tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39329005308501064752012-01-19T19:17:38.064-08:00Transmission Lines 1955–1974 is a project by Linda Carroli. It documents my father’s working life as a rigger and linesman with the Electric Power Transmission and its Italian parent company. He kept a photographic record of his working life and the photographs featured in this map are his personal photographs from Australia and Italy in the period 1955 to 1974. He commenced work in Italy in 1954 and remained working with EPT until 1975.lindanoreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932900530850106475.post-65582352280200020362012-01-19T19:14:00.000-08:002012-01-19T19:17:38.077-08:00

With the EPT conversation occurring across several social media platforms, including the facebook group, the sharing of stories is also more networked. Today, via facebook, I heard from Ginetta Morato, daughter of Luigi Morato. She writes: My father, Luigi Morato also worked for SAE Bologna before being sent to Australia in 1956. He was employed by EPT for all of his working years in this land

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Matthew Quomi has set up a facebook group as a meeting place for former E.P.T. employees and their descendants to share their memories. Some of the content from Transmission Lines, particularly photographs, will be shared with the facebook group. For those not connected to facebook, I am happy to accept comments or emails and pass them on.

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Ian Moller has consulted with his colleague Brian Becconsall to compile these notes about EPT work in Queensland. Brian says, "I believe the first steel lines were all built by E.P.T. throughout the 1960’s. I think the only competitor was ASCOM who got 50% of the Gladstone to Brisbane 275kV interconnectors to ensure they were all done on time by 1973 (associated with the establishment of

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In earlier correspondence, Giovanni Venturi wrote that his father had a church built in the 1950s for EPT workers and their families. He sent some early footage of the church, camp and community at Marayong.

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Giovanni Venturi has sent some film footage shot in the 1950s. EPT workers constructed several television towers across Australia. This video, the first of several, shows the construction of TCN Channel 9 Tower at Gore Hill.

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PANDORA is Australia’s Web Archive based at the National Library of Australia. They have been in touch requesting inclusion of Transmission lines 1955-1974  in the PANDORA Archive. This means the Library retains the project in the Archive and provides public access to it in perpetuity. It will be re-archived periodically to record significant additions and changes. The Library will take the

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I received an email recently from Ian Moller who worked in the electricity industry in Queensland for 40 years (as an electrical engineer - mainly in transmission) before retiring in 2007. He wrote: I recall EPT doing a lot of transmission line construction in Qld but I would be hard pressed to identify which lines were built by EPT. But I think some of the early 275kV lines built for SEAQ

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932900530850106475.post-76141060945991931922012-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:002012-01-05T19:46:12.989-08:00

From Matthew QuomiHammersley Iron, Dampier, WAI have been busy asking my father questions and so far I have discovered only the tip of the iceberg, there are so many interesting and amazing stories. I have quickly scanned a few images that my father has to show you a different side of EPT away from the building transmission lines such as building the Ramshead chairlift in Thredbo by hand (cranes

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Matthew Quomi met with another passionate Eptiano, Nino Guido.He told me that every year they organise a reunion and last year’s event was attended by 200 odd people. I have also heard about another E.P.T. reunion that takes place every year in Italy. The man that I met with yesterday has an amazing archive of photographs which mostly illustrate the E.P.T. camp in Port Kembla. Two (2) of his

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From Matthew QuomiI’ve been speaking with quite a few former E.P.T. employees and they are all very passionate about documenting the history of the company and stories of the workers and the projects that they built before it is too late. Hopefully through your wonderful blog, my E.P.T. Facebook group and other social media platforms, other members of the E.P.T. family can share their stories.My

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From Matthew QuomiI made a pilgrimage to Marayong, deep into western Sydney. I easily found the E.P.T. chapel incongruously hidden in a small industrial estate, within walking distance of the Marayong train station. I parked on the street, just in front of the church and as I got out my mind started to spiral back over time to fifty (50) years ago. I tried to contemplate what it was like when

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Another surprise email arrived today ... G`day Linda, Mark Stass is my name, my parents moved to Marayong in 1952 after migrating from Europe 1949. Dad was Czechoslovakian and spoke many languages amongst them Italian. He was a barber by trade and had a lively trade from all the mob from the EPT camp. He had a day job at Riverstone meatworks and cut hair after hours at our house. I was born in

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932900530850106475.post-8924551580244653942011-01-20T17:00:00.001-08:002012-01-17T23:30:51.433-08:00

This video was produced during a digital storytelling workshop at the State Library of Queensland last year - under the watchful guidance of Gavin and David. It extends the work of the Transmission Lines project.

