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Site Updates and Notes

17 January 2012: - Since using all my existing Perth Pub photos, I set out to find a few more to include here. Luckily I have an old 1987 Perth street directory which not only marks the pub on the map, it also names it. I found a few but was disappointed to see so many have disappeared. I don't mean just converted into something else, many of the buildings have simply gone. How about the Stockman (Midland), East Perth, Shaftsbury (Stirling Street), Beaufort (Beaufort Street), Hurlingham (South Perth), Knutsford etc etc. Pity. There is a new generation of tavern which are made of prop-ups and invariably clones of each other and frankly so ugly therefore hardly worth taking a photo of, although I have included a couple. Are people in 100 years going to marvel at our modern architecture? Still, I suppose there are financial constraints in building taverns in some not-so-upmarket suburbs.

08 January 2012: - I have distilled out many photos of similar vein and put them into Special Interests at the bottom of the Locality Finder page (e.g. train stations, pubs). Take the descriptions/comments with a grain of salt. I do my best but often do not have history etc at my fingertips and I can't know everything about everything. Also, as time passes, conditions might change but updating comments made at the time could tend to "alter" history.

29 November 2011: - Added seven new localities in the country. I sometimes feel like a bit of a pioneer, opening up the country! Anyway, if you're in Collie you'll find you can go east from there now, or from Beverley to the south. I'll leave it to you to discover the towns added. 

10 November 2011: - Information regarding the origin of locality names used on this website has been gleaned from Landgate of Western Australia's excellent website. You can view it here: http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Western+Australian+Place+Names+and+Addressing

22 October 2011 - Here is a bit of an opportunity (or challenge, depending on how you see it). I am looking for some keen photographers who can help me expand the network of localities. You get to keep the copyright and will be acknowledged for it on this site! Photos must be at least 980 x 735 pixels (and in that ratio to keep things uniform). So - anyone perhaps around Jurien, Moora, Merredin, Dalwallinu, Narrogin, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Augusta - who can cover those towns plus the ones to join up to where I have already been, plus expand outwards a bit, please do drop me a line! I'd really like to hear from you.

10 October 2011 - We did a bit of a loop out of Toodyay - headed north through 4 towns, then east, then south again, back to Toodyay, altogether adding in eight new localities in this wheatbelt area. A good trip. It's always a bit disappointing when you get to a town at a particular time of day only to find the light is not very good on some building or streetscape - but we can't hang around one place all day - you win some, you lose some :)

27 August 2011 - Been back to Pinjarra and took quite a few photos, plus added some around Wellington/Murray and Hay Streets in the City.

I've made this site a static 980 px wide so it looks more or less the same on whatever screen you're using (like Yahoo etc). I've also gotten rid of pre-loading all the photos on a page due to wasting network bandwidth, plus re-introduced static thumb-images as the auto-generated ones looks really grainy on some screens, at some resolutions, using some browsers ... how about that for being specific?

06 August 2011 - We went back over to Henley Brook and Caversham, around the Swan Valley. Plus messing around in Kewdale on a wet day, oh, and down to South Fremantle as well. I am contemplating adding some "Special Interest" pages - basically drawing sets of common-theme photos out of the Localities and grouping them together on single pages. One done as a test is Country Pubs - the link is at the bottom of the Localities A-Z index page. Futures may be City Pubs, Train Stations, Churches, Halls, Shire Offices, Beaches, Post Offices, Schools, Sports Grounds etc. I'll see how I go.

06 August 2011 - Back in January I was complaining about cameras. Since most photography these days is digital and almost all viewing is via my computer monitor, it never struck me that my LCD monitor might be below par until I viewed this site on a MacBook in full screen mode. It seems this camera I have is not too bad after all and the old Fujifilm is still pretty good too! Just goes to show you! Apologies to Panasonic and Fuji are in order.

16 July 2011 - We've been up in the north-east area of Perth in the last few weeks, so added or added to are: Ellenbrook, Henley Brook, Herne Hill, Caversham, Brigadoon, Bullsbrook and Muchea. Also a winter picture of Noble Falls and a Guildford Hotel update.

06 June 2011 - Recently added: More pictures of Swanview (train tunnel etc) and Mundaring, Applecross, Mount Pleasant, Gosnells, and if you're up to the trip, the very latest is now you can travel east of Northam through a few wheatbelt country towns (and there is even a whole lot more pics of Northam itself)!

01 May 2011 - Anyone notice the new "fly-out" style of presenting the photos? Added today are more pictures of: Hillarys Kelmscott, Mount Lawley, Ocean Reef, Perth Adelaide Terrace and Serpentine.

13 March 2011 - Now where have we been lately? Oh yes, back to Mindarie, Quinns and Wanneroo. The other week was Lesmurdie and a couple of weeks ago Gidgegannup, Toodyay, Bakers Hill, Wundowie and Wooroloo - nice trip! All the (better) photos have been published.

10 February 2011 - Added about 6 more locations in the south-west .... can you find them??

26 January 2011 - Over the last week & a bit, additions/updates to: Ascot, Dalkeith, Floreat, Jolimont, Mount Claremont, Osborne Park, Scarborough, Swanbourne, Wembley and West Leederville!

16 January 2011 - Did a quick trip up the coast to Lancelin the other day. So new localities added are Lancelin, Ledge Point, Seabird and Guilderton.

08 January 2011 - About cameras. All of these photos pre about 3-4 months ago were taken with a Fujifilm S3000 and, in those days, I wasn't really happy with the camera so I bought a Panasonic Lumix FZ100. The Lumix has turned out to be a very disappointing camera (for the money) apart from its wide-angle lens. Should I revert to the Fujifilm? I might try that.

08 January 2011 - Added a few pictures in Shenton Park, Subiaco, Perth West, Highgate, Inglewood, Mount Lawley and Bentley

29 December 2010 - Added 14 pictures of Whitemans Park.

07 December 2010 - Went on a south trip and added 8 new locations (taking the total to 129). Look for Coolup, Waroona, Hamel, Yarloop, Harvey, Wokalup, Brunswick and Dardanup. Oh, and I also added to and changed a few Bunbury photos.

21 November 2010 - Welcome to the new look mingor.net. Today is the first day of publication so there may be a few hiccups.

This site has undergone major changes with large composite alphabetic pages of photos being replaced by individual pages each specific to a particular locality with each containing fewer pictures.

I have also added some "Tours" where you can move along through a sequence of geographic progressions - a bit like driving from A-B via whatever is on the way. I think they are a bit of fun anyway. All Tours are linked at least once. It is therefore possible to start at the first Tour and move through all 121 locations on this site without having to start one of the other tours! Now I wonder what the path would be to move through all locations in the least amount of moves? :)

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