May 29, 2025 • 15 mins
In this week's episode we look at all that's going on around our state for History Festival 2025, as we uncover the stories etched into the land and streets. The title of this episode is a famous quote by Martin Luther King Jr. and it still rings true as ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
My Heart Essay.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
An you're telling me that you built a time machine?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
How of it? The Warrior?
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Hi, I'm Jackie Loom with iHeart Essay. This week we're
going back in time to celebrate the conclusion of Essay
History Month, uncovering the stories edged into the land and
streets of South Australia. Now we know our history might
not stretch back as far as the ancient cathedrals of
the UK or the colonial era buildings of the US,
or we do have is something uniquely ours. From the
(00:32):
dreaming tracks of the Ghana people to the bold experiments
of free settlement, from bush rangers to boundary riders. Our
past is rich, layered and full of surprises. So whether
you're a lifelong local or just curious about what makes
our state tick, join us as we dig into the
tales that shaped our regions, stories you won't find anywhere else.
(00:52):
I spoke to Dane Wilden, the Manager of Major Events
at the History Trust of South Australia, about this year's
History Festival.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Five hundred and ninety actually five hundred and ninety seven
events across South Australia throughout the entire month of May.
It's been a really really busy month for history lovers
and the ficionados, and it's been great to see the
festival grow across the entire state, covering every single tourism
region here within South Australia, not.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Just Adelaide, it is everywhere around the place. There's been
quite a bit, i know going on Murrayland's Victor Harbor Way,
also a lot in the Mid North. Can you run
us through some of the big attractions, the big ticket
items might have been well.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This coming weekend, as a matter of fact, the Township
of Borough will be celebrating its one hundred and eightieth
birthday with a whole series of very exciting events taking
place across the weekend, including a gala dinner on Friday
night in the town Hall, a dinner dance on Saturday
night and then a town parade on Sunday. So some
(01:55):
great activities up there in the Mid North in Borough,
but also elsewhere across the state, including as you said,
down on the Flurio, with a number of tours and
galleries open throughout Victor Harbor the GRRLWA region as well.
If you're feeling particularly peck issue could pop in to
the Victor Harbor Museum this Saturday afternoon and enjoy an
(02:16):
afternoon tea, some scones, jam and cram and delve into
the history of Victor Harbor as one of South Australia's
earliest whaling and fishery settlements.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We don't just limit everything to buildings that you can
come and see and close that we might have worn.
It's the people too and stories. Is there any particularly
interesting stories of people that might have been settled in
these communities back in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Absolutely, as you say, their History Festival is so much
more than just built heritage or infrastructure or indeed dusty
books on a shelf somewhere. Usually the most interesting aspects
of history are stories and our own stories that we're
sharing stories within communities. So the History Festival has a
unique kind of program of events, one of which is
(03:05):
called From Many Places. It's focused on migrant stories and
stories of traveling, settling in South Australia and developing of communities,
multicultural communities here in South Australia. Another interesting folks program
we introduced this year, actually it's the first time, was
Tasting History and it really is centered on the history
(03:28):
of food, that cuisine culture here in South Australia and
how it's such an important ingredient in the sharing of
history and sharing of communities from across the world right
here in South Australia.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
As far as next year's eventum, we're set to return
for May. Preparations who already underway.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yes, I can confirm indeed that preparations are already underway
for History Festival twenty twenty six. Will be announcing the
theme at the closing of History Festival on Saturday, the
thirty first of May this year, so stay tuned to
the History Festival site for a bit of a teaser
for next year's theme. Of course, this year's theme was
decisions and the power of decisions shaping the future and
(04:09):
the way that we live in South Australia today.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I might just add as well, the decisions made in
the front bar. You know, that is very true for
regional South Australia particularly. You know, that's where everyone meets,
that's the main hub for a lot of our towns
across the state. So yeah, that's very much in our wheelhouse.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Very much, so very much. This is the theme of
decisions was a really interesting one because, as I said,
we were reflecting on those decisions that have been made historically,
indeed that have shaped the world that we live in
South Australia today. But we're also contemplating at the same
time the effects of decisions that we make today influencing
the future. And in part of the consideration of those decisions,
(04:49):
we considered where commonly we meet to discuss and make
those decisions and discuss our plans. And one of those
great locations that that we settled upon was, of course
the front bar of the local pub. Pubs have long
been a melting pot of culture, of differing points of view.
