QVP Blog 6

The Blue Mountains Lookouts & Waterfalls Episode 6

In this episode I travel to Lawson to video record the details on:

Adelina Falls
Junction Falls
Federal Falls
Cataract Falls

All historical facts including dates cited in this Documentary were sourced from Trove, the Digitised Newspaper Archive of the National Library Of Australia, trusting that the reporting of events at the time they happened surpasses in accuracy that of later publications.

TROVE is an amazing collection from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

Additional information was sourced from the Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia by Brian Fox.

The Blue Mountains Lookouts & Waterfalls Episode 5

In this episode I again travel to Hazelbrook to video record the details on:

Adam's Lookout
Terrace Falls
Victor Falls

All historical facts including dates cited in this Documentary were sourced from Trove, the Digitised Newspaper Archive of the National Library Of Australia, trusting that the reporting of events at the time they happened surpasses in accuracy that of later publications.

TROVE is an amazing collection from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

Additional information was sourced from the Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia by Brian Fox.

The Blue Mountains Lookouts & Waterfalls Episode 4

In this episode I travel to Hazelbrook to video record the details on:

Burgess Falls
Oaklands Falls
Horseshoe Falls

All historical facts including dates cited in this Documentary were sourced from Trove, the Digitised Newspaper Archive of the National Library Of Australia, trusting that the reporting of events at the time they happened surpasses in accuracy that of later publications.

TROVE is an amazing collection from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

Additional information was sourced from the Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia by Brian Fox.

The Blue Mountains Lookouts & Waterfalls Episode 3

In this episode I travel to Woodford to video record the details on:

Hazel Falls
Edith Falls
Mabel Falls

All historical facts including dates cited in this Documentary were sourced from Trove, the Digitised Newspaper Archive of the National Library Of Australia, trusting that the reporting of events at the time they happened surpasses in accuracy that of later publications.

TROVE is an amazing collection from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

Additional information was sourced from the Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia by Brian Fox.

The Blue Mountains Lookouts & Waterfalls Episode 2

In this episode I travel to Springwood and Faulconbridge to record the details on:

Lawsons Lookout
Eleanor Falls
Clarinda Falls

All historical facts including dates cited in this Documentary were sourced from Trove, the Digitised Newspaper Archive of the National Library Of Australia, trusting that the reporting of events at the time they happened surpasses in accuracy that of later publications.

TROVE is an amazing collection from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

Additional information was sourced from the Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia by Brian Fox.

The Blue Mountains Lookouts & Waterfalls Episode 1

This is the first of many trips I will be doing into the Blue Mountains over the next couple of years. I have identified over 80 places between Lapstone and Blackheath so there is a lot of tracks to follow.

In this episode I travel to Lapstone to record the details on:

Bluff Lookout
Chalmers Lookout
Martins Lookout

All historical facts including dates cited in this Documentary were sourced from Trove, the Digitised Newspaper Archive of the National Library Of Australia, trusting that the reporting of events at the time they happened surpasses in accuracy that of later publications.

TROVE is an amazing collection from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.

Additional information was sourced from the Blue Mountains Geographical Encyclopaedia by Brian Fox.

1994 SAS 7 Adelaide Xmas Tape

Each year the Videotape and/or News Department of the Television Station produce a Christmas Party recording of the current years' bloopers, goofs and humourous video clips to be shown during their end of year christmas party. This is one of those tapes.

1994 TEN 10 Adelaide Xmas Tape

Each year the Videotape and/or News Department of the Television Station produce a Christmas Party recording of the current years' bloopers, goofs and humourous video clips to be shown during their end of year christmas party. This is one of those tapes.

The Boothtown Aqueduct

The Boothtown Aqueduct was built in 1888 to carry water across a valley from Prospect Reservoir to residents of Sydney. Part of the Lower Prospect Canal, the aqueduct was the longest continuous concrete work of its kind in Australia in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Such good progress has been made during the last six months upon all the sections of the Sydney Water supply works that some of them are completed, and, with one exception, it is extremely probable that all will be finished within 12 months from date. The exception is the Prospect Reservoir, the largest work of the kind in Australia, and this will not be ready for use for years to come, owing to the magnitude of the embankment necessary to hold back a body of water having a surface area of over two square miles.

Early on the morning of Saturday, the 9th of January, 1892 sensational rumours were current to the effect that the Prospect dam had given away, and although this statement was not generally credited, it soon became evident that a serious mishap had occurred. It appears that, during the previous night (it is thought, between three and four o'clock, some 200 feet of the northern wall, about 7 feet in height collapsed and fell into the watercourse.

1994 TVQ 10 Brisbane Xmas Tape

Each year the Videotape and/or News Department of the Television Station produce a Christmas Party recording of the current years' bloopers, goofs and humourous video clips to be shown during their end of year christmas party. This is one of those tapes.