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Lake Pedder, Tasmania - c1970
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Trams at West Hobart, Tasmania - c1953
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Australian attitude to alcohol in 1976
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George Harrison and Olivia Harrison at Lake St Clair, Tasmania - 1982
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Botanical Gardens Station, Hobart, Tasmania - 1962
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Fitzroy Place in Hobart, Tasmania - 1938
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Black Tuesday, Hobart, Tasmania - 1967 62 fatalities, 900 injuries, 1293 homes destroyed. The population of Tasmania is 44% larger now. And suburban integration with the bush greater.
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Cascade Draught 'Hard Work Deserves a Draught' Filmed in West Hobart, Tasmania - 1992
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Sandy Bay Post Office, Hobart, Tasmania - c1966
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Tasmanian Carpet Cleaning - 1986
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Bellerive Beach, Hobart, Tasmania - c1910
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Branxholm, Tasmania - undated Stringy bark gum tree was six meters in diameter.
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Constitution Dock, Hobart - 1970
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Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania - 1970
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1807 engraving by French explorer Charles Alexandre Lesueur shows seafaring Aboriginal people and a large canoe on the eastern shore of Schouten Island, Tasmania.
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Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - 1974 Photo Stefan Karpiniec
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Emus at Stanley, Tasmania, during the 1840s, by William Porden Kay. Tasmanian Emu went extinct in 1865.
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Building Pinnacle Road, Hobart, Tasmania - 1930
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Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania - 1961
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Murray Street, Hobart, Tasmania - c1952
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The Cascade Brewery by Haughton Forrest - c1886
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Horton College, Ross, Tasmania - Demolished in 1917 All that remains is the portico arch, it was one of the finest buildings in the country.
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Skiing in Hobart, Tasmania - 1987
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Lord Rodney Hotel, 29 Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania - c1886
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West Hobart Supermarket, Goulburn St, Hobart, Tasmania - c1993
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TFL Grand Final parking in Ryde Street, North Hobart 1947 - Hobart, Tasmania
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Passenger train departing north from Cornelian Bay Station, Hobart, Tasmania - c1966
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1852 map of Van Diemen's Land. Today it is Tasmania, Australia. The names of many of the regions were different then too. The population was below 70k.
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Tasmania - Friday 28th July 1978 The last southbound Tasman Limited about to depart Western Junction. Photo by Harry Beresford
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Snow Beach at Hobart, Tasmania - 1986
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Maypole, New Town, Hobart, Tasmania - c1965 Photo by Zdzisław Karpiniec
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Aerial view of the city 1946. 65% of the built environment here is now gone. Hobart, Tasmania
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New Norfolk, Derwent Valley, Tasmania - 1959
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Jet Service Station Sandy Bay Rd 1977 - Hobart, Tasmania
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Hobart, Tasmania - c1951
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Davey Street, Hobart, Tasmania - 1965 Photo by Errol Searle
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Kelly’s Steps, Battery Point 1917 - Hobart, Tasmania
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Nutgrove Beach, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania - c1974
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Hobart, Tasmania - 1951
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Midway Point crossing c1900 - Tasmania
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South Hobart, Tasmania by 'Lily' Curzona Frances Louise Allport - 1923
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Granton, Hobart, Tasmania - c1980 Trains were placed in children's playgrounds across the island but later removed for safety reasons.
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Cat and Fiddle Alley c1880 - Hobart, Tasmania
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1837 map of now Tasmania.
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Victoria Dock construction in Hobart, Tasmania - 1891
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Drive-in at Elwick Racecourse, Hobart, Tasmania - c1984
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Cat & Fiddle, Hobart, Tasmania - 1964
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Macquarie Street, Hobart, Tasmania - 1937
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Elwick Hotel, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania - c1962 Donald Campbell's boat Bluebird, he was thinking of using Lake St Clare for a World Record attempt but it was too deep for recovery.
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Hobart, Tasmania - c1921
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Kingston Beach, Hobart, Tasmania - 1972
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Hobart, Tasmania - c1970
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Van Diemens Land map - 1821
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Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania - c1928
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Cat & Fiddle Square, Hobart, Tasmania - 1986
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Once were shops - Hobart, Tasmania (1/18)
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YouTube channel has clocked up half-million views. Thanks if you've watched any of the videos.
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Demolition of the Hobart International Exhibition 1894 YouTube 5pm Sunday
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The imagined future of Hobart, Tasmania - 1969
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@abcgrandstand Chickity China the Chinese Cheater
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Coles Elizabeth Street Mall 1985 - Hobart, Tasmania
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Tasmania, Australia - 95 million BC
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Sandy Bay Long Beach, Hobart, Tasmania - 1910
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Tasmanian Coffee Palace, Hobart, Tasmania - c1902 Oldest building in Hobart in CBD, predates Tasmania's government records, which started in 1822.
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Passenger train crossing at Bridgewater, Hobart, Tasmania - 1970
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Rivulet being covered up and redirected on Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania - 1919
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Hobart, Tasmania - 2007
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Doctor Syntax, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania - 2008
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100 years ago at the Springs Hotel (incinerated), Hobart, Tasmania - c1923
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South Hobart Fish Shop, Hobart, Tasmania - 2008
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Coles Variety Store, Elizabeth St Mall, Hobart, Tasmania - 1985 As well as having a Family Restaurant, they sold most things. Now the location of Target.
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Lindisfarne, Hobart, Tasmania - c1910
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Neptune Skyline Service Station, Hobart, Tasmania - 1958
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Aberfeldy, Hobart, Tasmania
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Tasman Bridge reconstruction, Hobart, Tasmania - 1976
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Tasmania, the Island of Health and Wealth - 1909
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Hobart, Tasmania - c1963
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Poppy field below The Nut at Stanley, Tasmania - 1987
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Brooker Highway, Hobart, Tasmania - c1959
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Hobart, Tasmania - 1965 Lifting span from the Floating Bridge still in place. Clarence Pool still open air. ANM Wharf still operating. Botanical Garden Train Station in use.
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Tasman Bridge construction c1963. - Hobart, Tasmania
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Sailing ships tied up at the wharf at Salamanca Place c1895. - Hobart, Tasmania
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Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania - c1893 No skyscrapers behind, no car park in front, no statue of Albert Ogilvie on lawn.
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Cat and Fiddle Square Hobart, Tasmania undated
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New Town from Domain, Hobart, Tasmania - 1910
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Knopwoods, Hobart, Tasmania - 1988 Photo Owen Hughes
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The Blundstone Boots Factory in Campbell St, Hobart, Tasmania - 1951
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The last of the Port Arthur convicts was Jack Best who became a tour guide of the abandoned penal settlement following closure in 1877. Tasmania, Australia
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Lauderdale Canal, Tasmania - c1985
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No Cable Car protest sign made from Keens Curry sign c1993 - Hobart, Tasmania
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Elizabeth Street, Hobart, Tasmania - 1985 Prior to being made into a bus mall.
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Ulverstone, Tasmania - 1963 Photo Trevor Staats
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New Norfolk, Derwent Valley, Tasmania - 1960
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Rare illustration of of the Van Diemen's Land flag - 1851
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Skateboarder on roof of Mountain lookout, Hobart, Tasmania - 2009
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Salamanca Place, Hobart, Tasmania - 1904
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Sandy Bay Long Beach, Hobart, Tasmania - 1910
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One of the very last horse-drawn coaches travelling between Hobart and the Huon Valley, replaced by motorcoach in 1913. Tasmania, Australia.
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Hobart Town 1856 by Henry Gritten
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Bellerive Beach c1885 - Hobart, Tasmania
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