Wondering if anyone has visited the Convict Trail , we went there last year and was in awe of the engineering land mark.We stayed at the Wiseman's Ferry c/ park NSW,We found it to be one of our hidden treasures.We were only going to stay for two days ,but there is so much to see around this area we ended up staying a week.If anyone is interested go to the web site The Convict Trail Project... web site ...convicttrail.org...This project was built buy convicts,
-- Edited by herbie on Sunday 17th of March 2013 11:41:39 PM
Grams said
04:38 PM Mar 18, 2013
Thank you for the heads up. We will definitely have this on our list of places to go and see.
herbie said
07:28 PM Mar 18, 2013
Wondering if anyone has visited the Convict Trail , we went there last year and was in awe of the engineering land mark.We stayed at the Wiseman's Ferry c/ park NSW,We found it to be one of our hidden treasures.We were only going to stay for two days ,but there is so much to see around this area we ended up staying a week.If anyone is interested go to the web site The Convict Trail Project...    web site ...convicttrail.org...This project was built buy convicts,
I am sure you will be happy with your visit.As well as preserving this iconic stretch of road construction,built between 1826/1834. It also reserches the individual convicts who worked on it, and the construction methods that they used.
valnrob said
08:20 PM Mar 18, 2013
Wisemans Ferry is a beautiful place. St Alban is lovely too. The convict road is unbelievable. The area is called Forgotten valley where time has stood still. We lived there 10 years ago. Still love the area very much.
Despite being a died in the wool, one eyed Queenslander I have a facination for that area. I love visiting there.
My first Aussie relo came out as soldier in the NSW Corp (Rum corp) after deserting from his regiment rather than going to the West Indies ... good move I think.
Married a convict when on a posting to Norfolk Is. & spent the rest of his life around Paramatta & had the proverbial 100 acres land grant at Windsor. Left it all to the other side of the family though!!!! Buggar!
Was involved in the Vinegar Hill troubles & was perhaps on the good side of the picks on the convict trail.
herbie said
06:02 AM Mar 19, 2013
Hi Santa,
could not believe how much of our heritiage is tucked away in this gem of a place.It is such a fantastic job to all who are involved in this iconic project.
And to think for almost 200 years, this masterpiece of colonial engineering had been deteriorating. It was superseded soon after its construction by steamboat travel and a multitude of better alternative routes .The last being the Pacific Highway and the F3 Freeway.Thanks must go to the concerned citizens of the Bucketty and Wollombi communities located half way along the road.After they found in 1990 that thieves had removed 100 pieces of their local stone walling.
Wondering if anyone has visited the Convict Trail , we went there last year and was in awe of the engineering land mark.We stayed at the Wiseman's Ferry c/ park NSW,We found it to be one of our hidden treasures.We were only going to stay for two days ,but there is so much to see around this area we ended up staying a week.If anyone is interested go to the web site The Convict Trail Project... web site ...convicttrail.org...This project was built buy convicts,
-- Edited by herbie on Sunday 17th of March 2013 11:41:39 PM
Wondering if anyone has visited the Convict Trail , we went there last year and was in awe of the engineering land mark.We stayed at the Wiseman's Ferry c/ park NSW,We found it to be one of our hidden treasures.We were only going to stay for two days ,but there is so much to see around this area we ended up staying a week.If anyone is interested go to the web site The Convict Trail Project...    web site ...convicttrail.org...This project was built buy convicts,
I am sure you will be happy with your visit.As well as preserving this iconic stretch of road construction,built between 1826/1834. It also reserches the individual convicts who worked on it, and the construction methods that they used.
Cheers
http://www.convicttrail.org/
Despite being a died in the wool, one eyed Queenslander I have a facination for that area. I love visiting there.
My first Aussie relo came out as soldier in the NSW Corp (Rum corp) after deserting from his regiment rather than going to the West Indies ... good move I think.
Married a convict when on a posting to Norfolk Is. & spent the rest of his life around Paramatta & had the proverbial 100 acres land grant at Windsor. Left it all to the other side of the family though!!!! Buggar!
Was involved in the Vinegar Hill troubles & was perhaps on the good side of the picks on the convict trail.
Hi Santa,
could not believe how much of our heritiage is tucked away in this gem of a place.It is such a fantastic job to all who are involved in this iconic project.
And to think for almost 200 years, this masterpiece of colonial engineering had been deteriorating. It was superseded soon after its construction by steamboat travel and a multitude of better alternative routes .The last being the Pacific Highway and the F3 Freeway.Thanks must go to the concerned citizens of the Bucketty and Wollombi communities located half way along the road.After they found in 1990 that thieves had removed 100 pieces of their local stone walling.