Cliftoria, an adventure in restoration

A Victorian era house in disrepair

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Update and Fix a window

August 12, 2020by John Stewart 1 Comment

Well it has been a while since my last post. The summer was dreadful with fires filling the air with smoke well above safe levels. Our house is not very […]

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walls, Windows

Evicting the squatters

September 28, 2019by John Stewart Leave a comment

Over the last couple of weeks, we found long twigs on the floor of the back balcony and inside the adjoining sun room. Eventually it clicked that a couple of […]

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pigeons, Sun room

Cliftoria is over 150 years old!!

August 10, 2019by John Stewart Leave a comment

Last weekend I attended a talk at the local library about the “Local Studies Photo Collection”, which is part of the Family History Month events. I discovered that while there […]

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History of Clifftoria, Studio

Surprise leak.

November 28, 2018by John Stewart Leave a comment

There has been a water pipe near a corner of the studio that I have been concerned about since the first time I saw it. The pipe is an iron […]

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Garden, Plumbing, Studio

Fireplace of wind.

June 26, 2018by John Stewart Leave a comment

It is full on winter now with the other night reaching -7.3C. Being below -6C the water pipes froze and unfroze about 10:30am. Fortunately I had a supply of water […]

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fireplace, gas

Knock, knock, knocking on Cliftoria’s Door

June 21, 2018by John Stewart 3 Comments

Recently I discovered the button for the doorbell lying on the mat as I left Cliftoria. Someone (or maybe the wind) had knocked it off its mount and broken the […]

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door

Autumn at Cliftoria

June 8, 2018by John Stewart Leave a comment

This is a quick post to show some of the colours in the garden. I’ve been trying to kill this vine but it keeps coming back. It looks best at […]

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Garden

Cliftoria in 1928

December 31, 2017by John Stewart 2 Comments

I have discovered a picture of Cliftoria in an early magazine. The magazine was called The Home and was published quarterly. This picture was in the edition of 01st May […]

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History of Clifftoria

See through a window, darkly.

December 10, 2017by John Stewart 2 Comments

The western front sash window has been very badly damaged. The top light has been badly broken with some of the frame and mullions and the bottom three panes of […]

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Windows

Cliftoria as a Hospital

November 9, 2017by John Stewart 1 Comment

Original part of Goulburn Hospital “Erected A.D. 1887.” I have just discovered that the centenary of Cliftoria becoming a private hospital was only four years ago. Cliftoria was a hospital […]

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Private Hospital

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