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When working on your roof while it is hot, always take
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It's an image that's gone down in
cricketing folklore - Don Bradman, the world's greatest cricketer - alone and
practicing his technique by hitting a golf ball with a cricket stump against a
water tank.That water tank, and the veranda it sits on at 52 Sherpherd St in
Bowral, has been restored.The Bradman family home where Don lived from age 3-14
had 'morphed into something different' over the years, according to the
restoration's architect Ian Stapleton.Now it's back to its 'modest country
house' glory, with the owner now planning to turn it into a guest house for
tourists."I was flattered to be working on such an important piece of
Australian history," Mr Stapleton said."All in all there was a lot of
work to do to reconstruct it to when George Bradman renovated it in
1903."Central to the renovation was the veranda with the water tank - an
area that had been enclosed and covered with concrete and the roofing
changed.The 600 gallon water tank is now back and available for batting
practice.The restoration earned a NSW National Trust heritage award last week,
and Ian Stapleton said faithfully restoring the building required a lot of
research."It's a bit like being a detective - you look at all the
documentary evidence."Bradman wrote two autobiographies where he described
the tank, and you look at the physical evidence of how the building is now.
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