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Elizabeth Bay House (construction: 1835-1839) Sydney

#Elizabeth Bay #Regency era #architecture

La Perouse monument

lithograph

exhibited: La Perouse Museum, Sydney

The large rendered column sits on the headland at La Perouse to commemorate the French explorer, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (La Perouse), in the last known place he stood. La Perouse landed in Botany Bay 5 days after Captain Arthur Phillip [18 January 1788], and set up base on the headland for six weeks before he sailed out on the 10th of march and was not heard from again. In 1791, the French Goverment sent out an expedition to search for him, which proved unsuccessful, until 1828 when Dumont d'Urville discovered La Perouse was wrecked at Vanikoro [present day Solomon Islands]. On the 6th of September 1825, Commodore Hyacinthe de Bougainville and all the French Officers, proceeded to the site and laid the foundation stone for the monuments. Coins from the reign of Louis XVIII are set within the foundations. randwick.nsw.gov.au

#La Perouse #Sydney #France #Australia #exploration #memorial

Wilson Street skippers

#skipping #Carriageworks #Darlington #Eveleigh

brickmaking at St Peters, Sydney

#workers #brickmakers #St Peters #Sydney

La Perouse Museum, Botany Bay

Cable Station (1881-2)

Museum (1988)

The Museum opened in 1988 and tells the story of the La Perouse expedition, its arrival in Botany Bay in 1788 and encounter with the First Fleet, and eventual shipwreck in the Solomon Islands. Through a program of changing temporary exhibitions, the museum also looks at the Aboriginal, environmental and local history of La Perouse.One of the most significant collection items is a complete Atlas of the Voyage of Laperouse, consisting of 72 coloured drawings and maps, featuring places the expedition visited between 1785 and 1788. mgnsw.org.au/organisations/laperouse-museum/

grave (1828) of Pere Receveur (1757-88), La Perouse Sydney

#La Perouse #Botany Bay #Sydney #museum #tomb #grave #tombeau #Receveur #First Nations #colonisation #exploration

La Perouse Museum

George and Essie Cann's 'Cleopatra' snake show at La Perouse, Sydney

Cann Park is located at La Perouse and is best known for its fenced snake enclosure where snake and reptile shows have been performed since the early 1900s. A variety of different people have performed snake shows on site, but the most well-known 'snake man' is John Cann. He took over from this father George Cann who began performing a weekly snake show around 1919 - a tradition which continued until April 2010, when John Cann retired. Randwick City Council renamed the park in honour of John Cann. randwick.nsw.gov.au

(May 2026)

#La Perouse #snakes #George Cann #Cleopatra #Sydney #Australia #Essie Cann

Whitlam House, Cabramatta

#Gough Whitlam #Werriwa #Cabramatta #reformist #progressivism #Vincent Lingiari #Mervyn Bishop #reform #progressive

The Bridge, Bundanon

Illaroo NSW

bunya pines and xanthorrhoea

#Bundanon #bunya #xanthorroea #Shoalhaven River

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

#Sydney #New South Wales

light, White Bay

#red #shadow

Mervyn Bishop Wailwan People (b1945)

Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of traditional owner Vincent Lingiari (1975) gelatin-silver photograph

1966: Gurindji strike (or Wave Hill Walk-Off) led by Vincent Lingiari

#Vincent Lingiari #Gough Whitlam #Gurindji #Wailwan #First Nations #Land Rights #Native Title

National Aboretum, Canberra

Richard Moffatt (b1966) Australia

Nest III (2007)

Located at the top of Dairy Farmers Hill, Nest III is assembled from objects collected from farms on the New South Wales South Coast. Its welded layers record the history of Australia’s small acre and dairy farming. The sculpture is mounted on boulders, like the rock eyrie of a wedge-tailed eagle. nationalarboretum.act.gov.au

#Richard Moffatt #Canberra #arbotetum #eagle #nest

Molonglo River & The English Garden, Canberra

#Molonglo #Canberra #cockatoo

Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains

Lewers House (c1905)

#Nepean River #Penrith #Lewers #Emu Plains #leadlight #house

Whitlam House (c1959)

Cabramatta home of the Whitlam family until 1972

Whitlam’s commissioning of architect Roy Appleton to design a modern house in (then semi-rural) Cabramatta in 1956 certainly tells us something about the nature of suburban development in Sydney at that time. It provides a means of measuring how developmental practices and attitudes to architecture have changed over time, and it indicates the aesthetic values of a future prime minister for whom a major policy initiative established the idea of a national estate, that there exists cultural heritage, both natural and built, that should be recognised and managed for future generations. Charles Rice, unionmagazine.com

photos: optikestrav

#Gough Whitlam #Margaret Whitlam #Cabramatta #Werriwa #Whitlam #Labor #house

Cooma Cottage, Yass NSW

(c1830-37) built by Cornelius O'Brien and Rebecca O'Brien (nee Broughton)

"...very nice and commodious cottage, very well furnished and with everything comfortable about it; the grounds and gardens nicely laid out, but as yet quite in their infancy." Thomas Walker, 1837

(1839) Hamilton Hume (1797-1873) & Elizabeth Hume (nee Dight) (1802-1886) purchased Cooma from Cornelius O'Brien (1796-1869) and enlarged it over the following 20 years.

photos: optikestrav

Explore the former home of famous explorer Hamilton Hume, in an idyllic location overlooking the Yass Valley.

#Cooma Cottage #Yass #New South Wales #National Trust NSW #Hamilton Hume #colonisation #picconia #olive #wallpaper #house #home #Elizabeth Dight

street shrine, Cabramatta NSW (2026)

#Buddhism #Buddha #Cabramatta

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