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Truro. The old Truro Hotel. Built in 1863 . The Crown Hotel at the other end of the Main Street was built in 1850 when the town was first established.
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The Coorong. A Sea Eagle.
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Gumeracha. William Beavis Randell's flour mill built in 1847.Converted to a butter factory 1883. Now a fine residence.
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Truro. The former Police Station. It was built in 1867. The front rooms were used as the local Court Room until 1937. The town morgue was in the cellars beneath the Police Station.
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Steinfeld. St Stephens Lutheran Church built in 1911. Old Lutheran school room used for a church from 1885 to 1911.
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Magnificent 1850 window on the David Gollan flour mill in Strathabyn. Purple Mount Lofty sandstone used for window quoins and keystones above small window.
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Truro. The current Uniting Church. Built in 1860 as the Congregational Church.
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Truro. The state school built in 1878 but much altered and added to these days. The facade has been destroyed with add ons.
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Steinfeld or Stonefield. The old Lutheran school built 1885. Closed around 1969. Became a state school in 1917 during World War One. Closed 1969.
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Freestone Strathalbyn Savings Bank of South Australia. Built 1930 with stone gables, castellations and castle draw bridge style mental fencing at street level. Terracotta tiled roof. Colonnades. Gothic style windows.
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Truro. The state school built in 1878 but much altered and added to these days. The facade has been destroyed with add ons.
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Mannum on the River Murray. The old paddle steamer the Marion. Steamers were sidewheelers on the Murray to ensure shallow draft unlike the rear wheelers on the deep Mississippi River.
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96. Murray River Looking North from Road to Punt, Blanchetown, South Australia, 1948
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Kingston on Murray. The state primary school built in 1935. The Kingston on Murray school opened in 1895 in a hall. Still operating in 2016.
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Milang. The old Lakeside Butter factory is now a wine cellar door.
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Truro. This gable bluestone house was built on land purchased from George Fife Angas in 1862. The house was built around 1884 for Edwin Davey the local flourmiller. In 1914 it became Bagot Shakes and Lewis Stock Agents and later Goldsbrough Mort.
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Truro. On the veranda of the old stone Council Chambers. Built in 1884. Now disused and empty/
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Truro. The tin workshop with a loft door for receiving supplies was once the centre of a thriving coach building business. Merten Coachbuilders operated here from 1885 until the mid 1930s. They made ploughs, discs, etc as well as coaches.
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Loveday. Near Barmera in the Riverland. The old state primary school. It closed in 2014 and is now used as a residence. This stone building dates from 1923 when the school opened.
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Truro. The rear of the cream brick Lutheran Church. Built in 1955.
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Kingston on Murray. The state primary school built in 1935. The Kingston on Murray school opened in 1895 in a hall. Still operating in 2016.
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Rheinthal between Cambrai and Sedan. Was the religious heart of Rhine Villa or Cambrai settlement from 1876 to 1911. Only the cemetery remains and some ruined German style farm houses and buildings. This was site of the church.
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Cobdogla. The state primry school. Opened in 1918 and still in operation. These buildings dates from the early 1920s.
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Old Gas Works cottage in Strathalbyn. Built around 1868 when Gas Works was erected. Strathalbyn had gas street lamps by 1870.
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Trevor Bain in the mallee at Blanchetown with swarm 1oct2010
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Paddle steamer the Industry on the River Murray at Renmark South Australia.
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Steinfeld or Stonefield Lutheran Church.
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Lock Five at Paringa near Renmark South Australia controlling the flow and river levels for the Murray River in South Australia.
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Murray river, sa
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Steinfeld or Stonefield Lutheran cemetery. Unusual Lutheran headstone written in German in 1940 during World War Two. There are others in this cemetery up to 1943 all in German.
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Goolwa. This first part of the Institute opened in 1878. In 1907 the Town Hall (now the Alexandrina Council Chamber) was added facing Cadell St.
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Murray river, sa
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Murray river, sa
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Murray river, sa
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Mannum. Randell House built by William Richard Randell in 1868. He built the first paddle steamer in Sth Australia and launched it in 1853.Originally known as Bleak House.
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Bridge Over the Murray
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Still Flow
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Mannum. In the foreground the historic Randell family floating dry dock for paddle steamers in the mid 19th century. On the hill the Lutheran Church.
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Shiny Bench
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Yarrawonga Catholic Church built in 1905.
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Murbko Lutheran Church. Bult 1907. Cemetery close by.
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Goolwa. Thornbury House and garden built in 1880 for Thomas Goode and merchant of the town and the fistt mayor. It has bay windows and gables The District Council of Goolwa was formed in 1858.
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Shady River Bank - Blanchetown
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Trevor Bain's father Colin in the first year they went to the White Mallee at Blanchetown c1963
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Murbko. Near the settlement is this wonderful cliff top view of the Murray River at Pelican Point.
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Stockwell in the Barossa Valley. The old General Store with a 16 paned window. Built around 1860. Now the Post Office.
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Mannum. St Martins Lutheran Church built in 1935. It replaced an earlier church built on this site in 1882.
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Murray river, sa
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Goolwa. The steam train called the Cockle Train arriving at Goolwa railwlay station.
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Left to rot
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giants
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Mannum. In the town Museum is this Beam engine used by Captain William Richard Randell the founder of Mannum and pioneer of the River Murray steam boat trade from 1853.
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Murray river, sa
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Stockwell. Barossa Valley. Old flour bag from the former Stockwell flour mill.
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Mannum on the River Murray. In the town Museum. Information board about William Richard Randells Bell steam engine. Possibly from the Aldinga flour mill.
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Murbko. Rounding up the sheep with dog and motor buggy.
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