During the big migration decades of the fifties and sixties Australian "propaganda" leaflets stressed that ordinary families could live in a detached house in a quarter acre block. Quite true, but many new migrants were utterly amazed to see substantial suburbs of 'back to back' houses not unlike areas such as London or Tyneside, or the German Ruhr, from which they had just emigrated! Heaven forbid that Australia could have OLD things in this progressive and shiny new country!!

Today we are no longer ashamed of our history. In fact we can be proud of the existence of historical and architecturally significant neighbourhoods which anywhere else in the world would have protection orders slapped on them immediately! Yet there is hardly any mention of our notable domestic architectural heritage on the web.