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Eucalyptus crucis. Flowers
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Blanchetown. The old Blanchetown hotel built in 1858. The license came from the Whipstick Inn on Portee Station. Note old chimneys.
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Curramulka. Old general store from the 1880s. Now up for sale.
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Former Swan Reach hospital. It opened in 1911.
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Streaky Bay. Come in. Limestone walls enclosed the pioneer cemetery which was established just after the town was declared in 1872.
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Manangatang. The former Presbyterian Church which is now a Uniting Church. It was built in 1925.
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Curramulka. One of several long limestone walls in the town. This one beside the Methodist church built in 1912.
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Sandleton. Reconstructed mallee root shed wall. A pioneer building technique used on the Murray Flats by the early German settlers. Roots available from clearing the Mallee for wheat farming
by denisbin

Bench from Mallee Fowl
by mikecogh

Avoca River, Quambatook
by Mattinbgn

Halidon. East Murray Council Chambers 1933. The Council of East Murray was formed in 1923 and met in a timber framed building until this stone one was completed in 1933.
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Sandalwood Hall. This town was established when the railway to Paruna and Renmark came through in 1913. The hall was built in 1923 with a 1972 besser block porch. Methodist church services held here.
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Piangil Primary School
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Barmera. The old primary school . Built in 1922 as Barmera was established as a town. Now aged care flats since 1986. Fine arch links two buildings . Rooms of left addd in 1930s.
by denisbin

Loxton. The Pines local historic house. Built by a local businessman overlooking the Murray River about 1912. Worth visiting.
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Underbool. The Anglican Church built around 1962. The Cooperative Union with the Uniting Church was reisntated in 2014. The adjcaent Methodist Uniting Church closed then.
by denisbin

Psittaculidae - Parrot, Mulga Parrot
by julie burgher

Taplan in the Murray Mallee. The first school opened in the Institute in 1917. This new stone government school opened July 1927. Typical big school room windows face the other direction.
by denisbin

rainyday sparkles
by julie burgher

Mantung. Service folder of local Indian who fought for Australia during World War One. Ganessa Singh's father was a land owner and farmer of Maggea.
by denisbin

Wheatons Service Station, Mallee Highway
by russellstreet

Eucalyptus porosa (Mallee Box)
by expom2uk

Manangatang. Old store with a chequered past. Opened in 1926 as a dressamkers shop then a saddlery but for most of its time it was a butcher shop until 1991.
by denisbin

Denial Bay near Ceduna. Across the bay are the Thevenard grain silos and port. McKenzies loading wharf and platform is offshore. Drays took wool to the platform for transfer onto sailing ships.
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Taplan. In the Murray Mallee. Wording on the stone memorial cairn near the former railway station site. Railway from Adelaide reached here in 1913.
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Streaky Bay. The hotel motel on the esplanade opposite the jetty. Built in 1866 with second floor added in 1905. Name changed from Flinders Hotel to Streakey Bay in 1893.
by denisbin

Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. Information Board about the Bellco Chalk factory which operated in the town from 1922 to 1930. Later operations were in Melbourne.
by denisbin

Tintinara. On the historic Tintinara sheep station the grave of founder William Harding who died here in 1874.
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Eucalyptus macrocarpa tree
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Eucalyptus oldfieldii
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Tintinara. The former Methodist Church built in 1966. Now the Uniting Church.
by denisbin

Sandleton . The old government school room built in 1909 and closed in 1941. Now a private residence. A Lutheran School at Sandleton operated in a barn and at the first Lutheran Church from 1882 to 1909.
by denisbin

Inneston. Yorke Peninsula. A small part of the former Bellco Chalk factory of Inneston. It operated from 1922 to 1930 before moving to Melbourne.
by denisbin

Sherlock. The old state school room. Built around 1920. Closed in the 1970s and it became a school camp site for some years. Now vacant.
by denisbin

Former Bank, Birchip
by Mattinbgn

Burra. Old stone ventilation tunnel near Morphetts Engine House. Built around 1860.
by denisbin

Bute. The old Catholic Church which is now a residence. Its foundation stone was laid in April 1894. The metal fence and cement pillars are superb.
by denisbin

Psittaculidae - Barnardius - Mallee Ringneck / Australian Ringneck
by julie burgher

Bowhill. Headstone for Pilmore with excellent marble carvings. Bowhill cemetery was established in 1898.
by denisbin

Cobdogla Steam Museum . National award for engineering display of the Humphrey irrigation pumps.
by denisbin

Cobdogla Steam Museum. An old unrestored Humphrey pump used for pumping irrigation water from the River Murray from 1927 to 1965
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Denial Bay near Ceduna. McKenzies horse teams carted bales of wool to a loading platform in the bay at low tide. Sailing ships were then loaded from the platform.
by denisbin

Ngarkat Conservation Park. Pertendi Hut. Old shepherds house from the 1956 .
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1935 Paruna Methodist Church which looks more like a Spanish style house than a church. Paruna is near Loxton South Australia.
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Building, Chinkapook
by Mattinbgn

Streaky Bay. A Centenary of Womans Suffrage banner in the Streaky Bay Museum. SA was the first country in the world to allow to vote and stand for parliament in 1894. NZ allowed women to vote only.
by denisbin

Adam Briner_White Mallee_Blanchetown 2012
by Gawler History

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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Wasleys. All that remains of the once large Wasleys Railway Station. The railway from Gawler reached here in 1868. Platform dates from around 1870. Station now demolished.
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Ngarkat Conservation Park. Colourful mural on the flora and fauna of the heath and Mallee lands of the park.
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gluepot moon mklll
by julie burgher

Murray River at high levels, Boundary Bend
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Wasleys. Old advertising on the old blacksmith's shop. Agent for McCormick and Deering Tractors and all farm machinery.
by denisbin

Ngarkat Conservation Park. SA. Pretty fluffy Australian native plant flowering in Spring.
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One of the most pleasing visits during the tour was the inspection of the Baby Health Centre at Redcliffs, where members of the Reso party contributed L.42 [which was received by] the Ladies' Committee.
by National Library of Australia Commons

Manangatang. The former Masoninc Temple. It was moved here in 1950 from Nine Mile village where it had been the Mechanics Institue, the local hall and the town school room..
by denisbin

Sutherlands. The old state school. Built in 1889. Closed in 1953. Note where the fornt classroom was added after 1889 as the stone work changes. School air ventilators still on the roof.
by denisbin

Tailem Bend. The mighty Murray river from a cafe overlooking the river and the Jervois river flats.
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Welcome Sign, Quambatook
by Mattinbgn

Purnong on the River Murray. The stucco rear part of the public hall was the first government school room for Purnong. It was in use as a school from 1903 to 1921.
by denisbin