Bangor. In the Flinders Ranges and Germein Gorge. The ruins of the former Bangor Hotel.Built in 1888. Closed in 1911. . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Bangor. In the Flinders Ranges and Germein Gorge. The ruins of the former Bangor Hotel.Built in 1888. Closed in 1911. . / denisbin
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説明 | Bangor. Port Germein was created in 1878 by the government and it grew well because of the bullock teams bringing grain down from the Booleroo Centre district through Bangor Pass in the Flinders Ranges. Tiny Bangor was surveyed in 1853 and it was an island of surveyed land in a sea of pastoral leasehold land as it was originally surveyed as part of the Mt Remarkable Special Mining Survey of 20,000 acres in 1846. When the government released the first surveyed land in 1853 Alexander Campbell bought up several sections and built Glenorchy homestead on his farm. Apart from a few farmers taking up land nothing happened at Bangor until 1879 when a government road was created up Germein Gorge to link the new farming lands east with the port at Germein. A tiny town emerged at Bangor with a hotel opening in 1888 and trading until 1911; and a one-teacher school opening in 1887 and existing until 1964; and an unofficial Post Office which also opened in 1887 and operated until 1931. The schoolroom was a stone room attached to the stables of the Gorge Hotel! The Gorge was burnt out in the January 2014 bushfires but native vegetation has re-sprouted. An exciting period for Bangor was in 1884 when the possibility of a railway through the gorge was floated. A railway bill for the building of the Port Pire to Gladstone railway included options as far as Yunta passed in 1876. Then a lode of silver was discovered in the Barrier Ranges by a German shepherd in late 1883 and plans changed. By October 1884 a survey had been done on possible rail routes to the Barrier Ranges. One was to extend the line from Peterborough; another was to build a new line through Germein Gorge to Booleroo Centre and beyond; and a third was to build a line from Broken Hill to Morgan to link up with an existing a railway head. A railway through Germein Gorge would have been costly and this option was soon discounted despite that fact that it would have opened markets for the plains between the Flinders and Pekina and Narien Ranges. Eventually a railway reached Booleroo Centre from Gladstone and Laura which was the cheapest option. The railway to Hammond and Port Augusta had already reached Orroroo in 1881. The road through Germein Gorge was difficult and the government constructed a new road through it in 1934. It was bituminised very early for a country road in 1937. |
撮影日 | 2024-05-25 14:58:54 |
撮影者 | denisbin |
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カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
開放F値 | f/4.0 |