Author: Tara Oldfield
Senior Communications Advisor
Records recently added to the PROV collection include reports, correspondence, plant manuals, technical drawings and photographs of the Hazelwood Power Station; as well as Baw Baw Shire Council meeting minutes and agendas.
Hazelwood
More than 300 items related to Hazelwood Power Station have been transferred into the PROV collection and are available for researchers to order for viewing in our North Melbourne reading room. The records include technical and research reports c.1919 through to the year 2000, general correspondence and files from the 1990s, a 1959 drawings book, manuals from 1963 to 1987, and photographs of the construction of the Hazelwood Power Station from the State Electricity Commission of Victoria photo collection.
The Hazelwood Power Station Stage 1 Drawings Book, 1959, contains colourful large plans and technical drawings prepared by Babcock & Wilcox in response to the tender for construction of the power station, of which they were successful.
Pictured here are drawings of the Turbine Hall and Boiler House, Boiler Plant and Boilers - the plans so large they are folded throughout the red leather binder which is elegantly embossed with gold titling.
The photographic prints span seven binder folders, with photos depicting the construction of the Hazelwood Power Station building site.
Prior to transfer to PROV, these records were held by ENGIE Hazelwood; the majority owner of the power station at the time of its closure in 2017. Since privatisation, Hazelwood Power has gone through many iterations, eventually becoming ENGIE Hazelwood in 2015.
Order Hazelwood files through the VA4075 record series page.
Baw Baw Shire
Eighty-nine volumes of council meeting minutes and agendas from Baw Baw Shire between 1994 and 2017 have also been added to our collection, and are available for researchers to view in the North Melbourne reading room.
Order these council files through the VPRS 19805 series page.
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