Edithburgh. Old shops and the Edithbugh Hotel in the main street. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Edithburgh. Old shops and the Edithbugh Hotel in the main street. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Edithburgh- Salt Port.The government town for the Troubridge Agricultural Area in the 1869 Strangways Act was named after the wife of the governor of the time, Edith Fergusson. It is another grid town half encircled by parklands. It grew quickly as the major port of lower Yorke Peninsula handling both wheat and salt. From the 1890s it received cargoes of superphosphate for the wheat farmers following the work of Custance and Lawrie at Roseworthy Agricultural College on superphosphate. This improved wheat yields, almost doubling them with its application. The life blood of the town was the port. A steamer service to Port Adelaide operated from the early 1870s and took only a day, or night. Cricket matches against Adelaide teams were held in Edithburgh in summer months; boys sailed across from Our Boys Institute (a forerunner of the YMCA) for holiday camps; and holiday makers sailed from Adelaide to escape the summer heatwaves. Apart from the two hotels, Edithburgh had Sultana Guest House built in 1884 by Julius Gottschalck. It was the largest in the colony with over 50 rooms. After the depression of the 1890s it became a boarding house for workers in the salt industry and finally it became self contained holiday flats. Only a small portion of the original grand building remains as parts were demolished to turn it into three separate dwellings. One famous resident of Sultana House was Christian Reimers, a friend of the famous composer Robert Schumann. Reimers retired to Sultana House before eventually moving to Adelaide. In 1856 Reimers was given a three part cello movement as a Christmas present from his friend Robert Schumann. The piece has now been lost to the music world. Is it hiding amongst old papers in some house in Edithburgh or somewhere else?The Coast Steamship Company was formed in 1875 to take travellers and holiday makers across the gulf to Edithburgh and elsewhere. In 1881 it became the Yorke Peninsula Steamship Company and eventually it was amalgamated into the Adelaide Steamship Company which carried cargo to the Peninsula and ran the ever popular Gulf Trip. Cargo ships were still running in the 1930s with one of the last being the Karatta diesel ship. The Gulf Trip started in 1906 aboard the Rupara. Later ships for the one week excursion with meals and entertainment to places like Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie and the peninsula ports were the Mulcra, Momba and Minnipa. In 1931 the Adelaide Steamship Company put the Moonta into service for the Gulf Trip and it did its last voyage in 1955. |
| 撮影日 | 2011-01-14 09:58:19 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-S950 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.2 |