MonoMonday - Bridge

Yes this really is a bridge over the dry as a bone Brownhill Creek. I know it looks like a garden seat.


This insignificant looking bridge is actually called White Bridge.

Under the big old oak tree there is a cast-iron drinking fountain just out of sight on the right. It was part of important colonial waterworks through the Brownhill Creek valley and its northern tributary, Ellison’s Gully.

In this major undertaking in 1879 water fed by gravity from a spring into a brick tank then over 2 miles through a cast iron pipe that had been imported from Scotland, to an underground tank near McElligott’s Quarry. Some of the old piping is still visible near White Bridge.

Thanks for all of the nice comments, stars and favourites for my sunset yesterday.