The Adelphi and the Shell Mex building guard Cleopatra’s Needle.
- Aperture: ƒ/3.4
- Camera: PENTAX Optio A20
- Focal length: 11.5mm
- ISO: 100
The Adelphi and the Shell Mex building guard Cleopatra’s Needle.
Not content with a monument on a plinth, Wentworth has a grey fergie tractor on a pole as well.
The little grey fergie, the grey Massey Ferguson tractor, became an icon in Wentworth in 1956. With floods threatening the town from both the Murray and Darling rivers, volunteers on their tractors built and repaired levees 24 hours a day. The light and nimble fergie proved more useful than it’s bigger heavier brethren in this delicate work and they saved the town from complete inundation.
Grey’s Monument commemorates Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, the Prime Minister who passed the Great Reform Act. It was this Act that saw the start of the end of the rotten boroughs. The plaque on the base notes that Earl Grey “…WAS THE CONSTANT ADVOCATE OF PEACE AND THE FEARLESS AND CONSISTENT CHAMPION OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.”