20180322 VIC Shepparton to Tatura

20180322 Driving into Shepparton in search of the painted cows I read about and this bloody Nav is taking us all over the place, stuff this I’m getting out of here said Des and bugger me dead there they were.

It’s called the Moooving Art Cows and is a unique event designed to promote the Greater Shepparton region as the dairy capital of Australia.
 "Brown Cow"
😊
The cow's were scatted through the park but  most of the cows had some of their tits missing, weird.









 That’s it for Shepparton, stay tuned for some more little towns full of history to bore you with. Well I found it, Tature a small town on the edge of Shepparton but what you didn’t know was this town was home to several Internment and P.O.W camps in World War 11. 

Before the war, Britain was home to around 73,000 Germans, who left Germany due to the rise of the Nazi regime, many were young male who had been schooled in Britain before the outbreak of WWII and it was believed that many of these refugees were spies hence why they were shipped to Australia.
Model of interior of internees quarters showing bed with hessian and straw mattress.  The German's,Chinese and Italian's were all kept separate due to fight breaking out.







 The things you learn on your travels, I had no idea we housed prisoners of war in Australia and I was also told they were so well looked after, that all there needs request were sent to Myers in Sydney where there orders were filled and returned to them, sounds like our prisons.
The 'Winters' a Scottish family, migrated to Victoria in 1841, they discovered gold &  built this mansion. During the 2nd WW it housed German officers as prisoners of war, it then became an orphanage & in 1965 it was purchased by the Victoria Government for use in the rehabilitation of alcoholic prisoners. Cheers🥂
A wide carriage typewriter used for typing rate records for the shire of Rodney.










Arr! look who's waiting for me to finish at the Museum, isn't he a good boy.


Location: Tatura VIC 3616, Australia

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