David Collins (1798), An account of the English colony in New South Wales, London, Cadell & Davies, published [facing p 125] this engraving by James Heath of Edwards Dayes’ watercolour, after a sketch made in the Colony in about 1790
Foveaux to Macquarie 27 February 1810; Historical Records of Australia, Vol 7;
Macquarie to Liverpool 17/11/1812; Historical Records of Australia, Vol 7
JBM (1883), p.7
John Low (2011), ‘The Martindale Family and the sketchbook of Mary Elizabeth Martindale’, Blue Mountains History Journal, 2, September
Coghlan T; Wealth and Progress of NSW (1893), cited in Kelly & Crocker, Sydney Takes Shape; University of Sydney; 1977.
William Bennett (1865), ‘Report on the state of the Roads 31 March 1865’, reprinted in Sydney Morning Herald 12 December 1865
Department of Main Roads NSW (DMR) (1976), The Roadmakers, Sydney, DMR
Riverine Grazier 29 July 1924; Riverina Recorder 28 February 1925; GHD (2015), ‘Movable Span Bridge Study’, Report for Roads and Maritime Services NSW
Coghlan (1896), p.705
Bennett (1865)
HH Dare (1904), ‘Recent Road-Bridge Practice in New South Wales’, Min. & Proc. ICE, p. 392; Percy Allan (1924), ‘Highway bridge construction: the practice in New South Wales’, Industrial Australian and Mining Standard, Aug-Sept, p.285; A Grant (1984), ‘An analysis of selected aspects of horse drawn vehicles and coachbuilding in south-east mainland Australia from colonisation to present’, MSc Thesis, University of New South Wales, Sydney, p. 202
Coghlan (1896), p.704; Lee (2000), p.253
William Denison (1860), ‘Principles of bridge-building’, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 20 September; Thomas Woore (1861), ‘On a new mode of constructing timber bridges’, published in The Empire, 13 September
Bennett Report (1871), published in the Maitland Mercury 28 March 1871
PWDAR 1893-4, p 123
NSWLA V. & Proc.(1894), 2nd session, Question 5 of 11 December 1894
Chapter 2
Bridges: A study in their art, science and evolution, New York, WE Rudge, (reprinted in 2003 as Bridges of the World North Chelmsford Mass., Courier Corporation
Christopher J Mettem (2011), Timber Bridges, London, Routledge, p. 22
David Guise (2006),‘The Evolution of the Warren, or Triangular, Truss’, Industrial Archaeology, 32, 2, p. 23, diagram from Institute of Biological Science, University of Wales, UK
Lynn Heather Mackay (1972), ‘Timber truss bridges in New South Wales’, B. Arch. thesis, University of Sydney, p. 1
Mackay (1972), p. 1
Andrea Palladio, I Quattro Libri dell’ Architettura, [The Four Books of Architecture] Venice, 1570
Mackay (1972), p. 5
Squire Whipple (1847), A Work on Bridge Building: consisting of two essays, the one elementary and general, the other giving original plans and practical details for iron and wooden bridges, Utica NY, HH Curtiss, printer; William John Macquorn Rankine (1858), A Manual of Applied Mechanics, R Griffin
DJ Fraser (1987), ‘Origins of the timber truss bridges’ in Timber Truss Bridge Maintenance Handbook, Sydney, Department of Main Roads NSW, p. 11
DJ Fraser (2005), ‘The changeover to American bridge technology in New South Wales, Australia – why 1892?’, 2nd International and 13th National Engineering Heritage Conference 2005. Sydney, Australia, 21 September – 23 September, IEA Conference Papers
DJ Fraser (1985), ‘Timber Bridges of New South Wales’, IEA Transactions of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, GE9, 2, p. 93
DJ Fraser (2010), ‘American bridges in New South Wales, 1870-1932’, Australian Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering, 8, 1, p. 23
DJ Fraser (1995), Bridges Down Under, the history of railway underbridges in New South Wales, Sydney, Australian Railways Historical Society
