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Sewerage of a Great City: Melbourne (c.1922)

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Laying sewer pipes

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Clip description

The Board of Works digs up ground in Melbourne’s northern suburbs to lay sewerage pipes. A large section of pipe is lowered into a trench beside railway tracks. Men above ground watch the pipe lowered by crane as workers in the trenches continue to dig. Two men work on a platform with a section of pipe visible behind them.

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