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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the underground bakery built in 1885 are two stone chimneys.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Magnificent River Red Gums along Sliding Rock Creek on a foggy morning. Near the Afghan memorial on Beltana Pastoral Company station.
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Beltana in the Flinders Ranges. Martins bush pub opened in 1871 when the Overland Telegraph was being built. Town surveyed 1874 and it was licensed as Beltana's first hotel. Built 1874. Now an art gallery hence the maze.
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Stirling. In the Adelaide Hills. The Main Street in autumn.
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Winchelsea. Facade of Barwon Park house. Near Geelong.
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Adelaide. Torrens Park. Kingsview house in Alton Avenue. Built in 1908 for Daniel Kingsland a former coachman and horse trader. Made his fortune in Argentina cattle ranching.
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Silverton. The old 1883 silver mining town is now a ghost town. But this art gallery survives. Silverton is near Broken Hill and near the NSW South Australia border.
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Broken Hill. The former Bank of South Australia 1889. In 1893 the building became the AMP. Built in classical style with pilasters and rectangular windows with no decoration. Great symmetry
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Broken Hill. The heritage listed Uniting Church built in 1888 as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Architect Frederick Dancker. Octagonal in shape to hold 800 worshippers.
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Broken Hill cemetery. The mines opened in 1885 and the cemetery soon after that. Headstones with Hebrew in the Jewish section.
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Broken Hill mines. This shaft named the Delprat shaft was sunk by Broken Hill Proprietry in 1900. It closed in 1976 and became a tourist mine experience in 1977.
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Broken Hill. Part of the interior and nave of the Catholic Cathedral. It was built from 1903 to 1905.
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Broken Hill. St Andrews Presbyterian Church built in 1905. Now a residence. became a Uniting Church in 1977. (1)
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Broken Hill. Stained glass windows in the 1905 built Catholic Cathedral.
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Broken Hill. The almost octogonal large Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1888. The oldest still in use church in Broken Hill. Now the Uniting Church. Heritage listed.
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Broken Hill. The Barrier Daily Newspaper Building. The paper started 1908 but the building is earlier. The unionist newspaper the Barrier Truth was established in 1898 and moved to this building a few years later
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Apsley Victoria. The prety main street with some of the quaint old buildings. At the far end is the Border Inn Hotel.
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Apsley. The Border Inn Hotel now run by the community. A nice Art Deco building. A hotel called the Border Inn opened here in 1854.
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Minlaton Yorke Peninsula. The first agricultural show was held in 1878. One of several exhibition halls built around 1880.
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Curramulka on Yorke Peninsula. The town name means emu waterhole. A group of fine residences from the 1920s and 1930s in the town.
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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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Maryborough. A stuffed bird from the Victoria era collection of the Maryborough School of Arts. The building opened in 1888. It is now a museum run by the Historical Society.
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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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Barunga Gap.Broken window in old cottage on Hummocks Station built around 1860. Robert Barr Smith renamed Barunga station to Hummocks station when he bought it in 1869. Now used for tourist accommodation and weddings etc.
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Barunga Gap in the Hummock Ranges. The railway from Kadina to Snowtown was built in 1878. The line closed to freight trains in the 1990s. This is all that remains of the Barunga Gap railway station and yards.
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Young. Young Railway Station. The railway reached Young from Harden in 1885 when the railway station was built. Now it houses the Information Centre.
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Young. The 1886 Courthouse with its trianguar pediment and grand Greek temple facade and the NSW insignia. Given to Education Dept in 1924. With additions opened as Young High School in 1947
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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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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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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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Parkes. A beautiful marriage of stone and brick in the Courthouse built in 1896. Fine carving in stone of the NSW emblem and VR carved on the facade.
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Parkes. Anglican Church. An Arts and Crafts Gothic revival church 1926. Cost of £14,000. The most significant building in Parkes architecturally. It has no arched Gothic windows but it looks Gothic. Architect was Louis Williams
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Junee. The romanesque style Catholic church with one high bell tower and another lower tower. Built in 1929.
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Junee. The Broadway Hotel. The singel storey Royal Hotel was built here in 1885. Replaced with the Broadway Hotel in 1914. Now owned by the Council and used as the Information Centre.
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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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Binalong. St Patricks Catholic Church built in 1911. An impressive structure.
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Grenfell. The Catholic Church bought this land in 1872 and operated a school on it. This fine Gothic Church was built in 1906.
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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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Parkes.Balmoral House. Built in the 1880s with proceeds from gold mining. Italianate style two storey house with bay windows. Avoids symmetry and has fine cast iron lace work. Built for mine owner Hazelhurst.
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Temora. The unsual and distinctive Catholic Church completed in 1907.
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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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Weethalle. The old railway station now a small cafe. Behind is the fine town hotel. The railway reached here in 1923. Town established 1921 for soldier settlers from WW1.
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Macclesfield. Old town garage with fading signage.
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Macclesfield. The Anglican Church built in 1926 in local marble stone. It replaced an early 1857 church which was demolished around 1980. Most Macclesfield marble was used for grave headstones and the SA War Memorial.
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Rotorua. Sunrise over Lake Rotorua one of many volcanic lakes in the Taupo active volcanic zone of New Zealand.
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Swan Hill. Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement at night. On the banks of the River Murray.
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Swan Hill on the banks of the River Murray. Vintage car outside the printing office in Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
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Swan Hill. Night lights on the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement church with its beautiful Gothic stained glass window.
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Swan Hill. Heartbeat of the Murray laser show. Water is sprayed up from the Murray River.The show tells the story of the Murray creation Aboriginal myths and occupation to paddle steamers and white settlement
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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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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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Bundaberg. In 1875 a wooden Catholic church was built. This classical Holy Rosary Church replaced it in 1888. The gleaming white is striking in the sub tropical sun.
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