Su. Ho. on Spoutible

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#Come and explore this unique facility. Completed in 1942, the Stick Shed (previously known as the Murtoa No. 1 Grain Store) is Australia’s only remaining emergency grain store built during World War Two.
As usual, more in alt-text!
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Inside a huge shed looking along its central aisle. Rows of tall timber poles reach up to the pitched roof. The floor is concrete. The scene is lit by skylights.
FYI from www.stickshed.com.au
The facility was built over four months between September 1941 and January 1942 and filled with grain within six months of construction. It was the first emergency bulk wheat storage shed built in Victoria and is the only remaining shed of this type in Australia.
The Stick Shed covers 16,000 square metres under roof, and measures 265 metres long, 60 metres wide and almost 20 metres high at its apex.
A steel shortage meant the shed was built largely from readily available timber, with 560 (56 rows of 10) unmilled mountain ash poles erected into auger-dug footings in the ground. Concrete was manually poured around the footings. Galvanised hoop-iron was used in most structural joints.
Murtoa was selected as the site as it was located within a major wheat cropping area, and adjacent to the main railwa...

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