(05:11):
It's a great place to have a yarn with friends,
with families, sometimes with foes, depending on depending on your
forty colors. Certainly there's the stories behind every pub door.
I think we can we can.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Certainly say that we'll now step through the iron gates
of one of our regions most historic cemeteries, a place
where silence speaks volumes and every headstone has a story
to tell. The Moon To Cemetery is notable for providing
in science into early typhoid epidemics and mining fatalities. Our
Spenser Golf Journal brooks Seychelle spoke to a volunteer of
the cemetery, Liz cool.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
When copper was discovered at Lanta in eighteen sixty one,
they didn't have a cemetery. In eighteen sixty six, the
first recorded burial was Efferent, the infant son of WILLIAMS. Square,
the proprietor of the Globe Hotel which is now the
Cornwall Hotel.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
What makes this cemetery so unique to our history?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Its history, the sadness and everything that once you walk
through the gates you can feel it. Labor Premiere of
South Australia's buried there. He was a Munta minor before
he wanted politics. We've got somebody buried there that came
out on the buffalo with Governor HOI marsh All those
years ago as a six year old child. And there's
(06:29):
lots of children unfortunately buried there. They had epidemics. Three
hundred and twenty seven burials, mostly due to typhoed fever
are on the records, and most of them were children.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
What makes this cemetery then such a tourist attraction? What
can visitors learn when they come to visit Mount Cemetery.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Everybody seems to want to see moon to cemetery if
I did a cemetery tour during the Canoeic Luenda, seventy
people on the tour. Each year, I just seem to
get more and more.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Are there any ghosts or any spirits hanging around the
moon to cemetery?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I used to do school tours and a little girl
said to me one day that she was scared, and
I just told her the dead can't hurt you.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
We'll have more after the break. I heard essay, I
heard essay, welcome back today. We're uncovering the voices of
the past as Essay History Fest wraps up for another year.
They're quiet now, but never truly gone, with people still
around to tell their tale. One such individual is federal
(07:39):
politician Mark Butler, who has a strong connection to the Gang.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I have a strong family link to railways in South
Australia on both sides of my family. On the Butler side.
On my father's side, my great great grandfather was Minister
for Railways and had a lot to do with the
building of the narrow Gage railway system through country South Astra,
as did his son, who was also the Minister for
Railways in the twenties and thirties. But the really interesting
(08:07):
story is around my great grandfather on my mother's side,
a fellow called Ernie Smith, who was an engine driver
and a shop steward for the union at the time
of Fule and was at Corn when the overnight train
up to Udna Data was first instituted. People might know,
(08:28):
if they're students of railway history, that before then the
train used to stop overnight so that people would get
off and go and sleep at a hotel and then
get back on the train in the morning and keep
going up for as far north as Udna Data. And
in nineteen twenty three they decided to shorten the travel
(08:49):
time and introduce what we would now call sleeper carts.
And when the first sleeper car was en route, there
was a huge crowd that gathered in Corn nineteen twenty
three to see the new train. And at nighttime it
was about nine pm I think when the train pulled
up at the railway yard in Corn. Apparently the only
(09:11):
passenger who was on the sleeper car was an Afghan
camel driver and when he got off because it was
stopping there and there was a whole lot of hullaballoo
to celebrate the new railway. Apparently my great grandfather, Ernie
Smith said something like, given that he was the only
passenger on the train, we're going to have to call
(09:31):
this the Afghan Express. And apparently the history records and
there were a lot of oral historians who interviewed people
who were there at the time. John Wilson's one of them,
History records that over time it went from being the
Afghan Express to the Gan Express and then ultimately to
the Gan and it was very well known by that name,
(09:55):
particularly by the local engine drivers and other workers on
the railways at that time. It was that sort of Australian,
very Australian repartee that coined the name again.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And finally today, if you really want to feel like
you've stepped back in time, head to Taylorm Bend in
the Murray Lands to check out Australia's largest pioneer village.
