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Bathurst is the first inland town of mainland Australia and the first NSW town away from the coastal plains of Sydney. It was established by a decree of Governor Macquarie in 1815. This happened at a time when Macquarie was reluctant to open up areas to settlement and to give more land grants. But the pressures of the British Colonial Office and the rapidly developing British industrial revolution meant new supplies of wool for the Lancashire textile mills were needed. Coupled with this was the desire by freed convicts (emancipists), gentlemen settlers and others to open up the west and make a fortune. Bathurst began as a settlement with strong links to England- it was named after Lord Bathurst, the streets were named after British kings- William and George, and other streets were named after British politicians and colonial office leaders- Howick, Gladstone, Peel, Durham, Keppel and others.
The first squatters were Cox, Lawson and Icely but others soon followed. They received “unofficial” land grants in 1815 which were not officially confirmed until 1823 just before Governor Macquarie was ready to leave the colony. As more white people moved into the district the town as the governor set up a depot and barracks in Bathurst. It was a convict town and military barracks. The police were needed to shoot escaped convicts and bushrangers and get the local Aboriginal people under control. The convicts in Australia were seldom incarcerated in prison; they were usually assigned as labourers to pastoralists. So Bathurst was needed to house, police and control convicts and ex-convicts and ticket of leave men (men basically on parole). So the settlement of Bathurst in 1820 consisted on a few free settlers, some wealthy pastoralists, lots of government officials and the town Commandant, and convicts. In fact in 1820 there were 16 free people, 75 convicts and 13 emancipists. The free people were soldiers and their wives. The buildings consisted of Macquarie’s Cottage, the house of the superintendent of convicts, a government store, barracks for soldiers and convicts, and a granary. The focus of town was the police barracks, a site now occupied by the City Bowling Club. In those days it was the Ordinance Ground. The early town was built by convicts and they comprised three quarters of the population. Nothing much remains of the work and effort of the convicts, except for Macquarie’s Bathurst House.
After Macquarie left the colony in 1824 and settlement by free people was being encouraged more and more land grants were given. On the river flats land grants were usually 70 to 100 acres, but the large pastoral runs were obtained by land grants too during the 1820s. By 1828 the Bathurst area had over 1,200 people in it, and convicts had fallen to about 55% of all residents. The most convicts arrived in Bathurst during the 1830s, the peak time for transportation to Australia. Transportation ceased in 1850, just before the 1851 gold rushes. But even then convicts still comprised about 30% of the total population. The gold rushes changed that forever.
Most of the early free settlers lived in Kelso across the river, whilst the wealthy, government officials and convicts lived in Bathurst. The town saw one of the worst conflicts in Australia between whites and the Wiradjura in 1823/24. The Aboriginal leader, Windradyne (now a suburb of Bathurst) led his people on a series of raids and attacks on sheep for food. The whites retaliated with arsenic in damper (arsenic was sued to control scab in sheep) and shooting parties. Aborigines on Kelso river flats stealing potatoes were shot and killed. In relation shepherds were killed by the Aborigines. Thirteen stockmen were killed in one month. Governor Darling declared martial law for Bathurst for six months in 1824. Government reports said 60 to 70 aborigines were killed during this time, but locals claim it was more like two hundred. Three whites were tried for murder of aboriginal people in 1824 but they were acquitted. The government had a £500 reward on the head of the leader Windradyne. This was not claimed. When he returned to Bathurst in 1829, wounded from conflict with another Aboriginal group it was Dr Busby who dressed his wounds before he died. The street where Ben Chifley lived was named after this government doctor.
The early buildings of Bathurst no longer exist. The 19th century town which we can see today mainly dates from the period after the gold rushes (1851), when the town was wealthy and booming in the 1860s and 1870s. Some exceptions are: Macquarie’s Government House (1817); Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Kelso (1835); Kelsoville House in Kelso dating from 1840; the original part of the Methodist church hall (1832); and the original Anglican manse, now Miss Traill’s Cottage ( 1845). So the legacy of convict buildings is gone. The pamphlet on a historical walk around Bathurst available from the Information Centre concentrates on buildings erected between 1860 and 1900.
One of the things I wanted to show Steve's parents while they were visiting was this carved fig tree. Due to continuing construction at the owners' house, it's behind a fence, so I didn't take any new pictures of the front of it. But the owners happened to be there, checking on the construction progress, and they opened the gate so we could see the opposite side and the owls carved into the upper branches.
Gunung Keriang, Kedah, Malaysia.
Ficus benjamina L. Moraceae. CN: [Malay - Ara beringin], Benjamin-tree, Javatree, Malayan banyan, Oval-leaf figtree, Tropic-laurel, Weeping fig, Weeping-laurel, Small-leaved rubber plant. Fruit a sycamore. Native to China, Taiwan, Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia ecozone, Solomon Islands; Cultivated elsewhere. Ornamental, shade/shelter, Invertebrate food (lac insects).
