Gilgandra NSW: The windmill town
???? WHAT: A visit to Gilgandra NSW. ???? WHERE: The town is situated at the junction of the Newell, Oxley and Castlereagh Highways 436 km north west of Sydney. ❓❓ WHY: We wanted to find out more about 'the windmill town' and the amazing Coo-ee March. ❄❄ WHEN: Winter. The mornings are brisk. ????☕???? FOOD: There are a variety of litle cafes in the main street, chinese restaurants, pubs and clubs. ???? STAY: We stayed at the Castlereagh motor inn gilgandra a bit out of town - which was perfectly clean and comfortable and a real bargain. TO DO: Gilgandra Rural Museum, The windmill walk, and Coo-ee Heritage Centre. Take a stroll around town.
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EXPLORING GULGONG | AUSTRALIA TRAVEL
This week i got to travel to the little country town of Gulgong in rural New South Wales, Australia - located in the Mid West NSW Region. I also check out the Henry Lawson Center - a museum commemorating Henry Lawson and his work as a renowned Australian author and poet.
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More information about Gulgong from Wikipedia:
Gulgong is a 19th-century gold rush town in the Central Tablelands and the wider Central West regions of the Australian state of New South Wales. The town is located about 300 km (190 mi) north west of Sydney, and about 30 km north of Mudgee along the Castlereagh Highway. At the 2011 census, Gulgong had a population of 1,866. It is situated within the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area.
Today, much of the 19th century character of the town remains, contributing to its appeal as a tourist destination. Of special interest is the Prince of Wales Opera House, a survivor with a rich history.
An attraction of note is the Gulgong Pioneer Museum, which has a huge collection of thematically-displayed exhibits, ranging from kitchen utensils to complete buildings that have been relocated to a 'street' on the site. Apart from tourism and hospitality, local industries include wine production, wool, wheat growing and coal mining.
Yarrobil National Park is located 21 kilometers (13 mi) north west of Gulgong.
The name 'Gulgong' is derived from the name used by the traditional inhabitants, the Wiradjuri, for 'deep waterhole'. Like several towns in this area, it began as a gold mining center. However, being founded in the 1870s, it was one of the last to be dominated by 'poor man's diggings', that is by individuals without substantial capital investment.
Novelist and bush poet Henry Lawson lived briefly in Gulgong as a child in the early 1870s, while his father sought instant wealth as a miner. A montage of goldrush-era Gulgong street scenes was used as a backdrop to the portrait of Lawson on the first Australian ten dollar note (which was in use from 1966 until replaced by a polymer banknote in November 1993).
The town and its surrounding district feature in Lawson's fiction, especially in Joe Wilson and His Mates.
Gulgong is believed to be one of the primary locations in Thomas Alexander Browne's Robbery under Arms. Australia's first novelist of note, Browne was police magistrate in the period 1871-81. He once hosted English author Anthony Trollope, who later recorded his impressions of Australia and New Zealand (1875).
Gulgong is at the junction of the Sandy Hollow line (which runs west from Muswellbrook), and the Gwabegar line, (which runs north-south from Gwabegar to Wallerawang). A section of the Gwabegar railway line south of Gulgong to Kandos has been closed since 30 June 2007.
Gulgong has hosted an international ceramics festival every three years since 1989, most recently over April 17 to 23 2016.
More information about New South Wales Australia from Wikipedia:
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west.
It has a coast line with the Tasman Sea on its east side. The Australian Capital Territory is an enclave within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city.
In March 2014, the estimated population of New South Wales was 7.5 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Just under two-thirds of the state's population, 4.67 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. Inhabitants of New South Wales are referred to as New South Welshmen
The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised a more than half of the Australian mainland with its western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825.
In addition, the colony also included the island territories of New Zealand, Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island. During the 19th century, most of the colony's area was detached to form separate British colonies that eventually became New Zealand and the various states and territories of Australia.
However, the Swan River Colony has never been administered as part the New South Wales.
Lord Howe Island remains part of New South Wales, while Norfolk Island has become a federal Territory, as have the areas now known as the Australian Capital Territory and the Jervis Bay Territory.
SRF258: GAGA15 ALCOS TO MUDGEE + GULGONG
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4306 AND 4490 are chased to Mudgee by our intrepid railfan Kevin Medley. Starting at Ben Bullen, he follows it through the lovely local countryside, to the now closed, for rail operations anyway, Mudgee station.
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Snow Train 2013 with Hudson Steam Engine R761: Australian Trains
On 22 June 2013, Steamrail Victoria ran the first of their annual Snow Trains for the year from Newport to Traralgon. For those wondering why there's no snow in the shots, the train gets it's name from a side trip offered to the snowfields at Mt Baw Baw.
The train was hauled by hudson express passenger steam locomtive R761 hauling 8 vehicles comprising heritage timber or steel carriages dating from the 1920's to the 1950's. The weather for the trip was superb with very cold but clear winter air and no wind, resulting in a top quality soundtrack to go with the visuals.
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Sound Collection Online: Recruitment Recalls
This sound reel brings together five Australian soldiers from the First World War. They recall their memories of recruitment and enlistment into the first Australian Imperial Force (AIF), 1914 - 1919. When war was declared in 1914, Australia needed to raise a military force to fight overseas and calling for volunteers, raised the AIF. Australian men enlisted enthusiastically at the start of the war, however, with the high number of casualties at Gallipoli and the subsequent doubling in size of the AIF, recruitment to increase numbers of volunteers was started in earnest. Recruitment methods included speeches, posters, marches and parades to encourage men to join up. In a time before the internet, mobile phones and television, one of the most effective forms of communication was face to face. Men marched from town to town, spreading the word and recruiting volunteers as they went. Towns rallied together and held parades and dances, social occasions with a festive atmosphere, for those contributing to the cause. Brass bands also played in the streets at lunch times to catch recruits, during such occasions girls would hand out white feathers a symbol of cowardice, adding social pressures on men to join. Some men were barely men at all when they tried to enlist and many required parental consent. These First World War veterans explain why they joined the AIF and the experiences they had as recruits before they left Australia.
To mark the centenary of the First World War the exhibition ANZAC Voices opens on Thursday 28 November 2013 until Sunday 30 November 2014 at the Australian War Memorial.
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