{"id":648,"date":"2024-04-04T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/?p=648"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T07:35:08","slug":"2009-2010-moruya-quarry-lathe-interpretation-exhibition-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/2009-2010-moruya-quarry-lathe-interpretation-exhibition-project\/","title":{"rendered":"2009-2010 \u2022 Moruya Quarry Lathe Interpretation + Exhibition Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
THE ABERNETHY + CO. LATHE EXHIBITION AND INTERPETATION\u00a0 PROJECT<\/td>\nThere were several quarries flanking the Moruya River. The first quarry was opened in 1863 for the quarrying of sandstone boulders for use in constructing the breakwater at the entrance to Moruya River. This sandstone quarry was site just to the east of the Moruya Heads Pilot Station and was easily accessible to ship traffic on the Moruya River. But it was the granite quarries of Moruya that were most important. There were at least four granite quarries flanking the Moruya River. Theses quarries followed a seam of granite which extended from well north of the Moruya to the Moruya Heads. The principal granite quarries were Louttit\u2019s quarry, the \u2018Government\u2019 quarry, Ziegler\u2019s quarry and McCredie\u2019s quarry. The granite quarry stone was shaped by granite lathes in Sydney. The Abernethy + Co. lathe was used for this work.<\/td>\n\n
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The Abernethy Granite Lathe 2010 photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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THE ABERNETHY + CO. LATHE EXHIBITION AND INTERPETATION\u00a0 PROJECT There were several quarries flanking the Moruya River. The first quarry was opened in 1863 for the quarrying of sandstone boulders for use in constructing the breakwater at the entrance to Moruya River. This sandstone quarry was site just to the east of the Moruya Heads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterfreeman.com.au\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}