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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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Hawker South Australia in the Flinders Ranges. The town War Memorial and Walk near dawn.
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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. 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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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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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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Harrow. Historic village on the Glenelg River. Above Gardner Park is Kalang Cottage built in 1876 near Harrow but only moved to this site in the town in 1988.
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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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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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Towitta. The old Schippan family cottage. Built in 1902 after the brutal and unsolved murder of their daughter Bertha in their previous cottage. They left this house in 1908.
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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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Gympie. Elevated bridge to a gold poppet. In the Gympie Gold Museum complex.
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Gympie. Gold miner's display in the Gympie Gold Museum complex.
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Port Augusta. Sturt Desert Pea the state emblem of South Australia in the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens.
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Cowell. Franklin Harbour Eyre Peninsula. The latest South Australian silo art. Being completed in September 2019. The artist is Austin Moncrieff and the local cameleer depicted is Lionel Deer with his camel Diamantina.
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Gympie. The Mary Valley Rattler steam train climbs the mountains to Amamoor through rugged bushland. It operates on Wednesdays and weekends
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Maryborough. A stuffed bird from the Victoria era collection of the Maryborough School of Arts. The building opened in 1888. It is now a museum run by the Historical Society.
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Maryborough. The rear of the old Bond Store which was built in 1860. It is now a museum.
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Maryborough Queensland. The interior of the old School of Arts building. It opened in 1888. This is part of the library that remains as it was then. It is now a town museum.
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Adelaide. The Mitchell building built 1881 at the University of Adelaide. In front is the statue of Sir Walter Watson Hughes of Moonta Mines who donated 20,000 pounds to start the university in 1872.
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Balaklava. The fomer Methodist Church built in 1904. It replaced an earlier 1871 Bible Christian church. It becmae a Uniting Church in 1977.
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Balaklava. The Freemasons Hall. Built in 1913 of local limestone.
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Callington. A row of stone railway workers cottages from the 1890s. Now a privately owned house beside the Adelaide to Melbourne railway.
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Barunga Gap in the Hummock Ranges. The railway from Kadina to Snowtown was built in 1878. The line closed to freight trains in the 1990s. This is all that remains of the Barunga Gap railway station and yards.
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Tumut. The altar and east window in the Tumut Anglican Church which was built in 1878.
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Tumut. The beautiful Anglican church designed by Edmund Blacket. Completed 1878. Dark bricks used to create patterns on the facade.
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Parkes. A beautiful marriage of stone and brick in the Courthouse built in 1896. Fine carving in stone of the NSW emblem and VR carved on the facade.
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Parkes. Anglican Church. An Arts and Crafts Gothic revival church 1926. Cost of £14,000. The most significant building in Parkes architecturally. It has no arched Gothic windows but it looks Gothic. Architect was Louis Williams
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Junee. The romanesque style Catholic church with one high bell tower and another lower tower. Built in 1929.
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Forbes. Forbes. This stone Catholic Church was the third in Forbes and it opened in 1880. The sanctuary was added in 1905. .
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Forbes. Old gold mining town with grand buildings. Nearest is the 1891 Town Hall. Beyond is the 1881 built French Renaissance style Post Office designed by colonial architect James Barnet.
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Forbes. St Johns Anglican Church. Began 1874 completed 1877. First wooden Anglican church built in 1861.
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Forbes. The classically designed Courthouse of 1880 with the state insignia above the entrance. Architect was James Barnet.
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Parkes.Balmoral House. Built in the 1880s with proceeds from gold mining. Italianate style two storey house with bay windows. Avoids symmetry and has fine cast iron lace work. Built for mine owner Hazelhurst.
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Temora. The large railway station built in 1893. Painted in usuual NSW railway station colours.
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Temora. The unsual and distinctive Catholic Church completed in 1907.
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Weethalle. The old railway station now a small cafe. Behind is the fine town hotel. The railway reached here in 1923. Town established 1921 for soldier settlers from WW1.
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Balancing rock, location unknown
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Macclesfield. Old town garage with fading signage.
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Macclesfield. The Anglican Church built in 1926 in local marble stone. It replaced an early 1857 church which was demolished around 1980. Most Macclesfield marble was used for grave headstones and the SA War Memorial.
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Swan Hill. Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement at night. On the banks of the River Murray.
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Swan Hill on the banks of the River Murray. Vintage car outside the printing office in Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
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Swan Hill. Night lights on the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement church with its beautiful Gothic stained glass window.
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Swan Hill. Heartbeat of the Murray laser show. Water is sprayed up from the Murray River.The show tells the story of the Murray creation Aboriginal myths and occupation to paddle steamers and white settlement
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Swan Hill. Image of the Heartbeat of the Murray River laser show at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement village. Brilliant. Water from the River Murray is sprayed into the air upon which the laser show is projected.
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Maryborough QLD. Birthplace of Mary Poppins author P L Travers. The street lights here have Mary Poppins with her green umbrella up for go and with her red umbrella down for stop.
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Bundaberg. Holy Rosary Catholic Church in neo classical style replaced the wooden 1875 church. Architect was Francis Stanley. It was built in 1888 with pillars and a porch.The sanctuary and transepts were added in 1926.
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North Adelaide. Christ Church choir in the southern transept. Built in 1849 as the pro cathedral for Adelaide.
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Balaklava. Dunns Bridge across the River Wakefield. This was the crossing used by bullock teams from Burra copper mine in 1849. This steel bridge is late 19th century after the town was established in 1871..
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Quorn. Steam engine at Quorn railway station ready for the Ghan Express tourist trip with the Pichi Richi Railway society.
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Quorn. The old 1916 railway station now starting point of the Pichi Richi railway which travels through Pichi Richi Pass to Port Augusta.
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Mundulla. Near Bordertown SA. Poochera Swamp. River Red Gums. This old one was used as an Aborginal shelter.
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Sydney.Entrance to the Gothic style Mortuary Railway Station which transported coffins and mourners to Rookwood cemetery from 1867 to 1939.
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