1870s

Streaky Bay on Eyre Peninsula South Australia. Two storey building on right is the Streaky Bay Hotel.
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Canowindra. The disused railway station and grain silos.
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Asahel Gage House
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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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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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Gulgong heritage town. Faint old advertising on a shop wall for the Herald Mail, The Sunday Sun and the Telegraph newspapers.
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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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Penola. Old church pedal organ in the Mary MacKillop Intrepretive Centre in Penola.
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The 1870s Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village
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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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Dawson. Ghost town beyond Goyders Line. Established in 1881. Altar of the disused Catholic Church which was built in 1885.
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Quorn. Roof ventilators along the Quorn school classrooms. This wing was built in 1881 and 1882.Now a kindergarten
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Rockleigh. South Australia. The old Primitive Methodist Church Opened in 1885. Services began under a gum tree around 1880. Now a Uniting Church.
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Hamilton Victoria. Railway and trees in summer fog.
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Rochester. The Catholic Church. Built 1910.
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Lismore. NSW. The winter solstice Lantern Festival. Held at the showgrounds because of covid 19. .
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Charters Towers. Town plan of this 1870s gold mining town.
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Echuca. Millewa Chambers. Built 1878 as a bond store. Note urns and arched symmetry of facade.
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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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Tumut. The Presbyterian Church built in 1878. The first Presbyterian church was built elsewhere in Tumut in 1856. This 1878 church is now the Uniting Church.
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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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Gulgong. Old store and residence. Larsens 1874.
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Molong. the Molong Cafe in a fine Art Deco building . 1934.
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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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Middleton. The original town school built in William Street in 1869 with stone gable end with rounded window. Used until the government school opened in 1880. First Middleton school opened 1856.
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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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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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Lismore. An Art Deco building of residential flats. Now other uses. The Marlenmar Flats.
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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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Hamilton Victoria. The second St Andrews Presbyterian church in basalt stone and Gothic style. Opened 1909.
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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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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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Whyalla. In the Maritime Museum. Old photo of ship building during World War Two.
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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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Goolwa. The 1861 Wesleyan Methodist Church now a Uniting Church. The transepts were added in 1881.
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