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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 […]

Australian Photographs

Surat, a Remote Settlement on the Carnarvon Highway.

24/08/2020 suggpixc 0

Surat is 80 Kms from Roma along the Carnarvon Highway, with St George 120 Kms further South. The town is in the center of the Waroo Shire, a picturesque area in the Western Darling Downs. […]

Architecture

Port Adelaide Historic Precinct, home to the state’s most substantial and continuous group of colonial buildings

12/12/2018 suggpixc 3

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

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 […]

Architecture

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

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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

Clunes – Victorian Gold Rush Town

25/08/2017 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 […]

Architecture

Mannahill in South Australia

20/08/2017 suggpixc 0

This article appeared in the Melbourne Argus on 22 October 1886 in the context of the goldrush to the Mannahill goldfields […]

Architecture

Koorawatha – New South Wales

19/03/2016 suggpixc 0

Township famous for a gun battle between police and the bushranger Ben Hall. Located 337 km from Sydney, Koorawatha is a tiny township on the Olympic Highway between Young and Cowra whose only real claim […]

Australian Photographs

Bingara is on Australia’s History Trail

04/09/2015 suggpixc 0

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 […]

Architecture

Glen Innes – a Renaissance

10/05/2015 suggpixc 0

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 […]