Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 21 October 2012
Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 63. The Bridge At Ross, Tasmania
Tasmania is a wonderful island state of Australia, one that has a treasure of Georgian architecture much of it built of local sandstone and using convict labour from the penal settlement days. This beautiful bridge crosses the Macquarie River. A folding stool on a grassy bank was all I needed.
© DON DONOVAN.
2 comments:
I'm amazed by how similar this bridge looks to the one outside my window in Berwick on Tweed on the English/Scottish border. Must be a similar local stone. Also built at a similar period maybe.
The bridge was built in 1826, designed by Anglo-Irish John Lee Archer.
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