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An Apollonaut travel guide
A town in the highlands.
An introduction to Bowral, the largest town in the Southern Highlands, where the Bradman Museum stands beside the oval.
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Read the town
Bowral lies about 132 km south-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Southern Highlands. Mount Gibraltar, 863 metres high, overlooks the town, and Bradman Oval looks out towards it.
A guide can give context without turning a town into a backdrop. Notice how the oval sits within Glebe Park, how the streets around it hold Don Bradman’s childhood home, school and church, and how the town gathers round its gardens.
Gardens and a spring festival
Each spring, Tulip Time fills Corbett Gardens in the centre of Bowral with tulips and other flowers.
Begin with a detail and ask who planted it, who looks after it and how it changes through the year. A photograph alone cannot tell you that.
A Bradman chapter
The Bradman Museum shows one side of Bowral: a country town whose cricket ground became part of the story of the national game.
Look at the meeting of the two: the village-green setting of the oval, and the galleries that carry the game around the world.
Make room for context
Pair this reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who run them.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
