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In-house journals and corporate magazines

In years gone by many workplaces published their own in-house magazines and newsletters. From the biggest corporations to quite small regional businesses, organisations produced these staff journals and company magazines to foster morale among employees and to help promote an image of good corporate citizenship. These days such material - where it exists at all - is generally published online, saving the cost of paper, printing and distribution. As for the vast array of publications generated in the past, it's fair to say that only a relatively small proportion remains in existence, often stuffed in drawers,…

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View from Bank Corner of the 1939 oil tank fire at Wickham. Photo by Russ Hughes.

The great oil fires of Wickham, NSW

Wickham residents were startled by a loud explosion at about 2pm on Saturday, December 16, 1939. Within moments the cause was clear: one of the huge fuel storage tanks owned by Commonwealth Oil Refineries near the waterfront had caught fire and was burning ferociously, sending huge black smoke clouds into the sky. Those who recalled the suburb's earlier scare with the fire on the oil tanker British Honour in 1930 scrambled to get their families and belongings out and away from the danger zone. A signalman - J. Sommers - at the Hannell Street railway box…

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