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Ebenezer in the Barossa Valley. This Wendish Lutheran Church cemetery and school was established in 1859. This second Lutheran school was built in 1871. Now in ruins. Only school in Australia which taught in Wendish or Sorbian language.
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Murray Bridge. The grand Art Deco cinema built in 1924 to seat almost 1,000 people. Closed as a cinema 1969. Art Deco pediment with small vertical columns for decorationand decorative cartouches.
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Oscar Freire
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Birdwood Primary School. The state school opened in 1878 cross the street. This bulding was the former home of the local four mill owner Pflaum of German background. Note excellent caste iron lacework. Pflaum house built 1896. Part of school complex lat
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Summerfeldt Lutheran school opened beside the Lutheran church in 1874. it soon became a state school in 1881. Summerfeldt became Summerfield in 1917 during World War One.
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Swan Reach state primary school was built in 1917. It is now a museum .
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Birdwood. A grand headstone in the Birdwood Catholic cemetery. The Hynes family lived in a two storey house near Gumeracha and were district pioneers.
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Harrogate. Rose Hill Bible Christian Church built in 1866 with local bluestone and Mt Lofty pink sandstone quoins. Closed before 1900. Gothic entrance door
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Swan Reach. Water department building on the edge of the River Murray. Water birds and parrots art.
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Ebenezer in the Barossa Valley. Stained glass window in the St Johns Lutheran Church. The founders were Wendish Lutheran worshippers. First church 1859. This church 1904.
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Bethany. In the Barossa Valley. A German settlement from 1842. This odlo cottage from around 1850 was the Thiele Cottage. Now used as a barn for storage.
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Gumeracha in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The worlds biggest Rocking Horse 60 feet high. Adjoining is a wooden toy shop cafe and animal park.
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Murray Bridge. Stepped Art Deco entrance porch to a house with inset panels and almost pyramid like roof. Stepped decorative eaves support.
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Swan Reach. The hall. First hall was built in 1902. This Community Hall was opened in 1933.
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Swan Reach. The town cemetery in the sand dunes beside the Murray River. Earliest graves date from 1905. Town was established in 1900.
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The Peloton --- Vintage Style
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Gumeracha in the Mount Lofty Ranges. The world largest Rocking Horse.
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Bethany formerly Bethanien. Herberge Christi Lutheran Church. Opened in 1888. Replaced an earlier church built in 1845.
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Swan Reach on the River Murray. Old limestone building of the Swan Reach Hotel. The hotel was established in 1899. Probably a cool room dug into the cliff face.
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Former Swan Reach hospital. It opened in 1911.
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Ebenezer in the Barossa Valley. St Johns Lutheran Church was built in 1905 for a Wendish congregation. It replaced an earlier 1859 church.
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Birdwood formerly Blumberg. The Catholic Church opened in 1867. The bell tower was erected in 1992. Behind the church is the Catholic cemetery.
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Tabor. Penshurst. Ruins of Herrnhut Moravian Commune.
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Curious Caravan
by mikecogh

Herrnhut Moravian community ruins near Penshurst Victoria.
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Swan Reach on the River Murray. The World War One soldiers memorial cairn with later war memorials added.
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Oakbank. The Oakbank and Balhannah primary schools amalgamated in 1938 when these red brick neo Georgian school rooms were built. This Oakbank Consolidated School became Oakbank Area School in 1944.
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Gumeracha. Information board on the history of the Gumeracha Wesleyan Methodist Church which opened in 1860.
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Tabor. Penshurst. Ruins of Herrnhut Moravian Commune.
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Birdwood. Flourmilling began in 1854. Mill sold to William Randell in 1865. Pflaum brothers leased it from 1871. Bought it and reopened it in 1888. Now the National Motor Museum
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Swan Reach Lutheran church . Built in 1923 but services began in 1911.
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Birdwood. The state school was built here in 1878. This headmaster's house was attached to the school a few years later.
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James Johnstons mansion in Oakbank by the racecourse called Oakbank House. Built 1865.
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Herrnhut Moravian commune ruins near Penshurst Victoria.
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Adelaide. 1940s Art Deco house. Lion head over porch, cement rendered walls, stepped brick work on facade, rows of glazed bricks and brick strips around window.
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The peloton fractures
by anthonycramp

Swan Reach on the River Murray. Old limestone outbuilding of the Swan Reach Hotel. The hotel was established in 1899.
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Climbing the Hill
by anthonycramp

Swan Reach Bank of Adelaide. Built in 1930s.
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Swan Reach on the River Murray. August Zadow was the first grain farmer here. His 1880 cottage is now part of the Swan Reach Golf Club rooms.
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Takashi Miyazawa
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Summerfield Tepko. The heritage listed five span railway bridge of 1917 across Reedy Creek.
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Former Primitive Methodist church in Oakbank 1887.The original 1863 church is behind this one.
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Swan Reach Congregational Church built in 1914.
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Model Motorbike on Window Sill
by mikecogh

Swan Reach on the River Murray. The Country Womens Association Rooms. 1950s facade.
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Harrogate. Rose Hill Bible Christian Methodist Church built in 1866 with local bluestone and Mt Lofty pink sandstone quoins. Closed before 1900. Gothic entrance door
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Swan Reach on the River Murray. Sign on old River Red Gum shows the January 2023 flood height.
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Oakbank. James Johnston the brewer built this grand house near the family brewery around 1865.
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Swan Reach. The hotel and general store. Licensed from 1899 but built from the old pastoral era homestead.
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Ebenezer in the Barossa Valley. Stained glass window of ship bringing pioneers from Sorbia in the St Johns Lutheran Church. The founders were Wendish Lutheran worshippers. First church 1859. This church 1904.
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Oakbank. Pikes brewery began 1885.
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Stage 2 Start
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Ebenezer. The Barossa Valley. The interior of St Johns Lutheran Church 1859. Mainly a Wendish or Sorbian congregation.
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Ebenezer in the Barossa Valley. Wendish Lutherans established a church and cemetery here in 1859. A sad row of small graves for children who were buried here. .
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Swan Reach ferry. With Murray River flood levels on the stobie pole with the electricty wires. 1956 flood level way above the STOP sign.
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Summerfield Lutheran Church built in 1904 replacing an earlier church. Near Palmer South Australia. Before 1917 and World War One German names change act it was Summerfeldt.
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Oakbank. Johnstons brewery Oakbank. Now produces soft drinks only. The brewery began production in 1843.
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Swan Reach on the River Murray. The Country Womens Association Rooms.In front the 1950s facade. Behind the old stone hall from the 1920s.
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Pampered Pussy Cats
by mikecogh