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 inc...
"To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze ... such sweet wayfaring"
William Wordsworth
It is not often one sees sheets of tin like that. Is it tin or something else? It does not look easy to work.
ReplyDeleteIt is nothing like a I have ever seen before. It looks like tin but I somehow feel that it isn't. I wondered if it was sisalkraft but it would be a bit weird using that as external sheeting.
ReplyDeleteThis will sound wierd, but I wonder if it could be sheets of lead. Something is pinging in my head. From way back. Not at all sure. Something to do with those 'bubbles' ...
ReplyDeleteI thought it was lead too. An interesting site.
ReplyDeleteActually that sounds like a possibility.
ReplyDeleteLead is soft to work which is why it was used as a flange for so long.
ReplyDelete