Henry Deane (1900), ‘Economical railway construction in New South Wales’, Min. & Proc. ICE 162, pp.78-88; See Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales between 1895 and 1901; Colin O’Connor, Spanning Two Centuries, Historic Bridges of Australia, University of Queensland Press, 1985, p. 63
DJ Fraser (1985), p. 95
PWDAR 1887-88, p. 26
WD Haskoll (1867), Examples of bridges and viaducts, London, Lockwood & Co; DH Mahan (1847), An Elementary course in civil engineering, Edinburgh, A Fullarton & Co
PWDAR 1887-88, p. 23
Fraser (1981); King and Fraser (1983)
DJ Fraser (2010), ‘American bridges in New South wales, 1870-1932’, pp. 25 & 30
Fraser (1985), p. 100
PWDAR 1895-96, p. 8
Jeff Brown (2012), ‘The Howe Truss: from timber to Iron’, Civil Engineering, June, p. 41
Palladio (1570)
Report from Commissioner for Roads, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 1865, p. 5
PWDAR 1895-96, p. 8; Percy Allan (1895), ‘Timber bridge construction in New South Wales’, J. & Proc. RSNSW, 29, p. XII
MBK (1998), Study of Relative Heritage Significance of All Timber Truss Road Bridges in NSW, Report for RTA NSW, p. 27
Sydney Morning Herald 12 December 1865, p. 5
PWDAR 1893-4, p 123
Thomas Pope (1811), A Treatise on Bridge Architecture, New York: Alexander Niven, p. 284
Allan (1895), p. XVI
Allan (1895), p. VIII
Henry Harvey Dare (1903-04), ‘Recent road-bridge practice in NSW’, Min. & Proc. ICE (London), 115, p. 388
Allan (1895), p. VII
PWDAR 1899, pp. 11-12; Dare (1903-04), p. 388
Percy Allan (1917), in The Commonwealth Engineer 4, p.6
PWDAR 1894, p. 72
Percy Allan (1924), ‘Highway Bridge Construction’, (III), Industrial Australian and Mining Standard, 28 August, p. 321
Interview with Brian Pearson, Sydney 6 June 2017; Brian Pearson (2007), ‘Timber truss bridges in New South Wales’, address to the Australian Society for the History of Engineering and Technology (ASHET), 31 July
Maitland Mercury March-June 1847 & 25 May 1850; David Sciffer, The Bridging of Wallis’ Creek 1827-1896 author publ., nd, pp. 6-7; Sydney Morning Herald 6 January & 31 December 1855
Peter Reynolds (1972),’The Evolution of the Government Architect’s Branch 1788-1911’, PhD thesis, University of New South Wales; RA Buchanan (2002), Brunel: the life and times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel London, Hambledon & London, pp.98-101; Alfred Pugsley (1976), The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Cambridge University Press, pp.120-23; Sydney Morning Herald 26 May 1856; Obituary William Weaver in Min. & Proc. ICE, 31, Jan 1871, pp. 233–36; Roslyn Maguire pers. comm. 2017
John Hardwick (1853), Views in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania Plate 28; for the accuracy of this illustration compared with the more familiar drawing by Frederick Terry, see Sciffer, pp.16-19
Sydney Morning Herald 24 July & 31 December 1855; Colin Maggs (2016), Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London, Amberley Publishing; Brian Lewis (2007), Brunel’s Timber Bridges and Viaducts, London, Ian Allen
Sydney Morning Herald January 1855; Amie Nicholas (2015), ‘Guide to the design and assessment of NSW timber bridges’, draft report for Roads and Maritime, March, p.17
Sydney Morning Herald 4 December 1855
Aged 46, William Weaver died alone in a hotel room in Geelong, Victoria on 18 December 1868, an inquest suggesting an addiction to the popular remedy laudanum (a tincture of opium and alcohol) had led to a stroke, Ballarat Star 22 December 1868. Other information from the Illustrated Sydney News 3 December 1853; Sydney Morning Herald 26 April
