Bathurst
is one of the oldest inland settlements and is also a gold rush town with colonial
buildings and grand old homes built for the wealthy. The population is around
40,000. The roads form a grid pattern and easy to walk around the town. It is
situated on the Macquarie River and Kelso (which was the initial settlement of
Bathurst) is on the other side of the bridge.
Since there are so many old
buildings, conserving them is a must. The museums and war memorials and parks
are really beautiful. My main pleasure is seeing the varied architecture. There
is also a race track called Mount Panorama that overlooks the town. There are
leaflets that take you on different tours of the town and I shall just take you
along with the pictures as I walked from the starting point of the Railway
Station.
Railway Station at the top of Keppel Street
Victorian era hotel
Victoria era shops and decorative facades
Brooke Moore Centre 1852. Eddwardian upper storey added in 1900
Methodist Uniting Church in Gothic revival style
Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP Building)
Court House
Historial Society Museum
Memorial Museum
Bathurst War Memorial Carillon
Surveyor Evans - surveyed route from Penrith to Bathurst 1813
Boer War Soilder
Trocadero dance hall 1937 - George Street
Opposite Machattie Park - George Street
Fountain in Machattie Park
Victorian Filigree House
1876 Public School
Williams Street
Ambulance Station
Water fountains in front of Ambulance Station
Logan Brae
William Street
William Street
St. Stanislav College
You can drive around the race track but only at 60kmph. Thats fast enough when you see the hairpin bends at farily steep slopes. This is an open road and there is a vineyard and some houses. Indeed at dusk we saw a whole gang of Roos hanging about.
Part of the race track
At the sign you see in the above photograph
Panoramic view from Mount Panorama
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