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Leo di Rocco has provided more information about the jeeps, as pictured with Paolo Cardinale at the wheel.... It was great to see the old jeep with Paul at the wheel, I knew him and his whole family. The jeep and many other military vehicles were bought from the Australian army these vehicles were surplus and all American and they were shipped to Australia during the second world war under the

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And still another proud son and nephew ... I'm looking forward to receiving the photographs.Hi LindaI was looking through some old photos with my father this morning of when he first came to Australia and then afterwards I decided to do a google search for EPT which brought me to your website. I think your blog is fantastic and I really enjoyed reading through it, especially because he it

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932900530850106475.post-45456017011083031282011-01-19T00:02:00.000-08:002011-01-19T04:31:35.619-08:00

And here, another proud son, Mario Smargiasso, who wrote to me via facebook, tells me about his father's role in EPT.My name is Mario Smargiasso, I've just found on the internet a blogspot about the Transmission Lines 1955-1974 page - I was born in 1959 in Wollongong, and lived until 1965 in Lake Heights - Warrawong - Port Kembla area.My father Camillo came from Italy to work in the EPT company,

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It's messages like this one from Riccardo Checchi that remind me of the warmth and strong bonds that made EPT such a strong community, an extended family.Dear Miss CarroliAllow me to introduce myself.My name is Riccardo Checchi. I am also a former EPT man. Actually, I am a bit more than that because I worked at SAE Milano for almost 12 years before moving to Australia in 1967.During my years with

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A lovely message from Carmen Caridinale via facebook about her nonno and father, former EPT workers Antonio Cardinale and Paolo Cardinale.Hi Linda. I came across your blog transmission line and was very impressed! my grandparents migrated from Italy to Marayong. My grandfather Antonio Cardinale worked in EPT for many years as the cook. After working at EPT my grandfather opened up a Caltex

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932900530850106475.post-20846344944387505652011-01-18T23:23:00.000-08:002011-01-20T17:05:48.083-08:00

I didn't realise that Marco Nanni had posted more photographs to his Flickr photostream including some beautiful photos of the men at work and of life and conditions in the camps, including some encounters with wildlife.

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It's been a remarkable couple of weeks. Other than my home city being hit by severe flooding, I've received several emails from EPT workers and their families - all promising to share photographs and stories. This has prompted me to think a bit about Transmission Lines and perhaps the need for a more formal approach. This project started out as a bit of an experiment about developing personal/

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Some months ago Mr Venturi kindly emailed more photographs of the Marayong Camp taken in the mid 1950s by his father. The photographs show the Marayong office and steelworks under construction (1956).He also sent a black and white photo showing the preparation (cut, shape and galvanisation) of the steel girders used in the transmission line towers.

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Marco Nanni has set up a Flickr photostream. These are incredibly evocative images that genuinely provide a sense of the height and heaviness of the work involved. Just look at the acrobatics of the workers! Here is a slide show of the images. Thank you for sharing Marco!

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This comment was posted to Transmission Lines and I thought it needed more prominence - another story about an SAE/EPT worker who made the journey to Australia. We may have some more photos to look at. Incidentally, I haven't been working much on the blog but I have some photographs from Giovanni Venturi which I will publish soon. I have also heard received a brief note from a former inspector

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I was having dinner with my family at mum's place last night and needed to refer to an atlas. So I grabbed the Ampol Touring Atlas of Australia (4th edition, published in 1973) which has endured in the book shelves along with old school books and Readers' Digest editions classics. A yellowed sheet of paper slipped out while I was flipping through the maps. It turned out to be a list of place

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This video was produced during a digital storytelling workshop at the State Library of Queensland - under the watchful guidance of Gavin and David. It extends the work of the Transmission Lines project.

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I've been working on a digital story as part of a short course I'm doing at the State Library of Queensland. Here's some work in progress ... So far I've written the script - the video and audio is yet to come.My father, like most, amassed a large collection of tools. If, when visiting my mother’s house, our visitors enter the garage, they are greeted by a massive shifting spanner hanging on the

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On 10 March, Leo di Rocco sent me another emailing notifying me of the passing of another EPT worker. It's fitting, I think, to honour the memory of these workers on the Transmission Lines blog. As relatives and family friends have passed away, I've realised that we lose our connection to the 'old country'. My heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of Mr Finadri. May he rest in

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Leo di Rocco and I were emailing trying to figure out whether his father and my father knew each other or worked together. The most my mother can tell me is that she thinks she'd heard my father talk about di Rocco. Leo explained the following, with a promise of some photos which I look forward to seeing and posting (thank you!):My uncle spent the first years in Victoria I believe he arrived in

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Sadly, I just logged on to update Transmission Lines, only to learn that Platial, the platform that hosts my map, is going under. All Platial widgets on the blog have been disabled. I have managed to partly export the map file to re-establish it on Google Maps but the photographs are not displaying. The map is now online and embedded in the blog, but I will need to restore the photographs. In the

