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 […]
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 […]
Originally the area around Bell on the Bunya Highway in Queensland was part of a large land holding called Jimbour Station. In the 1870s the area was opened up for closer settlement and Angus & […]
Bingara is on Australia’s History Trail in North Western NSW and was a pastoral settlement that commenced in about 1830, it was not until the discovery of Gold in 1853 that the communities of Bingara and Upper Bingara began […]
I have been to Glen Innes many times in the past 20 years and always thought it a shabby and run down place with many historical buildings. However in the past few years it has […]
Grenfell is a former gold mining town in Western NSW. By 1870 it was producing more of the precious metal than any other town in the Colony. The gold bought bushrangers with the most famous, […]
Of all the old gold mining towns in New South Wales Sofala is one of the most interesting and unusual. While hardly comparable with Hill End, which is 35 km further on and much more […]
Hill End owes its existence to the New South Wales gold rush of the 1850s, and at its peak in the early 1870s it had a population estimated at 8,000 served by two newspapers, five […]
The great Ocean Road in Victoria is an iconic road trip in Australia with some great photo opportunities. Not as long as Route 66 but still of historical significance. You can do the trip one […]
If you like pictures of Australia, colonial and federation dwellings and civic buildings, you will find them here. It’s impossible to look at colonial public buildings and not be impressed with the people who built them and […]
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