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trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662889/16780823# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district...see pic titled 'A Dairy Farmer'...top row rhs... Some of the other Dorrigo pics that appeared in this issue of the Sydney Mail are also in the PHM's collection, and they're also on the PHM's Flickr photostream...they come up if you click on the 'Sydney Mail, 4th September, 1907' tag I've added...

www.hotels.com/ho242965/le-manoir-hotel-pas-de-calais-dep... Le Manoir Hotel, Etaples, near Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais, France "ANGLO-NORMAN COUNTRY HOUSE BUILT IN 1911- WAS THE FAMILY RESIDENCE OF THE GOLF CLUB FOUNDER- ALLEN STONEHAM. NOWADAYS- CONVERTED TO A 3 STAR HOTEL" The hotel has two 18-hole golf courses and one of 9 holes, but doesn't seem to offer riding as an activity. From www.simonseeks.com/travel-guides/le-chic-le-touquet__111048 "But the fact remains that Le Touquet Paris Plage was created by two enterprising Englishmen, John Whitely and Allen Stoneham. They bought Le Foret (a dowdy stretch of land) in 1903 from a failed vegetable-grower turned pine-tree-planter and built expensive hotels and villas and sold them to the rich and famous of London."

The golf club, founded by Stoneham, was the location of the 2nd Canadian Stationary Hospital in neighboring pictures. "Le Touquet, some few miles beyond Étaples and on the outskirts of the small but very fashionable watering-place, Paris Plage, had before the war been well known to golf enthusiasts as possessing on its sand dunes the finest and best laid out golf course on the Continent of Europe, with a spacious Golf Club House, and in its immediate neighbourhood a small and cheerful Hôtel du Golf and several villas occupied season after season by enthusiasts of the game. The owner of the hotel, Mr. Stoneham, gave it over with great goodwill, and, what is more, donated an operating table for the purposes of the unit. " From digital.library.upenn.edu/women/adami/camc/camc.html

A 1903 piece in Golf Illustrated about the new golf club books.google.com/books?id=8Y0XAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA208&l...

www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Montreuil/actualite/Secteur_M... indicates that she is Helen and that he died in 1927. She continued to live here until 1939 when she evacuated to the US with her son Vincent. Vincent returned after WWII and began the transition to hotel, since the Golf Hotel ( the location of the WWI hospital) was destroyed by bombing in June 1944.

"The name of the mountain was formerly spelled "Mount Kosciusko," an Anglicisation; but the version "Mount Kosciuszko" was officially adopted in 1997 by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales." --Wikipedia Size Does Matter! "Various measurements of the peak originally called by that name showed it to be slightly lower than its neighbour, Mount Townsend, and the names were thereupon transposed by the New South Wales Lands Department, so that Mount Kosciuszko still remains the name of the highest peak of Australia, and Mount Townsend ranks as second." -- Year Book Australia, 1910

it reminds me the old time. beautiful photo!

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trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163799609/16798677 - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 25th December, 1897...in a 'Sketcher' article titled 'Kosciusko in Spring Time', by photographer Charles Kerry...see pic on 2nd page of link...mid lhs Several other pics in the PHM's collection also appeared in the Sydney Mail's pictorial...see comments/links here www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3593606829/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A similar pictorial, titled 'The Ascent of Kosciusko', appeared in the Australian Town and Country Journal on this same date...see comments/links here... www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3594416848/