BOWMAN COTTAGE....

.... from our Blackheath Photo Club we have been set a few interesting challenges ...based on "Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott who spent many years documenting old Paris and old New York. Most of what they photographed has since disappeared and in the context of an age during which relatively few people took photographs of such things, the images they created are important and in some cases, unique."

This is one of our local pieces of history - and although at this point being a Heritage listed item it is unlikely to become extinct thought it makes for an interesting Blip.

The following info from the Hawkesbury Australia.com site...
The cottage was built by the free settler and farmer, James Blackman, in the period 1815 - 17, Blackman maintained a 100acre farm, but was forced to sell off 40 acres as the farm was not sufficiently prosperous. The building was acquired by George Bowman after Blackman left the district in 1820 to settle in the Mudgee area. When Bowman bought it he obtained a liquor licence under the sign of the Royal Arrow. He lived here until his death in 1878.
Slate has replaces the original shingles and the three dormer windows have been added. The walls in the main section of the house are brick, set between timber uprights and overlaid with weatherboard.
Restoration, undertaken by the Department of Public Works, began in 1985 and was completed in 1988. The cottage today is occupied by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Bowman Enterprises, who are employers of disabled people. The Bowan Cottage tea rooms are open to the public.

Must check out the tea rooms!!

Enjoy and have a look in LARGE