Photos by Bruce Comfort : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

When Newcastle [New south Wales Australia] was first settled, Carrington, as we know it today, didn't exist. It was a low lying tidal island that was known to the local Aboriginals as "wuna - r tee" and was known to be abundant with fish, mud crabs and oysters. Originally named Chapmans Island during the convict era, then later Bullock Island, it rose from the mud from 1859 when extensive dredging commenced in Newcastle Harbour to help alleviate flooding (probably following the 1857 floods) with the spoil spread over the tidal flats gradually raising the island above the tidal influence. Then during the 1860's Bullock Island became a ballast dumping ground for the visiting coal ships and as the demand for coal continued to grow, more expedient methods were sought on the loading of the colliers with Mr. E O Moriarty, the Chief Engineer of the NSW Steam Navigation Board, expanding Bullock Island to accommodate the growing coal trade. In 1874 Mr Moriarty commissioned the British based Armstrong Hydraulic Machinery Factory to design a hydraulic crane delivery system for the Bullock Island site. James Barnet was commissioned to design the Power Station to accommodate the new fangled equipment and so in 1878 Newcastle led Australia when the £20,000 ($16 million) Carrington Hydraulic Power Station began operations with the first load of coal dispatched using this new system on the 18th March 1878. It wasn't until 1916 -17 that electricity replaced the steam pumps and in 1964 the last of the internal machinery were removed from building for scrap. Recently the building has been purchased by the NSW State Government which intends to restore this excellent example of 19th century industrial architecture to its former glory after nearly 50 years of disgraceful neglect. (information courtesy of John McCulloch)

Colin, I see you are yourself, not a Panoramio user. Do you mind telling me how you found my photos of the Chinese market Gardeners on Panoramio?

Where you looking at Google Earth, doing a Google search?

My use of Panoramio to "publish" stuff is based on the hope that people will find the photos by looking around on Google Earth where they appear as small blue squares, if the photo layer is turned on.

My wife is Chinese and it has been interesting to move here (Oamaru) from Wellington, to retire. We are members of NZCA - I presume you are Chinese too? Joyce is See Yip and we have been married 46 years now!!

Do you feel like sharing more of your life as a child in Oamaru, of course we have "Sons of the Soil" is you family in there.

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You might want to check out http://spuduka.blogspot.co.uk/ as well

This pic for instance. When you uploaded it you will have seen an option to "describe" the photo and "map this photograph" click that and then it'll bring up a map of the world search for Oamaru and pan around until you can identify the land feature and click the map. Then if the Google Earth administrators agree, the picture will appear in Google Earth at that spot - the club gets the qudos and so does North Otago. You may have to remove that logos.

The "sinkholes" (called Dolines) at Craigmore Station for instance would be agreat photo to have geo-located so people can see the feature both in your pic and in Google earth.

Bruce Comfort Oamaru

How do you geo-code?

This set of photos has been linked to on the IPENZ Engineering Heritage web page, which anyone interested in the heritage of engineering should be aware of

http://www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage/database.cfm

Subsequent to posting this photograph, I have learned of the existence of a very old fellmongery in the Oamaru suburb of Evelyne. In the 1940s this fellmongery was operated by the Hedges family after which the road it's on is named.

The photos of the fellmongery are at . I have also learned that Mr Hedges had "informal" permission to open the sluice gate on this aqueduct when the water in the stream he used for processing at his works was getting low in Landon Creek. It may be that this is not a picture with the raceman visible, but Mt Hedges getting his free water.!

5011km isn't the same distance as 4990km so what's with the "half way between the Equator and the South Pole"

Anyone??

Panoramio's terms of use specifically excludes pictures that are not your own, pictures taken indoors and pictures of machinery. I have had contact with the site moderators who however have agreed that the pictures maps old photos etc which I am publishing and particularly machinery in-situ and "on the ground" will be accepted and occasionally end up on Google Earth because they are supportive of Panoramio and Google earth being utilised like I am using it to elucidate and explain heritage - I'm very pleased as you might guess.

BC