The wide shady wooden verandahs provide a good spot for a snack at the Yackandandah Bakery.
- Aperture: ƒ/16
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- Focal length: 58mm
- ISO: 400
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Yackandandah Post Office – 3749
Yackandandah Post Office, Postcode 3749.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 400
Yackandandah State Savings Bank
The State Savings Bank in Yackandandah, now looking like a clothing store. Since 2010 another bank, Hume Bank, has taken over the site.
Yackandandah Shops
Agent for V Brosolo Memorials – Heatane Gas Home Deliveries The Modern Bottle Gas – Funeral Director – Taxi.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 400
Yackandandah Motor Garage
Another Victorian country town and another garage that has seen better days, this time the Yackandandah Motor Garage.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 100
Rainbow Crystal Yackandandah
Susan wanders down the main street of Yackandandah, heading towards Rainbow Crystal.
- Aperture: ƒ/16
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- Focal length: 28mm
- ISO: 400
Yackandandah Soldiers Memorial Park
The gates to the Yackandandah Soldiers Memorial Park. The two pillars bear the names of the soldiers from the district who served in the Great War. The central plaque reads:
‘In Honour of Those Who Served and Those Who Paid The Supreme Sacrifice in Defence of Their Country’.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 100
That Should Hold It
The rock shelter in the Yeddonba Aboriginal Cultural Site just outside Beechworth.
Nodding Blue Lily
a nodding blue lily, stypandra glauca, blue flowers with bright yellow stamens.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 100
Beechworth Pioneer Memorial
The late afternoon winter sun brings out the golden tones of the rear-side of the Beechworth Pioneer Memorial. The plaques on the front reads:
Erected in 1954 in memory and in honor of the pioneers who founded this town, and to commemorate the fact that Beechworth was once a famous gold town.
Some historical dates.
Feb. 1852 Gold discovered.
July 1853 Beechworth named and declared a township.
Sept. 1855 Famous Golden Horseshoes incident.
1852 – 1866 gold returns totalled 3,121,918 ozs.
1856 – 1859 Robert O’Hara Bourke, Capt. Police in Beechworth.
Aug, 6th 1880 Ned Kelly’s trial begins in local Court-house.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 100
Case DEX Tractor
A Case DEX model tractor, built sometime betweem 1939 and the mid 1950s.
- Aperture: ƒ/19
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- Focal length: 39mm
- ISO: 400
Allis-Chalmers Tractor
An Allis-Chalmers Model B Tractor from 1937 in the company’s distinctive orange livery. The model B was designed for small farms after a survey of farms across the USA. Allis-Chalmers closed its doors in 1999 and became a lost brand.
- Camera: PENTAX K20D
- ISO: 200