Water Tower Art.

Hello everybody, I’m back. Did you miss me? I know some of you did and thanks for the messages.
I won’t have a chance of getting back to all your posts but I’ll do what I can.

Anyway, here we go again.

What is that? Let me explain. Yesterday I went for a longish drive for the first time in over a month. I wanted to see what it was that the purple teardrops wanted me to see.

So as I drove into the little town of Cressy and saw, standing above the surrounding trees the old water tower.

It was a bright sunny day and, unfortunately, the sun was shining directly on the north side of the tower. This meant that the south side would be hard to photograph.

The train is there to represent the connection of the town to the Victorian Railways network in 1910. Above the train is a MK V Spitfire. After the outbreak of World War II, an airfield was constructed south of the town and was used by the RAAF until 1946 as a combat training base and for bombing practice.

The other sided is not as clear, as I mentioned before.

The lower panel represents Woady Yaloak River. The area was opened up to European settlement in 1836 In 1837, a French man named Jean Duverney crossed the river, claimed land on both banks, and named the area “Frenchman’s Run”. He called the small, developing village Cressy, after Crécy in France, where he was born.

The upper panel shows a RAAF A1-55 Hawker Demon which was used as a tug to tow targets for the Spitfires to practice firing.

There are well over 140 painted water towers and silos from one end of Australia to the other.

https://www.australiansiloarttrail.com/siloart shows some of the silos.

https://www.australiansiloarttrail.com/water-tower-art shows some of the water towers.

https://www.australiansiloarttrail.com/map This map shows you a link to each of the towers, silos and other structures.

I am not sure of other countries with the same thing but I imagine that Canada and The US of A, with the vast areas of grain growing on the prairies would do the same.

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