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Farrell Flat. Near Clare. The 1873 Catholic Church was demolished because of walls cracking. This Romanesque style church opened in 1912. Clooed 1986. Now a private residence.
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Point Pass near Eudunda. This rounded stone building was probably a backsmiths shop. In 1899 it became Leditschke butter factory and then a cheese factory from 1901. Clsoed arund 1915.
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Dutton South Australia. The interior of St Johns Lutheran Church built in 1871. Scripture texts still in old German script. Lutheran pastor conducting the weekly service. .
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Moonta. The Town Hall of 1907 was built in 1885 as an Institute. The clock tower was added in 1907 when it became the Town Hall.
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Hettinger Drive-in Theater, Hettinger, North Dakota (LOC)
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Moonta Mines historic copper mine site. The ruins of the Hughes Smith and Elder shafts' concentrating plant near the Hughes Enginehouse. Built 1865. Sea water was pumped here and mixed with sulphuric acid.
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Streaky Bay. A sand sculpture on the esplanade.
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Streaky Bay National Trust Museum. A pioneer's 1880s pine and pug cottage with a hessian lined ceiling. Eyre Peninsula.
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Wirrabara. This steam engine was taken to the Wirrabara Forests in 1882. They were established 1877. The engine drove a circualr saw used for cutting railway sleepers in the 1880s. There were two saw mills at WIrrabara
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Wirrabara. The 1884 Institute closed 1912 and became a furniture store. Consecrated as an Anglican Church 1964 with the 1908 foundation stone from the first demolished Anglican church.
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Gympie old Railway Station. The Mary Valley Rattler steam train ready for tourists to climb aboard for a train trip to Amamoor.
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Gympie. Gold miner's display in the Gympie Gold Museum complex.
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Wirrabara silo art by Same Bates. Details of the wrinkled face of the local forester with his axe. Beyond the silos is the former Wirrabara forests established in 1877. Closed down by the Labor government 2015.
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Port Augusta. Sturt Desert Pea the state emblem of South Australia in the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens.
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Gympie. The Mary Valley Rattler steam train climbs the mountains to Amamoor through rugged bushland. It operates on Wednesdays and weekends
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Maryborough Queens Park. A replica of the historic Mary Ann steam engine built in a unique gauge of 3 foot 3 inches instead of the Queensland gauge of three foot six inches. Used for transporting cut timber.
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Maryborough Queensland. The beautiful old Courthouse built in 1877. The architect was Francis Stanley.
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Maryborough. A replica of the historic Mary Ann steam engine built in a unique gauge of 3 foot 3 inches instead of the Queensland gauge of three foot six inches. Used for transporting cut timber.
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Gayndah Queensland. Crimped edged pink pinks.
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Strathalbyn. Piooneer settler David Gollan who built the flourmill in 1850 built this grand residence next to the mill in 1849. Detail of a chimney through the leaves. The house is called Water Villa.
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Kapunda.Christ Church Anglican Church with a spire and clock tower was built in 1856. The architect was well known South Australian architect Edmund Wright.
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Kapunda. The former classical style Court House built in 1866 next to the 1852 police station. Now a residence.
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Kapunda. The former convent built in 1892 for the Domenican Sisters who ran the Catholic School. It has been a private residence for decades. The cast iron lace work balcony was probably produced in the Hawke Foundry of Kapunda ..
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Kapunda. Old copper mining town with a large Irish immigrant population. A stained glass window in St Rose' Catholic Church built 1938. A memorial to all the priests who served the church.
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Kapunda. Osborne House built for store keeper Andrew Thomson. Thomson's store is now the information centre in the main street. Its Gothic features date it to 1862 when it was built.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town from 1842 to 1878. One of many stone villa houses from the 1880s with wonderful cast iron lace work on the veranda cast in the Hawke Foundry of Kapunda.
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Kapunda. A view across the main open cut copper mine which began operating around 1844. Behind this site was the Francis Dutton copper mine which began in 1842..
