Victory
A joyous son one after conquering the climbing hills at Blaxland Common, Newington.
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Great Escape.
I came across these guys at the Great Escape 3 day music festival at the newington armory in Sydney. They actually had stilts on their legs with springs on the bottom so they could bounce through the crowd like kangaroos! it couldnt really be any more Australian- kangaroos, beer, and a big thumbs up! there's some more shots of them at www.boudist.com just click on "concert photography" then "great escape"
Vintage armaments train - Newington Armory, Sydney
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for Fanny
Another daisy shot I took in Newington, back in June last year when I first got my D80...
Fanny recently lost her dad. This flower is for her.
Rosemary & Michael - Wedding
Newington Armory, Sydney NSW, Australia
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Newington
silver gelatin print | black & white negative material
Meredith Schofield - Photographer
Newington
silver gelatin print | black & white negative material
Meredith Schofield - Photographer
Newington, Sydney Australia
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Newington Armory Sydney Australia
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Female and Eaglet on Nest, Male No.2 at Right
Newington Nature Reserve, Sydney, 14th October 2008.
Newington
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White-bellied Sea-eagle Eaglet
On the ground before being taken into care. Newington Nature Reserve, Sydney, 9th November 2008.
End of the line
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Sugartime Cabaret
Sugartime Cabaret at the Great Escape Festival at Newington Armory, Sydney Australia. April 7, 2007 © Daniel Boud / Retna Ltd.
Vintage armaments train - Newington Armory, Sydney
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Difference
Newington, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Sunday 12 October 2014
Cranes Newington
Cranes from the early 70s on Newington Armoury wharf - 14 April 2007.
Jib Cranes - RAN Armoury, Newington Sydney
Two Jib Cranes of 3 ton capacity at the former Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Depot at Newington in Sydney. These military-industrial relics now form a stationary feature in the Sydney Olympic Park.
The Cranes were constructed locally in 1974 by G & J Watson of Tennyson Road, Mortlake, with the drum base by Smidt & Muller.
More on the cranes history:
users.tpg.com.au/borclaud/ranad/cranes_newington.html
Newington Armory
The Newington Armory was an explosives store for the Australian Navy. Its buildings are surrounded by blast containment banks of various complexity to prevent chain reactions in the event of an untoward incident.
Service No. 19, Lance Corporal Herbert Raymond Waterhouse, 1st Infantry Brigade HQ Transport, 1st AIF
This is Raymond on his Waler war horse, a great uncle of my brother, sister and I - the younger brother of our grandmother Muriel Waterhouse of Norfolk Island. A young man who enlisted 100 years ago this year in the First Australian Imperial Force and served in Egypt, Belgium and France during The First World War.
Ray’s story isn’t one that stands out for amazing bravery, supreme sacrifice or even just the good grace of a simple honest life. Instead in fact his legend in my family is that he was very much the black sheep and was eventually completely disowned by his family in the early 1930s, before our dad was born.
Like so many boys the story goes he lied about his age to enlist and see the world, was promoted quite quickly, but in France amidst the endless psychopathic Somme battles of 1916 was busted twice for being drunk on duty and reduced one rank as a result. His record shows he spent quite a bit of time in army hospitals, much like many other soldiers including our grandfather. Unlike our grandfather however, Ray was blessed in being allowed to return home two years later, a month before the Armistice of November 1918, because he enlisted so early.
Back in Australia he joined what would later be called the RSL, but slipped into a life of increasing alcohol addiction and resorting to petty crime on occasion during the great depression to get by. He even did a month in Goulbourn Gaol in August 1931 for claiming unemployment benefits twice on the same day in Mittagong and Bowral, along with four accomplices. As a result of his alcoholism and inevitable smoking he was in and out of hospital and care facilities, until he was eventually institutionalised during WWII.
Raymond passed away aged 53 in an old men’s home in Sydney in 1949, not far from Newington College where our father was studying, but without his knowledge. Much later in 1969, just before Raymond's last surviving sister passed away dad tried to track him down for her, only to find he'd passed away 20 years before.
Estranged from his family for close to twenty years, but two generations on in another century still not forgotten. An adventurous brave young man, who as a junior NCO on the Western Front entered a hellish world few could imagine, but then upon return home had the undeserved misfortune to afterwards slip thru the cracks in society - just like too many brave returned service personnel around the world do to this day.
Pieces of history. #newington #armory #travel #sydney #australia
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Mangrove wreck
Now full of mangrove trees, SS Ayrfield rusts away in the waters of Homebush Bay, near the Sydney Olympic site.
Dragonfly
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Newington
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Spotted Ladybird - Harmonia conformis
The Spotted Ladybird (Harmonia conformis) is one of the more typical looking ladybirds. However, there are many species which don't conform to the typical ladybird. This was one of the larger ladybirds I have seen.
Check out this excellent CSIRO website to help ID your Australian ladybirds. This is my first attempt at identifying a ladybird, so if I'm wrong please correct me.
www.ento.csiro.au/biology/ladybirds/ladybirds.htm
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