The view from the steps beside Steinfeld’s Ragged School at Sovereign Hill, looking over the bowling alley and the Fire Brigade. This shows the almost Hollywood-esque nature of these Gold Rush era buildings, fancy façades covering up tin sheds.
The view over Sovereign Hill from the overnight accommodation area.
The sign on the mullock heap at Sovereign Hill. We are looking out over the suburb of Canadian towards Mt Warranheip (746m, 2,448ft). Mt Warranheip is the main landmarks on the Western Hwy letting you know that you are getting close to Ballarat.
Mt Warranheip is one of the hundreds of scoria cone volcanoes across Victoria and SA. Only two of them, Mt Warranheip and nearby Mt Buninyong, are forrested.
The view of Sullivan Bay, Sorrento from the cemetery for the 1803 first Victorian settlement.
The Spirit of Tasmania heading up the bay, passing Sorrento on its way to Geelong.
Zoe and I had a day trip down to Sullivan Bay with Mum and Dad. Sullivan Bay was the site of the first white settlement in Victoria in 1803. The settlement was unsuccessful, but we had a great day out.
This is dredger number 21 at Power Works in Morwell back in 2016, with a Zoe for scale.
This was the first bucket wheel excavator to be used at the Morwell open cut. No 21 Dredger worked between October 1955 and August 1992, and was used to excavate overburden and to supply brown coal to the Yallourn power station. No. 21 Dredger is significant as an example of the first generation of German built Bucket Wheel Excavators used by the SECV. The design originated in German brown coal mines in the mid-1930s. No. 21 Dredger was one of the earliest uses of German continuous mining techniques and technology to be applied outside of Germany.
Not a sign that you want to see at a Dog Show – No Dogs Allowed! Luckily there seemed to be a general exemption for show dogs. But in the background is something that you definitely need to see at a show – Coffee.
A close-up of the grill of LN Stray’s 1961 Ford Thames Trader at the Kilmore Agricultural Show in 2015.
Something has caught Zoe’s attention at the Kilmore Agricultural Show 2015 while she enjoys an ice cream.
The cab side view of yesterday’s Thames Trader (CH9205) at the 2015 Kilmore Agricultural Show.
L.N. Stray
Phone 23
Broadford
Tare. 53cwt Gross. 135cwt
Note to self: 112lb to hundredweight (cwt); 20cwt to ton.
Another gem from the 2015 Kilmore Agricultural Show. 1961 Mark 1 Ford Thames Trader forward control tray truck, registered on a club permit CH9205. The Thames Trader was Ford’s first British designed and built heavy commercial vehicle. The chrome “4D” badge shows that this is equipped with the smaller 3.6L diesel engine.
A grey Fergie, Massey Fergusson FE35, tractor at the Kilmore Agricultural Show back in 2015.