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Echuca. Turn of the 20th century building in High Street. Now the Curry Club.
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Echuca. The Shamrock Hotel. Lower floor built in classical style 1870. Upper Edwardian floor with French roof added around 1895.
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Echuca. Old advertising on the side of the Palace Hotel. Note fancy brick work on roof line. Built 1876. Architect William Vahland.
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Mannum South Australia. The Mannum to Adelaide water pipeline. Water is pumped 60 kms from the River Murray across the Mount Lofty Ranges to Adelaide.Built in 1955. Still in use.
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Forreston. This old school opened as Gumeracha North town school in 1860. Became state school after 1875. Closed in 1967.
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Kersbrook. The town school dates from 1868. This government headmasters residence dates from around 1900 and it is satill used as part of the school. .
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Moculta. One of the stained glass windows of the Gruenberg Lutheran Church. Church was built in 1864 with the help of funds from George Fife Angas.
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Moculta. Sth Aust. The pretty and historic Daniel Lemke pipe organ in the Gruenberg Lutheran Church with its painted wooden ceiling. Church was built in 1864 with the help of funds from George Fife Angas.
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Moculta. The old general store opened in 1877. Run by Ernst Hentschke. Also contained the Post Office.
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Gumeracha in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The worlds biggest Rocking Horse 60 feet high. Adjoining is a wooden toy shop cafe and animal park.
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Autumn in the Middle
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Moculta. The Gruenberg Lutheran Church. Built in 1864. Next to it the old school room built as the first church in 1857. originally Grunberg. Changed briefly to Karalta during World War One.
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Gumeracha. Quaint garden shed in the gardens of Kenton Park house. The house was built in 1844.
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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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Echuca. Millewa Chambers. Built 1878 as a bond store. Note urns and arched symmetry of facade.
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Birdwood formerly Blumberg. The Hynes family memorial in the Birdwood Catholic cemetery. The Hynes family lived just outside of Gumeracha. This is the biggest headstone in the cemetery.
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Kersbrook. The stone Institute was built in 1915. It is still the community centre.
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Moculta in the Barossa Valley. The Soldiers Memorial Hall built after world War Two in 1957.
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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. Brigidine Convent and college built 1888.
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Echuca. This is a model of what the Echuca wharf looked like in the era of the paddle
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Gumeracha. Kenton Park House. Built in 1844 for William Beavis Randell a fkiyrmiller and pastoralist. These gothic windows for the upper floor were imported from England.
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Gumeracha. Information board on the history of the Gumeracha Wesleyan Methodist Church which opened in 1860.
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Mannum. The Paddle Steamer Marion on the River Murray. it was built in 1897 and restored in 1994. Now owned by the National Trust Museum in Mannum.
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Water pool along Reedy Creek at Mannum waterfalls South Australia.
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Gumeracha. Statue and autumn flowers in the gardens of Kenton Park.
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Gumeracha. Kenton Park. An old fireplace in a stone room attached to the heritage listed 1841 built stone barn. Built for flourmiller Willliam Beavis Randell.
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Adelaide, Magill. The entrance and tower of Murray Park House now part of the University of South Australi Magill campus. Built for wealthy pastoralist Alexander Borthwick Murray in 1884.
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Kersbrook. This school room was built in 1868 as a town school. It became a state school in 1877 after the 1875 Education Act. Still in use. The first school opened in 1848.
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Kersbrook. The former Wheat Sheaf Hotel built in the late 19th century. Now a private residnce.
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Moculta.In the Barossa Valley. This German Lutheran School opened in 1882. Closed by Act of parliament in 1917 in WW1 and became a state school.
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Mannum. The Lutheran Church on the cliffs above the Murray River. It opened in 1936.
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Autumn Street Lamp
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Meat on the Fire
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Attractive House and Yard
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Echuca . The state school built in 1874. Additions in 1877. Partially rebuilt after a fire in 1890. Closed as a school 1995. Now used for other pruposes.
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Echuca. The combined Echuca Town Hall and Petty Session Courthouse. Built 1869 in neo classical style. Architects Vahland and Getzschumann. Became library in 1954.
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Echuca. The Bridge Hotel. Built 1858. Vahaland architect of 1875 section facing the Port of Echuca.
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Echuca. Brigidine Convent and College built 1888 .Chapel on right built a bit later.
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Echuca. Central section with bay window built in 1860 as residence of Henry Hopwood. He died here 1869. Sold to nuns of St Brigid for a convent and school 1886. Still a Catholic School.
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Mannum. On the River Murray South Australia. On the right the paddle steamer Marion.
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Gumeracha in the Adelaide Hills.. Kenton Park stone barn built in 1841 for William Beavis Randell. This barn is heritage listed. Randell a flourmiller and pastoralist built the two storey Gothic style Kenton Park House three years later.
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Dressed to Kill
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Birdwood. Old stone cottage and shop with a parapet along the roof line. Dates from the 1850s. Now an antiques shop .Next to the old flourmill which is now the National Motor Museum.
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Eden Valley South Australia. The old Post Office, SA Bank agency and store. Built around 1884.
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Mannum. On the River Murray. Former residence of Francis Henry Randell in McLaren St. Built in 1872. He was brother of William Richard Randell the founder of Mannum and pioneer of the river boat trade from 1853.
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Mannum. Old pug and pine cottage. Callistris pine an Australian species is termite proof. Straw mixed with mud to form adobe. A pioneer building technique.
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Hartley South Australia. On the Bremer River. Old limestone farm house in wheat paddock.
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Birdwood. Old stone cottage and shop dating from the 1850s.near the National Motor Museum. Now an antiques store.
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Moculta in the Baross Valley. The Shannon family mausoleum. Built in 1876. Has 20 sides to make it look round in shape. Built as a memorial to Abraham Shannon who died in 1875.
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Moculta in the Baross Valley. The Shannon family sandstone mausoleum. Built in 1876. Has 20 sides to make it look round in shape. Built as a memorial to Abraham Shannon who died in 1875.
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Moculta. The heritage listed Daniel Lemke pipe organ in the Gruenberg Lutheran Church with its painted wooden ceiling. Church was built in 1864 with the help of funds from George Fife Angas.
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Echuca. Obelisk erected in memory of the founder of Echuca Henry Hopwood. He died 1869.
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Eden Valley Barossa Valley. Old stone building from the towns beginning in 1866. Was used as a butter factory in the 1890s.
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Talking About Meat?
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Chain of Ponds. The entrance to the Bible Christian cemetery. The church built in 1882 provided the stone for this wall.
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Gumeracha. William Beavis Randell built these two adjoining cottages for his flourmill workers. Built in 1847 the year the flourmill was built.
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Moculta. The pretty and historic Daniel Lemke pipe organ in the Gruenberg Lutheran Church with its painted wooden ceiling. Church was built in 1864 with the help of funds from George Fife Angas.
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Gourd Bottles
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Gumeracha Town Hall
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