Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The second volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission during Tasmania's great dam-building era.

Volume Two covers four distinct HEC villages — Butlers Gorge, near Lake King William in the upper Derwent catchment; Bronte Park, on the Central Plateau near Bronte Lagoon; Trevallyn, the hydro suburb built on the hills above Launceston to house workers for the Trevallyn Power Station; and Wayatinah, a construction village in the southern Central Plateau.

Each village had its own character — Bronte Park became one of the more permanent and substantial of the hydro settlements and today operates as a holiday resort; Trevallyn became an established Launceston suburb; the others were more temporary in nature.

Rackham documents the daily life, social structures and working environment of these communities. At 76 pages with black and white illustrations, this is a compact but specific record of communities that are rarely documented elsewhere. 

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover stapled booklet.
• Published 1982.
• 76-pages
• Black/white illustrations.
• Second volume in a series of three. Out of print.

CONDITION

• Used, generally good condition.

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