Advance Australia Fair

Today’s blip is of a house named ‘Goolwa’ in Port Seton in commemoration of Australia Day. 

Australia Day marks the 1788 raising of the union flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip  at Sydney Cove a small bay, on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.

Anyway, the reason I am blipping this house is because a Francis Cadell arrived from Cockenzie in 1848, followed by more townsfolk in 1854: George Bain Johnston, James Ritchie, John Barclay and William Barber, all having worked for Cadell's father in Cockenzie previously. 

These pioneers of the Paddle Steamer Traded out of the Goolwa River Port which opened up the Inland of Australia along the Murray-Darling river system.

Cockenzie has a ‘Goolwa Park’ and Johnston's original house bears a plaque (see above). In Goolwa, there is an equivalently named ‘Cockenzie Park’. 

Anyway, all the best to our Aussie friends.