Cockatoo Island

Eveleigh Railway Workshops

Steel Manufacture in Australia

Mortlake Gas Works

Lithgow Small Arms Factory

Steel Manufacture in Lithgow

Shale Oil Mining in NSW

CSR Chemicals - Rhodes

CSR Pyrmont Sugar Refinery

TRADES & SKILLS

Industrial Blacksmith

Pattern Making

Foundry Work

Pyrmont Wharf - circa 1950s   (courtesy of Sydney Morning Herald)

The aim of this page is to supply information on various industrial heritage topics such as:

• mining in NSW,
• the railway industry
• ship building in Sydney
• industries in Sydney & NSW
• the history of steel making in Australia.
• past industrial trades and skills

It is important to conserve the industrial history of our nation; to pass on to future generations what industrial endeavours made our society and what our forefathers worked at to create the world we live in today. Many of the topics on this page cover industrial sites that no longer exist but were major centres of manufacturing of some kind in their day and in many cases employed many people in order to function.

It is also important to conserve the trades, techniques and skills that these people used in our past industrial businesses in order to communicate what effort it took to create the products of their endeavours as well as to preserve some of those products for the future.

If you would like to contribute to this page or have this page link to your work please contact us.

This Page is Still Under Further Construction

Riveters working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Page last updated 09 March, 2007