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Further to my previous post, I received a long email from Leo di Rocco, son and nephew of two former EPT workers. I did ask my mother about this family, and she said that she had heard my father make reference to the name but didn't know the people. From what Leo has explained, his family members and my father weren't working in same the places. I so loved receiving this email - he expresses

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This week, I received a message via facebook from a man who wondered whether our respective fathers had worked together in Sydney. Even though I've received only a small number of messages from people who have had some involvement in EPT, I didn't anticipate that the Transmission Lines project would result in any networking among the children of former EPT workers, both in Australia and

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This morning I emailed the ABC project, The Making of Modern Australia, to ask if I could include some extracts from Transmission Lines. I received a positive response with the suggestioned that I write a bit of a story about my father's experience working as a rigger and linesman, some anecdote from his past, and include a photo or two, and some audio perhaps, from your archives. The story of

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My partner, John, took some photographs of me speaking at the State Library recently. Here are a couple of them. Top is me speaking and below is Helen Cole and me having a catch up and cup of tea afterwards.

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Notes and extracts from my presentation at the SLQ on Saturday, 16 August.Transmission Lines PresentationView more presentations from linda carroli.I really enjoy this Web 2.0 environment - it's been described as 'an attitude, not a technology' - and I really enjoy social networking, content sharing, user-generated content and crowd sourcing. Recently, I was reading a call for papers for a

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Just to let you know that the State Library of Queensland has been keeping a blog in conjunction with Freestyle Books. I've added the RSS feed to this site (just scroll down the right hand side of the screen).

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Yesterday I gave a presentation about Transmission Lines at the State Library of Queensland. Thanks to everyone who attended. Hoping you will stay in touch with me and the work.Also, having now done the talk, I'll develop some of those ideas for the blog. In particular, I will do some more writing about neogeography and psycho-geography as well as reflect more on how Web 2.0 can be used for

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My partner, John, has photographed detail from my father's map. I will be posting these to the Platial map to give a better sense of the coverage of the lines. As you can see from the photo below, my father traced the routes of the lines onto the map while identifying major towns and cities with the pins. Interestingly, where he's used yellow pins, he's drawn lines between them. However, he has

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I’ve been unable to work on Transmission Lines for a while. After being away for a few weeks, my aunt’s health deteriorated rapidly and she passed away. Her funeral was on Saturday and my family has been fully focused on this.I will now be able to put a bit more time into Transmission Lines and address some inconsistencies and niggling details over the next little while. So today, after reviewing

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Just a quick post to let you know that I am away for three weeks and will resume work on Transmission Lines when I return. There are more dates, images and sites I need to add to the map plus I will delve more deeply into the content of the oral history with my father. It is my intention to continue working on the project for the duration of the Freestyle Books exhibition, to draw out a major

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Transmission Lines 1955 - 1974 will be presented as part of the Freestyle Books exhibition at the State Library of Queensland. The exhibition features artists' books from the collection and explores means and methods of redefining the book as a contemporary artwork. The show opens 27 June and runs until 12 October at the SLQ Gallery, Level 2, State Library of Queensland at South Bank. The program

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Having sifted through the oral history interview with my father, I've found more stories to tell and share. I promised to peg audio to some of the sites on the map. However, the audio quality is quite bad - a combination of the age of the tapes, dodgy cassette players and a poor quality original recording. I'll be seeing if a sound engineer is able to do any remedial work with the tapes before I

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Having now had access to more information, the timeline is becoming a little clearer to me. This probably means I have estimated some dates incorrectly. So I will need to be attentive to this in the next few days. Having worked on a number of community and local history projects, I have new found respect for historians who are able to weave together (albeit sometimes selectively) mutiple threads

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Linda Carroli interviews Quinto Carroli about his work with EPT. This interview was done for a friend, who was an English as a second language teacher and also studying linguistics. c. 1990/1, Queensland. My father was approaching 60 years of age.LC: Can you tell me when you came to Australia?QC: 1956LC: How did you come?QC: Well, I was working for a company in Italy and, well, they asked me if I

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After feeling a little despondent about the missing tapes, John (my partner) and I have been searching through boxes both at home and at my mother's house. It's taken several hours and we finally found them! It's embarrasing to admit that we found the tapes in a box that we had looked in twice before. We also found some transcripts of the interview and another short interview done earlier than

lindanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3932900530850106475.post-50245852418414781782008-06-07T15:51:00.000-07:002008-06-07T17:48:46.725-07:00

About 15 years ago, maybe more, I interviewed my father for an oral history project. At the time I was studying local and applied history and needed a willing subject for an assignment. The project resulted in three tapes, which, as I recall, were quite enlightening about my father's early and working life. It was my intention to use some of the recording in this project. Sadly, though, I have

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The caption on this newspaper clipping from 1971 reads:Despite yesterday's wind and rain, work continued on the latest power line to cross the Swan River. These workmen climbed the 70 foot steel pylon on reclaimed land near the East Perth power house (background). The work is part of a program to upgrade the power line from Kwinana to East Perth.

