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Saturday, October 22, 2016

A Wander Around Heritage Park Albany...

I should actually have headed this post a little walk around a very, very small part of Heritage Park!  This post will mainly be photos of the lovely old Pre-Federation Military buildings, rather than lots of text. ๐Ÿ˜Š
Note the Union Jack! Yep! These old buildings date back to before Federation (which was 1901) when the present day states were actually British colonies.

Back and side views of the building in the first photo...on the left of the side view of the building, the Aboriginal flag is flying.
The same flag from another vantage point...



Another old military building...with an gun carriage? or wagon? on the veranda...


All the buildings are beautiful restored and maintained...


An old water tower...and an 'army hut' type building in the photo below that. 
Just 2 of the many 'igloo huts' scattered throughout this section of the park.
The First Aid Post...

Up the hill a bit and on a flat area of land, were lots of old guns and missiles. The guns were huge! 
There are some lovely gardens in this area too...and that view too, of course!

There are some modern buildings too...sorry it's a bit dark...
Here's another photo of that building. It's the quite new National ANZAC Centre.
On our first day in Albany, we had checked out the displays etc in the grounds and by then it was 4.45 pm. And the Centre closed at 5pm...so we had to go back next day. But that's another post still to come. 

3 comments:

angela said...

Wow. They look so well preserved.
And such beautiful surroundings

Peg - Happy In Quilting said...

Fantastic photos ๐Ÿ’–

Anthea said...

Glad you went to see it Maria... Albany has done a terrific job of preserving & restoring their significant military history... I bet it was really cold there, it always is!