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Stone wall edging the gardens at Jimbour homestead Queensland. / denisbin
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Stone wall edging the gardens at Jimbour homestead Queensland.

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説明Jimbour station was taken up by the Irish Bell family in 1844 but the original leaseholder was Richard Scougall who claimed Jimbour in 1841. He took up 300,000 acres and had a flock of 11,000 sheep by 1842 but when the leasehold was sold to Joshua Bell and his brothers they purchased around 5,000 acres. From 1844 Joshua Bell ran the property, which cost £3,200, with his brothers and he only took complete control of the estate in his own right in 1872. Consequently it was in 1874 when he started building his grand mansion on the property. In its early days Jimbour became a resting place for the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt when he was heading towards Darwin in 1864. Bell later became Sir Joshua Bell as he entered politics not long after QLD got its independence and separation from NSW in 1859. He was a government minister in various portfolios for many years. Bell was aristocratic in manner and built the grandest house on the Darling Downs. His riches came from his expert management of his sheep property and his business acumen. Sir Joshua Bell died in Brisbane in 1881 and the bank reclaimed Jimbour mansion from his estate just three years later! The sandstone for this grand French chateau style house was carted from the Bunya Mountains. 200 men were employed on building this house. The slate for the roof was imported from Wales. Work began on the house in 1874 finishing in 1876. It cost over £30,000. When the family moved in it had its own gas supply for lighting and piped water. But how did the Bell family loose Jimbour? Well in 1881 they kept 100 freehold acres around the house and formed a pastoral company to control the rest of the land. The pastoral company went bankrupt in the drought and depression of the early 1880s and the bank re-possessed the land in the early 1890s. The bank allowed Lady Bell and relatives to remain in the house until she moved to Brisbane in 1912. The QLD National Bank held Jimbour estate for some years and sold it for a £12,000 or thereabouts in the early 1920s to Charles Russell. By then much of the large estate had been broken down into farming lots and Charles Russell purchased less than 6,000 acres. The house was in ruins and the garden overgrown. Russell set about reroofing, replacing ceilings, and general restoration to make the house habitable again. The house formally re-opened in 1925. Charles Russell died in 1977 and the propertyis now owned by a company. It is used for weddings, functions and opera in the outback. The chapel at Jimbour was completed in 1868. The water tower was erected in the 1870s.
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