Monday, July 10, 2006

cooks cottage

In a clearing in Fitzroy park, what should I come across in a clearing among the palm trees but a perfect little Yorkshire Cottage....



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it seems that Captain Cook's parents cottage was transported from Great Ayton, Yorkshire in 1933 and reconstructed brick by brick here in Melbourne....

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