1854 & 31 December 1855; and Roslyn Maguire (1984), ‘Introducing William Weaver, architect and engineer’, Heritage Australia 3, 1, pp. 46-48; www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage
The Times 6 October 1854; Sydney Morning Herald 2 January 1855
Blue Book 1862, p.293, in NSWLA V. & Proc. 1863-64, Sydney, Government Printer, 1864
Sydney Morning Herald 20 March & 29 October 1858
Sydney Morning Herald 11 October 1858; Armidale Express 23 October 1858
Maitland Mercury 16 October 1858
Sydney Morning Herald 10 March 1859
Ben Hay Martindale (1860), Fourth Report on Internal Communication of New South Wales 1859-60, Sydney, Government Printer, reprinted in Sydney Morning Herald 8 November 1860
Martindale (1860)
Government Gazette 13 May 1859
NSW Government Gazette 8 April 1859; Sydney Morning Herald 10 March 1859; Maitland Mercury 12 March & 30 April 1859; The Empire 11 April 1860; Amie Nicholas (2015)
Sydney Morning Herald 8 November 1860 & 21 January 1861; Maitland Mercury 16 July 1859, 7 January 1860, 6 & 10 October 1861, 29 August 1867
Sydney Morning Herald 8 & 21 November 1860; RJS Thomas (1967), ‘Some aspects of the history of the roads of New South Wales’, JRAHS, 53, 1, March, pp.52-68
Cecil & Celia Manson (1960), Doctor Agnes Bennett, London, Michael Joseph, p.6; Maitland Mercury 17 January 1861; Queanbeyan Golden Age 19 January 1861
Manson (1960); Maitland Mercury 6 March 1862
‘Report on the state of the Roads in the colony of New South Wales, to 31 March 1865’, reprinted in Sydney Morning Herald 12 December 1865
Report on the state of the roads 31 March 1865; The Roadmakers, Sydney, DMR, 1976, p.47
The Roadmakers, p.52
Report, Sydney Morning Herald 12 December 1865
Maitland Mercury 6 June 1855
ICE (1863), ‘American Timber Bridges’, Min. & Proc. ICE, p. 312
Maitland Mercury 28 March 1867; Mining Record & Grenfell General Advertiser 20 June 1868; Empire 8 October 1869 & 28 January 1870; Australian Town & Country Journal 9 March 1872
Bennett Report (1871), published in Maitland Mercury 28 March 1871; ‘Vox et deserto’ open letter to Minister John Sutherland, Maitland Mercury 18 June 1870
The Empire, 3 May 1870; Bennett Report (1871)
Tenders, Government Gazette 19 November 1872; Northern Star 17 June 1876
Bennett Report (1871); Maitland Mercury 18 June 1870
URS Corporation (2011), Historic context of Maryland Highway Bridges built between 1948 and 1960, Report for Maryland State Highway Administration, Baltimore, 5, p.74; Maitland Mercury 21 November 1863
R Ian Jack and Aedeen Cremin (1994), Australia’s Age of Iron, University of Sydney Press, pp.21-22; Austech (1988), Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Melbourne; Sydney Mail 27 May 1865; Sydney Morning Herald 21 November, 21 December 1864 & 25 February 1865; ‘A visit to the Fitzroy Mines’, Sydney Morning Herald 6 June 1865
Bennett report published in Sydney Morning Herald 15 June 1870
Sydney Morning Herald 1 February 1868; Bennett report (1870); Illustrated Australian News 10 October 1872; Min. & Proc. EANSW, IV, 1888-89; Queanbeyan Age 28 June 1867; JLN Southern (1987-88)‘The history of iron smelting in Australia’, Illawarra Historical Society Bulletin December-July
Conservation Management Plan for 142-44 Pitt Street Sydney; Government Gazette 11 February 1870; Maitland Mercury 18 June 1870; Clarence & Richmond Examiner 7 April 1874; Sydney Morning Herald 8 September 1874
Timothy Coghlan (1871), The Industrial Progress of New South Wales, Sydney, Government Printer
Austech (1988)
Habib Zafarullah (2014), Colonial Bureaucracies: Politics of Administrative Reform in Nineteenth Century Australia, Boca Raton Florida USA, pp.87-90; Hilary Golder (2005), Politics, Patronage and Public Works in New South Wales Sydney, UNSW Press, 1, 1840-1900
