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Echuca. Old advertising on the side of the Palace Hotel. Note fancy brick work on roof line. Built 1876. Architect William Vahland.
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Echuca. Old Police Station built middle section 1867. Southern wing 1869 and northern wing 1876. Moreton Bay Fig planted 1872.
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Bendigo. Classical detail on the Post Office. Built in 1887.
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Echuca. Paddle steamers on the River Murray.
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Yacka. SA. Joshua Tilbrook's stone blacksmith's shop built early 1880s. Employed 17 men once. Closed 1944. Nice central keystone over the arched entrance door.
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Baroota. .The ruins of Baroota homestead at Mambray Creek . Unocccupied since 1969 in Mt Remarkable National Park. Dates from 1853. Owned by the Yeates brothers. Pug and native pine construction with stone fire places.
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Baroota. Ruins of Baroota homestead at Mambray Creek. Unocccupied since 1969 in Mt Remarkable National Park. Dates from 1853. First owned by the Yeates brothers. Pug and native pine construction with stone fire places.
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Quorn. An image of the Flinders Ranges and workers in the night time illumination show on the town's grain silos. Much of the show is animated figures and scenes.
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Baroota reservoir. Flinders Ranges. The concrete spillway and in the next valley is an earthen embankment. Completed in 1921 to provide water for Port Pirie and northern towns.
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Baroota reservoir. Flinders Ranges. The earthen embankment and in the next valley is a convcrete spillway. Completed in 1921 to provide water for Port Pirie and northern towns.
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Watervale. Hughes Park estate. Established 1845. The single storey house was built for Sir Walter Watson Hughes in 1862 . Enlarged with a Victoria tower and two storey in 1900 when owned by his heirs the Duncan family
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Near Quorn. Pichi Richi railway steam train excursion on a big curve. Pichi Rich Pass leads from Port Augusta to Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. This Great Northern Line built in 1878.
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Hammond. Ghost town beyond Goyders Line. One the town's old general stores built in the 1880s.
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Roseworthy. The Roseworthy Agricultural College was the first in Australia opening in 1883. This main bluestone building also opened in 1883. Now part of the University of Adelaide. . ..
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Lismore. The chapel built for the Catholic nuns of the city.
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Tenterfield. The impressive National Building stores. Built in 1914 with many Art Deco features.
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Byron Bay. This old wooden hotel is now the Balcony Oyster Bar.
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Ballina. Richmond River Heads lighthouse. Ballina's oldest extant building. Erected 1879. Architect James Barnet who also designed lighthouses for the Tweed and Clarence Rivers. .
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Ballina. The Big Prawn. Built by Adelaide architects Glenn Industries. Sculptor was James Martin. Rescued from demolition by Bunnings. In their carpark.
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Lismore. NSW. The winter solstice Lantern Festival. Held at the showgrounds because of covid 19. This decorative centre piece was set on fire followed by fireworks.
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Owen South Australia. The friendly camel who lives behind the Owen Hotel.
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Owen. The recently completed silo art done by Robert Hannaford and Cam Scale. Theme is from wheat bags to sandbags in the trenches of Gallipoli and France during World War One.
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Owen. The silo art done by Robert Hannaford and Cam Scale. Theme is from wheat bags to sandbags in the trenches of Gallipoli and France during World War One. This part is in the WW1 trenches..
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Junee. Monte Cristo House built in 1884 and supposedly haunted. Some of the antique furniture and objet d'art. .
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Eugowra. Village nearest the great gold heist of 1862. In 2012 they began painting murals to decorate the town. Now there are about 30 murals. Adverts on the old Empire cinema built in 1927. Saturday matinee .
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Eugowra. NSW. Village nearest the great gold heist of 1862. In 2012 they began painting murals to decorate the town. Now there are about 30 murals. Vehicles of yesterday. .
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Eugowra. Village nearest the great gold heist of 1862. In 2012 they began painting murals to decorate the town. Now there are about 30 murals. Adverts on the old Empire cinema built in 1927. Now Showing
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Edithburgh Yorke Peninsula. Water tower art completed April 2021. Features marine creatures. Here seahorse, corals and Troubridge Island lighthouse above. .
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Queenscliffe at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The defensive fort built between 1863 and 1867. Now a miiltiary history museum.
