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Swan Hill. Night shoppers in the General Store inside the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
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Albury. English Elms planted in the Botanic Gardens here in 1877.
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Goolwa. Side view of the 1859 built Courthouse and Police Station. (2)
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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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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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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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Swan Hill. Image of the Heartbeat of the Murray River laser show at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement village. Brilliant. Water from the River Murray is sprayed into the air upon which the laser show is projected.
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Swan Hill Victoria. Horse and carriage in Main Street in the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
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Water pool along Reedy Creek at Mannum waterfalls South Australia.
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Murray Bridge. On the left the first bridge in Australia across the Murray. Built 1879. On the right the rail bridge across the Murray built in 1925.
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Swan Hill. The government school built in 1876. A town school opened in 1862 and closed again that year. Government school opened 1871. Timber building 1874.Then this brick one 1876.
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Echuca. Millewa Chambers. Built 1878 as a bond store. Note urns and arched symmetry of facade.
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Goolwa. Graham's Castle. Bult in 1863 for Abraham Graham river boat maker and manager of Goolwa. Originally known as Nelcoongal. Restored by the WEA in 1960s.
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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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Albury. Bonegilla house in Kiewa Street. Built in 1857. Name later used for the migrant camp near Albury after World War 2. Lace work verandas added around 1875.
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The Coorong. sea lions at the Murray River estuary. Some cooling themselves in the water.
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Waitpinga Beach near Victor Harbor.
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Echuca. Brigidine Convent and college built 1888.
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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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Albury. The panorma from the World War One Memorial on top of Western Hill at the end of the main street. Site suggested by Charles Reade the town planner from Adelaide.
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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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Goolwa. Possibly the oldest house in Goolwa. Highlands House built in 1853.
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Gundagai. The Catholic Church in the Main Street and street banners for Anzac Day.
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acid soil
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Swan Hill railway station and the 7am morning train ready to depart for Melbourne. The railway reached Swan Hill in 1890.
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Swan Hill. Part of the Heartbeat of the Murray laser show at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
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The once beautiful Eudunda Railway Station in South Australia. The line opened to here in 1878. It is now terribly vandalised. What a pity and a shame on the government. Love the gables and air vents.
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Albury. Art Deco public toilet block on the top of Western Hill beside the War Memorial. Built in 1924.
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Swan Hill. The Explorers Obelsik in McCallum Street. This side commemorates Captain Cadell of Goolwa and Captain Randell of Mannum.Erected 1914.
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Goolwa. Old cottage from 1860s. Later additions made it the Maternity Hospital from 1910 to 1935.
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Tree Gets Pole Support
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Mannum. The Lutheran Church on the cliffs above the Murray River. It opened in 1936.
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Pelican in Homelands
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Gundagai. The terrace of Rusconi's marble masterpiece which took 28 years to build all of NSW marble.
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Swan Hill. Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement at night. On the banks of the River Murray.
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Murray Bridge. One of the city's two Lutheran Churches.
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Swamp Fox
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Strathalbyn. Street art. A motorcyclist and his bike in High Street.
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Menindee. The railway from Sydney reached here in 1919 and only crossed the River Darling in 1927. Used for the Indian Pacific, freight and Silver City Comet train in these early days.
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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 Bridge Hotel. Built 1858. Vahaland architect of 1875 section facing the Port of Echuca.
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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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Milang. Photo from the Milang railway station museum of Landseers big warehouses during the river boat trading days of the 19th century in Milang. Now all these buildings are gone.
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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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Gundagai. Not to be missed. This masterpiece was created from 1910 to 1938 using around 21,000 pieces of NSW marble of different colours from 20 different quarries. It is truly remarkable. Rusconi was born in NSW and lived here
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Swan Hill. The second brick water tower built in McCallum Street. This simpler tower was built in 1902. Beyond is Elwood House built 1930.
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Strathalbyn. A panorama of the cemetery. This old section of the town cemetery contains the graves and headstones of many early Scottish settlers including the Rankine McLean and other families.
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The stunning Currency Creek viaduct built in 1869 for the horse tramway from Goolwa to Strathalbyn then strengthened for the 5"3" rail line from Goolwa to Strathalbyn in 1883.
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Goolwa. The Anglican Church built 1867. Governor MacDonnell gave a land grant for it in 1855.
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Milang. Red hot pokers pidgeons and the Milang Anglican Church. It was built in 1911.
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Swan Hill. Part of the Heartbeat of the Murray laser show shown at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement nightly. Teh River Murray is in front. Spray is used from the river to porject the images.
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wooden boat 2
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Webheads Salute
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Goolwa. Rounded window of the Georgian style Courthouse built in 1859. Note the flower carved into the window surround.
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Milang. On Lake Alexandrina. Bottoms up and heads down. Pelicans fishing in the lake for lunch.
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