Australian Cattle Stations
McKinlay is in the remote north west of Queensland
McKinlay is in the remote north west of Queensland on the Landsborough Highway […]
Federation Buildings Australia
Architecture
Port Adelaide Historic Precinct, home to the state’s most substantial and continuous group of colonial buildings
Port Adelaide is the first area in South Australia to be declared an historic precinct. It is home to the state’s most substantial and continuous group of colonial buildings. There are some wonderful picture opportunities. […]
Australian History
Architecture
Federation Architecture
Federation architecture refers to the architectural style of Australian homes built around the decades before and after 1900 AD. These houses reflect the Art Nouveau movement at the time of Federation of the Australian States […]
Architecture
The village of Carcoar in NSW remains almost completely intact, untouched by the twentieth century.
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 […]
Architecture
Peterborough South Australia
Peterborough is in the mid north of South Australia, at the 2011 census the town had a population of 1,486. It was originally named Petersburg after the landowner however was one of 69 places in […]
Australian Cattle Stations
Pikedale Station – Queensland
Once a prosperous sheep station, Pikedale Station was established in 1843 by a Captain Pike. It had many owners until 1919 when it was purchased by James Rogerson in whose family it remained until 1957. […]
Australian Photographs
Adelaide – Photographs
North Terrace is Adelaide’s cultural boulevard and is one mile long. It is the home of many excellent examples of early Australian and South Australian architecture, as well as Adelaide’s oldest church, which was built […]
Australian Landscapes
Recognising housing styles in Brisbane Queensland
A very good article from the BCC with diagrams to show you clearly the period of those old houses in your photographs… Brisbane character houses represent a wide variety of styles spanning more than a […]
Australian Landscapes
History of Warwick Qld
History of Warwick: Patrick Leslie and his two brothers originally settled in the area as squatters, naming their run Canning Downs. In 1847 the NSW government asked Leslie to select a site on his station […]