Travel Theme : Time

This is a tricky one Ailsa, at least I thought so. But lots of your followers have come up with so many different interpretations of it. Go to “Where’s my backpack?” to see how inventive bloggers are…

I couldn’t come up with anything that would translate into photos. I thought about it as I dropped off to sleep, I ruminated about it as I prepared our meals, I even pondered it when shopping. It became an all-consuming mental search. I almost gave a mental shrug as Thursday dawned. “Oh well I will have to miss out this week”…

Then this morning going through my photos looking for a totally unrelated theme I suddenly came across the photos of an amazing heritage village we visited on our trip around Australia. I thought of all the museums we had visited. What were we doing? YES we were going back in time and reminiscing and reliving the time back then when life was without computers or TV’s and house-work was hard labour. Horse power really meant just that. I could remember, and had used, quite a number of the things that are now museum pieces.

So I would like to take you with me down memory lane and around an amazing old-time village called Old Tailem Town Do click on this link it will give you more information of a truly historic pioneer village that brings the past to life.

Steve and Pat are the original blokes that started this amazing collection back in 1982

Main Street

Butchers shop

Butchers shop information

Old butchers block

Here’s the old fashioned butcher. Sausages any one? I think I have seen this bloke some where else. 🙂

Old delivery van

Fresh??? fruit and vegies

Waiting to be served at the grocery store, no help your self back then

Grocery store shelves. Can you remember any of these grocery items?

Garage, these customers have been waiting quite a while…

Real old timers, now in retirement…

Bike shop

If the car didn’t go you could always rely on the horse

An old farm house

Very basic pioneers dwelling, early 1900’s

This bed does not look very comfortable, can you see the “guz-under”? Do you know what it is for???

Kitchen/dining from the 1940’s

A kitchen/dining area of the 1950’s

1960’s I think… (I have been told that this style of kitchen is more likely to be from the 1930’s. Can any one confirm this?)

This oven was considered state of the art back in 1930’s

I can remember using these things to do the laundry when I first got married

Any one recognize this pie cart?

Those are just a few of the photos we took of this fascinating place. We stumbled up on it quite by accident and only meant to spend a couple of hours browsing around. We spent the day absolutely captivated and engrossed in the atmosphere of the old pioneering days. A real trip back in time…

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The  future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, 

whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis