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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

nissen hut in hadfield



Just an amazing thing, a building adjoining the methodist church in North Road. Bill Meyer told me nissen huts were known in the US as quonsets. As so often happens I marvelled at this new word I had never seen before and then when I got the program for a conference I am attending/presenting at, at the end of the week noted that one of my fellow speakers was talking on the subject of 1940s quonsets.

boundary road

These are technically North Melbourne homes by which I mean they are right at the edge of NM in a part of NM that people probably don't ...