Tag: history
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Dr Morse’s Indian Root Pills Farm Shed
The Dr Morse’s Indian Root Pills farm shed, on the way to Morpeth. Shooting it has been on my bucket list for a while, finally ticked it off yesterday. It’s a recreation of the kind of advertising we used to see before the advent of billboards. The pills were very popular in the late 1890s-1940s,…
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Newcastle Customs House
This is one of my favourite buildings in Newcastle, the Newcastle Customs House. It’s a beautiful masonry building designed by James Barnet, who as the New South Wales Colonial Architect also designed many of NSW’s most distinctive buildings, like the General Post Office in Sydney’s CBD. I particularly love the tower; it’s 32 metres high…
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An Afternoon at Fort Scratchley
Cannon outside the fort I went on a group photowalk around Fort Scratchily in Newcastle yesterday afternoon. I’ve not done that many group photowalks before and I enjoyed it. It was nice being with other photographers and I think other people seemed a bit more comfortable around us as well which was nice. The weather…
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Sydney Harbour Bridge and Ferry
A Letter of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany BayErasmus Darwin (1789) Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells Courts her young navies and the storm repels, High on a rock, amid the troubled air, Hope stood sublime, and wav’d her golden hair; Calm’d with her rosy smile the tossing deep, And with sweet accents…
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Historic Sydney
This is my first post in a while. I haven’t been feeling well and to make things worse I’ve been having computer problems as well. I can barely use my computer at the moment; it makes a constant grinding noise and just crashes without warning. I even lost some of my work yesterday when it…
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Family Trees
Do you ever think about your family tree? About where you come from? I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot recently. The idea of learning more about my family line is something that has always interested me and I’ve often found myself looking at genealogy websites, wondering… [Read more…]
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The Galleon
Image: Voyage by Paranoimiac on Deviant Art The GalleonCJ Levinson In my dreams I see a distant landSurrounded by a vast ocean and shadowsOn the sands of that desolate placeLies the wreck of an old galleonTall and shattered, all that remainsIs its weathered and half-buried frameA relic from an ancient pastThat no one remembers What…