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Visited a garden in Sussex on my birthday. They had a mock up of a Victorian potting shed with lots of gardening implements.. Perfect for the theme!!
Farm implement near McBaine in rural Boone County Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 52 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 6.4.
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A maison deep in the Belgium countryside. Definately past it's best.
The travelling nun Tour. On Belgium derps with Dursty, John and Mike.
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This farm implement wheel has made the full transition to iron. Boy, the manufacture of this wheel is much simpler and faster than the wagon wheel. It still won't roll very well; probably not as well as the oak wheel. It shows the change from a handicraft to serious mass production in early 1900s. The rim is integral iron but I bet the buried part is rusting pretty good. Celebratory Bronco's orange covers the implement but the blue is certainly off color! .
I was at McIntosh Ag Museum again to track down the manager. I really saw the wheel and detail was worth closing in for a composition and texture detail of the rust. I have a lot of close up gear shots I have yet to use. This implement meant manual and deliberate labor for sure.
This late August found continuing hot temperatures. Wundermaps reported 98 degrees while I was out there. Whew, that's why I'm in the shade! The direct sun blazed across the scene and popped light into the shed. I decided that I had needed some shots at McIntosh and went out in the baking sun.
Highway #66 seemed overloaded with late summer travelers to the hills, hoping for heat relief in the Rockies; they'll get it up there. I waited and waited to turn left onto #66. Few tracks of snow remained up on the hills. It's back for this thanksgiving.
These are well-known, but I don't think I've posted about them here yet :) These are used for quality-testing other Lego parts, and each one has a different standard connection type.
BrickArchitect has much more info on these:
brickarchitect.com/2021/lego-clutch-test-implements-bricks/
I'm still missing a couple, please let me know if you have any I don't and are willing to trade or sell :)
Right, well, the Prasad Heavy Industry shipyards have, in fact, been hard at work. And, just yesterday, engineers rejoiced the completion of the latest in its series of 1/350 scale warships. As a celebration, PHI has released to images of this new vessel, before its initial launch which will happen when the CEO decides to take better photographs....
Hope you guys enjoy these quick images; the ship will be posted soon....
ADAMS, OKLAHOMA -- Just as the tall grass bends to a southerly wind, so too does anything left on its own for very long in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
That truth brings us to the town of Adams and an old grain elevator in a slow motion fall to the flat prairie.
Coffee and cold Cokes are still on special at Gilbert Mires's hardware and implement store in Adams.
"It's about the same age as I am," he smiles.
Gilbert still remembers when the elevator stood a little straighter.
He recalls, "During harvest I've seen trucks lined up the street for a quarter-mile."
Neighbors and regulars started to notice a little lean a few years back.
Gilbert's wife Corice used to gauge the wind direction by the granary's lean.
"You'd get up in the morning and say, 'which direction was the wind blowing last night'," she says. "You'd look down there and find out."
They took a series of pictures to prove it and they ended up in the newspaper the next town over.
"I never get tired of looking at it," she continues. "Let's see what it's doing today."
The railroad pulled their tracks up one day.
A big grain truck fell through the floor in the 80's and that was it.
Leon Chuesberg, who painted, nailed tin, and loaded grain here things the old chutes beneath the head house might be what's keeping it up for now.
"It's hard to figure what's keeping it up," he says.
They've all watched a new parade of vehicles drive up, not with grain but with cameras in tow.
The old elevator appears to have settled on a northerly lean and a twist as gravity does its steady work.
People who've never seen it can't believe their eyes, that something so tall can lean so far without toppling.
How long will it last?
How much further can it go?
Even as the regular across the street aren't taking any bets.
"I tell them it may last longer than us," states Mires.
The old Adams elevator, built in 1929, is officially condemned.
The town is located 20 miles east of Guymon, OK in Texas County.
from Oklahoma's News 4
This past week, Of Aug 25, 2018, the old elevator was burned down by the town, for safety concerns.
H.E. Row Implement Company, 114-122 East 5th Street, Larned, Kansas. Both of these buildings appear vacant. Isaiah D. Row joined the Larned Implement Company in 1916 and became its president. I assume H.E. Row was one of his descendents.
Antique farm implements on historic Fielding Garr Ranch with Sentry Peak in the background
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An ungeared farm implement this time... but was this machinery used during the Spanish Inquisition? Inquisitive minds need to know. This harrow was a champeen at busting clumps. But mind the warning, never drink or smoke and drive lest you fall off the tractor while dragging the harrow behind. Boy, you would squirt out all over. The shadows make it look much more demonic than it seems.
April marked the opening weekend of the Lohr/McIntosh Agricultural Heritage Center and I decided to travel the access path to Mac Lake... but then turned to snag something from the implements on the grounds for the gear heads. I got hung up with my sidetrack project that day. I ought to go out and look for more. This implement is pretty old, judging from the iron castings and spoke construction.
Highway #66 seemed overloaded with early spring travelers to the hills, probably not knowing summer might not arrive until July in Rocky. There are several exhibits inside the red Dickens barn waiting for momma's explanations to the kiddies. All they want is a cool soda pop as long as they have to walk. Sunday offered them a look at a new lamb. Careful, the chickens and bunnies were under foot; a delight to the kiddies no doubt.
Farm implement near McBaine, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 154-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Weber Peirano Building, 2711 Main Street, Wilson, Kansas. Built in 1904, this large Italianate two-story building is constructed of native stone and is among the last of the two story buildings constructed in downtown Wilson. Nick Weber and Andy Peirano built the building to house their hardware and implement dealership. A large freight elevator/left was installed in the building to accommodate large implements on the second floor. Weber and Peirano also dealt in coal and grain, owning the elevator south of the tracks, just north of this building. A1905 ad for Weber/Peirano advertised furniture, hardware, farm vehicles, and implements. By 1914, Peirano was no longer involved in the enterprise; the building was called the Weber block and the businesses were under the ownership of the Weber Co. An April 9,1914 article in The Ellsworth Reporter stated that Weber Co. operated the largest enterprise in Wilson including lumber, grain elevators, coal yards, an electric light plant and, through this building, were selling hardware, implements, vehicles, saddlery and auto lines. By late 1927, the name of the business had changed to Weber Hardware and Furniture Co. and sometime after 1932, Weber Hardware moved to a new location.
By 1948, the building was occupied by Murphy Implement, and later by Dolecek Implement. In 1964 Jerry Klema bought the building from Dolecek and turned the building into the Wilson Recreation Center offering bowling, skating, and a cafe. The recreation center closed in 2002, and the building has been vacant since. A sign in the window indicates the building was for sale when this picture was taken.
Farm Implement in a field in Newark valley, Nevada. Photographed with Zorki 4K using Industar-50 f:3.5 lens. Kodak Ektar 100 35mm film.
The Emerson-Newton Implement Company Building is located in downtown Minneapolis, MN.
The building is united under a common cornice with the Advance Thresher Building and appears to be a single structure.
The Emerson-Newton Building was built in 1904 and has seven floors. The Advance Thresher Building was built in 1900 and has six floors.
The architecture of the buildings was influenced by Louis Sullivan and are decorated with terra cotta details.
The Emerson-Newton Implement Company Building is located in downtown Minneapolis, MN.
The building is united under a common cornice with the Advance Thresher Building and appears to be a single structure.
The Emerson-Newton Building was built in 1904 and has seven floors. The Advance Thresher Building was built in 1900 and has six floors.
The architecture of the buildings was influenced by Louis Sullivan and are decorated with terra cotta details.
First Aberdeen implement fare revisions from today which see fares for those paying on bus or paper passes increase whilst those who purchase m-tickets will see the price remain or reduce. The company is also pushing contactless payment as an alternative believing that contactless and m-tickets are the key to cutting boarding time and speeding up journeys.
Enviro500 38203 climbs Scotstown Road with full contactless branding.
From First website:
BUS CUSTOMERS URGED TO SWITCH TO MOBILE TICKETS FOR BEST VALUE FARES
First Aberdeen has announced that some of its fares will be changing from Sunday 5th August 2018, but tickets bought via the First Bus mTickets app will be frozen or reduced to their 2017 price; offering customers the best value fares. Click here to view full details.
The changes will impact most tickets purchased on-bus and through PayPoint, but the bus operator has worked hard to keep any rises to a minimum and is urging customers to switch to mobile ticketing, for the best value fares available. For example;
The FirstWeek ticket will cost £18 if purchased from the driver, but a reduced price of £15.50 is offered when purchased in advance through the mTickets app.
First Aberdeen is also reducing the price of some of its most popular multi-journey products such as the day, monthly or five single tickets package when purchased via the mTickets app.
The majority of student ticket prices have been frozen on the mTickets app to allow students to plan and budget for their travel during term time.
First Aberdeen reports that sales of tickets via cashless methods, including mTickets and contactless, have more than doubled over the last year, and the local bus operator is now encouraging more customers to switch from cash to cashless payment methods, to help speed up boarding times. It is confident that journey times will improve if the trend of more customers using its mTickets app continues, as research* by First Bus has highlighted that boarding times would be 75 per cent faster, if customers switched from cash to mTicket.
Graeme Macfarlan, Commercial Director at First Aberdeen, said: “We generally need to review our fares each year to ensure we meet the rising costs that we face as a business, but we have worked hard to keep any increases to a minimum with ticket prices last reviewed in April ‘17.
“Travel by First Aberdeen offers great value for money and we continue to offer a lower price for most tickets purchased via the First Bus mTickets app, in comparison to tickets bought from the driver, so that we can encourage people to switch and speed up their boarding time. The exciting new First Bus Unlimited ticket also allows customers to pay a monthly direct debit for unlimited bus travel across their chosen network via the mTickets app; making regular bus travel more convenient than ever before.
“Our Aberdeen operation has seen a significant rise in ‘smart’ payments in recent months, with over 70 per cent of our customers now using a ‘cashless’ method. We are working hard to encourage more customers to convert to using mTickets or contactless, as this will have a further impact on reducing boarding times and will help us in the battle to speed up people’s journeys.”
Shields used by defenders of Майдан Незалежності, 2013/2014. Moving display on the horrors of war and the need for peace.
“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
An abandoned farm implement near Overton in Cooper County Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera with a EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens at f.4.0 with a .5 second exposure at ISO 800 along with three Quantum Qflash Trios with red, green and blue gels. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 6.4.
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Fiat had bought Unic from Simca. In that Simca period a new advanced cabine was developed. It was designed by the French coachwork company Pelpel (Genève), and appeared in 1960. This cabin style was implemented across the entire Unic truck range.
In 1966 tilting cabines became available.
This P6A was one of the last Unic truck versions as a semi-independent truck brand, and were from the last series cabins developed in-house.
In 1975 Unic merged with Fiat, OM, Lancia and Magirus-Duetz in the new founded truck company Iveco.
After 1975 all trucks still had the individual Fiat, OM, Unic or Magirus emblems beside the common Iveco badge.
In 1982, the IVECO name appeared in full on the front of the trucks; the UNIC name remained until 1984 in the lower right corner of the grilles.
By 1985, the UNIC brand name no longer appeared on any truck grille.
5383 cc L4 Diesel engine.
Performance: 135 bhp.
Production Unic this cabins: early 1960-1974.
New French reg. number: Jan. 1992 (41, Loir-et-Cher).
Number seen: 1.
Scan from analog photo.
Film roll: 05-36.
Cour Cheverny (Loir-et-Cher, Central France), Aug. 19, 2005.
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With it now 5 months since lockdown restrictions were implemented due to COVID-19, airlines are very slowly starting to see demand returning although this maybe scuppered in part due to spikes in cases being reported.
British Airways unsurprisingly has been affected by COVID-19 which has seen the premature withdrawal of their entire Boeing 747-400 fleet as well as the solitary Airbus A318 no longer in use following the cancellation of their unique London City to New York-John F. Kennedy flight.
