Leave Bull Pen on Black Mountain alone

Updated April 23 2018 - 8:35pm, first published February 3 2014 - 3:00am

I have just received a rather shocking phone call from a member of staff at the CSIRO asking what I could tell him about an old building on the CSIRO Entomology site at Black Mountain. While I retired from the position of manager, engineering services and buildings, with CSIRO Entomology in 1990, he felt I may be able to provide information regarding one of the original insectary buildings known as the ''Bull Pen''. He required information about it because ''CSIRO had just received permission to demolish the building as it was now unsound''.

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