Over the road is the hotel. It's not a Royal but I have received recent contributions from Gordon and Red Nomad OZ over at the Royal Collection check them out.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an increase in his land to 300 acres. William developed a r
Is that a fridge in the tray of that ute?
ReplyDeleteYour Royal Collection is moving along a treat ... I have two more somewhere ... will go search ... you might have one of them ... do you have a checklist somewhere?
Ooo ... just remembered ... you asked for that one from Paris to be re-sent ... oops ... forgot ... will rectify ...
ReplyDeleteOh you've got lots of new Royals since I last looked.
ReplyDeleteInternational ones even!
I do quite like the Bungendore pub.