NSW Government Gazette 1878, Vol.1, pp. 9 & 11
Maitland Mercury 8 October 1870, 15 May 1875, 3 October 1876, 3 August & 19 October 1878
Manson (1960); Sydney Morning Herald 16 February & 25 July 1878
Manson (1960)
Australian Town & Country Journal 5 July 1884; HH Dare (1896), ‘The opening bridges of New South Wales’, J. & Proc. SUES, 14, pp.1-11; DJ Fraser (2014), ‘Plaquing nomination for the 1883 lift bridge, North Bourke, NSW’, report for IEA and Bourke Shire Council
WH Warren (1889), History of Civil Engineering in New South Wales, p. 595; United States Patent Office, Patent 327808, 1885; Sydney Morning Herald 16 April 1888; Cardno MBK (2001)
Town & Country Journal 10 November 1888
Evening News 18 June 1885
WH Warren (1886), ‘The strength and elasticity of ironbark timber as applied to works of construction’, J.& Proc. RSNSW, 20, pp. 261-77; WH Warren (1888), ‘Description of the
autographic stress-strain apparatus used in connection with the testing machine at the University of Sydney . . .’, J. & Proc. RSNSW, 22, pp.253-56; WH Warren (1890) ‘Some applications of the results of testing Australian timbers to the design and construction of timber structures’, J. & Proc. RSNSW, 24, pp.129-62; Evening News 20 December 1889; Sydney Morning Herald 14 September 1893
De Burgh to Bennett 2 March 1886, ML SLNSW
Bennett Report on Prospect Reservoir, NSWLA V. & Proc., 5, 1887-88
Manson (1960)
RE Jones Road Superintendent’s report September 1889, William Christopher Bennett, Records 1850 – 1889, ML SLNSW Manuscripts Collection, UMS 333; Obituaries eg Burrowa News 4 October 1889; William Christopher Bennett, Min. & Proc. ICE, 1890, pp. 346-48; Memoirs, Min. & Proc. EANSW, 4, 1888-89, pp 216-17
Lenore Coltheart (1991), ‘Research Guide to the History of Public Works in New South Wales’, Sydney, PWD, p.51
Richard Raxworthy (1989), The Unreasonable Man the life and works of JJC Bradfield, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, p.25
Lynn Mackay (1972), ‘Timber Truss Bridges in New South Wales’, Bachelor of Architecture thesis, University of Sydney, Appendix D; Obituary, Poverty Bay Herald, 4 June 1930
PWDAR 1893, p.72; Percy Allan (1895), ‘Timber bridge construction in New South Wales’, J. & Proc. RSNW, XII; Raxworthy (1989), p.29; Ian Berger (2011), ‘The history and
service of timber Howe bridges in Australia’, in Vachchiravetkumaran Ponnampalam, Eric Ancich & Huber Madrio (eds), Sustainable Bridges: The Thread of Society Sydney, Austroads Inc, pp. 510-27
HH Dare (1941),‘Tales of a Grandfather’, typescript; PWDAR 1894, p.123; Australian Town and Country Journal, 12 March 1898, p.27
Percy Allan, (1895), ‘Timber Bridge construction in New South Wales’, J. & Proc. RSNW, vol. 29, pp.1-20
Percy Allan (1897), ‘The Wagga Wagga timber bridge, NSW’, Min. & Proc. ICE, vol.128, no. 2, pp. 222-25 68 Raxworthy (1989), p.28
DMR, 1978b, p.61; Main Roads
The recollection was Gordon Stuckey’s, relayed by Brian Pearson in 2017
Percy Allan (1924), ‘Highway bridge construction: the practice in New South Wales part 6, Industrial Australian and Mining Standard, 18 September, pp. 432-43 [14, 21, 28 August & 4, 11, 18 September]
Raxworthy (1989), pp.28-29; HH Dare (1941), p.28
Percy Allan (1907), ‘Pyrrmont Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales’, Min. & Proc. ICE, vol. 170, pp.137-225; EG Trueman (1988), ‘Pyrmont Bridge- Construction and Restoration’, Proceedings Fourth National Conference on Engineering Heritage, Sydney 5-8 December, pp. 98-108
