender - lock and navigable pass
B 71135/139: reinforcements - lock construction
B 71135/140: reinforcements - lock construction
B 71135/141: anchor bolts - trestle hinge casting
B 71135/142: base slab during construction
B 71135/143: base slab
B 71135/144: base slab
B 71135/145: trestles
B 71135/146: trestles
B 71135/147: trestles laid down
B 71135/148: casts of serpulid worm 6 mo. formation
B 71135/149: eye bolt anchorage
B 71135/150: gate post foot casting and trestle hinge casting
B 71135/151: raising trestle
B 71135/152: navigable pass and lock at flooding coffer dam
B 71135/153: transporting material across completed part of structure
B 71135/154: first lock wall pour
B 71135/155: downstream end of southern wall
B 71135/156: downstream end
B 71135/157: cellular wall - gate recess in foreground
B 71135/158: reinforcements - nav. pass face
B 71135/159: steel at corner of gate recess
B 71135/160: valve tunnel and shaft - reinforcements
B 71135/161: valve tunnel and shaft - complete
B 71135/162: upstream valve shaft
B 71135/163: upstream valve shaft
B 71135/164: valve
B 71135/165: lock wall reinforcement
B 71135/166: lock walls during construction 1936
B 71135/167: lock walls during construction 1936
B 71135/168: lock walls during construction 1936
B 71135/169: upstream valve fully open
B 71135/170: downstream valve shaft
B 71135/171: U.S. gate recess
B 71135/172: [US gate during assembly]
B 71135/173: [US gate during assembly]
B 71135/174: U.S. gate during assembly
B 71135/175: D.S. gate
B 71135/176: lock walls
B 71135/177: swing bridge - cantilever end
B 71135/178: swing bridge joining up
B 71135/179: test loading
B 71135/180: swing bridge open and closed
B 71135/181: swing bridge open and closed
B 71135/182: swing bridge open and closed
B 71135/183: swing bridge open and closed
B 71135/184: swing bridge open and closed
B 71135/185: swing bridge open and closed
B 71135/186: concrete mixer assemblies
B 71135/187: concrete mixer assemblies
B 71135/188: concrete mixer assemblies
B 71135/189: concrete mixer assemblies
B 71135/190: no.1 cofferdam Nov. 1935
B 71135/191: no.1 cofferdam Nov. 1935
B 71135/192: no.1 cofferdam Nov. 1935
B 71135/193: no.1 cofferdam Nov. 1935
B 71135/194: no.1 cofferdam - construction and sluices excavation 1935
B 71135/195: no.1 cofferdam - construction and sluices excavation 1935
B 71135/196: no.1 cofferdam - construction and sluices excavation 1935
B 71135/197: no.1 cofferdam after dewatering Dec. 1935
B 71135/198: no.1 cofferdam after dewatering Dec. 1935
B 71135/199: no.1 cofferdam after dewatering Dec. 1935
B 71135/200: waves against cofferdam
B 71135/201: sluices excavation by dragline
B 71135/202: bed of cofferdam
B 71135/203: various views of no.2 cofferdam showing plant left from no.1 cofferdam and 12 inch centrifugal pumps 1937
B 71135/204: various views of no.2 cofferdam showing plant left from no.1 cofferdam and 12 inch centrifugal pumps 1937
B 71135/205: various views of no.2 cofferdam showing plant left from no.1 cofferdam and 12 inch centrifugal pumps 1937
B 71135/206: various views of no.2 cofferdam showing plant left from no.1 cofferdam and 12 inch centrifugal pumps 1937
B 71135/207: lock chamber - casts of serpulid worms 15 month after flooding
B 71135/208: lock chamber - casts of serpulid worms 15 month after flooding
B 71135/209: lock chamber - casts of serpulid worms 15 month after flooding
B 71135/210: lock chamber - casts of serpulid worms 15 month after flooding
B 71135/211: general view July 1935
B 71135/212: no.2 cofferdam 1938
B 71135/213: moonlight 26 April 1937 [ over dam works and workmen's huts]
B 71135/214: [equipment]
B 71135/215: [equipment]
B 71135/216: [equipment]
B 71135/217: [equipment]
B 71135/218: [waterway]
B 71135/219: [spillway]
B 71135/220: [tank].

Historical information

Harold Beaney (1909-2004) joined the Engineering and Water Supply (E&WS) Department as a young engineering graduate, rising to become engineering chief by the time of his retirement. During his career he oversaw the construction of the Goolwa barrage and the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline, among others. The albums reflect his interest in photography.

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