Relatives of Stanley Purves, an engineer at Moruya Granite Quarry, travelled from Melbourne for the weekend’s celebrations.
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Mr Purves’ daughter Sheila Randell attended the events with her daughters Sara Symon and Viv Maclachlan and granddaughter Margot Symon.
Mrs Randell said the celebration was important to her family because of the history and what her father did in the town.
“He came to Australia because of the quarry,” Mrs Randell said.
Mr Purves travelled from England on December 20, 1924 after he was appointed quarry engineer.
“I wasn’t born when my parents came over but I grew up hearing the stories,” Mrs Randell said.
“My older sister Evie was three when they came to Moruya.”
On arriving in Sydney on February 4, 1925, Mr Purves spent a fortnight in Sydney helping erect a mobile crane to be used during the Sydney Harbour Bridge construction, before setting off to Moruya.
Mrs Randell said before her father came to Australia he had escaped from a war camp.
“He knew my mother before he was a prisoner of war because she used to send him food parcels during the First World War,” she said.
“He was a bit of a character.”
Soon after finishing work at the Moruya Quarry, Mr Purves moved to Tasmania with his family to take up work at a cement company.
Mrs Randell was pleased to see an interest in the community about the quarry’s history.
“It is great to be able to look through my dad’s album of photographs in the exhibition,” she said.