Australian Standing Stones - Glen Innes
Unexplained Australia visit the Australian Standing Stones in Glen Innes, NSW. People have reported Paranormal activity within the stone circle, others claim the stones are part of some Conspiratorial, Occult agenda.
Glen Innes NSW: The Australian Standing Stones and the Celtic Festival 1991-2012
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The Australian Standing Stones in Glen Innes NSW is Australia's monument to the pioneers who came from the Celtic lands of Europe. Commenced in 1991, the Stones are the site of the annual Australian Celtic Festival, part of which is a street parade down Grey Street - the shopping centre of Glen Innes.
This video commences with a slide show of events from 1991 and culminates with a movie of the parade in 2012.
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The Australian Standing Stones began as an ambitious project by a small, dedicated group of citizens who wanted to mark Glen Innes’ Celtic heritage.
It was in Australia’s 1988 Bicentenary Year that the Celtic Council of Australia developed the idea of erecting a national monument to honour all Celtic peoples who helped pioneer Australia. Glen Innes responded with a 46-page submission for Australian Standing Stones, inspired by the Ring of Brodgar in Scotland’s Orkneys.
In announcements from Scotland by David Donnelly, then Glen Innes’ Mayor, and from Sydney by Peter Alexander, then convener of the Celtic Council of Australia, it was official: Glen Innes was chosen. But no money came with the right to build the Stones.
John Tregurtha, a pharmacist, chairman of the committee delegated to build the array, and Lex Ritchie, then the town’s tourist officer and an expert bushman, spent three months scouring the bush within 50km of Glen Innes for the stones. They had to stand 3.7 metres from ground level, which meant each to be 5.5 metres in total length.
They found only three stones which could be used in their natural state – others had to be split from larger rock bodies. A former Snowy Mountains Scheme worker and local alderman George Rozynski, who at 17 migrated with his family from Poland, came up with the solution. He remembered his rock drilling work on the Snowy and heard of a new expanding compound which could split rocks without using explosives.
With another alderman, Bill Tyson, he spent hours in the bush drilling massive granite rocks. “The compound was a powder which was mixed to the consistency of a slurry and poured into the drill holes,” Mr Rozynski recalled. “When we returned the next morning the rock was cracked…”
It took more than six months of further effort, spearheaded by Bob Dwyer, who went on to become Glen Innes’ Mayor, and businessman Ted Nowlan, using a 12 tonne forklift and other heavy equipment to load and transport the stones on a timber loader to the Centennial Parklands site. The weight of the stones averaged 17 tonnes.
Sponsors were invited to pay $1000 each to help defray the cost of the Stones. Clans, families and others from across Australia and the world responded and within a fortnight all were snapped up.
The three central Stones were excluded from sponsorship: the Australis Stone for all Australians, the Gaelic Stone for Gaelic speaking Celts from Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, and the Brythonic Stone for the Brythonic-speaking Celts of Wales, Cornwall and Brittany.
The Australian Standing Stones were officially opened by the then NSW Governor, Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair, on February 1, 1992.
Increasingly, the Standing Stones are becoming known throughout Australia because of the success of the Australian Celtic Festival and continual media exposure. As well as being the national monument to Australia’s Celtic pioneers, they are recognised by the Celtic Council of Australia as the national gathering point for Celtic descendants and clans. They have also, through the Australian Celtic Festival’s success, attracted government funding to help promote further Celtic events throughout the year.
Australian Standing Stones, Glen Innes NSW 17 April 2016
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The Worst Main Street In Australia..? Glen Innes !
Basson's Blunder, currently buggaring up Ward's Mistake, as the hand-mixed Concrete Slab Carraigeways in Grey Street were derisively labelled by Alderman Ward's detractors in the 1920s, is currently the talk of the town...
Quoting from the front page of the Glen Innes Examine of Thursday September 4th 2014, under the Headline Facelift fatigue...; ...Many businesses, struggling before the roadworks began, now feel they have been brought to their knees under the added pressure of long-running work and disruption outside their shop fronts.
Schaefer's Newsagency proprietor said it's very frustrating. A sign appeared outside the newsagency this week indicating that Council was destroying businesses in town because of the road works....
It's affecting businesses badly. It's an old generation town and let's face it, people aren't willing to walk anywhere...
