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we continue the cstory of the bells for Bathurst’s All Saints’ Cathedral from purchase up to the current appeal for a new bell tower.   Bells for the new Cathedral have been purchased and are now housed in All Saint’s Cathedral.   Celebrations over the capture of the Russian fort at Sebastapol in thge Crimea, give cause of a little bit of mayhem…

Bathurst’s All Saints’ Cathedral will shortly hear the joyful peal of the Cathedral Bells,  the full circle of the peals, long denied the people of our city for the past forty years.  All for the want of a bell tower.

Public subscription is now being sought for the erection of the tower

A loud, collective cry of ‘aaaah’, please.   your humble scribe suffers from LSCT and bravely hid this malady as he ventured….well, read on.

Continuing on with a look at Carcoar a village with (even a gruesome and bloody) history.

Or get there any way you can, for when you do you’ll be walking into another one of the Central West’s wonderful historic towns.

It’s a peaceful little place and to look at it now, you’d be forgiven for not thinking the town was reminiscent of the American Wild West.

Oh yes, we in Australia were just as wild.

A while ago – a long while ago, whilst a student at the ACT’s answer to CSU – CCAE, we were asked to take any scene from any of Shakespeare’s plays, make into a modern day situ with an Ocker bias -  the lecturer had a sense of humor – but marked hard.

What if, Julius Caesar had been earmarked for bigger things in the embryo ACT government and what if here was anbother contender, and what if that contender aided our hero off this planet.   Thirty years later, the scene has changed,  not the characters though.

Therefore, with tongue-in-cheek and a sense of the ridiculous, let’s enjoy. an up-to-date Bathurstian parody on Mark Anthony’s speech from Julius Caesar – er, sorry Mr Shakespeare.

... Well, it’s the Chifley Engine actually, once driven by Bathurst’s own PM, Ben Chifley.  It’s being restored and may soon be on its way back home.

...Of course it is, who in Bathurst can resist a good lunch for ten bucks.  The hungry Al spills it.

Continuing our journey to historic gld town, sofala. When we left Sofala the other day, we saw that the once booming little gold town was in a state of decline.