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Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Victorian Wall Letter Box of 1857

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Although pillar boxes are the most common, they are not the only type of letter box . In 1857, to provide a more affordable, lower-capacity ...
Sunday, 27 March 2022

Cpt Percy Cherry, Australian Imperial Force

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27 Mar 1917, Cpt Percy Cherry, Australian Imperial Force, died, aged 21. Buried Queant Rd Cemetery. Born Drysdale, Victoria. Grew up in Tasm...
Tuesday, 11 February 2020

MAURICE’S WOODS, ca. 1900.

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Maurice’s Woods was the name given by Maspeth old-timers to a 72-acre forested tract bounded by what was to become Maurice Avenue, 66th St...
Thursday, 7 April 2016

Crowd of people and a goat cart with a sign reading 'Fruiterer', Sydney, Austraila circa 1920-1939

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Saturday, 5 December 2015

Victorian tourists finish a tour of a salt mine in Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, on a special train

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Wednesday, 18 November 2015

The magnificent Sydney Opera House stands proud in the Sydney Harbour,

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Sunday, 18 January 2015

Australian camps on slopes of Olivet & Mount Scopus 1918

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Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Horn Expedition crossing Lake Amadeus, Central Australia, 1894.

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Crossing Lake Amadeus June 1894

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Monday, 25 August 2014

The crowd was so large that some fans had to cross over the track before the race and watch the event from the infield. June 1949

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The completed Sydney Harbour Bridge, circa 1936.

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On March 19, 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened. Here's a look back at some historic photos of its construction Australia

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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

On a misty day in 1930, high over the ships in the harbour, the two halves of the Harbour Bridge are almost ready to be joined

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Here's the start of the first-ever NASCAR Strictly Stock (now Sprint Cup Series) race at Charlotte Speedway. The three-quarter mile dirt track hosted a starting field of 33 cars.

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Friday, 15 August 2014

A huge crowd fills both the grandstands and the infield for the first-ever NASCAR Strictly Stock race at Charlotte Speedway June 19, 1949

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Friday, 20 June 2014

21 years ago, in 1993 Dick Smith and John Wallington made the first non-stop flight across Australia in a hot air balloon.

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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

19 March 1932 Crowds cross the newly opened Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Trans-Australia Railway workers' camp in 1913

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The Sydney Opera House by Max Dupain in 1969

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Friday, 6 December 2013

Testing a nuclear bomb at Maralinga in 1957

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