Old Taylorm Town is home to more than one hundred
historic buildings on a dozen streets. It was established by
Peter Squires in nineteen eighty two. The iconic tourist attraction
has long been a favorite for history lovers, school groups
(10:29):
and tourists alike. Our murray Bridge journalist Jenny Lenman has
sat down with Danny and Tina Squires, who've just taken
the reins from Danny's dad.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Started with an emptu paddock, no trees, no nothing.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
We went to swan Hill Poney Village when I was
ten and he says, oh, you want to build one
of these, and being a ten year old.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You say years and it's gone from there.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
What's the idea of it. It's about retaining history, remembering
yester year.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, that's what it's for.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
People come here and going, oh I remember I had
one of them, or grandmad one of them.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Brings all the memories back.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Tina, you've come into this because you've married, right yep,
And in fact you got married into old Taylor Town.
Are here you too?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Nineteen ninety two we got married in the church in
the village.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Fantastic. What's it been like coming into this and being
in a family that's so steeped in history and has
been obsessed with collecting history for so many years?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
An I came from the city. I have a little
bit of country background, but not as much as what
they have. It's been a big eye opener.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's pretty majestic place, isn't It's extraordinary to stand in
a space that does take you back to another time.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Absolutely, every building that you go into you find something.
I've been there for thirty three years, but every day
you go in there there's a new adventure. You find
something new and get to experience all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And you have kids come through. It's part of their
history lessons.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes, we have a lot of schools coming in, so
they use our whole and they use a schoolroom and
the teachers use that to give them their lessons.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Who are the other people that come in and explore
Old Taylorm Town?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh? Anyone? Anyone off the road? Yeah, over the.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
World, lot overseas tourists, lots.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Of Indian people. We've been coming since the new temple's out.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It on teeth there right.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Do you have any favorite places or things within Old
Tailorm Town?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Ah? My favorite.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
One of the first buildings we put there was the
old Settler's Cottage. Came from over at Brinkley. The top
of house I'd like to live in. It's two room,
wood fire and that's it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Right. They don't make houses like they used to do they.
Do you have any favorite buildings or things within Old
Tailorm Town?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Tina the new things that are coming in, so every
day we still get people donating things and finding things.
We've just found a box of photos in one of
the buildings. We have no idea how they got there,
and at the moment I'm trying to find their families.
So I think there's six families involved. We put them
into piles. From the bits and pieces that were written
on the back of the photos, we believe they're from
(13:03):
the Marama Lamaru Karunda area. So we're just trying to
work with the Talaman History and Karunda History societies to
see if we can find their families and get these
photos back to them.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Tell us about the school. You've got a school within
old Tallenttown.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
It was South Lit School built in eighteen eighty, just
over the Victorian border there. I remember going out to
get it ready to move and the whole back wall
was gone. We had to end up pulling the pieces
and laying it on the floor and putting it on
the truck like that. So if we didn't bring it
back it would have rolled away by Now.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
What an epic effort to move all of these buildings.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh that was the fun bit.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, and then putting it back together. It's the tricky bit.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
Yeah, that one was hard because you had to pull
the whole thing to pieces. Most of them you can
just take the veranda off and pick the whole thing
up put on the truck. Like the church was in
Wolvesley on the border there. At seven o'clock in the morning,
they left.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And I think we lunch. Tom was at Old Tullingtown.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And it sounds like you rely on a lot of
people to make Old Talentown work.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
We have an amazing group of volunteers, amazing and without
them we couldn't. Couldn't we be where we are now?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We could need the help.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Do you have any thoughts for the future, anything that
you'd like to achieve?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, I just keep it going, that's the main thing.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Keep it standing up. It's a big trick. You know,
you're fighting against the elements the whole time. You've dry
rotten white ants and kind of keep the weather off.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We'll get there.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
How about your teen Any dreams for the future of
Old Tailumtown.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I think just to make it a little bit more interactive,
and we're looking at putting in picnic areas, making it
more accessible so people can come up and spend more
of the day. There.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's it for this week. Don't forget you can hear
iHeart Essay and the iHeart app or wherever you get
your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb. Join us again next week
for more of the stories you want to hear. I
Heart Essay, The Voice of South Australia
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Essay
My Heart Essay.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
An you're telling me that you built a time machine?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
How of it? The Warrior?
