The Crown Inn, Reynella

Built in 1854 on land sold by John Reynell to his first publican, the Crown Inn was the only hotel in Reynella for most of the colonial period — a two-storey stone building that served as polling place, inquest room, coaching stop, and social centre for the district. It is still standing on Old South Road.

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The Three Rifles Monument

The Three Rifles Monument at O'Halloran Hill — now part of Keane War Memorial Gardens — was built on land donated by a family that had already given a son to the war, and spent twenty-six years without its defining feature after the replacement rifles were stolen.

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The Easter Camp at Happy Valley, 1911

In April 1911, fifteen hundred infantry and Light Horse assembled at Happy Valley for the annual Easter training camp — marching south past the Victoria Hotel at Tapley's Hill before a week of manoeuvres, sham fights, and heliograph practice in the hills.

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The Tally-Ho Hotel, Clarendon

Clarendon's first hotel stood on the bank of the Onkaparinga, its back door a few paces from the only ford in the valley. When the river flooded, travellers sheltered under its thatched roof and waited.

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Clarendon Bridge

In 1858 a young woman broke a champagne bottle against the new timber bridge at Clarendon, naming it for the village below. The ford it replaced had tested every cart and carrier on the road south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber was rotting — the ford pressed into service one last time before a concrete arch took its…

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Dr Kelly and the Tintara Vineyard Company

Before Thomas Hardy made Tintara a household name, the winery was a Scottish physician's ambitious gamble — seven hundred acres of McLaren Vale scrub, backed by the colony's wealthiest men, and doomed by a market that wasn't ready.

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És akkor ezzel a ma két éves képpel zárom a napot.
Irány az ágy! Holnap hosszú napom lesz!

Mogyorósbánya első világháborús emlékműve.

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Gloucester and Bellevue

Before McLaren Vale had a name, two separate townships occupied the same stretch of road — Gloucester at the southern end, Bellevue to the north. The man who opened Gloucester's first hotel died before the day was out. The man who laid out Bellevue's streets died the following year. What they built became one of Australia's most celebrated w…

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United States Vale

A cluster of allotment settlers on Bains Road in Morphett Vale called their community 'United States' in the 1840s — a name whose origins remain unexplained. The man who subdivided the land had already sailed back to England before the name appeared; the settlers who stayed built a Union Chapel and gave the district a reminder that survives today in …

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of one of the worst rail disasters in the history of Melbourne.

On 26 May 1926, a packed Tait electric train crashed into the rear of another waiting on Platform 4 at Caulfield Railway Station.

Three people were killed and over 170 others were injured.

See today's video for more: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7VcGmJTfw

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