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 Snippets of Australia's forgotten past2023 World
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  • High-country living, the Coolamine Homestead - Kosciuszko National Park [AH012]

    High-country living, the Coolamine Homestead - Kosciuszko National Park [AH012]
    Mar 15 2023

    Coolamine Homestead is a wonderful example of a heritage homestead and it can be found on the Cooleman Plains in Kosciuszko National Park.

    It is a rare, surviving example of a permanent pastoral outstation that retains hand built slab buildings and yards.

    National Parks info - https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/historic-buildings-places/coolamine-homestead

    Artisans of Australia, film about the restoration work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcoTnER4Efg

    All modern photographs of the site © Andrew Hennell, used with permission.
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    5 mins
  • NSWGR 6029 Beyer Peacock Garratt steam locomotive [AH016]

    NSWGR 6029 Beyer Peacock Garratt steam locomotive [AH016]
    Mar 13 2023

    6029 is a four-cylinder, simple, non-condensing, superheated, articulated 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt steam locomotive, of the AD60 class, built by Beyer, Peacock and Company, Manchester, England, for the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR).
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    8 mins
  • Destroyed - The rise and fall of Australia's Wonderland theme park [AH015]

    Destroyed - The rise and fall of Australia's Wonderland theme park [AH015]
    Mar 13 2023

    Australia's Wonderland officially opened on 7 December 1985. Over the next 18 years it grew to be one of Sydney's most popular and loved attractions, before the new owners simply closed it. Find out how and why, and leave a comment if you ever visited Australia's Wonderland.
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    10 mins
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