Power House
There is a 1964 photo by Olive Cotton titled Power House. Far more dramatic than my prosaic view, it is taken from an angle…
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White Trees
It was in primary school and we were told to draw a tree. I very carefully drew a white tree. The teacher told me…
Pagodas
If pagodas are the tombs of wise men whose bodies have become the crystal bodies of mythical clever men then the Gardens of Stone…
River Lett Hill
The view is sublime from the top of River Lett hill over Hartley towards the escarpment and Mt York where the first Europeans descended…
St Johns
Small towns have long memories. My first few years of schooling were at Wallerawang primary school. When we moved to Wallerawang in 2003 we…
Inch Street
I have a natural bias to think the worst places have the most potential, I’m a born renovator. Inch Street is without doubt one…
Airly
Airly village on Mt Airly in the Capertee Valley is another abandoned shale oil mining village from the late nineteenth century. The pagodas on…
Old Newnes Hotel
The Newnes Hotel was originally on this site on the other side of the road above the creek. Eventually it was undermined by erosion…
Williwa Street
These cottages in Williwa Street Portland, on the edge of the cement works site, have been derelict for as long as I can remember,…
Lyon and Loveday
Lyon and Loveday Walker Barton were middle aged siblings who lived together at Barton Park. They were murdered one Sunday in 1948 after returning…