A particularly vivid childhood memory: visiting one of the woolstores in Port Adelaide, to see some of our family farm’s wool on display, prior to its auction.
At the time – circa 1960 – Port Adelaide’s woolstores were the world’s largest; the one I walked into was by far the biggest and most impressive man-made space I had ever seen.
Port Adelaide’s lighthouse – pictured above and below – pre-dated any of those woolstores.
Like them, this much more modest structure long ago lost its original raison d’être.
In recent decades, however, the lighthouse has been rather better looked after than have most of the woolstores.
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