...jeeeez Hoarder .. no wonder i like having a sherbet at the pubs in Ballaarat!...

.....also VB's on the nose, so i drink Tooheys Ice... and as ol' mate Ray says....''you still drinkin' that pensioner piss?'' ;D ;D ;D ;D

Those enamel plates,if I remember correctly,were from taxis,at least the Ballaarat one are. The yellow Ballaarat one was off a 1947 Mercury taxi,owned by a gentleman that everybody used to call "Mr Mac."

It morphed quickly from Ballaarat to Ballarat as the geographical name. IIRC the railway (opened in 1862) always used Ballarat, and so did maps. The spelling Ballaarat survived as the formal incorporated name of the municipality until the ~1992 Kennett forced mergers: City of Ballaarat, Borough of Sebastopol and bits of adjoining shires were merged as City of Ballarat. The same merger era eliminated the Lillydale vs Lilydale duality, and possibly Queensliffe vs Queenscliff.
IIRC my pre-1992 Ballarat Bitter can, showing Ballarat Bertie, has the geographical version. Here is another related piece of Australian social/technical history:
<www.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/edition...es/eightbells.htm>;

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Queen V

RE: drive of our Volvo

Thanx

but no thanx

th@ B the same day eye promised meself to rearrange me sox draw

LOL

YES we haz a lucky winner
well dun Hoarder
tiz the Western hwy Avenue of honor @ Bell r Rat


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cya

Looks like a bridge with traffic lights : :

Queensland

Deeper gloom: Nobody has beaten me to it, and I do know it, but I don't want grab it and use it up prematurely. I'll enter only if it goes for 48 h unidentified. It takes time to select and prepare a good challenge photo.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Not Queensland, certain I have been over this one, think going from Adelaide to Mildura, Sturt Hwy somewhere around Barmer

You are not that far away Blackduck. I reckon it is the Paringa Bridge over the River Murray on the Mildura side of Renmark.

Wot say u Swishy ?????

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