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:: Friday, May 11, 2007 ::

Catalina Flying Boat & Man

Catalina Flying Boat Fam3_14-5-flyboat-man
Originally uploaded by Mezza.
Old-style flying boat plane (PBY Catalina) that can also land on solid ground with the wheels. I think it's Ron standing by it. There is a framed photo (which I think another family member has) showing his father standing by a similar aeroplane.

For many years there was a Flying Boat Base at Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour, and my childhood home was under the flightpath of the large Catalinas coming in to land. We were some floors up in a block of flats, and at night sometimes they were so low I could see the people behind the lighted windows in the passenger cabin. My memory is they flew to Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands.

The base closed down a few decades back, but has since reopened for much smaller planes. They run a more local service, e.g. to the Hawkesbury River, and probably joy flights around the Sydney area. I saw a similar small plane in Strahan, Tasmania (see TAS_4212).
Labels: aeroplanes, airplanes, black and white, history, monochrome, pix

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:: Friday, February 02, 2007 ::

Tabblo: Manila after the Rain
Link to www.tabblo.com Manila after the Rain: A Tabblo
Manila at the end of World War II — Photos taken by an Australian sailor

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Originally uploaded by Mezza.
Testing this as another way to use my images. In this case, displaying wartime family photos in an album page style like the one around at the time they were taken.
Labels: history, pix, tabblo, war

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:: Sunday, August 07, 2005 ::

Good News on Restoration of Hilton Memorial

UPDATE 2008
Even better news, on the 30th Anniversary, 13th February, 2008, they restored the plaque to a stele or pillar back on the footpath. With all my changes and troubles this year I haven't been on that part of George St, so I only saw it in December 2008 while I was doing Christmas shopping, without a camera. I'll try to put up a picture of it.

Hilton Memorial (IMG_3924a-crop)
Originally uploaded by Mezza.
Hilton Memorial (3924a-crop)
"To the memory of Alec Carter, Arthur Favell and Paul Burmistriw, two city council garbagemen and a 1st class police constable, who were killed here as a result of a bomb explosion on 13th February, 1978. Forever in our thoughts. Your workmates."

Hilton Memorial (3924a-crop480),
originally uploaded by Mezza.
Restored memorial plaque to the 3 dead in the Sydney Hilton Bombing, after major refurbishment of hotel.
"To the memory of Alec Carter, Arthur Favell and Paul Burmistriw, two city council garbagemen and a 1st class police constable, who were killed here as a result of a bomb explosion on 13th February, 1978. Forever in our thoughts. Your workmates."
Labels: anniversaries, Australia, history, memorials, pix, Sydney

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