Australian/New Zealand gardens – Page 6

The Sunday porch: Dubbo

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“Portrait of four girls and a man on a verandah,” Dubbo area, New South Wales, ca. 1915, by Edward Challis Kempe, via National Library of Australia Commons on flickr.

I wonder if those are scented geraniums in the planter on the left?

The Rev. E.C. Kempe was an amateur photographer and principal of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd at Dubbo from 1912 to 1915. The Good Shepherd was one of several “Bush Brotherhoods,” Anglican religious orders that sent traveling priests to thinly populated rural districts. “They were described as a ‘band of men’ who could ‘preach like Apostles’ and ‘ride like cowboys’,” according to Wikipedia. Kempe left behind an album of 157 photographs from his time in the bush.

Victoria, Australia

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“Relaxing in the garden,” photographer unknown, via Genealogical Society of Victoria (Melbourne) on flickr (under CC license).

The young woman on the right is holding up a copy of Smith’s Weekly, a tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950.

Albert Park, Auckland

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Albert Park, Auckland, 1915, an autochrome by Robert Walrond, via Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa).

The Sunday porch: Hill End

June 25, 2017August 20, 2017 Cindy at enclos*ure4 Comments

“Two women on veranda of rendered* cottage with shingle roof and front garden, Hill End, New South Wales, ca. 1872,” by Charles Bayliss, via National Library of Australia Commons on flickr.

Hill End was a gold rush town. At the time of this photo, “it had a population estimated at 8,000 served by two newspapers, five banks, eight churches, and twenty-eight pubs,” according to Wikipedia. The rush was over by the early 20th century. In 2006, the town was down to 166 people.

The photographer came to Hill End as an assistant to a traveling photographer who had been contracted to take pictures of the area that could be used to advertise the mining colony and attract new residents.

*Render is stucco.