Queanbeyan Age 28 March 1900; Graham Andrews (1983), ‘Roads and Bridges’, in Alan Fitzgerald (ed) Canberra’s Engineering Heritage, Canberra, IEA, pp.1-46
HH Dare (1904), ‘Recent roadbridge practice in New South Wales’, pp. 383, 400
EM de Burgh (1900), ‘On the use of Monier pipes as a pile covering, and in place of cast-iron for cylinder foundations’, Min. & Proc. ICE, Vol. 142, January, pp 288-91; JJC Bradfield (1901), ‘Some notes on Monier construction’, J. & Proc. SUES, p.59
EM de Burgh (1902),‘Pile sinking by means of a hydraulic jet at Moruya and Carrington Bridges, NSW’, Min. & Proc. ICE; Sydney Morning Herald 12 November 1902
EM de Burgh (1907-08),‘The Practical work of starting a great engineering enterprise’, J. & Proc. SUES, vol.12, pp.38-46; EM de Burgh (1915-16), ‘Belt conveyor loading plant at Port Kembla, NSW’, Min. & Proc. NEINSW, vol.7, pp. 93-128
PWDAR 1904, p. 43
CS Daley (1966), A I Recall, Canberra, Mulini Press 1994
Percy Allan (1906-07), ‘The drought antidote for the north-west, or the utilisation of the artesian resources of NSW’, J. & Proc. SUES, vol. 11, pp. 1-46
The Age 17 January 1923; Main Roads, 17, no. 4, 1952. pp.16-19 Raxworthy (1989), p.37
Dare (1903-04)
Dare’s papers in 1909-1910 included ‘Preliminary work on the proposed connection between Sydney and North Sydney, with some notes on long span bridges and subaqueous tunnelling’, J. & Proc. SUES, vol.14, 1909; ‘The water supply of Singleton, NSW’, J. & Proc. SUES, vol.15, 1910; and ‘Vehicular ferries in New South Wales’, Min. & Proc. ICE, vol.187,
1911-12, pp.292-300
HH Dare (1920), ‘River Murray Waters scheme’, IEA J, vol.1, pp.193-213; HH Dare(1924), ‘The River Murray Waters Scheme’, The Commonwealth Engineer, November, reprinted in the Civil Engineering Record in May 1925 as ‘The River Murray Waters Scheme: the Nile of Australia’; HH Dare (1928), ‘Burrinjuck Dam, Murrumbidgee River’, Trans. IEA, vol.9, pp.1-23
Chapter 4
Whipple, Squire (1847), A Work on Bridge Building, Utica New York, HH Curtiss printer; WJM Rankine (1862), A Manual of Civil Engineering, London, Griffin, Bohn & Co, p.478; Lynn Mackay (1972), ‘Timber truss bridges in New South Wales’, PhD Thesis, University of Sydney
Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Traianssäule, Berlin, 1896-1900, Volume I, Plate 16
James Mitchell (1851), ‘On the export and consumption of wattle bark, and the process of tanning’, Report of the Royal Society, Van Diemen’s Land for the Year 1850, vol. 1, pp. 219-223
The Engineer (1884) vols 57-58, London
Michael Gourlay (1999), ‘William Henry Warren’, Australia’s Great Engineers series, Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, University of Sydney
WH Warren (1887), The strength and elasticity of New South Wales timbers of commercial value, Sydney, NSW Government Printer
Warren (1887)
JA Schmidt (2009), ‘The definition of structural engineering’, STRUCTURE magazine, January, p 9
RK Bamber (1987), Sapwood and Heartwood, Forestry Commission of NSW Technical Publication Number 2
Quoted in EG Trueman (1984), Timber Bridge Conservation in New South Wales, Sydney, Hughes Trueman Ludlow, 1984, p.18
Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Sunday 7 August 1803, p 2
Eric Rolls (2006), ‘A Land Changed Forever’, in John Keeney (ed), In the Living Forest: An Exploration of Australia’s Forest Community: Industry, Science, Technology, Government, Tourism, Management, Conservation, Planning, Sydney, ETN Communications, pp16-19
JJC Bradfield, (1896), ‘Some notes of Australian timbers’, J. & Proc. SUES, 1, p.7; Sydney Morning Herald, 16 May 1860, p 4
Rolls (2006), p17
PWDAR, 1903, p. 64; 1901, p. 73; 1899, p. 12; and 1907, p 72
Main Roads, XII, 3, March 1947, pp 84-85
