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sentence in Eldershaw's "A House is Built" set me wondering when galvanised iron was first used in Australia for roofing. One of the characters about a hundred years ago if I remember aright looks out on a rusty galvanised iron roof. The gate was about … Now I feel sure that, in the Upper Hunter district at any rate, there was no such thing known till about the seventies sixties, & I think the late sixties. I remember as a boy when the shingles of our house were being replaced by galvani the new roofing material. I can still recall the musty flavour of water off old shingles upon which I was brought up. A wise old gentleman prophesied to me then that if I lived long enough I would see a great
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