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Hi, I'm Jackie Loom with iHeart Essay. This week we're
going back in time to celebrate the conclusion of Essay
History Month, uncovering the stories edged into the land and
streets of South Australia. Now we know our history might
not stretch back as far as the ancient cathedrals of
the UK or the colonial era buildings of the US,
or we do have is something uniquely ours. From the
(00:32):
dreaming tracks of the Ghana people to the bold experiments
of free settlement, from bush rangers to boundary riders. Our
past is rich, layered and full of surprises. So whether
you're a lifelong local or just curious about what makes
our state tick, join us as we dig into the
tales that shaped our regions, stories you won't find anywhere else.
(00:52):
I spoke to Dane Wilden, the Manager of Major Events
at the History Trust of South Australia, about this year's
History Festival.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Five hundred and ninety actually five hundred and ninety seven
events across South Australia throughout the entire month of May.
It's been a really really busy month for history lovers
and the ficionados, and it's been great to see the
festival grow across the entire state, covering every single tourism
region here within South Australia, not.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Just Adelaide, it is everywhere around the place. There's been
quite a bit, i know going on Murrayland's Victor Harbor Way,
also a lot in the Mid North. Can you run
us through some of the big attractions, the big ticket
items might have been well.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
This coming weekend, as a matter of fact, the Township
of Borough will be celebrating its one hundred and eightieth
birthday with a whole series of very exciting events taking
place across the weekend, including a gala dinner on Friday
night in the town Hall, a dinner dance on Saturday
night and then a town parade on Sunday. So some
(01:55):
great activities up there in the Mid North in Borough,
but also elsewhere across the state, including as you said,
down on the Flurio, with a number of tours and
galleries open throughout Victor Harbor the GRRLWA region as well.
If you're feeling particularly peck issue could pop in to
the Victor Harbor Museum this Saturday afternoon and enjoy an
(02:16):
afternoon tea, some scones, jam and cram and delve into
the history of Victor Harbor as one of South Australia's
earliest whaling and fishery settlements.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
We don't just limit everything to buildings that you can
come and see and close that we might have worn.
It's the people too and stories. Is there any particularly
interesting stories of people that might have been settled in
these communities back in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Absolutely, as you say, their History Festival is so much
more than just built heritage or infrastructure or indeed dusty
books on a shelf somewhere. Usually the most interesting aspects
of history are stories and our own stories that we're
sharing stories within communities. So the History Festival has a
unique kind of program of events, one of which is
(03:05):
called From Many Places. It's focused on migrant stories and
stories of traveling, settling in South Australia and developing of communities,
multicultural communities here in South Australia. Another interesting folks program
we introduced this year, actually it's the first time, was
Tasting History and it really is centered on the history
(03:28):
of food, that cuisine culture here in South Australia and
how it's such an important ingredient in the sharing of
history and sharing of communities from across the world right
here in South Australia.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
As far as next year's eventum, we're set to return
for May. Preparations who already underway.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yes, I can confirm indeed that preparations are already underway
for History Festival twenty twenty six. Will be announcing the
theme at the closing of History Festival on Saturday, the
thirty first of May this year, so stay tuned to
the History Festival site for a bit of a teaser
for next year's theme. Of course, this year's theme was
decisions and the power of decisions shaping the future and
(04:09):
the way that we live in South Australia today.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
I might just add as well, the decisions made in
the front bar. You know, that is very true for
regional South Australia particularly. You know, that's where everyone meets,
that's the main hub for a lot of our towns
across the state. So yeah, that's very much in our wheelhouse.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Very much, so very much. This is the theme of
decisions was a really interesting one because, as I said,
we were reflecting on those decisions that have been made historically,
indeed that have shaped the world that we live in
South Australia today. But we're also contemplating at the same
time the effects of decisions that we make today influencing
the future. And in part of the consideration of those decisions,
(04:49):
we considered where commonly we meet to discuss and make
those decisions and discuss our plans. And one of those
great locations that that we settled upon was, of course
the front bar of the local pub. Pubs have long
been a melting pot of culture, of differing points of view.