The saving grace has been cargo which has seen select Boeing 777-200ERs seeing their World Traveller seats removed for more cargo capacity, as well as their Boeing 777-200ER/300ERs, Boeing 787-8/9/10s and Airbus A350-1000s providing the lion-share of long-haul flights, with Boeing 787-8s making appearances on European short-haul flights in order to ensure social distancing is complied with.
Very recently, British Airways has published its upcoming W20 schedule which sees considerable amount of changes, taking into consideration Boeing 747-400s no longer form their long-haul network and London Gatwick long-haul flights slowly being reinstated.
Given the huge amount of changes, this will be split into three separate posts...
As per Airline Route, here are the following changes which are heavily subject to change effective 26th October 2020 unless stated otherwise:
-Abu Dhabi: Daily flight (BA72/73) cancelled throughout the entire W20 schedule.
-Atlanta (Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta): BA226/227 reduced from daily to 4 weekly flights, retaining Boeing 787-9s.
-Austin-Bergstrom: BA190/191 remains daily, with 5 weekly flights operated by Airbus A350-1000s and 2 weekly flights operated by Boeing 777-300ERs.
-Bahrain then Dammam: BA124/125 reduced reduced from daily to 5 weekly flights, with Boeing 787-8s replacing Boeing 777-200ER operation. Section between Bahrain and Dammam has been cancelled.
-Baltimore/Washington: BA228/229 reduced from daily to 4 weekly flights, utilising Boeing 787-8/9s.
-Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi: BA9/10 continues to operate daily, 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs replaced by Boeing 78-9s.
-Beijing-Daxing: BA38/39 remains daily, Boeing 787-9s replaced by Boeing 777-300ERs.
-Bengaluru: BA118/119 reduced from daily to 5 weekly flights, 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs replaced by Airbus A350-1000s.
-Boston-Logan: Substantial changes sees 25 weekly flights cut to 14 weekly or twice daily flights. 4 times weekly BA202/203 and daily BA238/239 have been cancelled. BA212/213 utilises Boeing 787-9s replacing Boeing 747-400s, and BA214/215 utilises Airbus A350-1000s replacing 4-class Boeing 777-200ERs.
-Buenos Aires-Ezeiza: BA244/245 reduced from daily to 5 weekly flights, Boeing 787-8s replaces 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs.
-Cape Town: BA58/59 remains daily utilising Boeing 777-300ERs instead of Boeing 747-400s. BA42/43 continues to show Boeing 747-400s but is expected to be cancelled.
-Chennai: BA35/36 reduced from daily to 5 weekly flights utilising Boeing 787-8/9s.
-Chicago-O'Hare: Remains twice daily; BA294/295 utilises Boeing 787-9s instead of Boeing 747-400s, and BA296/297 utilising 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs instead of 4-class Boeing 777-200ERs.
-Dallas-Fort Worth: BA192/193 continues to operate daily utilising Boeing 787-9s instead of Boeing 747-400s.
-Delhi-Indira Ghandi: Remains twice daily, BA142/143 utilises Boeing 787-8s instead of Boeing 787-9s, and BA256/257 utilises 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs instead of 4-class Boeing 777-200ERs.
-Denver: BA218/219 remains daily utilising Boeing 787-9s instead of Boeing 747-400s.
-Dubai-International: Reduced from thrice to twice daily with the cancellation of BA108/109. BA104/105 utilises Boeing 787-9s instead of 4-class Boeing 777-200ERs, and BA106/107 initially operated by 3-class Boeing 777-200ERs until 31st December 2020, going over to Boeing 787-9 operation from 1st January 2021.
-Durban: Thrice weekly BA40/41 cancelled.
-Hong Kong-Chek Lap Kok: Reduced from twice daily to single daily with BA31/32 cancelled. BA27/28 remains operated by Boeing 777-300ERs.
-Houston-George Bush Intercontinental: Reduced from twice daily to single daily with BA196/197 cancelled. BA194/195 utilises 4-class Boeing 777-200ERs.
-Hyderabad: BA276/277 reduced from daily to 5 weekly flights with one weekly flight operated by Boeing 787-9s alongside Boeing 787-8s for the remaining 4 weekly flights.
-Islamabad: BA260/261 operates daily instead of thrice weekly utilising Boeing 787-8s.
-Jeddah-King Abdulaziz: 5 times weekly BA132/133 cancelled until 14th December 2020.
-Kuala Lumpur-Sepang: BA34/35 continues to operate daily utilising Boeing 787-8s instead of Boeing 787-9s.
The changes are noticeable, especially those which featured multiple frequencies having had around 50% slashed off as British Airways does not expect demand to return for the next 2-3 years.
Currently, British Airways operates 32 Boeing 787s, which includes 12 Boeing 787-8s (one currently in short-term storage), 18 Boeing 787-9s (one in long-term storage awaiting new Rolls-Royce engines) and 2 Boeing 787-10s. British Airways have 10 Boeing 787-10s on-order.
Zulu Bravo Juliet Kilo is one of 12 Boeing 787-8s in service with British Airways, delivered new to the flag-carrier on 13th September 2018 and she is powered by 2 Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner G-ZBJK on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on BA246 from São Paulo-Guarulhos (GRU).
Virtual Reality implemented in the scale model in front of these ladies, by wearing that pair of goggles, they were able to interact both with the model, and the surrounding space, mapped to satisfy and entertain their curiosity. Pleasant surprise from a pavilion that, besides that, has much to envy to other national exhibitions.
The craft of the Chef is a tiring job that gives moments of dream and extreme sensory and aesthetic pleasure to people. What's behind the evanescent scenes and the classic glossy food photos of dishes on “Michelin” restaurants tables, however, is often not enough known by insiders nor even by the clients of a restaurant in terms of craftsmanship and know-how.
Fascinated from mastery of these taste explorers and from their ability to compose dishes obtained after a long and hard research, I entered in their kitchens on tiptoe. The appearance of the realization of the dishes adds a component of perceptual enjoyment of the creativity of the Chef and allows the viewer to "interact" with the photographs in terms of empathy with the process of implementation of the dishes, as it has been for me that, discreetly, approached the reportage project.
