Galga in the Murray Mallee. The second Institute built in Galga. This Besser block hall was built in 1958 . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Galga in the Murray Mallee. The second Institute built in Galga. This Besser block hall was built in 1958 . / denisbin
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| 説明 | Galga. This forgotten township lies right on the northern boundary of the Hundred of Bandon which adjoins the Hundred of Bakara to its north. In the southern portion of the Hundred of Bandon is the township of Copeville. The Hundred was declared and surveyed in 1898. The first leasehold land was not taken up in the Hundred until 1904 when Alfred and Ludwig Kuehn took up sections. Freehold land was taken up from around 1909 to 1910. In 1915 the Kuehn bothers relinquished 40 acres of their leasehold for the surveying of the town of Galga. Both towns in the Hundred were sited along the Karoonda to Waikerie railway which was constructed in 1914. The township of Galga was surveyed in October 1915 by Mr A Thomas with 54 town blocks and it was gazetted as a town in February 1916. The Post Office opened in 1915 and was later moved into the general store which opened in 1921. That store finally closed in 1982. Alfred Kuehn donated two town allotments for a hall to be used as a school. The first limestone and red brick Galga Hall was built in 1921 but it was not used as a school until 1925. The school opened with sixteen pupils. It had a chequered history with greatest enrolments in the late 1950s and early 1960s when two teachers were appointed to the school from 1961 the year in which enrolments reached their greatest with 39 students. Weatherboard classrooms were added to the old stone hall to accommodate all the children at this time. The school closed in 1966 when the East Murray Area School was due to open in 1967. The schools best known student was Julie Lush (now Julie Anthony) who attended Galga School from 1959 onwards. She excelled at sport and singing and has been awarded and honoured as a great Australian soprano since the mid-1970s. She was awarded an OBE by Britain in 1980 and made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2007. She sang the National Anthem at the opening of the Sydney Olympic Games etc. She is sometimes known as the gal from Galga. She was born in Lameroo also in the Murray Mallee. The townspeople also got a ten acre grant from the government for an oval and sports field in the 1923. Once it had opened the hall was used for various church services. The public hall was used for both Congregational and Catholic church services for some years. Galga and Copeville were the only settlements along the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line that had a purpose built churches. The fine limestone and brick Gothic style St Pauls Lutheran Church opened in Galga in 1924. St Paul’s is now a private residence as is the old limestone public hall but Lutheran services were still being conducted in St Pauls in the mid-1980s. When times were good and prices for wool were high the residents of Galga built a new Besser brick public hall. It opened in 1958 but the old stone hall was still used as the school until 1966. But in 1962 the hall was sold to the Congregational Church to becomethe local church. The Congregational Church services in Galga began in 1931. These services were moved to the new hall in 1958 but moved back to the old hall in 1962 when it was purchased by the Congregational Church. The Congregational Church closed in January 1970. In the early days Catholic masses were held in the old hall. Priests from Karoonda and Waikerie visited Galga and conducted masses in the hall. When the Congregational Church closed in 1970 the old stone hall was sold to the Catholic Church in 1971 and it was blessed as St Francis of Assisi Catholic Church. It was still in use in the mid-1980s. A second Lutheran Congregation formed in Galga in 1939 and held services in the Galga hall. These services ceased in 1967 when two Lutheran congregations in Galga merged. Bulk handling of grain began in Galga in 1963 and the old wheat silos still remain beside the disused railway line. The railway line closed in 1994 but passenger services ceased in the 1970s. The town has a small cemetery a few kilometres outside the town and although there is no commercial activity in the town these days there is still an active country fire service station. In the last census Galga had 28 residents. The private owners of the Galga and Copeville silos Beverly and Trevor Heidrich of Lalirra Farms commissioned Riverland artist Jarrod Loxton to decoration the town’s silos. The project was completed in time for the 2023 Anzac Day celebrations in Galga. Loxton drew his inspiration for the silo art from the Anzac tradition. They purchased the Viterra silos of Galga and Copeville in 2021. They were able to get the silo art completed quickly as they funded it all themselves with no help from state or local government. The art work pays tribute to soldiers and returned soldiers and heroic POW nurse Vivian Bullwinkel. She was the only survivor when Japanese soldiers gunned down 100 over people including many nurses, women and children on an island in Indonesia. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-04-21 15:29:13 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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