A copper industry would add to the industrial impact of Kandos, increase the workforce by 90, grow the town and make it more commercially viable. What’s not to like?
Category: cement history
A School of Arts for Kandos? Why Not?
Throughout 1918 there was great enthusiasm and support for the new School of Arts, at least from the top end of town.
Kandos 1920
As early as February 1920 the cement workers were agitating for a pay increase. The trouble was, the area was in severe drought, the company dams were empty and the company was importing 40,000 gallons of water by train daily.
Charbon Township – Vision and Reality
Overwhelmingly I felt a sense of sadness for a once-thriving village.
Beneath a Moving Ropeway at Kandos
There was something magical about the ropeway. A continuous stream of buckets gliding across the landscape, sliding against those imperial towers, over rugged hills, atop deep gullies, above sheep grazing in paddocks or a plough turning the soil.