"The hands are tools of an artist, able to tell the sense of a job, the personality of a man" | Mascia Maluta (Review of MANI DI CHEF for "Il Gambero Rosso”)
Mani di Chef | VINCENZO CANDIANO
Locanda Don Serafino | Ragusa Ibla (RG) - Sicily (It)
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You gotta see this movie, it's completely insane. Filthy Satanik hippie sickos hopped up on LSD are infected with dead dog rabies by a vengeful little pudgy moppet via rabid-dog-blood-infused meat pies and all fuggin hell breaks loose. Homicidal hippies vs. angry construction workers! Self-induced miscarriages! Sharp implements used irresponsibly! Full-frontal male nudity circa 1970! Dead rats!
During the depression, money was hard to come by, and most people had to barter (trade) what goods and services they might have to get food and survive. Building materials back then were commonly Wood products, as metals were expensive, and later used in WW-II.
This was a typical shed/building that was built and used in the 40's-50's to store farm tractors and implements to keep them out of the weather and provide a comfortable place to work and do repairs.
Many of these old building have been left to the elements and have or are falling down. This one is still in fairly good condition, and was found along side the highway ;-}}
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Brief History of Mt Gambier – the second city of SA after Adelaide (region population nearly 35,000, urban 28,000).
Lieutenant James Grant aboard the Lady Nelson sighted and named Mt Gambier in 1800 after a Lord of the Admiralty. The first white man to traverse the area was Stephen Henty of Portland in 1839 when he sighted the Blue Lake. He returned with cattle and stockmen in 1841. He later claimed that had he known the lake and volcano he had discovered in 1839 was in SA he would have immediately applied for an 1839 Special Survey. But Henty thought he was squatting on land in NSW and he was not an official SA settler so the government ordered him off the land in 1844. Thus the first official white settler of the South East and the Mt Gambier district became Evelyn Sturt, brother to Captain Charles Sturt, who took up an occupational license in March 1844 and a property he named Compton just north of the present city. In April 1844 Governor Grey and a party of assistants including the Assistant Surveyor General Thomas Burr and artist George French Angas explored the South East naming Robe and doing the first surveys. Evelyn Sturt became the first to have an occupational license to squat and the first purchase freehold land near Mt Gambier which he did in 1847- a section of 77 acres when 80 acres was the norm. He left the district in 1854 selling his freehold land to Hastings Cunningham who in 1855 subdivided some of this land thus creating the town of Gambierton. The town lands were adjacent to the site of the first police station selected near what is now Cave Gardens by the government in 1845. A small bush inn also operated at this spot. The first streets were named after early locals such as Evelyn Sturt, Compton, Ferrers and Crouch (built the first general store before the town was created) etc. The town grew quickly because of the mild climate, fertile soils, plentiful water and the influx of settlers from across the border in what was to become the colony of Victoria. Cunningham himself was a great benefactor and donated land for the first school in 1856. In 1861 the town name was changed by act of parliament to Mt Gambier. The Hundred of Mt Gambier (along with three other hundreds) was declared in 1858 and began the closer settlement of the South East.
Unlike other areas of SA the South East was seen as paradise for pastoralists and the optimistic pastoralists flocked to the area with their flocks in 1845. The large runs locked up the land and prevented farmers from settling in the region except for the fertile lands around Mount Gambier. Here small scale farmers had small properties and grew potatoes, hops, and later had dairy cows as well as growing wheat and oats. Land acts in the early 1870s designed to break up the big runs only partially succeeded in the South East where most station owners bought up their lands freehold. It was after 1905 before the big pastoral estates were really broken up for farmers and closer settlement, except for near Mt Gambier. Apart from Evelyn Sturt the other early white settlers of the South East in 1845 were Alexander Cameron at Penola, John Robertson at Struan, William Macintosh and George Ormerod at Naracoorte, the Austin brothers at Yallum Park (later John Riddoch), the Arthur brothers (nephews of Governor Arthur of Van Diemen’s Land) at Mt Schanck( now Mt Schank) and the Leake brothers at Glencoe. In fact in 1845 nineteen leasehold runs were taken up in the South East with a further thirty runs in 1846 and most had several 80 acres sections of freehold land near the main homestead. Most had got to the South East from Casterton and Portland in Victoria as the swamps near the coast were too difficult to traverse except for the country near Robe. Many of the estates were huge. Evelyn Sturt on the Compton/Mt Gambier run had 85 square miles as well as his freehold land; Robertson had 135 square miles at Struan; George Glen (and William Vansittart) of Mayurra had 110 square miles; the SA Company had 159 square miles on the Benara run; the Leake brothers had 194 square miles on Glencoe; Hunter had 56 square miles on Kalangadoo; Neil Black of Noorat Victoria had 45 square miles on Kongorong run and 101 square miles at Port MacDonnell and the Arthur brothers had a huge run at Mt Schanck. By 1851 almost 5,000 square miles of the South East was occupied by Occupational License and most licenses were converted to 14 year leases in that year. A third of all leasehold land in SA was taken up in the South East because of its higher rainfall and suitability for pastoralism and a third of all sheep in the colony were in the South East. When Hundreds were declared in the South East in the late 1850s and early 1860s pastoralists bought up the land. In one case John Riddoch of Yallum Park owned the entire Hundred of Monbulla. Another pastoralist W. Clarke who had purchased Mt Schancke station from the Arthur brothers in 1861 owned SA land valued at £1.25 million when he died in 1874 and he had 120,000 acres freehold in Victoria, 75,000 acres freehold in SA( Mt Schank) and 50,000 acres freehold in each of NSW and Tasmania! Mt Schanck was changed in Schank in 1917 when German place names in SA were changed as Schank without the second “c” is an old English name!
