First up this cute little church with the beautiful trees.
Went into the information bureau and couldn’t resist taking this photo made with a wooden frame and covered with paper Mashe
Looking down the main street, although can’t see the street behind the trees.
This is the Murrumbidgee River that we walked over into town. Not a pretty river, water levels are very low now after the big floods. Then the water came up to just under the bridge (which I am standing on taking photo). The town was lucky it stopped there, otherwise they would have been cut off. Notice the big tree on the left, how the rushing river has taken a lot of the earth away from its roots. The trees all along the river look like this.
The Art Work here in Hay isn’t done on Silos but Water Tanks. Across the top of this one, says A TOWN THAT WENT TO WAR. The local Artist in town painted these who are actually real people that went to war. Apparently a large number from this town went to war both men and women.
The bottom of this painting is a couple of young lads struggling to get back onto their lifeboat which isn’t so clear.
The old Railway Station. Just all locked up. No life around it except I looked through a window and saw a man at his desk. This made me think that he was using a room as an office.
Beautiful Old building like they all were back then,
Outside of the Hay Gaol looking up at the lookout tower. The buildings are made of local brick. The Hay Gaol was established in 1878 and has been used as a Gaol, ( for short term offenders from the surrounding district.The Gaol was officially closed June 1915.) a maternity hospital, lock up hospital for the insane (from February 1931) for prisoners of war during the Second World War (Japanese and Italian) and finally as a maximum security institute for girls under the Child Welfare Department. (Which was closed in 1974). One year later it was handed over to the people of Hay for development of a museum and cultural centre.
Inside the Gaol grounds
Still inside the walls looking along the outside wall
of the cells with tiny windows which were too high to see out.
The row of cells which could accomodate four persons per cell. The doors look thin but they were very heavy steel doors.
Once the doors were opened then these bars, which are the original but were only in place on this one cell. All the rest we could walk right in and each cell has now been set up as a museum for articles of the past.
In the grounds outside the Gaol are all sorts housed in a big shed. This is a 1961 Dodge Van (no windows in the back) which collected girls for the institution.
The photo below is the inside of the above. Bench seats once popular when the gear change was on the steering wheel.
1939 V8 Ford
Grounds in front of the Gaol museum. All the Autumn leaves have really started in this town.
Sitting in the motorhome looking through the window across the campground watching the autumn leaves falling in the wind.
Just been over to the Pub across the road from camp and had a seafood basket, vegies and chips. Can’t say it was as good as all the fresh seafood we had along the Eyres Peninsula. Apart from going to MacDonalds in Perth we haven’t had a meal out. We are just as happy cooking dinner in the motorhome in the evening as we are always out doing things during the day or driving many Kms. Besides I have to be in to write my blog every evening. 😵💫
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