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Outer suburb. Still life with retro car, take-away - burgers, fish and chips etc (with 'non-traditional', whatever that is, shop keepers,)  and remnants of a post office site. Fish and chip shops were often operated by people of Mediterranean descent but those older generations have retired, or by Anglos. 

On the corner of Church Street, up from the courts, the once home of a member of the legal profession and family -  more of the 'old school'.

Sydney Junction Hotel vies with Hamilton Station Hotel on the far side ....of the railway crossing  (which some would close). 

Politics in the Pub is at Hamilton Station Hotel every month.

There's nothing left but to be totally virtuous after the latest 'good' news from the experts that alcohol specifically causes cancers. 

A Creamery, a road side collection point.
In past times, believe cream was produced by those who were a long way out of town and outside the official dairy system. The volume of cream was a manageable quantity as compared to milk. Doh. The farmer seperated milk into cream and low fat milk. The milk was use to raise calves and pigs and the cream was sold, most likely, for butter making. 
Nation wide network for fast internet?  In your dreams!  No distance out of town by own standards and even mobile phone coverage ceases to exist. Cow-cockeys must have much better phones that work well in the countryside. It doesn't worry me but it shows up the weaknesses in the system.
We are not very inventive. There would be certain aerials that a local could build as an active point of contact by the community of mobile phones. I guess there is money to be made in keeping non-mobile landlines in use.

Just another corner. In times past, The Carlton was a guest house for a traditional sea-side holiday, in Newcastle East, not far from the beach and the city centre. It was turned into apartments and balconies were added.

The lone store at the junction at Woodville sells fuel and a bit of everything and is an agent for Australia Post. Local kids arrive by bike after school.
The tall pine trees are dying of old age despite various efforts to preserve them.

Amazing news: Logging in old growth forests in Tasmania will end but it will take some time to achieve.
A real environmental activist knows how their work is a life time venture, it means involvement over the long haul.
Self interest motivates some other citizens. Do nothing about environmental issues until some threat looms which, for example, could marginally devalue certain property and ventures, then take to the streets in protest.
All the same, I do little for the environment except for drawing attention or supporting topics and efforts for a lighter 'footprint' wherever possible, like, questioning energy consumption. Take a look at the energy used by giant HD Televisions. LED LCD televisions use less power.

This afternoon, when it wasn't raining, the sunlight highlighted a 'ranga phenomenon!  A house is rebuilt using bright laminated lumber joists that come in 'ranga tones.
A disused (arn't they all) corner shop is altered to add to the housing stock. Demolitions are a source of hard-to-get timber in odd sizes suitable to fix any repair problems in our house.

My gross weight: 82 kg (-1kg)

In 1938, glass tiles made an appearance here and a milk bottle took shape. Dairy Farmers Corner was a landmark in Hunter Street West, Newcastle.  A car dealership is found there now probably for Mazda and Peugeot. While Klosters BMW occupies the adjacent corner.

Wanted: a brick layer! Time flies and it is 21 years since the Newcastle earthquake hit at the end of 1989. Ever since then, this house has been supported by timber posts.
But now the time is right for reconstruction. The front room is open-air and the old bricks have been cleaned and are surely ready to go again.
Old brick chimneys were damaged and removed from many dwellings.
No disrespect is intended to those in the recent massive earthquakes.

Things to do in a heatwave: Get the shopping out of the way early.
An original old shop, Adams Hair Styling, mit barbers pole, remains at The Junction. How does it compare with the salon in St Kilda here a few days ago?  Overall, The Junction has become gentrified.

Heatwave: Don't get in the shade, under the trees, if it gets windy!

High Noon in Laman Street.  Specific little illustrations warn of risk.

The artist, Margaret Olley sketched this view of Ordnance Street. From the Obelisk - as mentioned yesterday

Below: William Dobell Margaret Olley 1948. Winner of the Archibald Prize.
Oil on hardboard. Art Gallery of NSW.

Country town with the old and new.
Wot? a new style 'burger? A real bread roll is a marvelous improvement. However, it is well nigh impossible to copy a greasy juicy burger from a local, infra dig, fish and chips shop.

The Leyland Brothers from Newcastle were outback adventurers and film makers and their work was considered infra dig by some experts while many others loved them. Sadly Mike Leyland has died. A reference is made to them here in the archives 3 August 07 showing the ultimate reproduction: Uluru.

Meals on wheels

On a corner of the park in Lambton the citizens are blessed with flowers and with books in a branch of the City Library.

The old bowling club looks like a detention centre now. The new work complements the old war-memorial entrance-gates.

Once upon a time one of these had a sign 'the 23rd Palm'.
The fence on the bend at the end.

Plastic milk crates are put to all sorts of use and one is fitted inbetween the sandstone blocks made for the renovations to St Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newcastle.



A heritage restoration project on the 1890's Menkins Building is underway. The architect is Suters and E.H. Stonemasonry is on the project.
Financial help is welcom.

Corner Shop and it's not in a theme park! Hundreds of shops were run by people of Chinese descent in this state of NSW after the gold rush days (1850s) when many Chinese migrated here.
From Powerhouse Museum.
The Chinese Cafe is found in every town, even the smallest town although this is changing.

A motorcycle trike with two persons was ahead on pit straight at Mount Panorama racing circuit in the country town of Bathurst.
The 6km track climbs up a mountain and back down again and is used for a calendar of full on racing events. Visitors can drive around there at other times at a sedate speed of 60kms.



Beyond what is probably Brock skyline is a sharply descending right hand corner where a descent begins. We must have been leading the pack - not.














A series of bends leads down to Conrod straight and top speed.

All sorts of cars would be found there before the races became more professional and the cars began to look and perform as if all much the same. The rivalry between Ford and Holden is perennial.