Farrell Flat. The grain silos have recently been painted highlighting the town's railway history and wheat growing. The railway reached Farrel Flat in 1870. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Farrell Flat. The grain silos have recently been painted highlighting the town's railway history and wheat growing. The railway reached Farrel Flat in 1870. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Farrell Flat.Farrell Flat was originally called Hanson. From the 1880s the town was known as Farrell’s Flat to the locals and officials. In 1940, when all punctuation was taken out of place names, the town officially became Farrell Flat, rather than Hanson. When the SA railways named their stations they called the town’s station Hanson from the opening of the rail line in 1870. The name Farrell Flat came from the Reverend James Farrell, the second Anglican Chaplain for the colony of SA from 1840 until 1866. Rev. Farrell capsized his buggy into a creek near the current town site hence his connection with the district! Farrell Flat was surveyed as a town in 1870 although the Hundred of Davies was surveyed a bit earlier in 1865. Before the surveying of the land for agricultural settlement the site of Farrell Flat was part of the original Gum Creek sheep station. Gum Creek station had several owners until bought by Sir Walter Watson Hughes of Watervale and the Moonta mines. He had no heirs so he left it to his nephew Sir John Duncan. Farrell Flat did not follow the typical George Goyder town plan of the 1870s with a north, south, east and west terraces bordering a central grid of streets surrounded by a parkland belt and then suburban blocks. Farrell Flat was not in the centre of the Hundred as was usual (Davies was) and it was created in a spot where two TSRs (Travelling Stock Routes) crossed. As the routes were over half a kilometre wide the town was fitted into this junction. By the 1870s the TSR routes were seldom used and the government had a policy of subdividing the TSRs into small farm blocks, or in this unique case, a town. Farrell Flat has some very old buildings and you need to look out for the old railway station which is identical to the ones at Saddleworth, Manoora, Merildin (near Mintaro) etc. Note that the “s” was painted out of the station name in 1940. All these fine stations were erected in 1898-99. The former Catholic Church, now a private residence is a well-designed and impressive structure. The Catholic Church of the Holy Angels was erected in 1873. Thirty years later parishioners complained that they could see their wheat fields through the cracks in the walls! Eventually the old church was demolished and the present structure was built in its place in 1912. This church closed and was sold in 1986. But the Catholics contributed in other ways to early Farrell Flat as they took charge of the town school from 1867. (Although the town was not surveyed until 1870 local farmers set up a provisional school here in 1864.) The Catholic Church paid the teacher and ran the school from 1867 until 1891 when the state school took over all education in Farrell Flat. From 1879 the town school was run in the former Council Chambers. It was 1922 before the government built a new school in Farrell Flat and 1929 before they built a headmaster’s residence. The school closed in 2019. The Wesleyan Methodist Church opened in 1878. In 1895 the trustees decided to raise the roof and gables by 3 or 4 feet, so a new roof line was constructed. These changes were to alleviate the walls cracking. In 1977 the church became the Uniting Church which closed in 2004 and was sold as a residence. Farrell Flat silo art was completed during the South Australian covid lockdown on 19 November 2020. The artists were first time silo artists Jarrod Sodden and Matthew Knights. The artists have been painting as a team for 15 years. They drew their inspiration from the railway history of the town and a beautiful sunset. The project was organised by a town Management Committee and funded by the Goyder Council which received a Commonwealth Drought grant. As with all silo art the work was computer planned and then pencilled onto the silo as the great artists did with their works on canvas. The background, sky and steam cloud were completed first and the details of the steam engine and wheat crop last. Cherry pickers were used by the artists to actually apply the paint with spray cans. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-01-18 10:57:39 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |