Thebarton. The 1927 plaque erected when Colonel William Lights Therberton Hall was demolished in 1926. Now inside the West End Brewery. Demolished by Colton Palmer and Preston and it s attached to the warehouse they built in 1927. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Thebarton. The 1927 plaque erected when Colonel William Lights Therberton Hall was demolished in 1926. Now inside the West End Brewery. Demolished by Colton Palmer and Preston and it s attached to the warehouse they built in 1927. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Light and Adelaide. Edward Gibbon Wakefield who had played a role in promoting the concept of the colony and had had help from the Duke of Wellington to get the SA Act passed in the British parliament hoped the capital of the new colony would be named Wellington. But King William IV was asked if he wanted the capital named after himself. He declined and asked for it to be named after his wife Adelaide. Not to be deterred when Edward Gibbon Wakefield established his New Zealand Company in 1839 his first settlement was named Wellington. It later became the capital of New Zealand. Colonel William Light was given the task of selecting the site for the new capital in line with set criteria and his own expertise. The capital had to have a nearby port, a river for a water supply and a hinterland of good arable land for farmers etc. Light discounted other sites including Rapid Bay, Port Lincoln and Encounter Bay because they did not meet all of these criteria and he chose the current site. It was a few miles from a safe port at Port Adelaide, had extensive fertile lands to the north and south, and as he had spent years in the Mediterranean he knew the orthographic effect would increase the rainfall of the Mount Lofty Ranges to provide adequate water in the River Torrens and other streams. Ground water was also available from wells and bores under the proposed city. He chose a spot safe from flooding which was a problem below the city site and also one with a zone of higher rainfall between it and the foothills. Although the site was criticised by some led by Governor Hindmarsh, hindsight has shown that Light could not have chosen a better location. He sited the cemetery below the residential areas on West Terrace and he selected North Adelaide for grander residences away from the commercial areas. But it was his actual plan for the city which earned him a great place in urban history. He knew from his days in the British Army that grid patterns worked well. But he introduced numerous squares and an encircling belt of parklands or green space. Colonel light was a well-read educated man and undoubtedly drew on the work of previous town planners. Perhaps he drew inspiration from the planners of beautiful Georgian Bath in the late 1700s with its grand boulevards, parks, terrace houses and arcs and curves. Or perhaps he was influenced by General James Oglethorpe, the designer of Savannah, Georgia which was done in 1733. Savannah has a grid plan, with each block divided by a narrow street and with 18 town squares. The wide main street of Savannah crosses five of the town squares, whereas in Light’s plan for Adelaide the wide main street (King William Street) only crosses Victoria Square. Savannah is not surrounded by a parkland belt. Colonel light was a world leader with this brilliant idea. At the end of the 19th century Light’s ideas were used in the garden city movement in Britain and America. Serendipitously these ideas were used by Charles Reade in the planning of Colonel Light Gardens. Light and Thebarton. Like all the other 1836/37 pioneer settlers and government officials, including Governor Hindmarsh, Colonel Light was able to purchase land at public auction. He purchased five town acre blocks at roughly £5 each near Hurtle Square and in Halifax Street. He also purchased section 1 of the Adelaide surrounds region of 134 acres facing the parklands and on the main road/proposed canal route to Port Adelaide. Light drew the ballot to select his first preference which was great luck. Colonel Light acquired his property in August 1838 after securing a bank loan.Shortly after this he subdivided 21 acres in the southern portion of his section into narrow city streets. The subdivision was undertaken by Boyle Finniss and Henry Nixon for Light Finniss and Co surveying company. Light suddenly had 252 Thebarton allotments to sell which would raise £1,764 if all sold. The streets were named Light Terrace, Chapel Street, George Street, Maria Street and Kintore Street crossways and Albert and Admella streets running north-south. Light still had 113 acres for himself and that is where he planned and deigned his house. He sited it on the banks of the River Torrens where Cawthorne Street is now located and the SA Brewing Company works. The main house had four brick rooms with a cellar beneath one and with a further four back rooms beyond near the well. On the western side the house had windows just beneath the roof line giving it a two storey appearance. It is believed that Colonel Light wanted these rooms for observations with his telescope of the Gulf and shipping. Light moved into the house which he called Theberton Hall (not a cottage) in January 1839 but by this time he was increasingly ill with tuberculosis. Sadly he died in the house. Maria Gandy inherited all of his estate, lands, drawings and papers. She stayed in the house even when she married Dr George Mayo in June 1840. In early 1841 they moved to Carrington Street and the house was put up for rent in the Register newspaper. It was described as having a fine garden, a stable, saddle room and a good well. Maria died of tuberculosis in 1847 and the Light lands remained in the control of trustees of Maria Mayo’s estate. All the lands in section one (over 100 acres) and the town acre blocks were subdivided in 1878 and sold. The Thebarton lands bought £20,000 and became known as Southwark. Maria’s children inherited the funds from her estate only when Dr George Mayo died in 1894. Just to the north of Colonel Light’s house across the River Torrens Governor John Hindmarsh purchased section 353 also of 134 acres. He then subdivided this in 1838 to create the village of Hindmarsh. This was one of several major land purchases Hindmarsh made. When his wife left the colony she took £12,500 back to England. The equivalent of many millions of dollars in today’s terms. Colonel Light’s house was purchased by the Hone family from the 1878 sale and they lived in it for some decades. It was sold in 1923 and some argued for the government or Thebarton Council to purchase it but nothing happened. Then Colton, Palmer and Preston purchased it in 1926 and demolished to expand their factory/warehouse. They were wholesalers and manufacturers of hardware, saddles, bicycles, lamps, clocks, artillery etc. The firm was bought out in 1965 and the site taken over by the SA Brewing Company. A memorial plaque was unveiled near the site of Light’s House in August 1927 but was later moved into the Brewing Companies premises. In 1995 a second plaque was erected by the Royal Geographical Society of SA in the brewery carpark north of the River Torrens in Hindmarsh. |
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