rivermurray

Monash. In the Riverland of South Australia. Foundation stone of the General Sir John Monash Memorial Hall. Laid by a later Premier of South Australia Sir Thomas Playford in 1939.
by denisbin

Barmera Irrigation Office built for the South Australian government in 1938. Superb example of Art Deco building.
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Hindmarsh Island. Holiday houses with their private jetties near the River Murray mouth.
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Old lime burning chimney flue in Waikerie ovrlooking the River Murray ferry. Probably built around 1910.
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Waikerie. The fine stone school was built in 1914. It is made of stone from the Murray River cliffs.
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Hindmarsh Island South Australia. Large holiday house near the River Murray mouth where it enters the Southern Ocean.
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Swan Hill. Coloured water columns in the Heartbeat of the Murray laser show put on nightly at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
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Younghusband. On the River Murray between Mannum and Bowhill. The local hall and public school. Built in 1889. The school closed after World War Two in 1949 but it is still used as the local hall..
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Overland Corner Hotel near Barmera 1859. The old Post Office of Overland Corner was later set up in the hotel quadrangle as a museum.
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New Residence on the River Murray. It was communistic Village Settlement 1896 to 1897. German settlers arrived in 1901 and built a Lutheran school and church in 1905. In 1925 they built Trinity Lutheran Church and spire. .
by denisbin

Another Road Closed
by mikecogh

Morgue
by mikecogh

Swan Hill. The General Store at night in Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
by denisbin

Port Adelaide in the Maritime Museum. A small cannon believed to have been taken by Captain Charles Sturt on his 1829 1830 voyage up and down the River Murray. By 1853 given to a sheep station owner at Wentworth on the River Murray.
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New Residence on the River Murray. It was communistic Village Settlement 1896 to 1897. German settlers arrived in 1901 and built a Lutheran school and church in 1905. In 1925 they built Trinity Lutheran Church. .
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Mypolonga. The old primary school classroom which was built in 1916. Note the three ventilators on the roof.
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Swan Hill. Across the River Murray is Murray Downs pastoral estate. These are the entrance gates. Murray Downs has an early homestead.
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Rushworth. The oldest hotel in this gold mining town. Built in 1854. Partially burnt and rebuilt 1868. Closed 1952.
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732 R Murray nr Swan Reach, Jan 84
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Moorook on the River Murray. This former Anglican Church opened in 1933. Services began 1908 in the school then later in the Institute. Closed in 2018.
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Morgan. The old railway station. The line reached Morgan in 1878.
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Lowbank School. Opened as a state school in 1914. Closed 1942. Lutheran church added to their hall in 1956 with a stucco addition.
by denisbin

Freeway Bridge Over the Murray
by mikecogh

Near Murtho on the River Murray. Cliffs at Headings Lookout.
by denisbin

Berri. On the River Murray. Beneath the bridge across the Murray at Berri.
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Waikerie on the River Murray. Information board at the silo art location telling the story of the Murray Hardyhead fish depicted on one of the silos by Jimmy Dvate. .
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Netherby in the Wimmera. Bethel Lutheran Church opened in 1918. The original Bethel Lutheran church opened in 1892 and burnt down in 1916.
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Swan Hill. Heartbeat of the Murray laser show nightly at the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement. Image projected onto water sprayed form the river. This shows an old paddle steamer on the River Murray
by denisbin

Ripples Coming This Way
by mikecogh

Berri. An excellent example of a sympathetically painted old bank. Built around 1930. Great Art Deco ornamentation and columns.
by denisbin

Bookpurnong near Loxton. A state school was run in this Lutheran church from 1913 to 1943.
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Goolwa. The Corio Hotel. First part built in 1857 as a singel storey hotel. It has the Great Yankee Doodle Tobacco mural ceiling in the front bar.
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Murbko. The Lutheran cemetery and the 1907 Lutheran Church in the background.
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Moorook on the River Murray. The old primary school built in 1920s with solar panels on the roof these days.
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Perponda. Site of the Perponda School which operated in the hall from 1924 to 1942.
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Goolwa Station
by mikecogh

Barmera Yacht Club Ladies in the 70's
by ABC Open Riverland

Renmark. The Anglican rectory next to the Anglican Church of St Augustine of Hippo. This rectory was built in 1914 with some extensions in 1926..
by denisbin

Peaceful Murray
by mikecogh

Echuca. This store built 1866. In 1889 became Permewan and Wright shipping agent offives.
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Goolwa. Hindmarsh Island. Plaque on the monument to Captain Charles Sturt and Captain Collett Barker. Both explorers of the River Murray and the southern lakes system of South Australia in 1830 and 1831.
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Ferry Between Trees
by mikecogh

Kingston Bridge Construction is underway
by kerry.albrecht

Bridge Over Mildura Murray
by mikecogh

Swan Hill. Giant felled River Red Gum in the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement at night. On the banks of the River Murray.
by denisbin

Ngarkat Conservation Park in South Australia framed by a shepherds hut called Pertendi Hut.
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New Residence on the River Murray. A communistic Village Settlement began here in 1896 and ended in 1897. German settlers arrived in 1901 and built this Lutheran school and church in 1905. .
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Pelican on Big River
by mikecogh

Berri. In the Riverland. Sculpture and memorial stone for well know Aboriginal tracker Jimmy James. On the banks of the Murray River.
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Riverboat on the Murray
by John N Hutchins

Cockle Train Station
by mikecogh

Back to Normal
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Blanchetown on the River Murray. Lock One begun in 1915 and completed in 1922. The William Randell Lock a pioneer of the paddle steamer trade along the Murray. First of 35 or so locks built..
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Middle Span
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Morgan. This river port is in the Hundred of Eba. Cut out figures on the old Eba railway station platform. The railway reached Morgan and Eba in 1878.
by denisbin

Mount Mary. Near Morgan on the Kapunda to Morgan railway line. The railway reached Mount Mary in 1878. Memorial cairn.
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Sound of the Murray Flowing
by mikecogh

P.S. William R. Randell towing upstream with heavy wake, 1914
by State Library of South Australia

Holder near Waikerie. The original Waikerie Station homestead built in 1880.
by denisbin

Succulent View of Flooding River
by mikecogh