Thread: Eveleigh Workshops

It's well worth a wander around, both sides.

The information boards in Bays 1 & 2 say they are the best preserved steam era workshops anywhere in the world. Including Britain.

Regards
Max P

Anyone else get given a trolley and told to pick up the Davey hammer??

I remember seeing hundreds of Eveleigh workers climbing the stairs to the bridge at the Southern end of Redfern Station and similarly workers going to and fro from the McDonaldtown Station. The bridge now long gone.

I worked in a few of those sheds in the early seventies. Once I left my Moke parked all day with the keys in the ignition, at the top of the North side of the southern steps.

You're lucky Mick didn't know that.

Originally Posted by Gumnut

Anyone else get given a trolley and told to pick up the Davey hammer??

The World's moved on since those times. Not saying its progress.

One time I had a very trying student nurse and I sent her down to the Theatre Stores to get a long wait for the traction. Was ages before she came back.

Another time with another student it was for a number 9 fallopian tube.

The night I graduated, they strapped me to a theatre trolley and put me in a full body cast with an ice cube lining. Was ages before it was hard enough to cut off.

A bucket of steam or sparks.
A skyhook.
A spare bubble for a spirit level.
A rubber hammer for knocking dents out of glass.
Penetrating nails for hammering into steel.

Originally Posted by Gumnut

Anyone else get given a trolley and told to pick up the Davey hammer??

Yes.
I won though when the Davey was used to minimize the trolley.