Synonym(s):
Ficus benjamina var. comosa (Roxb.) Kurz [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ficus comosa Roxb. [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ficus nitida Thunb. [Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq. [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ficus schlechteri auct
Ficus waringiana auct. [Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
Urostigma nudum Miq. [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
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AWIB-ISAW: The Plutei of Trajan, Curia Julia (I)
The so-called "Plutei of Trajan" are marble slabs on display within the restored Curia Julia. This slab shows the emperor on a platform, with Roman landmarks visible in the background - the arches of the Basilica Julia, the fig tree (Ficus Ruminalis) and the statue of Marsyas which stood in the Forum. by Allison Kidd (2011)
copyright: 2011 Allison Kidd (used with permission)
photographed place: Roma (Rome) [pleiades.stoa.org/places/423025]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].
This is the famous Castle in Norwich, built by the Normans after the Conquest in 1067 by William the Conqueror. It was to serve as his royal palace in the East of England. By the Middle Ages it was being used as a prison. It was clad in Bath stone in 1835 - 8 by Anthony Salvin.
It is now home to the Nowich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
It sits a top of Norwich on a large mound.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich_Castle
It is a Grade I listed building.
Castle now museum. Late C12 with 1833 refacing by Salvin, 1825
east extension by Wilkins and later C19 and C20 alterations, and
extensions. Bath stone refacing, stone extensions. The keep is a
square 4-bay plan: blind ground floor with 3 and 4 tiers of
arcading above. Scattered fenestration and wide, flat buttresses.
Crenellated parapet. One and 2 - storied extension with polygonal
plan to the north and east sides of the keep . Entry on south facade
with 'Tudor' moulded stone arch. 4-light frieze window above entry.
4-light frieze window and 5-light bay window to the right: 3 2-light
windows at first floor. Crenellated parapet with corner bastions.
The Norman keep only is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Norwich Castle - Heritage Gateway
Plaques I saw as we walked down the former moat and back onto the main road.
They all have messages on them. This one is about sitting under a vine and figtree.
In 1848 a Silesian farmer, Franz Weickert gathered together a group of people interested in forming a new community free of religious persecution in South Australia. Weckert financed the voyage for many of the people and he obtained the services of a Father Kranewitter, a Jesuit brother and two others called Schriener and Sadler. They took up land at Sevenhill near Clare and called the local stream the Tiber (after the River in Rome) and the place, Sevenhill after the seven hills of Rome. Franz Weckert never recovered his money from the settlers and died a poor man at Sevenhill in 1875. The three Jesuits erected a building on their land and established the first Catholic seminary in Australia. Local Catholics contributed substantially to Jesuit funds after their return from the Victorian goldfields and the first church was finished in 1856. The current church was a later structure that was started in 1861. The Catholic Polish community of nearby Polish Hill River also contributed to the new church. It was officially opened in November 1866. A crypt was constructed underneath the church, for the burial of the Jesuit fathers.
Over the next few years the college was constructed, clearly with plans for further additions, which never occurred. The foundation stone for the college was laid in 1868 and the college was completed by 1871 when press advertising for students began. Among the early students were Peter and Donald MacKillop, brothers of Mary MacKillop. The college was officially opened in 1875. It catered for around 40 students a year until it closed in 1885. Apart from the college and church, the Jesuit brothers brought the wine industry to the Clare Valley. They established the first vineyard of the district in 1851 (about the same time as the first vines were planted in the Barossa and also at Langhorne Creek).
Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Cyclopsitta diophthalma Macleayana.
I can not begin to describe how excited this encounter was for me. There where nine birds in total in the one fig tree Pairs and young.
Sixty five photos later.
The Double-eyed Fig Parrot is Australia's smallest parrot.
Their eggs are laid in holes in dead, sometimes perilously shaky, trees.
Seen ideally three or four times each year around the weeping native fig trees which set fruit and attract these parrots.
Both sexes have a red forehead, but the males also have a red cheek patch, as opposed to the females' which is usually yellow.
Gunung Keriang, Kedah, Malaysia.
Ficus benjamina L. Moraceae. CN: [Malay - Ara beringin], Benjamin-tree, Javatree, Malayan banyan, Oval-leaf figtree, Tropic-laurel, Weeping fig, Weeping-laurel, Small-leaved rubber plant. Fruit a sycamore. Native to China, Taiwan, Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China, Malesia ecozone, Solomon Islands; Cultivated elsewhere. Ornamental, shade/shelter, Invertebrate food (lac insects).
