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Rochester. Bronze of town resident Sir Hubert Opperman. Champion cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s including the Tour de France..
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Umpherston sink hole gardens in Mt Gambier South Australia.
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Robertstown. The Peace Institute began in 1919 as a memorial to World War One soldiers and war effort. It opened in 1923 and is still the community hall.
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Mount Templeton. The sheep run was taken up in 1851. This derelict original stone homestead was probably built in the 1870s when the property of 31,000 acres had new owners.
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Mt Gambier. Valley Lake Mt Gambier with old hospital on other side of volcanic crater.
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Casino. The 1905 built Federation style Bank of New South Wales.Now a Westpac Bank.
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Gulgong. Old store and residence. Larsens 1874.
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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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Tumut. The fast flowing Tumut River in the middle of the dry Australian summer.
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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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Parkes NSW. A reconstructed copy of Moat Hall in Coventry England where Sir Henry Parkes was born.
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Gympie. Elevated bridge to a gold poppet. In the Gympie Gold Museum complex.
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Adelaide. Stonyfell.Clifton Manor house. Built in 1852. Gothic battlements added in 1870s.
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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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Warrock sheep station . A few of the 57 wooden and brick buildings on site dating from 1843.Thirty three are heritage listed. The Hay Barn old cart and the red brick dog kennels . Home of the Kelpie breed. . .
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Parkes. Town statue of its name sake Sir Henry Parkes who was the Father of Federation in Australia. Behind is the 1925 heritage listed National Australia Bank now the NAB.
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Gympie. The Mary Valley Rattler steam engine on the turntable at Amamoor. It travels from Gympie to Amamoor and then turns for the return trip.
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Tailem Bend. On the River Murray. Former Methodist Church built in the towns heyday in 1927. It replaced the original Methodist Church of 1900. Now a residence.
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Red Rock Canyon State Park
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Penola. SA. The Mary MAcKillop Interpretive Centre. Built in 1998.
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Queenstown Botanic Gardens. Lake, red rhododendron and snow on the Remarkables.
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Compliments of Texas Wire and Iron Co.
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Queenstown. This is the oldest stone building in Queenstown built in 1863 as a Masonic Lodge. The owner of the land here William Rees donated the land for it as gold was discovered.
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Tumut. All Saints Anglican church and spire. Architect Edmund Blacket. Started 1875 completed 1878. Tower added 1881. Note dark bricks used for patterns on the walls.
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Macclesfield. Old town garage with fading signage.
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Queenstown. The city centre on the peninsula which holds the Botanic Gardens from the top of the Gondola.
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Old flour mill or grist mill in Callington South Australia. Callington was a copper mining town from 1849 to 1875. Flour opened in 1858 and closed in 1859. Has been a private residence since 1859.
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Kapunda.Christ Church Anglican Church with a spire and clock tower was built in 1856. The architect was well known South Australian architect Edmund Wright.
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Rushworth. Old store. Glasgow Building. Wooden in 1858. Rebuilt 1911. Now has an Art Deco makeover.
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Goolwa Railway Station. The first station was near the rotunda in the middle of town from around 1853. This station was erected on the wharf around 1884 when steam trains began operating thourgh to Adelaide. Steamranger tourist trains operated from here.
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Goat island, Historic Cottages, Sydney Harbour.
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Red Rock Canyon State Park
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Port Augusta from the highway near the city. The Indian Pacific railway line beneath a rocky escarpment of the Flinders Ranges.
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Dookie Agricultural College. Established 1886. These are the Arts and Craft style administration buildings built around 1900..
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Hamilton Victoria. This first St Andrews Presbyterian Church was built in 1857. Later used as a church hall.
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Red Rock Canyon State Park
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One of the Seven Sister houses built by Captain Arnold in Mannum in 1911. They are all identical and made of pressed tin.
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Echuca .On the Murray River. The former Post Office and clock tower designed in Italianate style. Erected 1877.
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Apsley. The Border Inn Hotel now run by the community. A nice Art Deco building. A hotel called the Border Inn opened here in 1854.
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Hervey Bay. Two humpback whales swimming in Wide Bay beside Fraser Island.
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Finley. In the Riverina. The old 1899 railway station. The line terminated at the River Murray at Tocumwal.
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Molong. The Pioneer Bakery advertising on glass windows.
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Parkes. The railway station. Still in use. The Indian Pacific transcontinental train passes through here.
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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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Kapunda. The 1858 built Congregational Church. Sir Sidney Kidman was a staunch Congregationalist and worshipped here until he moved to Unley Park in 1921. It is now used as a theatre.
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Albury. The magnificent railway station where once passengers changed trains on the trip between Melbourne and Sydney. Built in 1862 in Italianate style. First through train between the capitals in 1962.
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Fern Green
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Molong. The old granite Catholic Church built in 1860. It is beside and newer church built in 1912.
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Molong. The Freemasons Hotel built in 1911.Established in 1856. Totally rebuilt in 1911.
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'Torquay, Babbacombe Bay, from the Inn'
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Molong. St Johns Anglican Church. Built in brick 1905 with terracotta roof tiles.
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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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Cahn Bros.
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Parnaroo east of Peterborough. The Parnaroo Community Hall, formerly Parnaroo sheep station wool store shed. Alexander McCulloch had it built in 1875. In 1904 the government bought it and 4 acres for use as a community hall.
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Echuca. Brigidine Convent and college built 1888.
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Port Augusta. South Australias floral emblem the Sturt Desert Pea in the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens.
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Washington Hotel
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Moonta. Yorke Peninsula. Looking through an arched door in the Hughes Enginehouse at the Moonta Mines copper mine area. Hughes Enginehouse was built in 1865.
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rearranged - Clyst St Mary, Devon
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Queenstown. Two giant Californian Redwoods or Sequoias which dominate the 1876 built Courthouse.
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