In Search of a Title

These photos are from two trips: November 2006 with the little Canon that got 100 photos to the battery (I got 135 from it on that trip though) and March 2008 with the "new" camera. That's why there is two of everything. Long enough ago that I have forgotten all the interesting details.


This is Entally, built about 1819 by Thomas Reibey, son of horse thief & businesswoman Mary who is on our $20 note. It's an Indian name, Bengali it seems from the Wikipedia article, after a "neighbourhood" in Calcutta. Or more likely, after Thomas's father's business that was named after said suburb of Calcutta. His father had been in the East India Company and made use of his connections there to establish an import business in NSW. It is the next generation that had most influence on the property though, the son, also Thomas, and his wife Catherine.

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This is where I went today
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