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Mr Venturi has also sent me a Sun Herald clipping from 28 July 1957. It contains more technical information about the lines.The article features an interview with Dr Enzo Oriolo, Managing Director of EPT, who said that the company motto was "One tower per gang per day".He discusses the 90 mile line between Yass and Tumut, which piped the first major output of the Snowy hydro-turbines into the NSW

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Another image from Mr Venturi. This is a 1955 cartoon about EPT.

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My correspondence with Mr Venturi has continued and he has kindly provided yet another marvellous photograph and glimpse into the past.My father worked for SAE (Milan) & went to Australia to work with EPT from 1951 till 1962 when he returned to work with SAE until he retired. The whole family (my mother and two brothers ) went with him to Australia. SAE was the parent company which owned EPT and

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Mr Venturi has been kind enough to provide a slightly modified translation of the photo caption: I do not remember the chap in the middle of the photo with the plate in his hand. However on his left and leaning on the door is Vittorio Monduzzi (then chief executive of EPT). The people on the right of the fellow with the plate are my father (the tallest one looking at the plate), to the right of

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This morning, I was very pleased to received an email from Mr G. Venturi in Italy, who asked me why I had referred to EPT as a subsidiary of Transfield. Mr Venturi was right to point this out as I had been reading contradictory information about the Transfield - EPT nexus. As was noted in an earlier blog post, the original company was EPT, which was established in Australia in 1951. He said, "

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Mashable presents 17 Google Maps mashups "that probably won’t cure cancer or stop world hunger, but they’re definitely interesting, at least from the “someone did that?” point of view. You might want to hurry browsing through these, though; from our experience, Google Maps mashups tend to die out almost as fast as they appear."Info at:http://mashable.com/2008/05/14/17-

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This morning I received some information about an exhibition titled The New Normal. It is concerned with the use of private information as data and subject matter. The publicity material for the exhibition evokes social media as having had a profound effect on privacy: "With the rise of online commerce, many banks and retailers have developed sophisticated methods of tracking and studying the

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This series of images, composed of a number of sequences from various times and places, shows the construction of a transmission tower.

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I have posted the photos to an album in my facebook profile and the photos are publicly available at the following URL:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=30481&l=4212a&id=575962018A slide show has also been created on Slide.com and added to this blog:http://www.slide.com/r/uNyJuv9EuT_SQABhJoSbFYtF4Gl4IlzuRSS feeds have been added from this blog, Flickr and the Platial map to my Facebook

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In Transfield: The first 20 Years, Gianfranco Cresciani writes that EPT set up a permanent camp and workshop at Marayong, near Blacktown in NSW:"Everything was shipped from Italy, labourers, materials, and prefabricated dwellings. They established a little Italian community with a cook, a priest and even a little church. They occasionally invited people from neighbouring suburbs to attend

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In Transfield: The first 20 Years, Dr Gianfranco Cresciani's describes the early formation of Electric Power Transmission and, then, Transfield. According to Cresciani, the Italian company Societa Anonima Elettrificazione SpA (SAE) sent Enzo Oriolo to assess Australia's potential as a new market. "When the then NSW Premier Joe Cahill could not find local companies capable of helping end the

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I'm beginning to suspect that something is not quite right with this chronology. One of the impacts of my father's work on our family life was that we moved around quite a bit, usually annually. In the early days of my parent's marriage, my mother and father lived in a caravan in the workers' camps, following the work around. When my older sister arrived, that necessitated a different living

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The following chronology is assembled from captioned photographs. Many of the photographs are not captioned and I am trying to identify them through the interview conducted with my father and also with some help from my mother.1955 - Bari to Foggia, Italy1956 - Migrated to Australia1956 - Chullora to Canterbury, NSW1956 - Helensburg, NSW1956 - Waterfall to Mt Kiera, NSW1956/57 - Culkairn (to be

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A couple of 1967 newspaper clippings describe work on the Clare to Garbutt Line around Townsville in North Queensland. Workers used 'rockets' to carry lines across gorges to the towers. My father is pictured demonstrating the technology.

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In my project description I mentioned that English was my father's second language and that Australian place names sometimes didn't make that much sense to him. The result is that the captions on photographs need some verification. So, today, I spent some time double and triple checking the spelling of place names so that I can map them. I've become a bit lost in translation in this process and

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Welcome. I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time.In my family home there are two quite ordinary artefacts that focus on my father's life. To provide some background: my father was born in Brisighella in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy on 23 or 24 March 1932. No one is certain of his date of birth as family members and documents tell differing stories. Our family has always

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