Suburb #61 Fisher

I decided to spend Friday visiting suburbs starting with F because I had been having that kind of a week. First off was Fisher.

This suburb is named after Andrew Fisher, who founded the federal Labor Party, and was subsequently, Prime Minister of Australia for three terms. Fisher started work at the age of 10 in a coal mine in Scotland, after which we would trek 4km to go to night school - our generation really should quit complaining shouldn't it... Anyway, he came to Australia in 1885, became president of the Gympie branch of the Labor Party in 1891 and then entered federal parliament in 1901. He gets kudos for arguing for more female representation in parliament. His government also established old age and disability pensions and workers compensation...and... oh yeah ....founded Canberra :)

The streets here are named after Australian mines and mining towns.

First stop was the local shops....while they have a very fancy silver sign...unfortunately the Fisher shops appear to have seen better days. Its kind of a bad sign when even the charity bins have been relocated to Coolemon Court! But there is a development sign up so hopefully a renaissance is on the way soon :)

After the somewhat forgotten shops and a series of lonely swings...

I was feeling a bit unsure of Fisher...but then I reached a fork in the road....

And the bush capital beauty eventually shone through :)

There are some amazing trees and flowers in this suburb...

I also climbed up a small hill and found the most unexpected and  beautiful view...although I think 'champion' may have been a bit of an overestimation of the physical effort required. It was a very small hill :p

There are no doubt some interesting architectural choices here...it is suburbia after all...

But in the end I enjoyed my morning walk around the streets of this mining town :p