Looking out my back door

[idris]

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Landlady's Olive Grove, then the neighbours three horses, then off into the far south...Thank God that I have this for now.
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This is in town about a half-hour walk from here. Used to be full of gold miners in 1861.
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Today, I was cutting dead grass to mulch my vege patch, & came across where a fox had gone under the fence.

[flatwater]

Is this like a gold mining gost town ?

[idris]

Is this like a gold mining gost town ?

The gold rush was in 1861. Since then, the railway came thru in 1886, that quite little creek with the ducks and reeds runs two blocks from the main shopping stretch, about a hundred yards from the high school and the museum, the PO, courthouse, and what once was the Temperance Hall. Beef, sheep, horses, alpaca, stone fruit, olives, wheat, canola, retirement homes, about seven churches and a mosque; jam factory, Sales Yards, plenty of other small businesses, several *big retail stores, 'golden arches' and KFC, local paper & hospital. Before the gold rush, it was just sheep & timber, *from 1838. I guess that that sounds like just about anywhere in Oz, NZ, Canada, & the USA. Except that it is one of the first places in the Southern hemisphere to have electric lighting. 19th Century, can't remember just when. This a shot of the frayed flag atop the town hall; the wind gets a bit fretful hereabouts.
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Quote from the local library's website:
Extensive alterations were immediately carried out and the building was enlarged and made into the Town Hall, which it remains to this day. The Governor of N.S.W., His Excellency, Lord Carrington visited YOUNG on 11 December, 1889 and officially opened the building and at 7 p.m. he switched on the town's electricity supply.

Tamworth got theirs in 1888.

[idris]

we had a dust storm about two weeks back, then we had winter come, two day afterwards.


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[idris]

Meet my new neigh-bours:
my landlady is agisting this pair for the couple down the ridge, cos they have run out of feed. Came up to talk when they saw me coming.

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