The Burra...

This is a row of miner’s cottages in Burra, about 150km north of Adelaide. The tree is a spotted gum of rather stout proportions, pollarded of course. Burra is an old copper town.

Another row of cottages, down by the river. This is one of two such rows in Paxton Square. The trees are quite common street trees in South Australia. They provide no shade and lots of little seed pods to litter the streets. The trunks are quite solid, so they may represent something about the bourgeois spirit with which the colony was founded in 1835.