Another day in Griffith
Day 16 - Sunday 26 May 2013
27.05.2013
It was five degrees overnight but we woke to a mainly sunny day with a forecast maximum of 17 degrees. After breakfast we decided to walk to the nearby Rotary Sunday Market which is open every Sunday from 7:00 am to noon. The market is mainly fruit and vegetables with a few craft stalls. We came away with a bag of black olives in a chilli marinade - very nice they were too!
After lunch we drove to the Griffith Pioneer Park Museum which incorporates the Griffith Italian Museum. The Pioneer Park has a lot of old buildings from many other towns in the district that were brought to Griffith and re-erected. Many of the buildings are from Bagtown, a small village about 7 kms from Griffith that started life as a Public Works camp associated with construction of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme. Because construction materials were hard to come by many of the buildings were constructed using empty jute cement bags to build tent-like structures. With the establishment of Griffith in the 1920s, which along with Leeton and Canberra was designed by Walter Burley Griffin, Bagtown all but disappeared.
Griffith Pioneer Park Museum
Griffith Italian Museum in the groungs of the Pioneer Park
Di in the Wumbulgal School
Dumossan Inn
Soldier Settlers Hut circa 1919
Gunbar Portable Lock-up
Hairdresser and Newsagent
Hairdresser's Chair
Tango Tea Rooms
Methodist Minister's house from Bagtown
Paxman Diesel engine
Homemade Log Jinker
Fairview cottage (from Tabbitha)