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Maryborough.
Scottish pastoralists the Simson brothers took up land for sheep farming here in 1840. A gold rush to the district began in March 1853 when alluvial gold was first discovered. Assistant Gold Commissioner James Daly named the goldfield Maryborough after his birthplace in Ireland. By spring of 1854 Maryborough had a population of 25,000 and the following year a town was surveyed and land offered for sale in 1855 with the town formally gazetted in 1857. Early structures were the police barracks and station, the gold assay office, hospital and the Wesleyan Methodist church. This first church was rebuilt around 1860 and is the oldest still standing church in Maryborough but it is now a private residence. Next door to this old church is a later Wesleyan Methodist church which was erected in 1886. It too is now privately owned awaiting a new function.
By the mid-1860s the town had a school, Anglican, Presbyterian( built 1860 and now the blue basalt stone Uniting Church) and Congregational churches, a gold assay office, an early fire station which still stands, stores, hotels, Mechanics Institute, hospital and all the necessary buildings for a growing town. In 1874-75 railway lines from four directions reached the town but the magnificent Federation style Dutch gable railway station was not erected until 1890. From the late 1870s the gold town stabilized and erected buildings worthy of a wealthy town including the impressive Post Office and Tower built 1878, the grand Town Hall built in 1887, the Courthouse constructed 1893 and the grand School of Mines which opened in 1890. Industry was established including brick works, flourmill, jam factory and horse carriage works. These were added to in the 20th century with textile mills and butter factories. By around 1900 Maryborough had several fine banks and churches for the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Catholics, Wesleyan, Primitive, and Bible Christian Methodists, Congregationalists and the Salvation Army. Gold mining ceased in the town in 1918. The town has a smaller population of around 7,000 people today compared with its gold rush era of 53,000 in 1856.
St Patrick's Cathedral in Ballarat’s church precinct along Dawson Street was built between 1857 and 1871. It was based on a design by English architect Charles Hansom, which was then modified by local architects Dowden and Ross and later by J. B. Denny who designed the eastern section. Reed, Smart and Tappin (who also designed Melbourne’s Mutual Store on Flinders Street) designed the decorations for the interior in 1891.
St Patrick's Cathedral is built of bluestone and comprises a five bay nave with aisles and clerestory, porches, transepts, side chapels, chancel and sacristies. It demonstrates outstanding craftsmanship particularly in the stencilled patterning on the boarded chancel ceiling, the stone carvings by Andrea Stombucco and the excellent examples of stained glass by Clayton and Bell of London, Mayer and Co. of Munich and Hardman and Co. of Birmingham.
The cathedral is significant for its association with the important English architect Charles Francis Hansom (1817 – 1888) who played a prominent role in the Gothic Revival in England during the 1840s. A number of his church designs were built in Victoria, sometimes modified by local architects, including St Patrick’s Church, Port Fairy and St Augustine’s Church, Creswick. St Patrick's Cathedral is Hansom's largest cathedral design in Australia, apart from the Adelaide Cathedral.
St Patrick's Cathedral is also significant for its association with the leader of the English Gothic revival movement, Augustus Welby Pugin (1812 – 1852), through J. B. Denny. Mr. Denny, who had worked with Augustus Pugin in England, was responsible for the final form of the cathedral.
The participation of the local community in financing a church of such an impressive scale demonstrates the importance placed in the church as a symbol of the faith and identity of the Catholic community in Ballarat.
The cast iron gates and fence around the perimeter of the complex, designed in an elaborate gothic style with crowned piers demonstrate outstanding craftsmanship.
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Bridge FTP00133
No date. After 1867.
Bluestone bridge constructed by Moses Thomas.
"The Morang Bridge, over the River Plenty, was formally opened on Friday last by Mr Moses Thomas, in the unavoidable absence of Mr Wilton, chairman of the board. Mr Watkins, M.P., attended, and in the course of his speech congratulated the assemblage upon the completion of the bridge, observing that good roads and bridges had a moral and intellectual as well as commercial influence upon the people of a district."
COUNTRY NEWS. (1867, February 18). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2019, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155034008
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Fay Thomas Collection
Moses Thomas was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria. Thomas and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, Victoria.
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Guiding Star Bridge crossing the Kororoit Creek. c.1889.
a.k.a. Brooklyn Bluestone Bridge .
a.k.a. Old Geelong Road Bridge.
Kororoit Creek was originally called 'Tea Tree Creek'.
Brooklyn.
Victoria.
What is Significant? - The Bluestone Bridge over Kororoit Creek, comprising the bridge constructed in 1889 and altered in 1912 and the adjoining remnants of the old Geelong Road, off the Princes Highway (Geelong Road) near Clelland Road, Brooklyn.
How is it Significant? - The Blueston Bridge over Kororoit Creek, Brooklyn is of local historic, technical and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.
Why is it Significant? - Historically, the bridge is significant as the oldest surviving road bridge within the municipality and one of a small number of stone bridges from this era, which survive on a major roadway reserve in the metropolitan area. It is an integral element, which illustrates the early development and alignment of the Geelong Road reserve, which was one of the first to be surveyed in the Colony by Hoddle in the pre-1840 period. (AHC criteria A4 and B2)
Technically, the bridge is significant as an unusual hybrid bluestone and concrete bridge, which demonstrates how these structures were adapted to meet new standards. The surviving approach roads are also significant as rare examples of early road construction. (AHC criterion F1)
Aesthetically, the bridge is significant as an example of an early stone bridge, which is notable for the elegant series of segment arches that are reminiscent of early colonial bridges in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania. (AHC criteria E1)
Heritage link - vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/result_detail/22448?print=...
VIC Heritage FILE - B1906
VIC Heritage Significance - Local.
Current Municipality - Maribyrnong City.
Recorded by National Trust.
The Creek was originally referred to as "Tee Tree Creek" by the settlers who arrived after Wedge in 1835. This name reflects the kind of shrubbery (leptospermum obvatum - wooly tea tree) which lined its banks in those days.
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Great atmosphere for Belgian staples like a kilogram pot of mussels and fries.
Belgian Beer Cafe Bluestone
(03) 9529 2899
557 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne VIC 3004
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Runaway Jodi (#2)
Dr: Matthew Stelick
Tr: Joe Davidson
Hemlock Slugger (#3)
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Bartender Blues (#4)
Dr-Tr: Robert Williams III
Won For Five Psp (#5)
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Tr: Ron Wrenn
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Dr: Scott Altizer
Tr: Craig Sebert
Bluestone (#7)
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Tr: Scott De Mull
Bluestone Lake is an artificial lake on the New River south of Hinton, West Virginia. It was formed by the construction of the Bluestone Dam a little ways downstream; constructed between 1941 and 1952.
The lake is a popular spot for fishing and water recreation; bounded by Bluestone State Park. It also happened to be a bit frozen on the day I shot this scene; back at the end of 2000...