Engine Order Telegraph Size:XL when CSR Construction Materials ended

when CSR Construction Materials ended nearly a century of dolerite extraction on the site

then as a geriatric and nursing facility until May 1999

The amenities building that housed it was a separate structure on the same site

Ltd established the site from around 1913

the complex operated for 96 years before closing in May 1999

Engine Order Telegraph Size:XL when CSR Construction Materials endedThe internal circuits of the engine order telegraph aboard MV Cape Don, the instrument that transmitted speed commands from the bridge to the engineers below. Signal flag pigeon holes sit to its left. Built at State Dockyard, Newcastle, and completed in January 1963, Cape Don served the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service for 27 years before retiring in 1990. Part of the MV Cape Don series.