Old Australian slides

DSC00029 by Renee Blote, on Flickr

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Looks like the locusts were swarming in the second last photo 😂😂😂

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This one has some damage too. I do like the photo anyway

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DSC00127 by Renee Blote, on Flickr[/quote]

This looks like Mt Coot-tha, but way before the skyscrapers started going up in Brisbane.

DSC00126 by Renee Blote, on Flickr

DSC00128 by Renee Blote, on Flickr

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Motor vehicles on the Sydney harbor bridge in 1959
DSC00045 by Renee Blote, on Flickr

I'm loving the colours in all of these, really atmospheric! I was just wondering, are the buildings forming part of the bridge structure? Also, do you have any idea who the photographer is or was?

The Dog on the Tucker Box Story
The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction, located at Snake Gully, five miles (8 km) from Gundagai, New South Wales. The dog section of the monument was cast in bronze by 'Oliver's Foundry' Sydney and its base sculpted by Gundagai stonemason Frank Rusconi and was unveiled by the then Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons on 28 November 1932 as a tribute to pioneers. The statue was inspired by a bullock driver's poem, Bullocky Bill, which celebrates the life of a mythical driver's dog that loyally guarded the man's tuckerbox (Australian English for lunch box) until death.

A dog monument had been first erected at a site nine miles from Gundagai in 1926.

Bullocky Bill the story was written by an otherwise unknown poet who used the pen name 'Bowyang Yorke' and first printed in 1857. A later poem by Jack Moses drew on the Bowyang Yorke poem for inspiration and was published in the 1920s. The latter poem was very popular and was the inspiration for the statue. Moses's poem, Nine Miles from Gundagai was first published in 1938, several years after the statue's unveiling. Jack O'Hagan's song, Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox (5 miles from Gundagai) was published in 1937.

Frank Rusconi had suggested a memorial using the legend of the Dog on the Tuckerbox in 1928. However, in 1932 the proposal was taken up by the community. The Gundagai Independent of 11 August 1932 wrote:

"A Monument should be erected at the Nine Mile peg dedicated to the pioneers and bullockies, who made the highway of today possible. And there should be an unveiling ceremony during 'Back to Gundagai Week'.”

The Dog on the Tuckerbox monument was erected as part of 'Back to Gundagai' Week in 1932 and a large crowd "gathered to her again" to witness the unveiling by the Prime Minister. It was planned to donate money placed in the wishing well at the base of the monument to the Gundagai District Hospital. A souvenir shop was also opened nearby.

The Back to Gundagai Committee had chosen the Five Mile camping site rather than the Nine Mile Peg as a location for the monument on the basis that it was more convenient to the Hume Highway and closer to the town, thereby more beneficial to tourism.



It's still there. Been there a few years back.


DSC00037 by Renee Blote, on Flickr

great pics, thanks for sharing.