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Kingston in the South East of South Australia. The giant crayfish cooked and ready for the table. Impressive detail.
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Young. The old state school which opened in 1883. It is now the Lambing Flat Museum. The school has decorative and unusual roof ventilators. Old road mileage posts to Yass in front.
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Kingston in the South East of South Australia. The giant crayfish cooked and ready for the table. Kingston still has a crayfish industry and you can buy cray sandwiches in the town.
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Young. The Catholic Church built in local granite in 1874 with Welsh slate roof tiles. A granite addition to the nave was made in 1934.
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Young. The first Courthouse built in 1861. This grand Greek temple ediface opened in 1886 and cost 12,000 pounds. Given to Education Dept in 1924. Became senior school in 1935. With additions opened Young High School in 1947
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Young. Cherry Capital of Australia. the big cherry.
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Tumut. The altar and east window in the Tumut Anglican Church which was built in 1878.
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Tumut. The beautiful Anglican church designed by Edmund Blacket. Completed 1878. Dark bricks used to create patterns on the facade.
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Grenfell. The Salvation Army Hall in George Street the original main street during the gold rush. Built as it says in 1924.
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Grenfell. The School of Arts building erected in Camp Street in 1896.
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Grenfell. The Tattersalls Turf Hotel established in 1866 during the gold rush. Burnt down in 1888. Rebuilt 1889 with veranda and cast iron lace work.The arch was used for coaches to enter the courtyard. Closed as a hotel 1933
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Galong. A Rusconi carved marble headstone for Anastasia Barry Ryan.
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Gundagai. A small section of the five feet high and 21,000 piece marble masterpiece. Scultped by Frank Rusconi of Gundagai.
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Grenfell. The current Post Office. Built in 1875. Now with an early 20th century facade.
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Grenfell. The old Bristol Hotel built in 1870s in George St. Became the Osborne Hotel. The railway reached Grenfell in 1901 and it became the Railway Hotel.Closed 1912 for new Railway Hotel to open 1914.
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Grenfell. Old shop and residence in George Street the town's first main street during the gold rush era.
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Maryborough. The Courthouse beside Queens Park. Built in 1877
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Maryborough. The former Australian Joint Stock Bank erected 1882. Author of Mary Poppins P L Travers was born inside in 1899. Soon to become an interpretive centre on Travers.
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Hervey Bay. The Point Vernon memorial to the Kanaka sugar indentured workers. This statue has sugar cane behind the figures.
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Hervey Bay. The Spirit of Hervey whale watching catamaran in Urangan marina.
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North Adelaide. Christ Church choir in the southern transept. Built in 1849 as the pro cathedral for Adelaide.
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Illustrated advertisement from The Queenslander, December 5, 1914, p. 35
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Brinkworth. Information booth and old SAR railways sign at the site of the former Brinkworth Railway Station.
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Beechworth. The old Courthouse built in granite in 1858 when Beechworth was a gold rush centre.
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Beechworth. Fine old Anglican church built in 1858 when the town was experiencing a gold rush.Tower added 1864.
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Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, January 10, 1929
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Tanunda. This 1877 Hill and Son pipe organ was built for Adelaide Town Hall. It was removed in 1989 and put in storage before being moved to Tanunda. Restoration took 15 years. Now in the Soldiers Memorial Hall. .
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Tanunda. Chateau Tanunda built in 1890 when it was the largest winery building in Australia. Built for John Basedow. Owned by Seppelt family for over 80 years.Bluestone quarried at nearby Bethany.
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St. Nicholas church
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Stawell. The Diamond House now a motel.Built as a residence in 1866 using local red iron stone and white stones. The diamond shaped windows are original windows.
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New Plymouth. Reflections on the lake in Brooklands Park and gardens. Cherry blossom and red bridge.
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Clare Chimney on the side wall of the old Courthouse. It was built in 1878 in local stone
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Kapunda. Panorama of the old copper mining town. In background spire of Anglican Church and to iis right red bricks of the Catholic Church.
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