Heritage Archives - SuggPix Australian Photography

Clunes – Victorian Gold Rush Town

06/11/2023 suggpixc 0

Step back into the gold rush era in Clunes – Victorian Gold Rush Town with street-scapes straight out of a colonial history book. This picturesque and laid-back town was once the fifth largest in the […]

Another Collins Family Historic Church at Mundoolun, Queensland

23/10/2023 suggpixc 0

This was the first Church to be built on Station land by the Collins family. Details of the the second, at Tamrookum, are in the previous post. In 1842 William Humphries and Paul and Clem […]

Texas in Queensland survived the great flood of 1921.

02/10/2023 suggpixc 0

Texas, is on the Dumaresq River in Queensland, 240 km from Brisbane. The population is around 900 people. The settlement was originally part of the Texas Cattle Station and by 1880 the surrounding area was […]

Australian Colonial Architecture

18/09/2023 suggpixc 0

Australian colonial architecture refers to the architectural style that emerged during the time when Australia was a colony, primarily from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. It reflects the influence of the […]

Langenbaker House – Outback Queensland

01/08/2022 suggpixc 0

Langenbaker house is a small single story corrugated iron and timber house and was erected in Ilfracombe in 1899 by owner Harry Langenbaker, an outback teamster or carrier by trade. The town of Ilfracombe dates […]

Creswick Hospital – closed in 1912 but still an architectural wonder.

27/02/2022 suggpixc 0

The foundation stone of the Creswick Hospital was laid in 1863. Later that year it opened with two public wards and a few smaller private wards. Following additions in 1867 and 1868 the main hospital […]

Kerry Bridge Hotel – Qld Scenic Rim

07/09/2021 suggpixc 0

Kerry Road was the first track to the Lamington National Park ranges, and it was along there that the O’Reilly family carried their farm equipment and belongings, beyond the farm selections along the Albert River […]

Silverton – Outback NSW – Almost a Ghost Town

07/09/2021 suggpixc 0

Silverton once had a population of just over 3000, (1885), however today less than 40 people live in what remains of this once prosperous town. It was the location for the Mad Max movies from […]

The inland River Port of Morgan

03/06/2018 suggpixc 0

The inland River Port of Morgan was once one of the busiest inland ports in Australia. It is located on the North-West Bend of the River Murray in South Australia, about 320 kms by water […]

The village of Carcoar in NSW remains almost completely intact, untouched by the twentieth century.

31/12/2017 suggpixc 1

The village of Carcoar was founded circa 1836 and remains almost completely intact, untouched by the twentieth century. The more you wander around the byways and backroads of Regional Australia the more you appreciate the […]