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Date: August 04 2012
Clue: Not far from the Martian Embassy
Degree of difficulty: Hard
Last week: Congratulations to Cathie Trotter, of Ainslie, who correctly identified last week's image (inset) as All Saints Anglican Church in Cowper Street, Ainslie. Last week's clue ''from one of the biggest cemeteries in Australia'', left a few people baffled, but not Sharon Loiterton, of Dunlop, who attended the church as a child and recalls that the building's somewhat morbid history was quite a talking point. She writes: ''It was first used as a railway station for funerals at Sydney's Rookwood Cemetery from 1869 after trains stopped running in the 1920s the building was left unused, fell into disrepair and eventually sold for less than 100 pounds. A Canberra builder, Stan Taunton, and his son, photographed, drew and numbered every stone in the building, ready for its dismantle and reconstruction as the Anglican church in Ainslie. By all accounts it needed 83 semi-trailers to transport it to Canberra in 1957.'' Kevin Mulcahy, of Tura Beach, actually remembers ''watching it being re-assembled with absolute wonder''.
How to enter: Email your guess along with your name and address to timtheyowieman@bigpond.com. The first email after 10am today with the correct answer wins a double pass to Dendy cinemas.
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