1850s

Maryborough. Side view of the former Joint Stock Bank in Kent St. Built in 1882 with a grand facade to the other street. P L Travers was born inside.
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Maryborough. The Anglican Church built in 1879. The first wooden Anglican church was erected in 1852. The free standing bell tower was added in 1887 as a memorial to Mrs Aldridge.
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Bendigo. Bendigo. The Anglican church was built in 1868 and added to in 1872. The chancel and transepts were added in 1927. The fine tower was added in 1872. It became the Anglican Cathedral of Bendigo in 1981..
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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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Lockhart NSW. The unusual Anglican Church with a wooden nave and a red brick chancel. The wooden nave was probably erected around 1900 and the chancel was added around 1920.
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Blinman. Flinders Ranges. Old copper miner's pug and pine cottage and stone kitchen from the 1860s.
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Ardtornish Boathouse
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Portrait of a Boy
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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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Bendigo. The Grimbsy roller flourmill. Part was built in 1873. A second stage was built in 1887. It ceased operations in 1970 and has been converted into offices.
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Rushworth. The 1877 built Courthouse with an old wooden lockup from the 1850s beside it. First wooden Courthouse built in 1857.
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Springton. Friedensberg. The Pioneers River Red Gum Tree planted in 2011 for the 150 year celebration of the Friedensberg Lutheran Church and school.
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Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens in Autumn. Near Adelaide South Australia.
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Baroota. The ruins of Baroota homestead on Mambray Creek today. The homestead has been unocccupied since aorund 1969 and is in Mt Remarkable National Park. It dates from 1853 when owned by the Yeates brothers.
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Portrait of Csánk Terézia, m. Kiszely (1826/7-1885): detail
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Callington an old copper mining town attracted Cornish settlers. In 1862 they built a Primitive Methodist Church. It closed in 1900 with Methodist Union. It has been for decades a residence.
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Geelong. Part of the Geelong Railway Station built in 1877 in poly-chromatic bricks. The railway from Melbourne reached Geelong in 1854.
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Echuca. The Presbyterian Church built 1901. Now Uniting. Architect E Castles.Unusual black and white tiles above Gothic door and rose window above.
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Burra SA This great copper mine operated 1845 to 1877. This is Morphetts three story stone Cornish style engine house. Built 1858. Restored in 1986.
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Penola. Old church pedal organ in the Mary MacKillop Intrepretive Centre in Penola.
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Albury. English Elms planted in the Botanic Gardens here in 1877.
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Swansea. Established in 1821 by George Meredith. This third homestead called Meredith House built around mid 1850s. Currently being restored.
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Brisbane. Mirrored false balconies on the entrance foyer of the old Regent Cinema. Built in 1929 as Hoyts Picture Palace.
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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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Corowa. The former flourmill and silos. The mill was built in 1921 and closed in 1970. Now a whisky distillery and chocolate factory.
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Wirrabara silo art by Same Bates. Details of the wrinkled face of the local forester with his axe. Beyond the silos is the former Wirrabara forests established in 1877. Closed down by the Labor government 2015.
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Inman Valley. This wooden bridge at Mount Alma Road beside Glacier Rock was built in 1863. The first bridge across the Inman River.
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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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Wirrabara. The Hotel. Built in local stone in 1875.
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Penola. The former National Bank. Built in 1868 after the bank bought the land in 1866. In grand classical style. Great symmetry. Rounded windows ground floor but upper ones rectangular. Architect W Gore.
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Burra copper mine. The ruins of the ore dressing sheds built in 1870. This great copper mine operated from 1845 to 1877.In the background a square Welsh ventilation chimney
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Glanville.Tudor Gothic style Glanville Hall built for John Hart in 1856. Castellated tower and ballroom added 1865. Hart became a Premier of South Australia. Now a wedding venue
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Penola. The Uniting Church which was previously the Methodist Church. Built in local Mt Gambier limestone blocks.
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1850s Digger in Main Street
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Umpherston sink hole gardens in Mt Gambier South Australia.
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Shepparton. The Agricultural High School opened in 1909. Re opeend as Shepparton High School 1929.
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Burra copper mine. Morphetts engine 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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Mt Gambier. Valley Lake Mt Gambier with old hospital on other side of volcanic crater.
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1850s Digger in Main Street
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Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. History of the Country Womens Association serving meals to soldiers in WW2 in the animated night time illuminations on the grain silos.
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Casino. The 1905 built Federation style Bank of New South Wales.Now a Westpac Bank.
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Shepparton. St Brendans Catholic Presbytery. Built around 1900. Now the church office.
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Clare. The old original court room part of the 1850 built Clare Courthouse. Now an excellent National Trust Museum.
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Tanunda. In the Barossa Valley. The recently restored Hill & Son pipe organ built in 1877 for the Adelaide Town Hall.
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Wirrabara. The original state school built in 1879. It was replaced with a new brick school in 1921 further along East Terrace. It has been a residence since 1921.
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Baroota. SA. The ruins of Baroota homestead at Mambray Creek today. 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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Tanunda. The Barossa Valley. The old Telegraph Station and Post Office built in 1865. Now the town museum.
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Hallett. Storage shed of the Hallett General Store which was run by Drew and Crewes of Burra. Adverts for Lion flour coffee essence etc.
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1850s Digger in Main Street
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Penola. SA. The Mary MAcKillop Interpretive Centre. Built in 1998.
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Internal roof structure of No3 Covered Slip at Chatham Dockyard
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Macclesfield. Old town garage with fading signage.
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Napier. Art Deco city of New Zealand. The National Tobacco Company building erected in 1932 after the 1931 earthquake.
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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum. Old photo of ship building during World War Two.
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Bundaberg. The city's Anglican Church. Built in 1876.
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Wirrabara. Town memorial to local land owner Alexander Scott Murray of Wirrabara station who died aged 34 years in 1880. A highly respected member of the community. .
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Whitwarta. Werocata homestead. Built pastoralist by Edmund Bowman 1864 and extended by Edmund Bowman junior in 1883.
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Hervey Bay. Two humpback whales swimming in Wide Bay beside Fraser Island.
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Corowa. The home of the people's movement for Australian federation. The old classical style Memorial Hall.
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