(05:11):
It's a great place to have a yarn with friends,
with families, sometimes with foes, depending on depending on your
forty colors. Certainly there's the stories behind every pub door.
I think we can we can.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Certainly say that we'll now step through the iron gates
of one of our regions most historic cemeteries, a place
where silence speaks volumes and every headstone has a story
to tell. The Moon To Cemetery is notable for providing
in science into early typhoid epidemics and mining fatalities. Our
Spenser Golf Journal brooks Seychelle spoke to a volunteer of
the cemetery, Liz cool.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
When copper was discovered at Lanta in eighteen sixty one,
they didn't have a cemetery. In eighteen sixty six, the
first recorded burial was Efferent, the infant son of WILLIAMS. Square,
the proprietor of the Globe Hotel which is now the
Cornwall Hotel.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
What makes this cemetery so unique to our history?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Its history, the sadness and everything that once you walk
through the gates you can feel it. Labor Premiere of
South Australia's buried there. He was a Munta minor before
he wanted politics. We've got somebody buried there that came
out on the buffalo with Governor HOI marsh All those
years ago as a six year old child. And there's
(06:29):
lots of children unfortunately buried there. They had epidemics. Three
hundred and twenty seven burials, mostly due to typhoed fever
are on the records, and most of them were children.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
What makes this cemetery then such a tourist attraction? What
can visitors learn when they come to visit Mount Cemetery.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Everybody seems to want to see moon to cemetery if
I did a cemetery tour during the Canoeic Luenda, seventy
people on the tour. Each year, I just seem to
get more and more.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Are there any ghosts or any spirits hanging around the
moon to cemetery?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
I used to do school tours and a little girl
said to me one day that she was scared, and
I just told her the dead can't hurt you.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
We'll have more after the break. I heard essay, I
heard essay, welcome back today. We're uncovering the voices of
the past as Essay History Fest wraps up for another year.
They're quiet now, but never truly gone, with people still
around to tell their tale. One such individual is federal
(07:39):
politician Mark Butler, who has a strong connection to the Gang.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
I have a strong family link to railways in South
Australia on both sides of my family. On the Butler side.
On my father's side, my great great grandfather was Minister
for Railways and had a lot to do with the
building of the narrow Gage railway system through country South Astra,
as did his son, who was also the Minister for
Railways in the twenties and thirties. But the really interesting
(08:07):
story is around my great grandfather on my mother's side,
a fellow called Ernie Smith, who was an engine driver
and a shop steward for the union at the time
of Fule and was at Corn when the overnight train
up to Udna Data was first instituted. People might know,
(08:28):
if they're students of railway history, that before then the
train used to stop overnight so that people would get
off and go and sleep at a hotel and then
get back on the train in the morning and keep
going up for as far north as Udna Data. And
in nineteen twenty three they decided to shorten the travel
(08:49):
time and introduce what we would now call sleeper carts.
And when the first sleeper car was en route, there
was a huge crowd that gathered in Corn nineteen twenty
three to see the new train. And at nighttime it
was about nine pm I think when the train pulled
up at the railway yard in Corn. Apparently the only
(09:11):
passenger who was on the sleeper car was an Afghan
camel driver and when he got off because it was
stopping there and there was a whole lot of hullaballoo
to celebrate the new railway. Apparently my great grandfather, Ernie
Smith said something like, given that he was the only
passenger on the train, we're going to have to call
(09:31):
this the Afghan Express. And apparently the history records and
there were a lot of oral historians who interviewed people
who were there at the time. John Wilson's one of them,
History records that over time it went from being the
Afghan Express to the Gan Express and then ultimately to
the Gan and it was very well known by that name,
(09:55):
particularly by the local engine drivers and other workers on
the railways at that time. It was that sort of Australian,
very Australian repartee that coined the name again.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
And finally today, if you really want to feel like
you've stepped back in time, head to Taylorm Bend in
the Murray Lands to check out Australia's largest pioneer village.
