Edinburgh, Scotland

Cockburn St, Old Town. Created 1856 to connect the Royal Mile to Waverley Station, and named for lawyer & judge Henry, Lord Cockburn.

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Princes St, Edinburgh

Princes St, Edinburgh

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Palm House (1858), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Palm House (1858), Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, Scotland

The Princes St Gardens, and the Parish Church of St Cuthbert.

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Queen Mary's Bath House, Edinburgh

Queen Mary's Bath House. Supposedly where Mary, Queen of Scots, used to bathe in sweet white wine; though it is more likely that it was used as a summer pavilion or dovecot.

Once attached to the wall surrounding the Royal Privy Garden.

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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

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Festival, Edinburgh
Festival, Edinburgh

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Prague, Czech Republic

Charles Bridge, started 1357.

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Spišské Podhradie, Slovakia
Spiš Castle.

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Backgammon, Turkey

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Istanbul, Turkey

Father and Child.

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Gallipoli, Turkey

Landing site for the Gallipoli Campaign (aka 'Dardanelles Campaign', 'Battle of Gallipoli' or 'Battle of Çanakkale’), now known as ‘Anzac Cove’.

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Gallipoli, Turkey

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Bergama, Turkey
The "Red Basilica" in the ancient city of Pergamon, now Bergama.

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Bergama, Turkey
Sanctuary of Asclepius.

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Selçuk, Turkey
Library of Celsus, Ephesus.

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Selçuk, Turkey
Ephesus.

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Salt pools, Pamukkale, Turkey

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Kale, Turkey
Lycian Rock Tombs.

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Cappadocia, Turkey

Houses carved in volcanic rock.

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Selçuk, Turkey

Ephesus.

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Pamukkale, Turkey
The ancient city of Hierapolis.

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Hartley Vale, Blue Mountains, Australia
Hartley Court House [1837]. Designed by the colonial architect Mortimer Lewis.

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St John’s Anglican Church, Wilberforce
Designed by Edmund Thomas Blacket and built by J. Atkinson of Windsor. Construction completed 1859.

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Ballast Point Park, Sydney

Once the place where unladen ships stocked up on ballast before returning to Europe, Ballast Point was most notably the home of the Caltex Grease Plant for many years. The site was opened as a park in 2009.

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Glasgow, Scotland

Pedestrian walkway between Exhibition Centre Station and the SECC.

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Windsor, Sydney, NSW, Australia
John Tebbutt's Observatory in Palmer St. Built 1845-1864, close to his father's house.

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St Matthews Anglican Church, Windsor
Designed by convict architect Francis Greenway, and built between 1817 and 1822.

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The Bird in the Hand Inn, Pitt Town, Sydney

Originally known as the Maid of Australia, an earlier Inn, the Bird in the Hand was nearby on a different site. The current building dates to the 1850s, and was restored in 1987.

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Pitt Town Public School, Sydney

Various buildings, dating from 1878.

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Wilberforce, Australia
Macquarie School House (1819) outside St Johns Anglican Church.

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Castlereagh General Cemetery, Australia
Marked out in the original planning of Castlereagh and dates back to 1814.

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Vacy, NSW, Australia
The Bridge over Paterson River, built 1898.

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Edinburgh, Scotland

Waterloo Place and the St James Centre.

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Edinburgh, Scotland
Cowgate from the South Bridge. On the left is St Cecilia's Hall, the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland.

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Edinburgh, Scotland
Bread St. At the end (and on the right) is the wonderfully named 'Pubic Triangle' (due to a proliferation of lap-dancing establishments).

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Norah Head, NSW, Australia
Norah Head Lighthouse, built 1903. In the foreground is the former Flag Storage Locker; one of the lighthouse-keeper dwellings is in the distance.

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Olympos, Turkey
The Roman bath in Olympos.

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Near Pamukkale, Turkey
The Nymphaeum, Hierapolis.

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Swansea, NSW, Australia
Twin bascule bridges over Lake Macquarie at Swansea. Far side 1955, near side 1989.

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Parramatta, NSW, Australia
The Parramatta Justice Precinct, site of the city's first Hospital.

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Parramatta, NSW, Australia

Jeffery House, formerly part of Parramatta Hospital. Built in the 1940s, and refurbished in 2007 as part of the Justice Precinct development.

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Parramatta, NSW, Australia

Church St, approaching Lennox Bridge. Prince Alfred Park on right.

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Parramatta, NSW, Australia
St John's Cathedral, built 1855. The towers date to 1820, and there has been a church on this site since 1803.

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Parramatta Park, NSW, Australia
The George St Gatehouse, O'Connell St (opposite the intersection with George St itself). Erected 1885 to the design of Gordon McKinnon; replacing a small lodge built in 1820 for Governor Lachlan Macquarie.

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Parramatta, NSW, Australia

The mural tells the story of the school known as the 'Native Institution' (1814-1822), an early attempt to force Aboriginal children to conform to a British way of life. The bridge in the background is the Lennox Bridge, built 1836-1839.

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Dungog, NSW, Australia
Cooreei Bridge over the Williams River. Bridge built 1904; named after a ship run by the Williams River Steam Navigation Co (WRSN Co).

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Parramatta, NSW, Australia
The Macarthur Bridge (commonly known as the Gasworks Bridge - there used to be a large gasworks on the bank nearby), completed in 1885.

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