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General view of construction of spillway. Men are working at the top of the shuttering in centre of image. It is annotated "Spillway construction right bank 1-2-60"

View of scaffolding from above. Two men in caps can be seen bottom right. Image is annotated "Spillway foundation from monolith No 7. 1-2-60"

Close-up of scaffolding, looking up site offices. Image is annotated "View scaffolding in spillway section 1960-02-01"

General view of construction work. Image is annotated "View from left bank looking upstream 1-2-60"

General view looking down on shuttering for the spillway.. Some men working towards bottom centre. Image is annotated "Spillway foundation from left bank downstream 1-2-60"

General View of Construction. One man can be seen standing on top of dam on left side. There are also men working on the other monolith on the scaffolding and at the base on a concrete pour.
Image is annotated "View of dam from right bank 1-1-60"

Image is annotated "Construction in overflow weir section 1-1-1960"
Couple of men centre bottom

Close view of construction , taken on same day as DD.045. Men can be seen standing at the base of the monolith and one at the bottom of the image.
It is annotated "Profile of monolith on right bank"

General view of construction across the valley. Image shows a crane middle left and three men working on scaffolding in the centre. Note no safety equipment.
Image is annotated "View from left bank of river 4-12-59"

Closer view of the left bank construction with McAlpine crane in foreground. A couple of men standing on the shuttering just above crane arm.
Image is annotated "Shuttering of left bank monolith 4-12-59"
Stamped on reverse "Richards Bros,…

General view of shuttering work, McAlpine crane right foreground. Image is annotated "Shuttering of left bank monolith 4-12-59"

General view of dam construction. Image is annotated "Construction works on left bank of river 4-11-59"

Preparing the car park, dam construction in background. Image is annotated "Car park under construction 4-11-59"

View of men positioning wooden joists for shuttering, preparation for concreting. 3 men watching from above. Image is annotated "Typical shuttering 30-9-59"

Excavation of site for Drift Dam.
Annotated "2 curyd(?) Concrete Batching Plant 8-6-59"
Note McAlpine sign on building.

In the process of being built

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