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The Best Attractions In Bowning

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Mayfield Mews

Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex

Cockington Green

Dog On The Tucker Box

Cowra Japanese Garden

AIS - Australian Institute of Sport

National Arboretum Canberra

Bowning, altitude: 602 metres , is a small town in the Southern Tablelands, 14 kilometres west of Yass on the Hume Highway in Yass Valley Shire. Bowning is an aboriginal word meaning 'big hill'. At the 2016 census, Bowning and the surrounding area had a population of 573.Nearby Bowning Hill is 796 metres AHD and Hume and Hovell mentioned it in their 1824 journal. Bowning was one of the earliest settlements in the district. Historic buildings include the Troopers Cottage on the Binalong Road and the old Cobb and Co Coaching Station in Bogolong Street. The coaching station was built sometime between 1850 and 1870. The original local school was amongst th...
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The Best Attractions In Bowning

1. Mayfield Mews Bowning
2. Cowra Japanese Garden Cowra
The Cowra breakout occurred on 5 August 1944, when at least 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a prisoner of war camp near Cowra, in New South Wales, Australia. It was the largest prison escape of World War II, as well as one of the bloodiest. During the escape and ensuing manhunt, four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese soldiers were killed. The remaining escapees were captured and imprisoned.
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3. Dog On The Tucker Box Gundagai
4. National Arboretum Canberra Weston
5. AIS - Australian Institute of Sport Bruce
6. Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex Paddys River
The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex is an Earth station in Australia located at Tidbinbilla in the Australian Capital Territory. Opened in 1965, the complex was used for tracking the Apollo Lunar Module. It is part of the Deep Space Network of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , managed in Australia by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation .
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7. Cockington Green Nicholls
Cockington Green Gardens is a park of miniatures, situated in Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory. Doug and Brenda Sarah had the idea to create a miniature village in 1972 and Cockington Green was opened on 3 November 1979. The business is family owned and operated, incorporating over four generations.
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Bowning Videos

Road trip to Wagga Wagga NSW

We take a road trip to Wagga Wagga NSW stopping off at the Bowning Historic Cemetery.

A look around the country town of Griffith, located in the Riverina Region of New South Wales.

Griffith is a major regional city in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area that is located in the north-western part of the Riverina region of New South Wales, known commonly as the food bowl of Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra, and the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.Griffith was named after Arthur Hill Griffith, the first New South Wales minister of Public Works. Griffith was proclaimed a city in 1987, and had a population of 19,540 in 2015.

It can be accessed by road from Sydney and Canberra via the Hume Highway and the Burley Griffin Way and from Melbourne, Victoria, via the Newell Highway and either by using the Kidman Way or the Irrigation Way and other places like Adelaide, Orange, New South Wales, and Bathurst through the Mid-Western Highway through the Rankins Springs road from Rankins springs and the Kidman Way from Goolgowi.

Bundook 1997

NR action around the Bundook and Bulliac areas in August 1997.
Lots of 'new' NR's chugging around.

( PS: sorry about the camera shutter noise, heard in most locations !
At the time, 'still' photography was my main concern and the video was secondary to it. )

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