In the 1850s Mt Gambier was a shanty village as the South East was a region of large pastoral estates and little agricultural farming and very low population numbers. It was far from Adelaide and remote and it was only after the Princeland episode in 1862 with the threat of possible secession to a new state that the Adelaide government began to invest in the South East and really encourage settlement there. The Border Watch newspaper was established in 1861, the Mt Gambier Hotel opened in 1862 and the Mt Gambier Council was formed in 1863.By the early 1860s Mt Gambier had almost 1,000 residents making it one of the largest towns in SA after the copper mining centres of Burra, Kadina and Moonta. By the 1881 SA census Mt Gambier had 2,500 residents making it the biggest town outside of Adelaide. In 1865 four iconic historic buildings were erected-the Courthouse, the Gaol, Christ Church Anglican and the Post Office and Telegraph Station. The flourmill which later became the Oat Mill opened in 1867 as wheat farmers had now taken up lands around the Mount. Mt Gambier was growing into a fine prosperous looking town with churches, stores, banks, hotels and fine residences. In the 1870s the rural population increased dramatically with tenant potato farmers on Browne’s Moorak estate and intensive hop growing in several localities such as Yahl and OB Flat and Glenburnie etc. Also in 1876 the first commercial forestry was started at the behest of George Goyder. A tree nursery was established on the edge of Leg of Mutton Lake in 1876 on a site selected by George Goyder himself. A stone cottage for the first nurseryman Charles Beale was constructed and it survived until demolished in 1969 but the nursery closed in 1929. The nursery propagated eucalypts, Oak, Elm, Ash, Sycamore, and North American pines. Pinus radiata was first grown at Leg of Mutton Lake and was being dispersed to other areas by 1878. Pinus canariensis was also grown in the 1880s. Pinus radiata is now the most commonly grown commercial forest tree in SA and Australia. Also in the 1870s the first hospital was erected and Dr Wehl, the town’s doctor for many years was in residence.
In the mid 1880s the first rail line was laid as the railway lines pushed out from Mt Gambier to Naracoorte. The service to Naracoorte began in 1887 and connected on with the line to Bordertown and Adelaide. By 1897 a railway connected Mt Gambier to Millicent and the port at Beachport. The railway line across the border to Heywood and Melbourne was not completed until 1917 as the SA government resisted a line that would take goods and passengers from Mt Gambier to Port Melbourne rather than to Port Adelaide. Mt Gambier railway station used to be a hive of activity with daily trains to Adelaide and an overnight sleeper services several times a week. Passenger trains to Mt Gambier from Adelaide stopped in 1990 after Australian National took over the SA railway network. Freight services stopped in 1995 and the railway line and station was formally closed. The railyards and other buildings were cleared in 2013.
The Buandik Aboriginal People.
The Buandik people are commemorated in a city street but by little else. Yet they were resilient and determined fighters opposed to the white settlement of the South East. Their occupation of the Mt Gambier district stretches back to around 20,000+ years but their dated occupation from archaeological sites goes back to about 11,000 years with their myths and legends including stories about volcanic activity at Mt Gambier. The last volcanic explosions were about 4,000 years ago. Both Mt Schank and Mt Gambier were important places to the Buandik for ceremonies, hunting, access to water and stone implement making. A government report in 1867 noted that the Buandik people in government care were few in number mainly sickly and elderly. The younger people had presumably moved out into the white community. But back in the 1840s the Buandik were a force to be reckoned with. There are no common stories of Aboriginal massacres but white pastoralists certainly retaliated when sheep were stolen. On Mt Schank station the Buandik were so troublesome that shepherds would not venture out to care for sheep alone and the Arthur brothers gave this trouble as their reason for them selling the run in 1845. In 1845 the government established a police station at Mt Gambier, which the Protector of Aboriginals visited, to ensure that pastoralists did not massacre the Buandik.
William Vansittart and Vansittart Park.
Vansittart Park has been a focal point of Mt Gambier since 1884 for activities such as family picnics, political rallies and speeches, bike racing, band rotunda concerts, bowling greens, sport oval, grandstand (1927) and Anzac memorial services. But who was William Vansittart? He was an Anglican reverend from England (Vansittart is a noble and political Anglo-Irish family in the UK) who arrived in SA in 1847 as a young bachelor. He was never licensed as a minister in SA but he developed his passions for making money and horse racing here. He mixed with the elite of Adelaide like Sir Samuel Davenport, the Governor and was a friend of Hurtle Fisher and he was Master of the Hounds. In 1850 he purchased 35 acres at Beaumont where he built Tower House and 80 acres at Mt Gambier. He imported a thoroughbred horse from Hobart called Lucifer. Ironic that a minister of religion would have a horse called Lucifer! His horses raced in Adelaide, Salisbury, Gawler, Brighton and Clare as well as in Mt Gambier and Penola. In 1851 he also took over the 110 square mile 14 year lease of Mayurra run with George Glen of Millicent. In 1852 he returned to England for a short time and on his return he purchased more freehold land bringing his estate to around 800 acres. Not long after in 1854 his horse shied, he was thrown against a tree and died of head injuries but he died intestate with an estate worth over £10,000. Glen bought out his share of Mayurra; the Beaumont house and property was sold in 1867 as were his race horses and his brother Captain Spencer Vansittart eventually inherited the Mt Gambier property. In accordance with William’s wishes 115 acres were set aside to provide income for a scholarship for boarders at St Peters Boys College which happened from 1859. Later in 1883 Spencer Vansittart offered 20 acres to the Mt Gambier Council for a memorial park at the “nominal” sum of £400 which hardly seems “nominal”. The Council raised a loan and purchased the land and the park is still enjoyed by the city’s residents and visitors. Captain Spencer’s widow sold the last package of 300 acres of land in 1912 thus ending the Vansittart links with Mt Gambier. The Vansittart scholarship is still available for boarders from the South East and is operated by a group of College trustees.
Some Historic Buildings in Mt Gambier and a town walk.
Your town walk is basically straight ahead along Penola Road towards the Mount itself which becomes Bay Road( the bay is at Port MacDonnell) once you cross Commercial Street which is the Main Street. There are just a few diversions to the left as you face the Mount. The coach will collect you at the Mount end of the walk near the Old Courthouse.
If you a good walker check out the fine houses in Jardine Street at numbers 1, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 22. They range from cottages to Gothic and turreted mansions including the home of Jens the hotelier. This detour will add another 10 minutes to the walk if you elect to do it.
