Sunday, September 11, 2011

OLD CANBERRA VIDEO


Next year makes it only a decade until Canberry's bi-centenary in 2022. Too far away to think about perhaps but perusing my photo collection in preparation for a school talk I found a 'dirty dozen' of old structures in Canberra dating from the 30's of the 19th century through to the 90's and thought it would be nice to show them together as a collection...


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