Explosive Huts just off Mugga Lane?

Just another comment on P1’s excellent bit of mapping. Where it says “Old Labor Club” in Civic, I would suggest the many many years as the Canberra Workers’ Club would take precedence over a few years as a Labor Club outpost.

What say the masses?

I love your maps p1. I have been wondering for a while now what the Evil and Less Evil locations refer to?

I’d always assumed it was to do with the quarry. (Don’t you just love the endless departmental name changes.)

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Back about 30 or 40 years ago the then Department of Works was responsible for road construction and maintenance, the road base and other road material was obtained from the Mugga Quarry. That department changed its name several times and one of which was the Department of Housing and Construction, aka the sign at the explosives store. I have no doubt the explosives were used in the quarry and it was safer to have 3 small stores rather than one large one especially in view of the fact that about 4 families used to live in Mugga Lane.

i always assummed they were for the quarry. I used to drive past them everyday, and considering the close proximity to the road and the lack of a real fence to keep people out, they are harmless these days. I also recall the door being bashed in.

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