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Tarndwarncoort near Colac. The first part of this homestead built in 1848 .Major two storey basalt additions in 1877. Built for Alexander Dennis. .
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Mount Templeton. A government school was built by these pine trees in 1881. It closed in 1951. Beyond is the second Wesleyan Methodist Church built at Mt Templeton in 1885.
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Caltowie. The Caltowie Hotel was built in 1873. The upper floor with Art Deco features was added in the early 20th century.
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Grenfell Hall. Built in 1907 as Melrose House. Used as a convent from 1951 to 1978. Now a bed and breakfast establishment
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Appila South Australia. Appila Springs Gorge and creek.
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Molong. The Freemasons Hotel built in 1911.Established in 1856. Totally rebuilt in 1911.
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Tarnagulla. The old Colonial Bank. Above the roof is the brick chimney used for melting down the gold in this old gold mining town. Gold mined 1852 to 1912.
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Ashbourne. This two arched stone bridge was built in 1866 to create a road from Meadows to Goolwa. Miss Kirkham opened the Mayfield Bridge across the Finniss River.
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Marree. A mural of horses and other animals on an old railways water tank
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Wirrabara. Details of the beautiful silo art by Sam Bates of Melbourne. The forester and the red capped robin. There were extensive forests beyond the town.
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Geelong. Victoria's oldest standing Anglican Chuch Christ chucrh in Moorabool st. Work began on architect Edmund Blacket's design in 1843. It opened in 1947.Transept added in 1855. Architects Snell Prose and Kawerau.
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Angaston. The gracious Lindsay Park House. Architect Henry Evans. Built 1851 for George Fife Angas. Side additions date from around 1900.
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Broken Hill mines. This shaft named the Delprat shaft was sunk by Broken Hill Proprietry in 1900. It closed in 1976 and became a tourist mine experience in 1977.
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St Arnaud. A gold miner panning for gold is shown in this silo art.
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Sheringa on Eyre Peninsula. Town has a pub store and this former Anglican Church built in 1910.
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Burra copper mine 1845 to 1877. Most miners were Cornish but some were Welsh. A Welsh square ventilation chimney.
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Wesleyan University - South College 04
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Elliston. Eyre Peninsula. Limestone overhang at the cliff top lookout.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts engine house and winding house. Built in 1858. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. Morphetts engine house had a huge Cornish engine. Partly burnt out in 1925 and restored in 1986.
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Colby Hockey vs. Wesleyan
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Burra. This copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. Cornish miners built these magnificent stone structures. This is Morphetts winding house built in 1861 next to Morphetts engine house built in 1858.
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Marree. A mural of camels and other animals on an old railways water tank
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Ashbourne. Old ruin behind the Green Man Hotel beside a giant River Red Gum tree.The Green Man Inn opened in 1865.
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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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Wayville . Wekewauban House. Built 1900 for Richard White the manager of Australasian Implement Co a subsidiary of Harris Scarfe. Became a bible college then Wesleyan theological college. Now a Uniting Church retirement home.
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Yacka. Old general store with advertising on side wall for Trend Drinks.
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Johnburg. Ghost town beyond Goyders Line. Ruined cottage with an open air kitchen. Stove still in tact in old chimney.
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Gladstone. The Soldiers Memorial Hall built in 1921. The foundation stone laid by mothers of those who served in World War One. The entrance poriched was added much later. .
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Greta. NSW. The former Wesleyan Methodist Church at 43 High St. Built in red brick in Gothic style in 1888. Sold 2017.
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Dowlingville on Yorke Peninsula. Side view of the Dowlingville Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1879.
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Christchurch. NZ. New Regent Street. Forty Spanish Mission Art Deco shops were built here in the 1930s. Restored after the 2011 earthqowuakes and re-opened in 2013. Now a cafe strip.
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Coobowie. This old Wesleyan Methodist church opened in 1877 but with a special service held in it Christmas Day 1876. Now a private house.
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Broken Hill High School. Built in stone with half hipped gables in 1919.
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Hammond. Ghost town of the Willochra Plains. The ruins of William Hudson's house and fireplace. He was the first Post Master and then grain buyer in the 19th century town.
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Goroke. Metal silo art works of birds by Geoffrey Carran. Styalised landscape and deatil of a galah.
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Hartley. On the Bremer River. This government school was built in 1919. It closed as a school in 1970 and is now a private home.
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Queenscliffe Railway Station. Built in 1881 after the railway from Geelong reached the town in 1879. Now the start of the Bellarine Peninsula Railway trips.
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Broken Hill. Part of the interior and nave of the Catholic Cathedral. It was built from 1903 to 1905.
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Marree South Australia. The old railway station with a disused Commonwealth Railways engine. The Ghan service began from here in 1929.
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Talisker silver mine. Near Cape Jervis Fleurieu Peninsula. This stone boiler house produced steam to drive the crushing plant and the winding plant. Built in 1862 or 1863. The mine closed in 1872. .
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Davenport graves near Macclesfield on their property called Battunga.
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Broken Hill. The heritage listed Uniting Church built in 1888 as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Architect Frederick Dancker. Octagonal in shape to hold 800 worshippers.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts 3 engine house and winding house. Built in 1858. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877. Morphetts engine house had a huge Cornish engine. Partly burnt out in 1925 and restored in 1986.
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Sediment Spews from Connecticut River
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Tarnagulla. This fine Catholic Church opened in 1912 as the gold mining ceased. It replaced an 1865 weatherboard Catholic Church. Now a residence.
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Hawker. The old Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1884. It is still in use as the Uniting Church.
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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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Kanmantoo. The old Primitive Methodist Church of 1864 became the government primary school in 1921. The government added a rear room. The school closed 1953. It became the public hall. Adjacent is the new War Memorial.
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Geelong. The Free or Reformed Presbyterians built a school room in Geelong in 1854 and their church at 10 Fenwick Street in 1862..
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Merriton on the Broughton River. This 1879 bridge was the highway crossing north to Port Pirie until 1969.
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Moonta. Old copper mining town. This grand banking facade in the classical style was built in 1865 for the Bank of SA. Became the Union Bank as shown on parapet in 1892. Closed as a bank in 1943. Old 19th century chemist shop next door.
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Ballarat. Wealthy gold mining city. Impressive commercial building in Greek revivial style built in 1881. In Lydiard Street.
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Grenfell. The Albion Hotel established in 1866 during the gold rush. Most of this building was erected in the 1880s.
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Lochiel SA. Beautiful Art Deco stained glass window built in the Soldiers Memorial Kindergarten room added to the church in 1925.
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Mount Templeton. This 1885 built Wesleyan Methodist Church closed in 1969.
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Kersbrook. One of the earliest Wesleyan Methodist Churches in South Australia. Built in 1850 and still in use. Teh cemetery is at the rear of the church.
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Burra. Copper miners dug rooms into the bank of Burra Creek in the late 1840s and early 1850s as homes for their families. Some still remain.
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Wesleyan Chapel, Bakewell, Derbyshire
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Wonoka near Hawker. The Hookina Creek after recent rains in 2020 in the Flinders Ranges.
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Colac. This Methodist Church built in Art Deco style in 1925 replaced an earlier Wesleyan Church from 1874 which was in Murray Street. Impressive triple stained glass window. Now a funeral home. .
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