Hi Lesley, I feel like I am grudgingly handing out clues, but it isn't like that, really. The land behind appears to be flat redgum plains, with a small slope in the middle distance, and then that mountain/hill. I think it is too close for Mount Erica, without enough hills in between. Also, I cannot see any sign of a motor vehicle of any sort, and quite a few horses in the yard and one or two hitched to a dray. So it is even possibly earlier than I first thought. Linda At 09:09 AM 24/04/05 +1000, you wrote: > > I can't stop looking at the shape of the mountain behind. Is it the shape >of Mount Erica??? Then which direction for that view??? > >Lesley

Hi Linda, I can not identify the "town", but where did the railway lines go? There looks to be a water tank for filling engines on the left side, and empty "wagons" on the other side of the building? Rhonda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Barraclough" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [AVG] Can you identify this town??? > Hi Lesley, > > I feel like I am grudgingly handing out clues, but it isn't like that, > really. > > The land behind appears to be flat redgum plains, with a small slope in > the middle distance, and then that mountain/hill. I think it is too close > for Mount Erica, without enough hills in between. > > Also, I cannot see any sign of a motor vehicle of any sort, and quite a > few horses in the yard and one or two hitched to a dray. So it is even > possibly earlier than I first thought. > > Linda > > At 09:09 AM 24/04/05 +1000, you wrote: >> >> I can't stop looking at the shape of the mountain behind. Is it the >> shape >>of Mount Erica??? Then which direction for that view??? >> >>Lesley > > ______________________________

Hi Linda I keep going back and looking at that photo. It just looks so familiar to me Is it possibly not an open cut but the building of the main Southern channel from Lake Glenmaggie that runs round Blores Hill . I can remember my Mum talking of how that was built by horse pulled machinery etc. It passed through the property where I grew up, west of Tinamba, and the section I am thinking of is all built of concrete sections. A massive undertaking I would think which would require a lot more excavation than a channel constructed of earth as it is in other parts. The railway line is in the right place. I still think it looks like the view of Mount Erica that I was familiar with, (however I moved away in 1979, so my memory is very possibly wrong) I can't explain the lack of hills in between but the photo is not a clear one. My Mum worked as a secretary for the State Rivers in Heyfield in the early to mid 1950's. She told of many displaced Europeans who worked on the projects around there after WW2. Her boss was Hughie Caffrey. Is this possible? What do you think?????? Lesley