Dunolly. Old advertising sign on the former chemist shop. A pharmacists jar. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Dunolly. Old advertising sign on the former chemist shop. A pharmacists jar. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Dunolly.This charming historic town in the Victorian goldfields belt owes it very existence to gold. The first pastoral land was taken up here in 1845 by Archibald McDougall. When gold nuggets were discovered in the forest at nearby Moliagul in 1852 the current land owner at that time created a private town in 1854. McDougall in 1845 had named his property after Dunolly Castle in Scotland so although he had gone by then that was the name given to the new town. It spurted into life two years later when gold finds were made close to the town in 1856. Within a few months Dunolly had 15,000 diggers and inhabitants. Most left in 1858 but some gold mining continued for many years and the town has an air of faded elegance from these wealthy days. In the late 1850s/early 1860s many fine buildings were erected: an Anglican school hall (1857), a Court House (1862), a hospital (1860), the Railway Hotel under another name( 1858), the Bendigo Hotel and Cobb and Co Offices (1857), the Methodist Church (1863), the Town Hall (1862), the Presbyterian Church (1864), etc. The railway from Melbourne and Maryborough reached the town in 1874 on its way to St Arnaud which was when the railway station was built. When the gold finds withered wheat became the main activity and the town had a flour mill erected in 1873 which was replaced by a newer one in 1893. More churches and more hotels and a Cobb and Co Office were built in the 1870s and beyond. Other later heritage buildings in the town include the Catholic Church built in 1871, some fine banks built in the 1870s, the Anglican Church designed by Bendigo architect William Vahland in 1870 and the nearby rectory (1864 also by Vahland), the second Courthouse in polychromatic brick work in 1884(now the Town Hall) and the amazingly large Post Office and clock tower which was erected in 1891. The Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School was built in 1886. The fine two storey mansion called Bellevue was built in 1869 for local shop keeper James Bell. James Bell (1836-1908) was a Scot who emigrated to Victoria in 1857. He started a grocery business in Dunolly in that year. He went on to become the Mayor of Dunolly from 1862 to 1865. He later became a bank director and businessman in Melbourne. He entered the Victorian parliament in 1880 and served as an MP until 1904. He died in Melbourne in 1908. In 1869 at Moliagul the largest gold nugget in the world for that time was discovered- The Welcome Stranger weighing 2,280 ounces. It was melted down for the gold but a replica is held in the Dunolly town museum. By 1875 the town of Dunolly had slipped back to around 1,500 permanent residents. The Chinese from the gold mining days had also gone by then but some are buried in the town cemetery. In World War Two (1943) a huge tin shed grain storage was built in Dunolly called a stick shed as thousands of gum poles held it together. Another one was built in Murtoa (heritage listed) which still exists but the Dunolly Stick Shed was demolished in 1987. Train services to Dunolly ceased in 1980. Behind the main street you can find an old painted advertisement for Kitchen’s Velvet Soap on a red brick wall. John Kitchen (1835-1925) moved from England to Victoria in 1854 and began a business as a candle maker. He bought up competing firms and established his major business in Melbourne in 1870 making soap and candles. He was thus a chandler as both candles and soap were made from animal fats, mainly sheep, which were produced in boiling down works. By the 1880s he had 300 employees and when the firm of Kitchen and Sons was merged with Lever Bros from England in 1914 the Kitchen factory had 1,000 employees. Kitchens introduced Velvet Soap in 1906 and later Solvol Soap in 1916. Velvet Soap had the tag of “Washes Linen Snow White”. The name Kitchen was dropped from the Levers Company in 1976. Several of Dunolly’s heritage buildings are on the Register of the National Estate. Today it survives on tourism and grain handling for the surrounding farm lands. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-04-06 11:21:25 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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