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Adelaide. Kensington Park. The Art Deco Regal cinema. Opened in 1925 as the Princess Theatre, later the Chelsea and now the Regal. Architect was Christopher Smith.
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Mount Gambier. The well restored Varcoe Foundry building. The sign says built 1913.
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Adelaide. The statue of Sir Walter Watson Hughes in front of the Mitchell building the University of Adelaide. Hughes donated 20,000 pounds from his Moonta copper mine wealth to found the university in 1874.Statue unveiled 1906.
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Jerusalem. South Australia. The former Methodist and now Uniting Church. Built in 1956 to replace a church built in 1922 which was then demolished.
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Adelaide. Charles Eaton Taplins design of the Wesleyan Church on Halifax Street Adelaide 1899
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Mount Gambier. The former Methodist manse. Built 1868. Sold by the church in 1941.
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Port Pirie.Solomontown School. Erected in 1896 as a large school. Built in a very pale local sandstone.
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Adelaide. Kensington Park. Art Deco mirror in the foyer of the Regal Cinema. Built in 1925 as the princess and later the Chelsea. Architect was Chrisopher Smith who designed many Art Deco cinemas in Adelaide.
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Grand classical facade of the former Farmers Union building in Mt Gambier. Built in1914 which is late for this style of grand facade.
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Australian Tree Fern table centre piece by J Wendt jeweller of Adelaide in solid silver. Made about 1877 before Broken Hill discovered. In Port Pirie Information Centre.
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Port Victoria Yorke Peninsula South Australia. This fantastic museum tells the story of the grain windjammers that annually sailed from Port Victoria to England with wheat right up until 1950.
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Carn Brae house in Port Pirie. Built 1908 in French Empire style for Moyles the local ice,ice cream and soft drink makers.
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Fancy Playground
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Hamley Bridge. Mural on the side of the current general store which was once Bohnsacks Universal Provider Store.
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Normanville. Information board and photograph of the 1854 Wesleyan Methodist Church.
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Mount Gambier Railway Station. The wooden station built in 1879 was demolished and this Art Deco station built in 1918. Last passenger train left here 1990. Station closed 1995.
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Bowden timber offices Port Pirie. About 1875. They thrived railing timber to the mines at Broken Hill. Shafts need timber.
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Sutherlands. The inside of Eudunda Farmers Cooperative first general store which opend in 1896. Store originally owned by Stephen Gale
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Mintaro in the Clare Valley. Mintaro slate billard table and room in Martindale Hall. Built for Edmund Bowman in 1880. A 32 roomed country mansion. Later owned by the Mortlocks.
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Memorial in Edithburgh Yorke Peninsula. sinking of the Clan Ranald in 1909. 40 lives lost. Asian sailors in unidentified grave. Saved sailors deported because of the White Australia Policy.
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Moonta Mines historic copper mining site. Paved floors near the concentrating plant near Hughes Enginehouse. Floored with copper rich ores still green today.
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Compton near Mount Gambier. Mount Gambier limestone quarries showing how the stone is cut in rectangular blocks.
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WWF. Waterside Workers Federation owned this building for many years. Amalgamated Workers Association 1911 Port Pirie.
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Wallaroo. View of the marina and water front housing.
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Engelbrecht limestone sink hole and cave in Mt Gambier South Australia.
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Beetaloo. Water pouring from the reservoir spillway into Beetaloo Creek. The Garden of Eden of the Lower Flinders Ranges.
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Railway viaduct crossing the Light River near Hamley Bridge in South Australia.
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Port Pirie west Primary School 1876.
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Mount Gambier. The Little Blue sink hole but infected with blue green algae in this photo.
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Mt Gambier. The Executor Trustee building in Mt Gambier. Architect designed in 1958 with blue and grey tiles. A classic 1950s modern structure.
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Cafe Wall
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Hamley Bridge. The Ancient Order of Druids lodge building. Built in 1912.
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Port Pirie. The interior of the old Bible Christian Methodist Church built in 1895. In 1905 it became Presbyterian. Clsoed 1970. Now a cafe.
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Mount Gambier. The weatherboard cottage occupied by Anglican Rev Needhams widow. Built 1887. Mrs Needham occupied it from 1891.
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Sutherlands. Gales General Store with 20 paned windows opened in the 1880s. In 1896 it became the first Eudunda Farmers Store but it was called store number two.
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Mount Gambier. St Andrews Presbyterian church manse. Compelted in 1911 with classical, Gothic and Art Deco elements. It replaced the 1861 manse.
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Mount Gambier. Gambier West called Rosaville. The Rosaville Primitive Methodist Church built in 1869. No longer in use as a church.
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Masonic Lodge with classical details in Port Pirie. Built 1899.
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Port Pirie Court House 1875.
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Port Pirie Post Office 1880 and expanded 1905. This current facade is all 1905.
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Risdon Park Methodist 1921. In Port Pirie.
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Laura. The old newspaper offices.
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Eudunda. Advertising on the old water tower needed for the steam engines. Frys Cocoa and Burfords Candles and Soap. Next to the Viterra grain silos. The railway closed many years ago and has been vandalised.
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Model of the John Pirie ship in the Port Pirie Information Centre.
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Adelaide. The base of Sir Walter Watson Hughes statue in front of the Mitchell building the University of Adelaide. Hughes donated 20,000 pounds from his Moonta copper mine to found the university in 1874. Statue unveiled 1906.
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Mount Gambier. St Andrews Presbyterian Church.Built 1871 it replaced an earlier 1860 church. Built in local pink dolomite. Front entrance added 1902. A focal point of Mt Gambier.
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Port Pirie Art Deco Library built in 1932.
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Mount Gambier. Spot the differences. See previous photo in my photostream. Pair stone villa houses almost identical but with differences. Built for a local publican and his son in 1911.
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Hamley Bridge. Old photogpaph in the foyer of the Institute showing a steam train crossing the Light River railway bridge.
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Sutherlands. The interior of Eudunda Farmers Cooperative first general store which opend in 1896. Store originally owned by Stephen Gale
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Erskine bridge in Callington South Australia. Erected 1890 . Beautiful stone work. It crosses the Bremer River
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Information board about the Bremer copper mine at Callington South Australia.
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Laura. In the heritage centre in the 1908 built Masonic Lodge is this 1905 poster of train services to the Laura Show. Trains left Port Pirie dep 9.00 am Peterborough dep 7.05 am and Port Wakefield dep 6.05 am..
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Mitcham. The grave and headstone of Charles Eaton Taplin a well known Adelaide architect. In the Mitcham general cemetery.
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Yankallila. The 1857 built Anglican Church now a shrine for Our Lady of Yankallila
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Malvern. Concordia College by Charles Eaton Taplin architect. He designed this in 1899..
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Mount Gambier Railway Station. The wooden station built in 1879 was demolished and this Art Deco station built in 1918. Last passenger train left here 1990. Station closed 1995.
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Hamley Bridge Railway Station now a residence. This was a busy station as there was a change of guage here. Located in Hamley Bridge South Australia.
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Mount Gambier. The Centenary Tower built from 1900 to mark Captain Grant naming of the Mount in 1800. It opened in 1904.
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Moonta MInes historic copper site. The Winding house at Taylors Shaft. A Cornish beam engine installed here in 1865.
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