F Laws (1932), ‘Application of timber and concrete to moderate span highway bridges, Main Roads, 111, 8, April, p126
Quoted in Trueman (1984), p 92
Ian Langlands & AJ Thomas (1939) Handbook of structural timber design, Melbourne, CSIR; Pearson et al (1968)
Standards Australia (2017), 2017 Bridge design series, AS(/NZS) 5100
JH Maiden (1896), ‘Timbers of the Colony’ in F Hutchinson (ed) New South Wales: the Mother Colony of the Australias, Sydney, NSW Government Printer, pp 168-180
Chapter 5
C Merrylees (2008), Mackenzie’s Riverina: Tour of the Hay District Pastoral Holdings of the 1890s, Hay, Hay Historical Society, 2nd ed, pp.5, 182
Australian Town and Country Journal, 3 August 1901, p.40
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 16 February 1900, p.23
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 29 June 1900, p.28
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 12 December 1902, p.23
Wagga Wagga Express, 4 March 1902, p.2
Australian Town and Country Journal, 12 October 1904, p.16
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 14 October 1904, p.25
Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 31 May 1866, p.3; Australian Town and Country Journal, 10 June 1871, p.17
The Empire, 25 May 1866, p.4; 16 June 1866, p.3
Australian Town and Country Journal, 10 June 1871, p.17
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 16 May 1902, p.16
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 17 October 1902, p.16
GL Buxton (1967), The Riverina, 1861-1891: an Australian Regional Study, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, pp.196, 211; Evening News 3 October 1876; Argus, 26 February
1885, p.6
Argus, 22 October 1887, p.12; Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 1887, p.13
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 8 March 1907, p.46; 11 September 1908, p.27
Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 30 October 1908, p.27; Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times, 3 November 1908, p.2
Swan Hill Guardian and Lake Boga Advocate, 8 April 1918, p.3; 10 June 1918, p.3; 24 June 1918, p.2; 4 July 1918, p.2; Riverina Recorder, 12 June 1918, p.2; 17 July 1918, p.2
Sydney Morning Herald 27 June 1923
C Essex (1988), The Town of Lots of Time: Historic Clarencetown, Williams River, N.S.W., Raymond Terrace, p.17; Newcastle Morning Herald 2 June 1880
Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser, 28 September 1922, p.2; Riverina Recorder 28 February 1925
Errol Lea-Scarlett (1968), Queanbeyan: district and people Queanbeyan Council, p.91; Ann Jackson-Nakano (2001), The Kamberri, Canberra, Aboriginal History Monograph 8, p.121
Australian Star 4 December 1897, p.4; Australian Town and Country Journal, 7 April 1900, p.37; Wingham Chronicle 11 April 1900, p.2; Port Macquarie News 14 April 1900
Riverina Recorder, 28 February 1925, p.3
Riverina Recorder, 28 February 1925, p.3
C Schofield (1988), The Shaping of Hornsby Shire, Hornsby Shire Council, Hornsby, pp.90-91
Empire 7 June 1870; Australian Town and Country Journal, 9 March 1872
Sydney Morning Herald 13 September 1893; DJ Fraser (1992), ‘Cowra Bridge: preservation of a unique structure’, Papers of the 6th IEA National Engineering Heritage Conference, Hobart
Chapter 6
Mike Mort (2008), A Bridge Worth Saving: a community guide to historic bridge conservation Michigan State University Press, p.53
‘Bridge over Meryla Creek’, 9 August 1878, NSWLA V. & Proc. XXIV, 1878
NSW Government Gazette 1870-1930
Percy Allan (1895), ‘Timber bridge construction in New South Wales’, J. & Proc. RSNSW, 29
Australian Town and Country Journal 12 December 1896
Albury Banner & Wodonga Express 22 July & 5 August 1898