Synonym(s):
Ficus benjamina var. comosa (Roxb.) Kurz [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ficus comosa Roxb. [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ficus nitida Thunb. [Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq. [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ficus schlechteri auct
Ficus waringiana auct. [Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
Urostigma nudum Miq. [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
Ref. & suggested reading:
Mendut Temple, Magelang, Central Java
Ficus benghalensis L. Moraceae. [Malay - Banyan, Pokok Banyan India], Banyan, Banyan fig, Banyantree, Bengal banyan, Bengal fig, East Indian figtree, Horn fig, Indian banyan. Native of India and Pakistan; elsewhere cultivated.
Synonym(s):
Ficus banyana Oken
Ficus benghalensis var. krishnae (C.DC.) Corner
Ficus chauvieri G.Nicholson
Ficus cotoneifolia Vahl
Ficus cotonifolia Stokes
Ficus crassinervia Kunth & C.D.Bouché [Invalid]
Ficus karet Baill.
Ficus krishnae C.DC.
Ficus lancifolia Moench
Ficus lasiophylla Link
Ficus procera Salisb.
Ficus pubescens B.Heyne ex Roth
Ficus umbrosa Salisb.
Perula benghalensis Raf. Unresolved
Urostigma benghalense (L.) Gasp.
Urostigma crassirameum Miq. Unresolved
Urostigma procerum Miq. Unresolved
Urostigma pseudorubrum Miq. Unresolved
Urostigma rubescens Miq. Unresolved
Urostigma sundaicum Miq. Unresolved
Urostigma tjiela Miq.
Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2809652
Little MOC or vignette. No elaborate construction, but lots o' flowers!! ^^
You can find a fig tree, a fuchsia bush, some daisies and dandelions, what was supposed to be lavender, but let's say they're violets! Plus some edible and non-edible mushrooms! And then there's all the wildlife!! Kinda wanna be there right now… !
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Museum Gunung Merapi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(Dusun Banteng, Kabupaten Sleman, Yogyakarta.)
Ficus lyrata Warb. Moraceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Biola cantik, Ketapang brazil, Kimunding, Arabiola], Banjo fig, Fiddle-leaf fig, Lyre-leaf figtree. Native to West-Central Tropical Africa (Cameroon, Gabon) and West Tropical Africa (Benin, Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo); elsewhere naturalized or cultivated.. A strangler fig species. It can also grow as a free-standing tree on its own, growing up to 12–15 m tall. The leaves are variable in shape, but often with a broad apex and narrow middle, resembling a lyre or fiddle. A popular ornamental tree in subtropical and tropical gardens, and is also grown as a houseplant in temperate areas .
Synonym(s):
Ficus pandurata Sander [Illegitimate]
Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2811182
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Water entering Raintrees from neighbouring upstream properties flows under Figtree Drive culvert and through our property exiting under a culvert across Panorama Drive at Diamond Beach.
This is the upstream culvert which sees water enter the property, often at great velocity. The force of the water here in March 2020 moved large rocks that I'd placed on the edges of the creek in an effort to reduce erosive scouring of the creek banks below the culvert.
Those rocks remain in a pile across the creek about 5 metres downstream and act currently like a set of rapids in heavy flows. Ultimately the only solution I see is to concrete them in place however hard edges act to increase stream velocity and damage just moves further downstream. It's a problem I'll address at some stage subject to costs.
Ultimately the water flows through Raintrees into a feeder creek which then flows into Moor Creek before flowing on into Khappinghat Creek. It then travels through Khappinghat Nature Reserve, into Saltwater National Park, then to the ocean at Wallabi Point.
we used to lounge amongst the roots and branches. now it is fenced in to protect it from overzealous tree climbers and people who, for some insane reason, wanted to carve into the wood.
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A day of protest, police, chainsaws and woodchips sees nine Morteon Bay figtrees removed from Anzac Parade at the point where the cut and cover tunnel will intersect the busy arterial road.
Although discussion apparently got heated at times, the constable I chatted to indicated no problems during the day.
Museum Gunung Merapi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
(Dusun Banteng, Kabupaten Sleman, Yogyakarta.)
Ficus lyrata Warb. Moraceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Biola cantik, Ketapang brazil, Kimunding, Arabiola], Banjo fig, Fiddle-leaf fig, Lyre-leaf figtree. Native to West-Central Tropical Africa (Cameroon, Gabon) and West Tropical Africa (Benin, Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo); elsewhere naturalized or cultivated.. A strangler fig species. It can also grow as a free-standing tree on its own, growing up to 12–15 m tall. The leaves are variable in shape, but often with a broad apex and narrow middle, resembling a lyre or fiddle. A popular ornamental tree in subtropical and tropical gardens, and is also grown as a houseplant in temperate areas .
Synonym(s):
Ficus pandurata Sander [Illegitimate]
Ref. and suggested reading:
www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2811182