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So yeah, another album’s finally come together. Over the weekend I visited a place I’ve known about for ages, but for one reason or another, never actually got around to checking out. My legs never quite took me there, and the wheels didn’t either.
In my defence, it’s on the opposite side of Melbourne from me—and our city’s not exactly small.
The place is called Werribee Park. Its story goes back to the 1840s, when a couple of Scottish brothers, Thomas and Andrew Chirnside (yep, more immigrants!) bought up a bit of land there to run sheep. Business went well, so they bought more land... then more again... ended up with around 320 square kilometres in total.
They built some houses there and moved in with their families. Since they had heaps of sheep, they hired workers and managers to run the show while they handled the big-picture stuff.
By the way, they were pretty decent folks—kind and religious. Paid their workers well, built homes for them, gave them weekends off. They were philanthropists too, gave big to charity. There’s still a suburb and a school in Melbourne named after them—Chirnside.
They had more money than they knew what to do with, so Thomas eventually decided enough with the simple digs—it was time for something flash. So in the 1870s, he went and built himself a proper fancy mansion.
The house was done up Italian-style, 60 rooms, decked out real fancy. Around it they put in gardens, parks, a polo field, a pond with an artificial grotto, all sorts of nice touches. Turned out real classy.
These days, there’s a museum there, a zoo, rose gardens, and a bunch more. That’s where I had a wander with my two cameras—regular and infrared.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/147740420@N06/686J4y2066
Дача рядом с Мельбурном
Таки, созрел еще один альбом. На выходных я посетил одно место, про которое знал давно, но все как-то ноги туда не доходили, а колеса не доезжали. В оправдание могу сказать, что место это на противоположной от меня стороне Мельбурна, а городок наш немаленький.
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