Sydney Morning Herald 12 November 1895
Sydney Morning Herald 18 January 1895 & 22 July 1896 & 6 February 1932; Australian Town & Country Journal 25 July 1896
NSWGG 9 May 1893; Sydney Morning Herald 21 September 1893; Wagga Wagga Express 11 April 1895; Wagga Wagga Advertiser 16 May 1895; PWDAR 1891, p.145 & 1893, p.72
Wagga Wagga Express 11 July 1895; The Age 12 November 1895
Lenore Coltheart (1991), Research Guide to the History of the Public Works Department NSW, Sydney, The Department, p.51
Don Fraser (2005), ‘Centenary ceremony report for the Bendemeer Bridge Historic Engineering Marker’, IEA; Dungog Chronicle 18 August 1905
Australian Town and Country Journal 12 December 1896; Sydney Morning Herald 29 December 1925
Albury Banner & Wodonga Express 22 July & 23 December 1898 & 6 November 1908; Cobram Courier 8 November 1900; Border Morning Mail 2 November 1908
Geoffrey Serle (1986), ‘Monash, Sir John (1865–1931)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 10, Melbourne, MUP; The Age 16 December 1902; Kerang New Times 23 September 1904; Sydney Morning Herald 29 December 1925
Riverina Recorder 23 February 1921
The Age 22 May 1901
Narrandera Argus 27 February 1919
Kerang New Times 10 April 1903
Australian Town and Country Journal 14 September 1895; Wodonga and Towong Sentinel 6 January 1899
Wagga Wagga Advertiser 27 November 1894
Government Gazette Victoria, 17 November 1899
The Age 24 August 1901
Percy Allan (1897), ‘The Wagga Wagga timber bridge’, Min. & Proc. ICE, 128, pp.222-25
JW Roberts (1897), ‘Pioneer Railways in New South Wales’, J. & Proc. SUES, November
RL Ford (1995), Williams River: the land and its people 1800-1900, Clarence Town NSW, author publ.
Daily Examiner 20 October 1925
Kate Grenville (2000), The Idea of Perfection, Melbourne, Text Publishing, p.66
Chapter 7
Percy Allan (1924), ‘Highway bridge construction: the practice in New South Wales’, Industrial Australian and Mining Standard, August & September
Chapter 8
Australian Government (1974), Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate, Canberra, Government Printer
Australia n Government Productivity Commission (1999), Impact of Competition Policy Reforms on Rural and Regional Australia, Report C3-5
B Boer and G Wiffen (2006), Heritage Law in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press
National Trust Magazine, September 1980, pp. 5-6; Main Roads March 1981, pp. 20-21.
Brian Pearson (1987), Timber Truss Bridge Maintenance Handbook; the previous guide for timber truss bridges was Manual No. 6 – Bridge Maintenance- instructions for bridge maintenance foremen, Department of Main Roads 1962
JS Endean (1969),‘Clearing the right of way’ Main Roads, 34, 3, pp.80-83
J Birmingham, RI Jack and DN Jeans (1979), Australian pioneer technology: sites and relics, Melbourne, Heinemann; J Birmingham, RI Jack and DN Jeans (1983) Industrial archaeology in Australia: rural technology, Melbourne, Heinemann
Brian Pearson’s reminiscences at Roads and Maritime Heritage Committee farewell, December 2013; see also Main Roads 47, 4, 1982, p.116
The MBK study team comprised Jim Verco as project director, Richard Hitch as project manager, project engineers Michael Ludvik and Bernard Quinlan, engineer and bridge historian Dr Don Fraser and heritage consultant Siobhan Lavelle.
MBK (1998), Study of relative heritage significance of all timber truss road bridges in New South Wales, p.6
RG Albion (1926), Forests and Sea Power, Cambridge University Press
ICOMOS Principles for the protection of historic timber structures, adopted in 1999
Australia ICOMOS (2013), Charter for Places of Cultural Significance, The Burra Charter