Mr Schaefer said that in the early stages he had tried to be supportive of the ptoject, taking the view that the end result would be worth it. But as time drags on and businesses struggle to stay afloat, he is desparate to get customers through the door...
...this work is so disruptive and taking so long to complete. It's almost as if Council has given up on local businesses, there's no mention of compensation, no communication and no effort to help us.
Brian Paine, proprietor of Mac's Corner Store on tje West side of town... was appalled at the lack of consideration that Council seems to have for local business.
I don't think they seriously considered the knock-on effect this work is having to other businesses anf the whole town,... I have heard from so many people that they now shop in Inverell (80 Km to the West), because of this disruption in Glen Innes... It is driving the community into the ground.
Anne Pettit, proprietor of Cuisine Cafe, is concerned they may not be able to stay afloat much longer.
'We're running at a loss every day.', Mrs Pettit said.
Mrs Pettit said she had been to all the Council meetings and was assured thst disruptions would be minor.
This is not minor, this is major and it's erratic. Sunday we will be forced to close on our busiest trading day because they need to work on the power supply....
And, it goes on, in the same vein ; for quite a way...
A Council Spokesperson is quoted as saying , the redevelopment...work in Grey St Glen Innes is on track for completion by the end of OCTOBER...
Rumour has it that donations are being collected to pay for Heinrich Basson to be deported back to Sooth EffriKa, wherin he was spawned, whelped, or perhaps hatched by spontaneous combustion ; & where the name of Basson was made justly infamous, in the annals of Totalitarianism, Beaurocratic Authoritarianism, & Dictatorial methodology (see ; Wouter Basson, the head of the country's former Apartheid Regieme's Germ Warfare Program...).
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Glen Innes, New South Wales Australia - a walk to Martin's Lookout.
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This walk on the edge of the New England town of Glen Innes takes in Martin's Lookout and the Australian Standing Stones.
The Stones are Australia's monument to the Celtic peoples who made up a large part of the pioneers coming to Australia from 1788 on.
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Historic Mining Photographs: Kingsgate near Glen Innes, NSW Australia
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The Kingsgate bismuth and molybdenite mines are about 40km east of Glen Innes, in the New England region of NSW Australia.
Mining commenced there in the 1870's, reached a peak during the First World War, and recent exploration suggests that it could start up again if demand for its products rose.
The mines and their waste dumps have been a prolific source of fine mineral specimens.
These historic photographs come from old NSW Geological Survey publications.
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Australian Celtic Festival 2019, Glen Innes, NSW
On Saturday 4th May 2019 I had the pleasure to watch some world class Celtic Dancing. Some of these Dancers are Australian Champions & the quality of the Dancing & the Choreography was Splendid indeed.
What it means to be Australian-Glen Innes 2016
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Standing stones Glen Innes
I drove through Glen Innes and saw the signs for the standing stones.
It's not as ancient as Stonehenge but it's a good place to stretch your legs.
Criticism: The worked stones are too rough and unnatural.
This is not an old site - it's a tribute to the Celtic heritage of many of the early settlers to the area.
It's under 10 years old.
Armidale to Glen Innes NSW Road Trip.
I take a road trip from Armidale to Glen Innes NSW.
Glen Innes NSW - The Sites of this fascinating Celtic town.
I visit Glen Innes and drop in at The Land of the Beardies History House Museum, The Australian Standing Stones, The Emmaville Mining Museum and the lovely town of Guyra. Come along for my latest trip.
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The K.K.K. (Kilted Keltic Klowns) At The Australian Standing Stones (Slivers).
Faux Megalithic Stone Circle. Glen Innes, NSW.
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It's especially Irritating when I'm told to shut my yap, for the sake of somebody else's Profit Fantasies...
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Standing stones and stalls, Celtic festival Glen Innes.
A quick walk through the activities at the standing stones at Glen Innes, Australian Celtic Festival.
Pipers at Standing stones, Glen Innes.
What's a Celtic festival without a few Pipers?
Combined Gaelic Clans Chieftain at Australian Standing Stones
The Chieftain of the Combined Gaelic Clans Australasia addresses all Gaelic and Celtic peoples across the globe, at the Standing Stones Glen Innes Australia