millpond

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This symbolic millpond is all we have to represent the political powerhouse that was federation-era Australia.

From The Guardian

Wild and rough; rust brown and green; flat as a millpond; metal grey; mother of pearl; silver.

From The Guardian

Other ongoing work includes restoring the penstock, the long metal pipe that carries water from the millpond dam to power the water wheel to drive sawmill machinery.

From Washington Times

Tim Malyon celebrated the new year with his family on a boat on Sydney harbour: "The weather was perfect - the harbour was like a millpond around midnight."

From BBC

Once they'd finished flogging him with whatever stopgap weapons were to hand, they frogmarched him to the millpond, with the collective urge to turn an old convention on its head.

From BBC