Old Taylorm Town is home to more than one hundred
historic buildings on a dozen streets. It was established by
Peter Squires in nineteen eighty two. The iconic tourist attraction
has long been a favorite for history lovers, school groups
(10:29):
and tourists alike. Our murray Bridge journalist Jenny Lenman has
sat down with Danny and Tina Squires, who've just taken
the reins from Danny's dad.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Started with an emptu paddock, no trees, no nothing.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
We went to swan Hill Poney Village when I was
ten and he says, oh, you want to build one
of these, and being a ten year old.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You say years and it's gone from there.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
What's the idea of it. It's about retaining history, remembering
yester year.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, that's what it's for.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
People come here and going, oh I remember I had
one of them, or grandmad one of them.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Brings all the memories back.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Tina, you've come into this because you've married, right yep,
And in fact you got married into old Taylor Town.
Are here you too?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Nineteen ninety two we got married in the church in
the village.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Fantastic. What's it been like coming into this and being
in a family that's so steeped in history and has
been obsessed with collecting history for so many years?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
An I came from the city. I have a little
bit of country background, but not as much as what
they have. It's been a big eye opener.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It's pretty majestic place, isn't It's extraordinary to stand in
a space that does take you back to another time.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Absolutely, every building that you go into you find something.
I've been there for thirty three years, but every day
you go in there there's a new adventure. You find
something new and get to experience all of that.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And you have kids come through. It's part of their
history lessons.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yes, we have a lot of schools coming in, so
they use our whole and they use a schoolroom and
the teachers use that to give them their lessons.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Who are the other people that come in and explore
Old Taylorm Town?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh? Anyone? Anyone off the road? Yeah, over the.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
World, lot overseas tourists, lots.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Of Indian people. We've been coming since the new temple's out.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
It on teeth there right.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Do you have any favorite places or things within Old
Tailorm Town?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Ah? My favorite.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
One of the first buildings we put there was the
old Settler's Cottage. Came from over at Brinkley. The top
of house I'd like to live in. It's two room,
wood fire and that's it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Right. They don't make houses like they used to do they.
Do you have any favorite buildings or things within Old
Tailorm Town?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Tina the new things that are coming in, so every
day we still get people donating things and finding things.
We've just found a box of photos in one of
the buildings. We have no idea how they got there,
and at the moment I'm trying to find their families.
So I think there's six families involved. We put them
into piles. From the bits and pieces that were written
on the back of the photos, we believe they're from
(13:03):
the Marama Lamaru Karunda area. So we're just trying to
work with the Talaman History and Karunda History societies to
see if we can find their families and get these
photos back to them.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Tell us about the school. You've got a school within
old Tallenttown.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
It was South Lit School built in eighteen eighty, just
over the Victorian border there. I remember going out to
get it ready to move and the whole back wall
was gone. We had to end up pulling the pieces
and laying it on the floor and putting it on
the truck like that. So if we didn't bring it
back it would have rolled away by Now.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
What an epic effort to move all of these buildings.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Oh that was the fun bit.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, and then putting it back together. It's the tricky bit.
Speaker 9 (13:46):
Yeah, that one was hard because you had to pull
the whole thing to pieces. Most of them you can
just take the veranda off and pick the whole thing
up put on the truck. Like the church was in
Wolvesley on the border there. At seven o'clock in the morning,
they left.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
And I think we lunch. Tom was at Old Tullingtown.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And it sounds like you rely on a lot of
people to make Old Talentown work.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
We have an amazing group of volunteers, amazing and without
them we couldn't. Couldn't we be where we are now?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
We could need the help.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Do you have any thoughts for the future, anything that
you'd like to achieve?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No, I just keep it going, that's the main thing.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
Keep it standing up. It's a big trick. You know,
you're fighting against the elements the whole time. You've dry
rotten white ants and kind of keep the weather off.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
We'll get there.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
How about your teen Any dreams for the future of
Old Tailumtown.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I think just to make it a little bit more interactive,
and we're looking at putting in picnic areas, making it
more accessible so people can come up and spend more
of the day. There.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That's it for this week. Don't forget you can hear
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your podcasts. I'm Jackie Limb. Join us again next week
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