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Spot on and the best open fire in a pub I've ever seen.


That's a beauty, Dickie. :thumbsu:

Not open, but I always loved the way they did the fireplace in the Bistro up at Cradle.

The stone work means you can't accidentally burn yourself stumbling into it (been to staff sessions where they have the bar to themselves and don't finish 'til dawn), but you can sit close on a cold night on the same stone work to warm up when you first get in.

It heats the whole room so well unlike fireplaces built into side walls and looks a million bucks when the lights are right down.


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Awesome set up...


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That's a beauty, Dickie. :thumbsu:

Not open, but I always loved the way they did the fireplace in the Bistro up at Cradle.

The stone work means you can't accidentally burn yourself stumbling into it (been to staff sessions where they have the bar to themselves and don't finish 'til dawn), but you can sit close on a cold night on the same stone work to warm up when you first get in.

It heats the whole room so well unlike fireplaces built into side walls and looks a million bucks when the lights are right down.


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Awesome set up...


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New Sydney is just the old school original fire place, They always have it roaring on a cold winters day too. I'm not into the fancy pants pubs myself. Just as they were 200 years ago. Melbourne had a few but they've all been modernised into souless cold joints.
 
That's a beauty, Dickie. :thumbsu:

Not open, but I always loved the way they did the fireplace in the Bistro up at Cradle.

The stone work means you can't accidentally burn yourself stumbling into it (been to staff sessions where they have the bar to themselves and don't finish 'til dawn), but you can sit close on a cold night on the same stone work to warm up when you first get in.

It heats the whole room so well unlike fireplaces built into side walls and looks a million bucks when the lights are right down.


peppers-cradle-mountain.jpg



Awesome set up...


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Fireplace at the New Sydney, much more cosy and unobtrusive. New_Syd-18.jpg

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A couple of decades back I got the chance to do some work on Sarah Island, the old convict prison in the middle of Macquarie Harbour.

Access is really restricted, but I was lucky enough to talk the history buff running the show into letting me stick the top half of my body in the massive oven they used to bake the bread in and take a photo.

It's big enough to fit maybe 50-60 loaves of bread in a single run, still standing as good as the day it was built (structure wise at least) except for a bit of the chimney that got vandalised, but the thing that really flipped my lid was that the stone work was done entirely without mortar - each stone lays very slightly into the next.

It's a true work of art...still kicking myself...it was so hard getting approval to get the inside the oven shot that I forgot to take a photo of the bloody outside! :$


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Not a single teaspoon of mortar, built by literally the worst criminals in Tassie, doubt you could find someone to build the same for you if you offered any amount of money these days.

*Edit - just to be clear, that's looking upwards at the ROOF of the oven!
 
Bit of a crap shot, digital cameras being what they were back then, but this is a mate standing on top of the accessible part of what was then - and may still be for all I know - the biggest living tree in Tassie.

It's a Huon Pine laying flat still alive and part of it is impossible to measure coz it's way too unsafe, but with what they could measure it's way 'longer' than any of the upright ones down in the southwest, maybe getting close to twice the size from memory.

There's other Huon's growing out of its trunk and all around it, but the old tree's roots are still in the ground and it's got no shortage of foliage which is very much still alive.


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Awesome place, like the playground of giants with all these massive stones randomly thrown together...


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