Blue Mountains: Pictorial MemoriesFrom the Aboriginal beginnings, early exploration and the building of such wonders as the Giant Stairway and the Scenic Railway, the famous buildings, writers and artists, including Bradman at Blackheath, the Chinese people and the pioneers. This book covers the history of all the towns over the mountains through to the Jenolan Caves. |
Contents
Why are the Blue Mountains Blue? | 1 |
Worthy of any line of road in England | 8 |
The Pilgrim | 14 |
3 | 36 |
4 | 42 |
6 | 59 |
11 | 70 |
A Paragon of Service and Style | 77 |
The Woolpack | 88 |
The Mount Victoria Inn and John William Berghofer | 96 |
A Royal Rail Excursion | 103 |
The Passing of the Zig Zags | 112 |
Chinese People in the Blue Mountains | 125 |
64 | 132 |
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Aboriginal accommodation Australia beautiful became Blackheath Blaxland Blue Gum Blue Mountains City Blue Mountains Echo Blue Mts City Blue Mts Hist building built bushwalking camp Carrington Hotel Chinese cliff coal construction Coo-ees cottage Cox's Darley District early Echo Point Emu Plains escarpment established Explorers Faulconbridge Faur gardens Giant Stairway Glenbrook Governor Govett's Leap Grose guesthouse guests gully Harry Phillips Historical Society Hydro Majestic James Jamison Valley Jenolan Caves John Katoomba Falls Katoomba Street land landscape Lapstone Hill later Lawson Leura Lilianfels Macquarie Mark Foy Medlow Bath Megalong Valley Mitchell Lib Mount Victoria Mount Wilson Mount York Mountain air Mts City Lib Norman Lindsay opened operated Orphan Rock Peckman Penrith photograph PICTORIAL HISTORY popular Railway Station residence route Scenic shale Springwood Three Sisters tourist tracks train travellers trees Victoria Pass visitors walking Weatherboard Wentworth Falls Woodford Zig Zag