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Colac. The former Catholic Convent of Mercy and the nuns chapel. Both were built in 1889.
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Queenscliffe. The former Anglican rectory.
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Queenscliffe. The Post Office built in 1887. Architect was G Austin. Italianate with pediment and other facade ornamentation. This Art Deco entrance porch added in 1915 destroyed the symemtry of the facade..
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Colac. St Andrews Presbyterian church and tower built in local volcanic basalt in 1877. Now the Uniting Church.
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Queenscliffe. The Railway Station 1881. In 1879 the railway from Geelong reached the town. Now the Bellarine Peninsula Railway trips. Since 1976 the Preservation Society. .
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Queenscliffe. Bellarine Peninsula. The Anglican church built in 1864. Painted stucco. The tower was added in 1878. The land for it was donated by Governor La Trobe. Nave and altar.
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Queenscliffe. The ferry that crosses Port Phillip Bay from Queenscliffe to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. Amazing Ediacaran fossils at the Prairie Hotel.
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Point Pass near Eudunda. This rounded stone building was probably a backsmiths shop. In 1899 it became Leditschke butter factory and then a cheese factory from 1901. Clsoed arund 1915.
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Beltana. In the Flinders Ranges. This huge stone railway station was built in 1882 when the Great Northern Railway reached the town. Closed 1980. Now a residence.
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Hawker in the Flinders Ranges. The impressive sandstone Catholic Church. Opened in 1893 and still in use and recently reroofed. The architect was Father Norton who was Bishop of Port Augusta from 1906. .
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. The fine stone police cells or lockups behind the Police Station. Built in 1881 when the station was erected. Police station closed in 1957.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the underground bakery built in 1885 are two stone chimneys.
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Parachilna Gorge in the South Australian Flinders Ranges. Creek bed, gum trees and rocky terrain.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Magnificent River Red Gums along Sliding Rock Creek on a foggy morning. Near the Afghan memorial on Beltana Pastoral Company station.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Martins bush pub opened in 1871 when the Overland Telegraph was being built. Town surveyed 1874 and it was licensed as Beltana's first hotel. Built 1874. Now an art gallery hence the maze.
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Stirling. In the Adelaide Hills. The Main Street in autumn.
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Geelong. The foundation stone of the Art Gallery was laid in 1914 with the gallery opening in 1915. Paintings were first hung in the Town Hall in 1895.
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Adelaide. North Terrace. Elder Hall and the statue of Sir Thomas Elder in front as he donated the money for it. Grounds of the University of Adelaide.
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Harrow on the Glenelg River. Australia Felix country. The wooden Courthouse built in 1877. Now the RSL club rooms.
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Harrow on the Glenelg River. This old log lockup or gaol is 14 logs high. An amazing little structure. No longer in use as a gaol!
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Harrow. Across the Glenelg River from the oval and the rest of the town is the weatherboard Catholic Church. Built in 1876 and moved across the river around 1900. Open by 1903. In Glenferrie street. The presbytery next to it was built in 1922.
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Harrow. Offices built in 1868 for the Road Construction Authority. Later became the Kowree Shire Council Offices.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mine site. The ruins of the Hughes Smith and Elder shafts' concentrating plant near the Hughes Enginehouse. Built 1865. Sea water was pumped here and mixed with sulphuric acid.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes Enginehouse built in 1865 by Walter Watson Hughes and associates.Closed 1923. Had a 60 inch Cornish engine. Next to stables, boiler house and concentrating tanks.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Hughes tanks were built in stone in 1865 to hold water pumped from the Hughes Shaft by the Hughes Enginehouse.
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Minlaton Yorke Peninsula. The first agricultural show was held in 1878. One of several exhibition halls built around 1880.
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Curramulka on Yorke Peninsula. The town name means emu waterhole. A group of fine residences from the 1920s and 1930s in the town.
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Wirrabara. This steam engine was taken to the Wirrabara Forests in 1882. They were established 1877. The engine drove a circualr saw used for cutting railway sleepers in the 1880s. There were two saw mills at WIrrabara
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Wirrabara. The 1884 Institute closed 1912 and became a furniture store. Consecrated as an Anglican Church 1964 with the 1908 foundation stone from the first demolished Anglican church.
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Gympie old Railway Station. The Mary Valley Rattler steam train ready for tourists to climb aboard for a train trip to Amamoor.
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