This is my abandoned shot for this trip. Taken as we were faithfully following Madam Tom Tom's directions to our next town Forest Reefs.
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
Wouldn't it be good if you could press a playback button on a building and see its history.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot, agree with diane b. Reminds me of the New England. It is an interesting building with the old fibro. It could be an old butcher shop.
ReplyDeleteHah ... me too. I thought I would like to see the pride on the face of the people who first built and moved into this house.
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of the images yesterday of the space shuttle Discovery doing its flyover of Washington. The chimneys here provoked the memory ...