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  • Title: Salvaging the CSO administration building
  • Description: During May 2004 the heritage-listed Commonwealth Solar Observatory building went through a "salvage and make safe" process. The work was carried out by HABKA Constructions and Demolition. The fire damage to building and contents was such that none of the library, records or archives of the observatory were salvagable. Only "horrible relics" were recovered.

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Salvaging the CSO administration building

  • About half the pipes that ran under the N-S hallway.

    • About half the pipes that ran under the N-S h…
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  • Steel supports being placed under the main beams of the library floor.

    • Steel supports being placed under the main be…
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  • Survey cupboards forced open. This is what the glass plates of the ESO surveys look like.

    • Survey cupboards forced open. This is what th…
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  • The film version of the UKST surveys, completely trashed. Like the books in the library, these crumbled to fine ash when touched

    • The film version of the UKST surveys, complet…
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  • And as for the paper Palomar prints, they are fine ash in the cupboard on the right.

    • And as for the paper Palomar prints, they are…
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  • Heliostat is cleaned and wrapped in plastic sheeting.

    • Heliostat is cleaned and wrapped in plastic s…
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