Lake Innes Estate - reign to ruin
Hear about the archaeological investigations carried out at Lake Innes Estate. More:
Lake Innes House Ruins - Port Macquarie
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Lake Innes house was the home of colonial entrepreneur Major Archibald Clunes Innes. During the 1830's - 40's, Major Innes acquired substantial land holdings and businesses throughout the Hastings and New England areas. Lake Innes House was constructed in several stages and grew to assume the proportions of a grand country mansion. The extensive ruins comprise of one of the oldest surviving brick structures in the northern NSW, and represent a highly significant part of Australia's convict and colonial heritage.
197 Lake Innes Drive | Port Macquarie Hastings Rural Sales
3D animation of the Lake Innes Estate ruins
A 3D animation of the Lake Innes Estate ruins in Port Macquarie, New South Wales. More:
Port Macquarie Historic Cemetery Anomaly
This video was taken in 2011 when I was taking some footage of the Second Burying ground in Port Macquarie NSW to this day I still cannot be sure what this is? The most logical explanation is that it is grass or something blowing with the wind - what do you think?
TOP 30 PORT MACQUARIE Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Port Macquarie - Australia by Explore Australia. This video about things to do & see or tourist attractions in Port Macquarie, town at the mouth of the Hastings River. Port Macquarie is one of beautiful coastal destination in New South Wales, Australia. So many tourist attractions in Port Macquarie is beaches. Beside beaches, Port Macquarie also known for its penal colony past and wildlife.
Most popular places to visit in Port Macquarie is Koala Hospital, Billabong Zoo: Koala & Wildlife Park and Tacking Point Lighthouse. Coastal walking is one of most popular things to do in Port Macquarie too. Don't forget to visit Hello Koalas Sculpture Trail, Sea Acres Rainforest Centre Port Macquarie, Ricardoes Tomatoes and U-Pick Strawberry Farm, Breakwall Waking Path, Port Macquarie Museum, Hastings River, St Thomas Anglican Church and Innes Ruins.
Others recommended beautiful places to visit in Port Macquarie is Black Duck Brewery, Roto House, Port Macquarie Museum, Cassegrain Wines, Lake Cathie Foreshore Reserve, Douglas Vale Historic Homestead and Vineyard, Long Point Vineyard, Port Macquarie Astronomical Observatory, Port Central Shopping Centre, Googik Heritage Trail, Lighthouse Beach, Shelly Beach and Little Bay.
To know more about best places to visit in Port Macquarie - NSW - Australia, simply watching this Top 30 Port Macquarie Attractions (Things to Do & See) video. Hope this video will help you decide where to go in Port Macquarie.
Lot 2 Pacific Highway, Lake Innes | Port Macquarie Hastings Rural Sales
Glen Innes Standing Stones NSW Australia filmed by Sky Eye UAV Solutions
A hazy afternoon flight over these iconic Glen Innes attraction.
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.
Port Macquarie 1954 from Old Photograhs
Port Macquarie on the New South Wales central coast in 1954 viewed from old coloured historical photographs.
66 Paperbark Place, Lake Innes, NSW 2446 | Raine & Horne Port Macquarie
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The new tour of the Innes ruins
Lake Cathie a Village Surrounded by Nature
Lake Cathie is just south of Port Macquarie NSW Australia and is surrounded by nature reserves,lakes and ocean.This is just a small example of the wildlife,scenery and activities around the Lake.This small collection of images I have taken during the past four years.Lake Cathie has a history that goes back to Major Innes and convict settlement in Port Macquarie.
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Googik Heritage Walking Track - Port Macquarie
Hyperlapse video of the Googik Heritage Walking Track, part of the Lake Innes Nature Reserve, Port Macquarie
Boundary Trail - Fern Trail - Lake Road
Lake Cathie heading toward Lake Innes
Lake Cathie heading toward Lake Innes
Real Ghost EMF Readings - Ghost Investigation Allman Hill Cemetery Port Macquarie NSW Australia
First video of a few EMF readings from Allman Hill Historic Cemetery Port Macquarie NSW Australia.
Innes Ruins Today
Results of the record survey
Birdseye view of Greater Port Macquarie
Greater Port Macquarie Tourism, Australia - this video captures the diversity and beauty of the Greater Port Macquarie region as a whole. See a birds-eye view over the spectacular coastline, starting at the top of North Brother, to local wildlife and the stunning hinterland. This video captures the many things to see and do in the Greater Port Macquarie region.
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Portparanormal investigates Fantasy Glades, Port Macquarie
Our investigation of Fantasy Glades will be on the 25th of May, and will be made up of three groups. Two 1 hours sessions to a select few from the public. And a two hour professional investigation of the land that time forgot. A documentary will be made on the entire night. Keep posted!
Port Macquarie - A brief Early History
Port Macquarie was settled as a convict settlement in 1821. There is still evidence of these early times in this beautifully situated city on the NSW coast.
Port Macquarie - A Fun History
The Port Macquarie Historical Society gives us the low-down on THE TOP 5 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT PORT MACQUARIE'S HISTORY. Talking on 2WAY FM's Time to Talk Show.
The site of Port Macquarie was first visited by Europeans in 1818 when John Oxley reached the Pacific Ocean from the interior, after his journey to explore inland New South Wales. He named the location after the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie.
Oxley noted that 'the port abounds with fish, the sharks were larger and more numerous than I have ever before observed. The forest hills and rising grounds abounded with large kangaroos and the marshes afford shelter and support to innumerable wild fowl. Independent of the Hastings River, the area is generally well watered, there is a fine spring at the very entrance to the Port'.
In 1821, Port Macquarie was founded as the first penal settlement, replacing Newcastle as the destination for convicts that had committed secondary crimes in New South Wales. Newcastle, which had fulfilled this role for the previous two decades, had lost the features required for a place for dumping irredeemable criminals, that being isolation, which was lost as the Hunter Valley was opened up to farmers, and large amounts of hard labour, which had diminished as the cedar in the area ran out and the settlement grew in size. Port Macquarie, however, with its thick bush, tough terrain and local aborigines that were keen to return escaping prisoners in return for tobacco and blankets, provided large amounts of both isolation and hard labour to keep the criminals in control. Under its first commandant, Francis Allman, who was fond of the flogging, the settlement became hell, where the convicts had limited liberties, especially in regard to being in possession of letters and writing papers, which could get a convict up to 100 lashes.
Due to the lack of liberties of the settlement, Ralph Darling, governor of New South Wales, quickly sent many 'specials' or literate convicts with a decent education who had voiced negative views about him. Later on in the settlements history, in the 1830s, disabled convicts started to arrive. One-armed men would be grouped together and required to break stones, men with wooden legs would become delivery men, and the blind would often be given tasks during the night which they performed more skilfully than those with sight.[2]
In 1823 the first sugar cane to be cultivated in Australia was planted there. The region was first opened to settlers in 1830 and later on in the decade the penal settlement was closed in favour of a new penal settlement at Moreton Bay. Settlers quickly took advantage of the area's good pastoral land, timber resources and fisheries.