Viewpoints – Placecloud Placecloud
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- Society & Culture
Leading cultural researchers tell stories of places around the world. For the full spatial multimedia experience and more episodes visit www.placecloud.io.
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Little Forest
Bungonia Community Hall, Australia. A description of Little Forest in the Moreton National Park on the South Coast of New South Wales Australia.
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Dead Heart of the MIA
Whitton is the oldest town in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and offers a glimpse at a timeless Riverina landscape. It also has ghosts.
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Birds of passage, at Bradwell
Tiptree, United Kingdom. A musing on tangible history in the present.
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Serisier Bridge
The man behind the name of Dubbo’s low-level bridge was a Frenchman from Bordeaux, France. Jean Emile Serisier was an enterprising man considered a founding father of Dubbo, storekeeper, winemaker, magistrate and wannabe politician. Unfortunately, the bridge named after him has a habit of going under in big floods.
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The LH Ford Bridge
When the LH Ford Bridge was opened in Dubbo in 1969, replacing the old timber ‘White Bridge’ that had provided an east-west crossing since 1866, it was one of the first pre-stressed bridges in NSW and the fourth longest highway bridge in New South Wales. But shortly after its opening, the middle section of the bridge began to sag.
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Dundullimal Railway Bridge
The bridges crossing the Wambuul Macquarie River near the City of Dubbo are built structures that tell a story of the colonial and settler history of the region, through their construction and namesakes. They were built across water and land that has a much older story to tell. This is Wiradjuri Country, the traditional, unceded lands of a culture tens of thousands of years old.