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Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. The ruins of Kanyaka sheep station established in 1852. The stone buildings were erected in the late 1850s. They included mens dining room, staff accommodation etc.
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Geelong. The two main buildings of the Geelong Railway Station. It was built in 1877. The railway from Melbourne first reached Geelong in 1854.The 1875 tunnel extended the line to Colac.
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Geelong. A side street view of a technology classroom with a large clerestory window in the Gordon Technical College which was built in 1887. In Little Malop Street.
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Goroke. The early 20th century butter factory had a clerestroy window. It later became a shop or store but even that is now closed.
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Goroke. The still current Post Office.
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Balaklava. St Pauls Lutheran Church built in 1975.
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Femme des colonies de Charles Cordier (musée d'Orsay, Paris)
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Barunga Gap in the Hummock Ranges. Rear view of the Percyton general store built in 1882. It closed as a store in 1916 and now has galvanised iron additions for storage.
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Temora. The Romanesque style Catholic Church built in 1907. Diagonally opposite the 1906 built Anglican Church.
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Temora. The side entrance of the Temora Anglican Church built in 1906.
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Junee. The unusual railway station built in 1883 with two sections with French mansard rooves.
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Temora. A fire destroyed many Main sTreet buildigns in 1900. This old Union Bank was built in Edwardian style in 1903 next to the 1901 Post Office.
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Bundaberg. The former QLD National Bank built in 1887. This is the Quay Street facade. Balustrade along roof line.
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Maryborough. Army Band playing before the opening of the Gallipoli to Armistice trail in Maryborough. It is based on letters sent home by World War One Soldiers from the Maryborough district.
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Flinders Ranges.The Summit Railway siding on the Pichi Richi railway near Quorn. Signs says it is 1332 feet above sea level.
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Quorn School. Roof angles. Opened in 1879. This building 1881. Another classroom was added in 1882.
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Goroke. St Peters Lutheran Church built in 1956.
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Loxton. The only part of the old early Loxton school that is left. The windows have been remodelled. This room was built in the 1920s.
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Orroroo. St Pauls Anglican Church built in 1920. Opened by the Anglican Bishop of Willochra.A mix of gothic and California Bungalow in style.
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Daylesford. The rear of the Catholic church and Presbytery. Ths basalt stone church was built in 1865.
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Queeenstown. The old courthouse erected in 1876 in local schist stone and shaded by old giant California Redwoods or Sequois.Opposite is the town library identical but erected in 1877.
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Lipson. The fine stone Anglican Church built in 1892. The architect was William Mallyon of Port Pirie.
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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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Lillimur. The old wooden ivy clad Courthouse built around 1880.
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Nowra. Overlooking the Shoalhaven River from the cliff lookout in the Nowra ShowgrouHanging Rock Lookout is 46 metres above the Shoalhaven River.nds.
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Caltowie. An example of Edward Boths wooden iron lung for polio victims. Developed in 1938. Both came from Caltowie in the Mid North of South Australia.
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Pichi Richi rail trip from Quorn to Woolshed Flat on a damp morning. Train ready to leave Woolshed Flat.
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Commander Evans (LOC)
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Morpeth. On the Hunter River. The Courthouse with cedar joinery was built in 1862. Closed 1950 and now the Morpeth Museum. The NSW railways Morpeth sign. Part of the museums railway collection.
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Invercargill. Southland NZ. Mrs Watson's Railway Hotel built in 1896 opposite the railway station. In 1907 a three storey section was added to it. Main entrance with cupola and balustrade on roof. .
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White Hut near Clare. Headstone of Christina McAskill of Spalding.
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Black Rock. Remains of the railway station platform, the station masters house both from 1881 and the sign about their annual Kalamazoo rail cart races.
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Morpeth. NSW. Edward Close had this mansion builk by convicts in 1829. He called it Closebourne House. It has a vista to the Hunter River.
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Maitland. The former Grand Post Office and clock tower. In High Sreet.
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Queenscliffe. Coastal views from the tourist train leaving Queenscliffe railway station. Bellarine Peninsula Railway.
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Harrow. In the Discovery Centre museum. Original photograph of the first Australian cricket team to compete in England in 1868. All Aboriginal players. The first white Australian team competed 1878.
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Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. History of the CWA serving meals to soldiers in WW2 in the animated night time illuminations on the grain silos.
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Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. History of the railways in the animated night time illuminations on the grain silos.
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Ballina. NSW. The original Courthouse burnt down in 1881 and was replaced by this new one in the Italianate style in 1882. Architect was James Barnet govt. architect.
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Bangalow. Named after the bangalow palms that grow there in the hinterlands of Byron Bay. The Agricultural and Industries Hall. Built in 1911.
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Adelaide. South Tce. All that remains of the 1881 reservoir to feed piped water by gravity to Glenelg. Built in 1881 and closed in 1928. It had 58 columns and beams to support a concrete roof. Filled in with soil after it closed.
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Spalding. The Methodist Church built in 1927. Although the sign says Uniting Church ont he fornt porch it si now a private residence.
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Phalaenopsis equestris fma. alba (Schauer) Rchb.f., Linnaea 22: 864 (1850)
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Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. The town school. A school opened in the early 20th century. The two wooden buildings at the site date from the 1950s. The school closed in the mid 1980s.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. An Afghan headstone in the Beltana cemetery. Afghan cameleers were based at Beltana in the 19th century.
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Wilson in the Flinders Ranges. Now a ghost town. Established on the Great Northern Railway in 1881. This stone government school built in the early 1880s. Now a sad ruin.
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Geelong. 11 Malop Street. Built as London Charted Bank in 1860. Basalt side walls but sandstone classical front. Almost fort like. Became an English Scottish and Australian Bank in 1921. Now other uses.
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Frances in the Tatiara. The oldest part of this hotel was licensed in 1883 when the railway from Naracoorte reached the town. Wheat spilt on the road.
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Bundaberg. Arch covered with winter flowering Petrea volubilis in the city botanic gardens.
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Callington. The town was established in 1849 when copper was found here. A deserted cottage from the 1850s in the main street.
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Barunga Gap in the Hummock Ranges. The old Percyton general store built in 1882. It closed as a store in 1916 and now has galvanised iron additions for storage.
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Bundaberg. The home of Bundaberg rum. Established in 1888 to use one of the bi-products of sugar refining.
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Bundaberg. The former QLD National Bank built in 1887 with cast iron lacework and steel pillars for the upper veranda.
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Hammond. Six month old kangaroo joey saved from a mother killed on the roadside.
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Swan Hill. This fine Methodist Church was built in 1918 replacing and iron and tin church from 1885.
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Hammond. Willochra Plains ghost town. The state school opened in 1885. This stone school was erected about 1895. The school closed in 1969. Now a residence
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Whyte-Yarcowie. Old general store built about 1890 and attached residence built aobut 1900.
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Hammond. Old ghost town. The Post Office built in 1880. Town founded 1879. Old mail boxes still in the fornt wall.
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