1.Catholic Covent. Sisters of Mercy setup a convent school in 1880. This wonderful convent was not built until 1908 in local dolomite stone & limestone quoins. Note the fine stone gables with small niches for statuary, the well proportioned arched colonnades and upstairs oriel windows – the projecting bay windows with stone supports. This is one of the finest buildings in Mt Gambier. The convent closed in 1986. Now Auspine.
2.Wesleyan Methodist Church Hall/Sunday School. Across the street is pink dolomite neo-classical style Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Hall. Hundreds of children attended Sunday School in those days. It opened in 1904. It is now commercial offices. (If you want to walk up Wyatt Street beside the Sunday School and turn right at second street which is at Gray you will see the old two storey Methodist Manse at 101 Gray St. It was built in 1868 and sold 1941. As you turn into Gray Street the Salvation Army Hall is on your left. Allow 10 minutes for this detour before returning to Penola Road).
3.Methodist Church now Liberty Church. A Gothic large church built in 1862 by the Wesleyans. Opened by minister from Portland. Additions made 1877 with new entrance. The old lecture hall and Sunday School was beneath the church. Note the buttress on corners and sides. Became Uniting Church 1977 and closed 1994 when services moved to St Andrews Presbyterian Church. Behind the church (walk through the car park) in Colhurst Place is LLandovery two storey mansion now a B&B. Built 1878 for a flour and oat miller who had his mill in Percy Street.
4.St Paul’s Catholic Church. This impressive Gothic church with huge tower with crenulations was opened in 1884 and will be open today. There are 1966 extensions to the rear of it. The Presbytery is behind the church facing Alexander St. it was built in 1901 when the church was free of building debt. The first thatched bush church was built in another location in 1855. From 1857 the priest was Father Julian Tenison Woods, explorer, academic, horseman etc. A second church opened in 1861 in Sturt St and is now demolished. It closed in 1885 as this church opened. The bells came from Dublin. The church fence and gates built 1936.
5.The Mount Gambier Club. Across the street is the Club. It was built in 1904 for a local distiller as chambers for lease. The wealthy pastoralists of the South East formed an exclusive men only club in 1913 and it has used the upper floor of Engelbrecht’s chambers ever since. They purchased the whole building in 1920. The Club is a beautifully proportioned classical style building with pediments, balustrades, window entablature, and perfect symmetry. Look down the sides and you can see it is made of Mt Gambier limestone blocks.
6.Mt Gambier Caledonian Hall. Next door is the Scots Club. Its prominence signifies the Scottish links of many Gambier residents. The hall was opened in 1914 and opened by the former Prime Minister Sir George Reid, another Scot. It has classical features but is rather ugly and neglected these days. It is now a night club.
7.The Trustees Building. Next to the Caledonian is the Trustee Building erected in 1958. Its blue and bone tiled façade is typical of 1950s architecture yet the rectangular appearance has a slight classical look about it. It is on the SA Heritage Register. Accountants now occupy it.
8.Turn left into Percy Street and go along here beyond KFC for one town block to the next corner for the Oatmills (now a coffee shop and cinemas). Milling and brewing were two of Mt Gambier’s prime 19th century industries. The 4 storey complex here was started in 1867 for Welsh Thomas Williams who eventually had five flour mills. His mill was called Commercial Flourmills. A new owner converted the mill from wheat milling to oat milling. A new oatmill was built in 1901 and operated until 1975 producing Scottish porridge oats. The mill has now been restored with café, shops and cinemas. Return to Penola Rd.
9. Mt Gambier Hotel. No hotel could have a more remarkable origin than the Mt Gambier. An African American John Byng built a weatherboard hotel near here in 1847. The third licensee Alexander Mitchell, another Scot, took it over and moved the hotel to this corner site in 1862 as an impressive two storey hotel which was unusual at that time. The western wing was added in 1883 and balconies affixed in 1902.
10.Cross towards the Mount with the traffic lights then turn left into Commercial Street East.
11.Mt Gambier Town Hall. Marked as the Riddoch Gallery this fine Venetian Gothic style building is impressive with its coloured stone work contrasting well with cement rendered horizontal lines and vertical panels around windows and doors. The upper windows are mullioned with stone divisions between the glass. It was built in 1882 with the clock tower added in 1883 after a donation. The first Council meeting was in 1863 with Dr Wehl as chairman held in a hotel. Later the Council hired a room at the Foresters Hall and then they purchased this site in 1868 with a weatherboard room. This was used until 1882.
12.Mt Gambier old Institute. The Literary Institute was formed in 1862 and a foundation stone laid for a reading room/hall in 1868 by John Riddoch. The single storey institute opened in 1869. The upper floor was added in 1887, so that it would match the new Town Hall. It is built in a similar style- Venetian Romanesque as the windows and rounded and not arched as with a gothic structure.
13.Captain Gardiner Memorial Fountain 1884. The fountain was presented by Captain Robert Gardiner the grandfather of Sir Robert Helpman (his name was originally Helpmann). The fountain was made in Melbourne .Gardiner was also a benefactor of St Andrew’s Presbyterian -he donated the pipe organ in 1885.
14.Jens Hotel. After demolishing an earlier hotel (the 1847 hotel of John Byng) Johannes Jens had the first section of his Jens Hotel built on this corner in 1884. An almost identical eastern wing was erected in 1904 and the Spanish Art Deco section in 1927. Turn right here and go behind the Town hall to the Cave Gardens.
15.Cave Gardens. This spot was an early water supply. A garden was created in 1893 and then improved and reconstructed in 1925. This sink hole has recently been upgraded again and it is lit at night.
16.Post Office. This important communications centre was erected in 1865 as a telegraph office/post office. This is till one of the finest buildings in Mt Gambier and a rare example of the Georgian style for the city. . The single storey side wings were added in 1906 in a sympathetic style. It is still the main city Post Office.
17.Norris Agency Building. This superb Italianate building was completed in 1900 as chambers for businessmen. Owner was Alexander Norris who died in 1917. The façade is pink dolomite with cement quoins and unusual lined decoration work above the windows and door each contained within a triangular classical pediment.
