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Balancing on the rails.
This is part of a series of photos detailing the construction of an obstacle course for Mini-Z Overlands.
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Day 3 we reached the mooring spot for the old Overland Corner Pub. Bushrangers, overlanders, ghosts and a beer! The Historic Overland Corner Hotel is both pub and living museum. Captain Charles Sturt’s whaleboard expedition carried the first Europeans to Overland Corner. Pioneering pastoralists and overlanders recognised the potential of the area and Overland Corner quickly became the administrative and cultural centre of the region. With sly grog shops appearing in the area in the late 1850s, John Chambers recognised the need for a licensed hotel and completed the first stage of construction of the Overland Corner Hotel in 1860. In 1897 to 1913 the Hotel became a post office, witnessing the transition from horse-drawn coach to motor-mail and ‘modern’ coach services.
Journeying on the Overland Trail in 1846, America Hollis loses her husband & all her earthly goods in a storm. Pregnant & alone, a family takes her into thier wagon train. But when she gives birth, they steal her newborn daughter for thier own & leave her for dead. A young Paiute woman, Dancing Feather, rescues her, & together with her half brother they set out to recover America's daughter--& to forge a bridge between two worlds.
Close up of calk and fill.
This is part of a series of photos detailing the construction of an obstacle course for Mini-Z Overlands.
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"Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on May 13, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp (who was a Cardiff based Post Office engineer) transmitted and received the first wireless signals over open sea from Lavernock Point to Flat Holm island. The very first message transmitted in morse code was "ARE YOU READY". This was immediately followed by "CAN YOU HEAR ME" to which the reply was "YES LOUD AND CLEAR".
The initial tests were so successful over the three and a third mile (6 kilometres) stretch of water that it was quickly decided to relocate the telegraph equipment from Flat Holm to Brean Down Fort, near Weston Super Mare increasing the distance to nearly ten miles (16 kilometres) from the Lavernock Point transmitter.
Following these successful trials, Marconi subsequently vested his new patent rights in his 'Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company'.
On the point in the late 1860s Lavernock Fort gun battery was built by the Royal Commission and completed in 1870, with three 7" muzzle loading cannons to protect the channel approaches to Cardiff and Bristol shipyards during the short lived war between Britain and France that followed the French Revolution. Sometime before 1895 the gun battery was reinforced with a fourth cannon only for all four guns to be replaced eight years later by two rapid fire six inch former naval guns in 1903. A two unit searchlight battery was added during the Second World War. Today the remaining main section of the gun battery has been listed as an Ancient Monument, which includes the gun emplacements, director-rangefinder observation position, crew and officers quarters."
A lot of hands needed here to push the overland truck out of the desert sand. Trans Africa Expedition