Back home, I had a chance to browse. It's a very useful and interesting site that I have added to my must-read list. Do have an explore. Navigation is quite easy. You can also use his photos with appropriate recognition.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Don's Maps - a useful site for those interested in palaeolithic archaeology (and bushwalking)
Back home, I had a chance to browse. It's a very useful and interesting site that I have added to my must-read list. Do have an explore. Navigation is quite easy. You can also use his photos with appropriate recognition.
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That’s one of the largest reading lists i’ve Ever had recommended to me Jim, I have yet to discover how many layers deep it is. All good stuff though, would very much have enjoyed listening in on your conversation with Don. Re Tamworth’s incoherence, they do have the Golden Guitar, perhaps that may encourage a degree of harmony to be restored. I found Gordon’s information of a shingle roof overlaid with galvanised sheeting interesting and would be confident that it would be a regular occurrence, providing the roof was judged strong enough to carry the additional weight. Your detail of the building out of Armidale has been forwarded to my daughters for their own exploration. Inverell has retained the bulk of its prestige buildings and I have found it a delight to walk round and no visit would be complete without a visit to the Inverell Pioneer Village. You just have to respond with admiration at the confidence and commitment built into such as the Richardson building that you find at the commercial heart of most Australian towns where the wreckers ball has been absent or economic decline and ruin set it. A regular source of supply for myself was the Hammond & Wheatley building in Bellingen when it functioned as a provider to Bellingen and its hinterland. The days when you could clear off to town without having to go back to the house to collect some cash, probably still the case as you go further West to the Bingara’s of this world..
I think that you really would have enjoyed the conversation, John. Sue Hudson ex Balala Station who did archaeology honours was talking about visiting the Salisbury axe quarry. Don offered to go to to take photos. It was actually a very historical drinks, so to speak.
On Tamworth, Country Music is part of its history but of itself does not create visual coherence. Maybe even the opposite! On Inverell. I have to get to the pioneer village. My grandfather managed a block at Oakwood. I understand that some of the displays link to that period in the early twentieth century when wheat cultivation was exploding. With Inverell, what I really need to do is go flaneuring with camera in hand. I don't think that you can properly understand history unless you actually walk a place.
The last time I was in Bellingen, the Hammond & Wheatley building still had its pressed metal ceilings. The first time i was there, it was still a general store. So long ago!
I hitched a late night lift in Armidale with a Semi going South as far as Scone one Winter. It turned off the highway in Uralla to pick up a load of rabbits held in a cold store, it was warmer in the cold store than outside that night. Might be a link to Balala Station. H & W is heritage listed and the pressed tin ceilings are still there but all those wonderful red cedar counters are gone, still worth a visit though. Bellingen Council is but another one that has in its wisdom decided to cut down those historic Camphor Laurels gifted to the town by Sydney Botanical Gardens on the foundation of the town.
http://www.bellingencourier.com.au/story/4624208/camphor-laurels-to-be-axed-on-sunday/
I remember the old cedar counters as a child. I knew of the camphor laurel dispute, but did not know about the source, Curious North Coast had a piece on the tree further north - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/curious-north-coast-why-were-camphor-laurels-introduced-nsw/9007682
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