18.Farmers Union Building. Another classical style building built when this style was out of fashion in 1914.Erected for Farmers Union as a large two storey building. It has none of the grace of the Norris building next door. FU was formed in 1888 in Jamestown by Thomas Mitchell, a Scot and others to provide cheap rates for grains, seeds and superphosphate but in the early 1900s they branched into products for dairy farmers and the marketing of milk products. The Mt Gambier district had plenty of dairy farmers. It is now owned by a Japanese company Kirin but it still markets its chocolate milk drinks as Farmers Union. Upper floor has double pilasters (flattened pillars) with top volutes but little other decoration.
19.Savings Bank Building on the corner. The former Savings Bank in Gothic style is unusual for commercial premises in Mt Gambier. It is constructed of weathered local limestone and was built in 1906. Note the different cut stone for the foundations, simulated turrets on the corners and by the door to break the façade appearance and the stone line above the lower window which then divides the façade into equal thirds.
20.Macs Hotel. This hotel was built in 1864 and is largely unchanged except that the upper floor was added in 1881. The first licensee was a Scot named John MacDonald. The double veranda supports are very elegant.
21.Roller flourmill now a painted hardware store. Built 1885 as a steam flourmill in pink dolomite. Note the small 12 paned windows set in much larger indented niches in the walls on the northern wall. (Sturt St.)
22.Christ Church Anglican Church and hall. Dr Browne of Moorak donated half the money for the construction of Christ Church in pink dolomite and with an unusual gabled tower. Church and tower completed in 1866. Adjacent is the Jubilee Hall built in 1915, destroyed by fire in 1951, and rebuilt exactly the same in weathered local limestone blocks with the original foundation stone still in place. It has the single Gothic window in the street facing gable and a crenulated square tower. Adjoining it is the 1869 Sunday School with the narrow double pointed Gothic windows. It was extended in 1892. The lychgate is more recent as a memorial to a regular church goer, Margaret French who died in 1927.
23.The old railway station just visible along the rail lines to your right. The first rail line was to Beachport in 1879 and the second to Naracoorte (and so to Adelaide) in 1887. Portland and Melbourne line opened 1917. A spur line to Glencoe was completed in 1904. First station was erected in 1879. It was demolished for the erection of the current station in 1918 which is similar in design to those in Tailem Bend, Bordertown, Moonta etc. Bluebird rail cars started on the Mt Gambier run in 1953 when the old 3’6” gauge line to Wolseley was converted to 5’3”. The last passenger service to Adelaide finished in 1990 and the station closed for freight in 1995. The railyards were cleared in 2013 and the future of the station is bleak. The rail lines to Beachport and Glencoe closed in 1956/57.
24.The Old Courthouse, 42 Bay Rd. It has a great low wall suitable for sitting on. This well designed Georgian style Courthouse opened in 1865 and the similarly styled side wings were added in 1877. The front veranda, which is not Georgian in style, was added in 1880. In 1975 the Courthouse was granted to the National Trust for a museum. The adjoining new Courthouse opened in 1975 at the same time. Note the “blind” windows to the façade but the same rounded Georgian shaped, 16 paned windows on the sides.
The Blue Lake, Mt Schank and Volcanoes.
The jewel in the crown of Mt Gambier is undoubtedly the volcanic cone, the crater lakes especially the Blue Lake and the surrounding Botanic Gardens and parklands. The Botanic Garden on the north side was approved in 1872 but nothing happened about plantings and care until 1882. The first pleasure road through the saddle between the Blue Lake and the Valley Lake was created in the 1861 as a more direct road to the then newly created international port named Port MacDonnell. That is why the road is called the Bay road. Surveyor General George Goyder explored the lake surrounds himself in 1876 when he selected the site for the government tree nursery. Later the government established the first sawmill on the edge of the crater reserve near Moorak homestead in the early 1920s. The Centenary Tower was initiated in 1900 to celebrate the centenary of Captain Grant sighting Mt Gambier. It took several years to complete and was opened by the Chief Justice of SA Sir Samuel Way in 1907 but it was completed in 1904. The whole complex is a maar geomorphological formation which originated during a volcanic era about 28,000 years ago but in a second phase of volcanic activity 4,000 to 6,000 years ago the cones and lakes of Mt Gambier were created along with the cones of Mt Schank and Mt Burr near Millicent. Mt Gambier was the most recent volcanic explosion in Australia. The crater lakes are: Blue Lake, Valley Lake, Leg of Mutton Lake and Browne’s Lake (dry). The Blue Lake is linked to the aquifers beneath the deep layers of limestone which underlay the entire South East. Blue Lake is about 72 metres deep and some of the water in it is estimated to be about 500 years old but it is mixed with rain runoff each year as well. The Lake provides the water supply for Mt Gambier. Deep in the lake are examples of the oldest living organisms on earth- stromatalites. The lake changes colour from grey to vivid blue each November and reverts in the following April. The change in colour is related to the position of the sun and reflected light from suspended particles in the lake which reflect blue green light rather than brown grey light. Secondly the suspended matter only occurs because the water near the surface rises in temperature in the spring and it is this which causes the particles to precipitate out of the water. The precipitated matter settles on the bottom of the lake ready for a new cycle the following spring. Like the Blue Lake various sink holes in the district have linkages to the underlying aquifer through the layers of limestone too and they include Cave Gardens, Umpherstone, Piccaninni Ponds, etc.
Moorak Station and Tenison Woods College.
