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A free day in The Hill. Blowing a red hot desert breeze ? I feel a song from the Desert Song coming on?. Richard Tauber did a great version of this?. But here is the Gordon McCrea version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkcAa1j0CR0 and for just a good foot tapping desert experience have a look at this clip from the original 1929 film, technically very interesting as sound had only been introduced in 1928 with the Jolson Story and this is a hybrid, with sound and titles on the screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i8XFwIudGQ
Ok having got that of my chest I have to hammer in an additional peg to the windward side of the clothesline, even though the clothes are drying faster than the washing machine can wash them?.
I feel a couple of schooners of West End coming on; I may have a couple with a mate while Carol has her hair cut.
Its late afternoon now the A/C is running flat out about 37c outside and a bracing 23c in the van.
While Carol was in the barbers shop I had a run around town with my camera and took some pics of the Town Hall and the Trades Hall. I need a prototype of each for my tramway and these are real beauties. At the town hall I was met by a ?mature? woman who casually asked why I was taking so many pictures. I told her I intended to build a model of the building for my tramway and that did it, she was off, reminiscing about her childhood and the steam trams of Broken Hill ( she didn?t look that old to me, must be the rural lifestyle) how she used to get taken to the movies ( yes they were silent) and magic Lantern shows at the town hall and her piece de resistance was to take me behind locked doors and let me take pics of her pics of a steam tram in Argent St showing clearly the towers of the Court, the Town Hall and the Post Office. I might add that the service stopped in 1926!!!! In the pic of the tram turning into Argent St. note the advert for Amgoorie tea on the building bottom left.
At the Trades Hall I was addressed as ?Brother?, the guy behind the desk looked up from his paperwork and said ?can I help you brother?? I told him I just wanted to take some pics and he said ?go for it; but you need to go in next door thru the ?museum entrance??. It was with much restraint that I did not tell him I worked in the distant past for an organisation that used to be very interested in their meetings?..
So now I?m far enough away from WA for any repercussions what were our impressions and our highlights. Well we are so pleased we did this trip, the scenery as selected was absolutely breathtaking. The Kalbarri Gorges eat anything the Red centre can put up against it, the Forests in the SE are equally breathtaking, the trees are simply spell binding and the weather in this part of the world is equally ?breath taking?. The coastal scenery was yet again mind blowing; I?ve taken so many great panoramas I won?t know which ones to frame when I get home. The people we met are very nice even some of the locals were friendly. I have acquired a taste for Amgoorie Tea and bought up stocks in The Hill today as it?s not available in the Eastern States. Our memories are special. Of course every trip has to have an ultimate high spot and for me it was of course getting to drive the W4 at Whiteman Park.
WA is great you have to visit at least once just be aware the distances and isolation can also be ?breath taking? but even taking into consideration our breakdown we would not have missed this for quids?.
Ahhh I have digressed.. The pictures man, show the damned pictures. Ok the Town Hall is neat and compact, only the original part remains and I can see that creating the detail may be a challenge but it's neat and compact and would make a stunning G scale building. Likewise the Trades Hall, the detail would make it and I'd probably use it as a corner pub. Internal lighting through the stained glass at night would I reckon be simply stunning..... All that remains is working out how to make these carving from Hebel or similar or using created stone panels with detail and relief carved from timber and painted. Grist for my mill I expect...
Ok having got that of my chest I have to hammer in an additional peg to the windward side of the clothesline, even though the clothes are drying faster than the washing machine can wash them?.
I feel a couple of schooners of West End coming on; I may have a couple with a mate while Carol has her hair cut.
Its late afternoon now the A/C is running flat out about 37c outside and a bracing 23c in the van.
While Carol was in the barbers shop I had a run around town with my camera and took some pics of the Town Hall and the Trades Hall. I need a prototype of each for my tramway and these are real beauties. At the town hall I was met by a ?mature? woman who casually asked why I was taking so many pictures. I told her I intended to build a model of the building for my tramway and that did it, she was off, reminiscing about her childhood and the steam trams of Broken Hill ( she didn?t look that old to me, must be the rural lifestyle) how she used to get taken to the movies ( yes they were silent) and magic Lantern shows at the town hall and her piece de resistance was to take me behind locked doors and let me take pics of her pics of a steam tram in Argent St showing clearly the towers of the Court, the Town Hall and the Post Office. I might add that the service stopped in 1926!!!! In the pic of the tram turning into Argent St. note the advert for Amgoorie tea on the building bottom left.
At the Trades Hall I was addressed as ?Brother?, the guy behind the desk looked up from his paperwork and said ?can I help you brother?? I told him I just wanted to take some pics and he said ?go for it; but you need to go in next door thru the ?museum entrance??. It was with much restraint that I did not tell him I worked in the distant past for an organisation that used to be very interested in their meetings?..
So now I?m far enough away from WA for any repercussions what were our impressions and our highlights. Well we are so pleased we did this trip, the scenery as selected was absolutely breathtaking. The Kalbarri Gorges eat anything the Red centre can put up against it, the Forests in the SE are equally breathtaking, the trees are simply spell binding and the weather in this part of the world is equally ?breath taking?. The coastal scenery was yet again mind blowing; I?ve taken so many great panoramas I won?t know which ones to frame when I get home. The people we met are very nice even some of the locals were friendly. I have acquired a taste for Amgoorie Tea and bought up stocks in The Hill today as it?s not available in the Eastern States. Our memories are special. Of course every trip has to have an ultimate high spot and for me it was of course getting to drive the W4 at Whiteman Park.
WA is great you have to visit at least once just be aware the distances and isolation can also be ?breath taking? but even taking into consideration our breakdown we would not have missed this for quids?.
Ahhh I have digressed.. The pictures man, show the damned pictures. Ok the Town Hall is neat and compact, only the original part remains and I can see that creating the detail may be a challenge but it's neat and compact and would make a stunning G scale building. Likewise the Trades Hall, the detail would make it and I'd probably use it as a corner pub. Internal lighting through the stained glass at night would I reckon be simply stunning..... All that remains is working out how to make these carving from Hebel or similar or using created stone panels with detail and relief carved from timber and painted. Grist for my mill I expect...
