Notes: Mount Portal or Portal Lookout sits on the ridge line above the junction of Glenbrook Creek and the Nepean River. Mount Portal was named around 1935 and the viewing platform opened in 1999.
Access is via Bruce Road, Glenbrook; the National Park entry and follow the signposted track. This is wheelchair accessible, see the link below.
Portal is a railway term for a tunnel entrance and the lookout has views across Glenbrook Gorge to the railway tunnel deviation opened in 1912.
Format: Kodachrome slide
Date Range: 1968
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images, Milton Porter
Provenance: Milton Porter's family
Links: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/blue-mountains-national-park...
Tags: lookout Nepean river Glenbrook portal cliffs plains rock gorge history
Notes: The township was flooded when the dam was completed in 1967. It now lies under the waters of Lake Jindabyne adjacent to the tiny settlement of East Jindabyne on the eastern side of the dam, opposite the new township. In fact some of the roads in East Jindabyne still disappear into the lake to continue underwater. This appears to be looking north so taken late afternoon.
There is a Pioneer tour bus on the left hand approach.
The bridge is a three span McDonald truss. Of the original 91 built in NSW 1880-1902 only five survive, these date 1893-1902. The surviving Bombala bridge 107 kms away was built 1902, the Tumut bridge 214 kms away was built 1895.
Format: Colour slide
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Repository: Blue Mountains City Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/client/en_AU/default
Part of: Local Studies Collection
Provenance: Milton Porter
Date Range: October 1965
More Info:
www.destinationjindabyne.org.au/#!history/cqcr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindabyne,_New_South_Wales
aso.gov.au/titles/sponsored-films/snowy-hydro-jindabyne-s...
bridges.chookman.id.au/mcdonald/mcdonald.html
Tags: old bridge nsw australia river snowy mapped historic mountains kodachrome history Jindabyne McDonald Truss Bridges
Notes: The cable way and cable car were positioned and constructed for Harry Hammon in 1958 by local builder Ben Esgate, who also built the adjacent revolving restaurant. Ben was very proud of his safety latch on the door of the cable car which prevented it being opened unless it was docked at the loading bay. The Scenic Skyway travels across the gorge above the Katoomba Falls, 200 metres (656 ft) above the valley floor. The original Scenic Skyway was dismantled early in 2004 and replaced by a new cable car in December of the same year.
Format: Kodachrome transparency
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Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 2960.
Provenance: Milton Porter
Tags: Katoomba skyway cable car history
Notes: Everglades National Trust Garden, showing the Squash Raquet Courts from the Studio Terrace.
Format: Kodachrome slide by Milton Porter
Date Range: 1962
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images
Provenance: Porter family
Links: www.everglades.org.au/?page_id=41
Tags: Leura gardens National Trust Everglades history
Notes: Everglades Garden, about the time it was acquired by the National Trust. Looking across the area now called the Nursery terrace and the Cherry Terrace.
Format: Kodacolor slide by Milton Porter
Date Range: 1962
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/client/en_AU/default
Part of: Local Studies Collection - LS Images
Provenance: Donation, Porter family
Links: www.everglades.org.au/
Tags: everglades garden Leura scan history