Moorak station as originally known as Mount Gambier Station established by George Glen in the 1840s. The leasehold was later taken over by David Power who in turn sold it to Fisher and Rochford who in turn sold the estate as freehold to the Scottish Dr William Browne who had established Booborowie run with his brother in 1843 north of Burra. The Browne brothers dissolved their partnership around 1865 and John went to live at Buckland Park and William took up residence at Moorak. William had purchased Moorak Station in 1862 and built the grand Moorak homestead in impressive Georgian style onto a smaller house there. William died in 1894 and the Moorak Estate passed to his son Colonel Percival Browne who was to disappear on the ill-fated voyage of the new steamer the Waratah in 1909 which disappeared during a storm off Durban, South Africa. Also on that voyage was Mrs. Agnes Hay (nee Gosse) of Mt Breckan Victor Harbor and Linden Park Estate Adelaide and some 200 other poor souls. Around 1909 the Moorak Station was subdivided for closer settlement and in the 1920s the Marist Brothers purchased the homestead with a little land for their and monastery and opened the Marist Brothers Agricultural College for boys in 1931. That college in turn merged with the Mater Christi College in 1972 to become Tenison College. (Mater Christi College had been formed in 1952 by the merger of the St Josephs Convent School (1880) and St Peters Parish School but the primary section of St Peters broke away in 1969 from Mater Christi College and formed a separate St Peters Primary School. This primary school in turn merged with Tenison College in 2001 to form Tenison Woods College!) The College name commemorates the work of Father Julian Tenison Woods who arrived in Mt Gambier in 1857 to work in Penola and Mt Gambier. It was he who encouraged Mary MacKillop to take her vows and establish her Sisters of St Joseph.
Dr Browne’s manager of Moorak Estate in 1868 introduced hops as a viable crop in the South East and large quantities were grown for about 20 years. Other early experimental crops grown included tobacco, cotton and flax. Dr Browne and Moorak were also important in the potato industry. Dr Browne leased around 830 acres to 20 tenants for the express purpose of growing potatoes. He was keen to emulate the British aristocracy although he was a good Scot with being a manorial style landlord with tenant farmers. Potatoes were also grown from the early years at Yahl, OB Flat and Compton near Mt Gambier. The potatoes were carted down to Port MacDonnell and shipped to Adelaide for consumers. As one of the major wool producers of Australia William Browne contributed roughly half of the funds for the erection of Christ Church Anglican in Mt Gambier. The Moorak estate consisted of around 11,000 acres of the most fertile volcanic soil in SA with another 2,000 acres in a nearby property, German Creek near Carpenter’s Rocks. Dr Browne ran Silky Lincolns on Moorak for their wool as Merinos did not fare well on the damp South East pastures. About 2,000 acres was in wheat, about 2,500 acres was tenanted to other farmers and around 4,000 acres were in lucerne, clover, rye and other pasture grasses. William Browne returned to live in England in 1866 so his sons could attend Eton and military training colleges there. He made regular trips to SA about every second year to oversee his many pastoral properties here. When he died in 1894 he left 100,000 acres of freehold land in SA to his children who all resided here as well as leasehold land. He was an extremely wealthy man. Son Percival took control of Moorak. Before Percival’s death Moorak Estate was partly purchased by the SA government in 1904 for closer settlement when they acquired around 1,000 acres. After Percival’s death a further 6,300 acres was acquired for closer settlement and the remainder of the estate was sold to other farmers. The government paid between £10 and £31 per acre for the land. Percival Browne was highly respected in Mt Gambier and a reserve around the Blue Lake is named after him. The fourth of the crater lakes of Mt Gambier is also named Browne’s Lake after the family but it has been dry for decades. In 1900 Colonel Browne planted the ring of English Oaks around what was to become the oval of the Marist Brothers College.
Moorak.
There is a memorial by the station to William Browne as founder of the Coriadale Sheep Stud. The great Moorak woolshed was demolished in 1939. The Union church which opened in 1920 was used by the Methodists and the Anglicans. It is now a private residence. Moorak hall was opened in 1926. New classrooms were added to the Moorak School in 1928 and the first rooms opened in 1913. The cheese factory in Moorak opened in 1913 as a cooperative and was sold to Farmers Union in 1949. They closed the factory in 1979. Most of the cheese produced at Moorak went to the Melbourne market. The first cheese maker at Moorak was trained at Lauterbach’s cheese factory at Woodside. Moorak was one of a circle of settlements around Mt Gambier that had butter/cheese factories. These towns were: Kongorong; Glencoe East; Glencoe West; Suttontown; Glenburnie; Mil Lel; Yahl; OB Flat; Moorak; Mt Schank; and Eight Mile Creek.
Yahl.
In the 1860s this tiny settlement was a tobacco, hop and potato growing district and it persisted with potatoes up until recent times. Today Yahl is little more than a suburban village of Mt Gambier with a Primary school with approx 120 students. The old government school was erected in 1879. It had a Methodist church built in 1880 which operated as a church until 1977 and it had a large butter factory which had opened in 1888. The butter and cheese factory was taken over by the OB Flat cheese factory in 1939 and the two operated in conjunction with each other. The OB Flat cheese factory closed in 1950 and all production moved to Yahl. The factory finally closed in 1971. The township of Yahl also had a General Store and a Salvation Army Hall which was built in 1919.
Sink Holes: Umpherston Gardens and Cave Gardens.
James Umpherston purchased land near Mt Gambier in 1864 which included a large sink hole or collapsed cavern with a lake in the bottom. He was born in Scotland in 1812 and came to SA in the 1850s with his brother William. William purchased his first land at Yahl in 1859. James Umpherston was a civic minded chap being a local councilor, a parliamentarian in Adelaide for two years and President of the Mt Gambier Agricultural and Horticultural Society for 13 years. When he retired from civic life and farming in 1884 he decided to create a garden in his sinkhole. He beautified it and encouraged visitors and even provided a boat in the lake for boat rides. Access was gained by steps and a path carved into the sinkhole walls. However after he died in 1900 the garden was ignored, became overgrown and was largely forgotten in 1949 when the Woods and Forests Department obtained the land for a new sawmill at Mt Gambier. By then the lake had dried up as the water table had fallen over the decades. In 1976 staff, rather than the government, decided to restore the Umpherstone gardens. The cleared out the rubbish that had been dumped in the sinkhole, restored the path access, trimmed the ivy and replanted the hydrangeas and tree ferns. In 1994 the Woos and Forests Department handed over the land around the sinkhole to the City of Mt Gambier. It was added to the SA Heritage Register in 1995.
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