Lock. Eyre Peninsula. The statue honouring the hard phsyical work of the wheat lumpers who hauled the heavy bags of wheat from the farm to the railway to the port. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Lock. Eyre Peninsula. The statue honouring the hard phsyical work of the wheat lumpers who hauled the heavy bags of wheat from the farm to the railway to the port. / 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 | Lock.Leaseholders took up land here in the 1850s. Price Maurice took up 26 square miles of land in the 1850s which he named Terre Station. This was later sold to Samuel and Charles Goode in the 1860s. Their leaseholds were resumed by the government for closer settlement by 1888. The Hundred of McLachlan where Lock sits was declared in 1895 but no farming began at that time because of its distance from ports and railways. The sections in this Hundred varied in size from 2,370 acres to 11,000 acres. When the Hudnred was resurveyed in 1913 sections were around 500 to 1,500 acres more suitable for wheat farmers. Some farmers began to take up lands as the railway to Minnipa arrived in the district in 1913. Farming meant the Mallee scrub had to be cleared and Sunshine harvesters became popular from 1923 onwards but they were large and heavy and required draft horse team of eights. The first tractors were seen in the district in the mid-1930s but most farmers still had their draft horse teams. Water reached the district with the completion of the Tod Reservoir pipeline to Minnipa in 1924. Water was needed for stock and steam trains as well as households. The town of Lock was surveyed in 1918 and given that year it was named after a fallen soldier from World War One Albert Lock who worked in the survey department of SA before enlisting. Corporal Lock was killed in Belgium in 1917. A general store and post service began in 1918. The school opened as Terre Siding School in 1919 in the timber and iron Institute but was later changed to Lock School in 1935 when the school moved to its own site with weatherboard classrooms. In 1946 it became Lock Area School. Lock Area School currently has 56 pupils but in the 1960s it had a peak of 250 students. Electricity was connected to the school in 1967. The timber and iron Institute which opened in 1919 was replaced with a fine stone Institute in 1934 when the school moved out of it. A police officer was stationed at Lock from 1934 but the stone Police Station was not built until 1938. Until the 1940s travel to Adelaide from Lock was by train to Port Lincoln and then a connecting steamer like the Minnipa to Port Adelaide. By the 1930s Lock had a saddler, a bakery, a motor garage and the hotel which was built in 1933. The first church erected in Lock was the Lutheran Church built in 1934 although Lutheran church services began in the early 1920s. The second church was the Methodist Church also built in 1934 but services had started in the early 1920s. It is now demolished. Anglican services began in the 1920s but a church was not acquired until 1970 when the Anglicans purchased the former R.O.A.B (Buffaloes) lodge hall. Lock had Catholic masses in the Institute, the Lock Hotel and houses until the church was built in 1964. Lock also has a Free Presbyterian Church a breakaway group from the Presbyterian Church of Northern Ireland. Lock has an interesting town sculpture honouring the work of the wheat bag lumpers which was erected for the district centenary in 2014. Until 2019 the railway and the silos were the life blood of the town but the railway has ceased operations. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-11-17 13:43:56 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | SM-A505YN , samsung |
| 露出 | 1/2066 sec |
| 開放F値 | f/1.7 |