Carcoar. Horse riders and 4WD in this heritage village. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Carcoar. Horse riders and 4WD in this heritage village. / 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 | Carcoar. The whole village of Carcoar is classified by the National Trust of NSW. Thomas Icely’s land covered the site of Carcoar as well as Blayney. The town was established in 1839 making it the third settlement west of the Blue Mountains after Bathurst and Wellington. Consequently it has dozens of attractive, historic and interesting buildings for you to look at and explore. It has the second oldest church west of the Dividing Range- St Paul’s Anglican Church which was built in 1845 by architect Edmund Blacket for the only Anglican Bishop of Australia, William Broughton. (The river and port in SA are named after him. When he left Sydney in 1854 the colonies set up their own Anglican bishops and NSW only had a Bishop of NSW.) The church was one of the first in the Gothic revival style of architecture unlike the Georgian style churches at Windsor, Richmond and Sydney. This style became the norm for Australia very quickly. The first services in the new church began in 1848.The rectory opposite was built in 1849. The first government buildings of Carcoar date from the late 1830s when this was the “wild west” of NSW but they have all been demolished. The police station and court house were especially busy in the 1840s. The current police and court house date from the 1880s. Most of the buildings in town date from the 1850s or later. One of the oldest buildings in town is the old stable built by convicts in 1849. It is now the town museum. The old hospital, Uralba is another of the older buildings in town as it dates from 1852. It is now an aged care facility. Carcoar was a staging point for the Cobb and Co stage coaches as it is almost equidistance from Orange, Bathurst and Cowra. Travellers and coach drivers were always thirsty and so the town had seven hotels by the 1860s. The town eventually got a railway station in 1888 but it was a branch line that failed to boost the town’s prosperity by the time it reached it. Carcoar’s heyday was in the 1850s during the gold rushes and in the 1860s. Because of its prosperity it became a target for escaped convicts and bushrangers. In 1863 Australia's first daylight bank robbery took place in Carcoar. Johnny Gilbert and John O'Meally held up the Commercial Bank but fled empty-handed when a teller in the bank fired a shot at the ceiling, thus alerting the town residents to the holdup. The bushrangers escaped. Another time the Presbyterian minister James Adam was held up by Ben Hall who finally decided not to rob him! Frank Gardiner, a ticket of leave man broke his parole conditions and took up cattle thieving in the district |
| 撮影日 | 2010-04-17 10:33:48 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-S950 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/10.5 |