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Cullen Bullen (Co. Roxburgh) 33°18’S. 150°02’E., 7 km N. of Portland, on Cullen Ck.; grazing then mining; Angl. C. (St Aidan’s), demolished; bushfires 1933 and 1951; cemetery (244 graves 1917+), incl. columbarium (unused); collieries: Baal Bone (Xtrata), Cullen Bullen Coal & Coke Co. (sold and closed 1900), Cullen Valley Open-Cut (Lithgow Coal Co.), Invincible (estab. 1905 by William Crawford, jun. and William Hart, later bought by Joe Cornock from Austen & Bullen Pty. Ltd., acquired by Invincible Colliery Ltd.), Renown (closed 1930, reopened 1934, 2 killed 1941); electricity 1929; FB; Meth. C. 1915, demolished; miners’ strikes 1890, 1909, 1916, 1925, 1929, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1953; PO 1861, burnt down 1915, reopened, closed 1993; PS 1915-62; railway turntable, 60 ft (18.3 m), ruined; Rom. Cath. C. (St Canice’s) 1925, new one (St Brendan’s) 1943, removed from Sunny Corner and re-erected by James Hoctor; RS (Carson’s Siding till 1896) 1889, new station 1927 on new site, closed 1976; school 1890, repairs 1898 by J. W. Frazer, additions 1918 by W. J. Bailey; telephone 1896; TX 1921; pop. 87 (1901), 283 (1911), 622 (1933), 464 (1947), 480 (1954), 439 (1961), 240 (1971), 232 (1976), 231 (1981), 263 (1986), 198 (1996), 207 (2001), 197 (2006), 183 (2011)1 .