Artist Arthur Streeton went to live at Glenbrook, in the lower Blue Mountains of New South Wales, for several months in 1891. For a pound a week he had rented four roomed Daisy Cottage, located by the station master’s house. His original intention was to paint a
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So many communities in Australia are doing it tough right now, including the Blue Mountains Do come and visit once the pandemic is over. I include Lithgow and some villages on the Bells Line of Road. HERE WE GO… I am cheating and listing the towns and
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Recently I posted the story of the disused Glenbrook rail tunnel during World War Two. Located in the lower Blue Mountains, the tunnel was secretly used as an RAAF storage depot, for dangerous chemicals such as mustard gas and phosogene. The decision to stockpile the chemicals in
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Recently I conducted a little social history survey on how the various towns and villages of the Blue Mountains are perceived. Do they have a distinct character? Well certainly most of them do. Most surprising of all to me was that Glenbrook is considered by many to
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Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, April 8 1930, what has been described as one of the most daring robberies in the history of Australia took place. The heist was conceived by Roy Wilkinson, a 24 year old railway porter. Wilkinson had been serving as escort on the mail train from Sydney to
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