Watervale. Clare Valley. The Hughes Park estate school room for children of employees and the family. Built around 1900 at the rear of the house. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Watervale. Clare Valley. The Hughes Park estate school room for children of employees and the family. Built around 1900 at the rear of the house. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Hughes Park near Watervale. The first white pastoralist to have a leasehold over the land on the western edge of the Clare Valley was Walter Watson Hughes in 1851 called the Peak. His grand estate Hughes Park was established near Watervale and Skillogalee Creek in 1861. Hughes searched for copper in the hills on the edge of the Clare Valley but without success. The property he bought near Watervale was called Dalore which Hughes renamed. A fine stone cottage was on the property dating from the 1840s but Hughes was a wealthy man and so he had a grand mansion built here around 1862/3. Hughes built a large single storey dwelling with 72 acres of clipped lawn and a four acre clipped olive hedge garden. After Hughes’ return to England his nephew John Duncan lived here. In his youth Duncan had received part of his education at Stanley Grammar School in Watervale. In 1875 Hughes Park was given to John Duncan to occupy and Duncan enlarged and added a second storey to the mansion in 1900 with fine stone work and a three storey tower. John Duncan inherited Hughes Park in 1887 when Sir Walter Watson Hughes died. An ancestor of John Duncan still runs Hughes Park as a sheep property and wedding venue. The original stone cottage built at Hughes Park around 1845 is now available from bed and breakfast guests. John Duncan and his brother Walter Duncan inherited the grand Gum Creek estate beyond Clare too. Hughes placed his nephew Sir John Duncan in charge of Gum Creek (as well as the finances of the Moonta and Wallaroo mines) and Duncan eventually inherited the station of 50,000 acres in 1888. In 1871 Hughes donated £1 for every £2 raised by the Bible Christians of Watervale to pay off the mortgage for the erection of their church in 1867. Hughes also allowed the Adelaide Hunt to sometimes use Hughes Park for their hunt meeting. Sir Walter Watson Hughes owned Torrens Park House for some year which is now Scotch College. He gave the initial donation of £20,000 to found the University of Adelaide. He was a generous benefactor to other institutions too as he made a fortune from his Wallaroo and Moonta copper mining companies and smelters. Walter Watson Hughes and his wife Sophia never had any children of their own. Consequently when he died Hughes left his South Australian freehold lands – Hughes Park at Watervale and Gum Creek station near Booborowie and parts of his fortune to his nephew in South Australia – Sir John Duncan the son of Hughes’ sister who was married to John Duncan. Sir Walter Watson Hughes was buried near his London home in Chertsey, Surrey as was his wife Sophia who died in 1885. Hughes died on New Year’s Day 1887. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-09-23 16:51:51 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |