Even has a wharf to make it easier to get landing craft ashore. Cheers, Kevin It's easy looking back at last year - 2020 hindsight.

Newculer.

Its a door stop, and a very solid one at that.

I KNEW they shouldn't have scrapped Oriana, Canberra, Oronsay ... et al!!!!!

Lived there for two years and could never work out why the "anks" got a holiday. Surely since the country as a whole got the holiday they are "public" holidays not just "bank" holidays. Why don't they

Aaaah yes!!!! The Windemere Hotel - fantastic memories.

We stayed in a grand Raj-era hotel in Darjeeling for a few nights. It was close to zeroC outside and our room had a lovely coal fire to keep it warm. We'd flown in to Bagdogra and driven up to Darjeel

Nice photos. Am I missing something in the photo of the turntable at Darjeeling?? It seems to be fishplated onto the lead. Surely they don't have to undo the fishplates to turn something? That would l

Yeah - heard that one on the wireless talking box the other day, that the northern end of St James tunnels were the unbuilt link to the Northern Beaches. Nearly choked on my toast!!! It would have to

There is still sugar cane growing in the Royal Botanic Gardens, although clearly it doesn't grow fast or prolific enough to be commercially viable in Sydney. My understanding is TA Scott owned a big b

And there will be a sharp spike in messages over a few weeks as everybody reports, "I'm on" "got here" "ooh ... look at this" "how does this work" "where do I find ..." "Hi Gertrude ... I see you made

The only (infinitesimally minor) thing that would be lost in a mass migration is length of membership. In older Groups some will have been members for weeks and others for years. In the new Group, whe

It's the extremely lazy (that's me!!!) way of saying As I Understand It.

I do not have a strong opinion about staying with Yahoo or moving to io.groups (largely because any opinion I express will not be based on any level of informed or educated expertise), except to say t

At the risk of getting a bit OT ... Does anybody know what else CO2 could be an ingredient in, because I don't think CO2 went out the CSRC gate in liquid or solid form, but perhaps went into something

BINGO!!! - then thats why the molasses went to CSRC at Lane Cove ... CSRC made industrial quantities of pure alcohol. It was shipped out by the stainless steel semitrailer tanker load. I vaguely recal

This is only a puzzle piece, not an exhaustive solution to your question. My father worked for CSR Chemicals at Lane Cove from about the mid 1950s to when the plant closed and merged with the much big

Phew!!! - I looked and couldn't see a link. I assumed my browsing skills were at fault.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Of course!!! Thinking the same thing, I looked up Rolfe's bible, but that didn't make sense as 103 from Grafton was only Casino so that couldn't be it. But of course his distances are m