The Pulp The Rise And Fall Of An Industry is the definitive account of the life and death of APPM, a masterpiece of technical analysis and human interest compiled by author Allan Jamieson.
The class hardback documents in fine detail the life of the Burnie mill from 1936 until 2010 and most importantly how The Pulp became such an integral component of the development of this town through to cityhood.
The Pulp was and is, even in its death, the place called Burnie.
If you needed a job, then go to The Pulp. It was family, an entire structure that provided security and a future for countless people.
As an Italian migrant told me so many years ago - in the event I wanted to make a change in career from journalism to something completely different - I could get a job at The Pulp (with the accent on P-u-l-p) where I could earn “plenty dollar”.
A bonus in Allan’s book is a contribution by Europa poet Judy Brumby-Lake. Judy’s work, The Blue-Smock Girls, is an insightful glimpse of the women who worked in the mill’s finishing room.
Were they “good girls” or “bad girls”? Judy tells it like it is - and was.
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