New Norfolk. The second oldest Anglican Church in Australia built by convicts in 1823. The nave. The oldest Anglican was built at Windsor in 1820. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
New Norfolk. The second oldest Anglican Church in Australia built by convicts in 1823. The nave. The oldest Anglican was built at Windsor in 1820. / denisbin
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| 説明 | New Norfolk.Along the banks of the Derwent, the re-located settlers from Norfolk Island were settled here in 1807. 163 of the 554 people sent from Norfolk Island to Tasmania between 1807 and 1808 settled at New Norfolk. Some had been members of the 1788 first fleet to Botany Bay. Nine “first fleeters” are buried in the Methodist Chapel cemetery in New Norfolk. The free settlers of Norfolk Island were enticed with the offer of 4 acres for every one acre owned on Norfolk Island and up to 4 assigned convicts to work for them. The town has one of Australia’s oldest Anglican Churches, St Matthews Anglican Church built in 1823 (probably by convicts) and the oldest continuously licensed pub, the Old Bush Inn Hotel, first licensed in 1815. (The oldest existing church in Australia is St Matthew’s Anglican at Windsor designed by convict architect Francis Greenway and opened for services in 1820. St Luke’s of Liverpool opened in 1824 as did St James of King Street, Sydney). The area was visited by Governor Macquarie in 1811 and 1813 the town was laid out with a circus near its centre between Richmond and High streets. Macquarie named it Elizabeth Town after his wife but the locals did not accept that and persisted with New Norfolk. The first road to connect New Norfolk with Hobart was not built until 1818. A railway line reached the town in 1887. Many buildings in the town date from the 1820s and 1830s and the main commercial street is High street with the circus at one end and Arthur Square at the other. The New Norfolk area, especially near Ellendale, produces much of Australia’s hop crop. One old oast house for drying the hops is now a café on the outskirts of New Norfolk. It was built in 1867. Hops were taken to VDL by Paterson to the Launceston district in 1804 but hops were not successfully grown on a commercial basis until 1816 and harvested in 1818. Governor Arthur gave land grants of 200 acres to men willing to grow hops commercially. The hop industry was well established by the 1840s. Local industries today in New Norfolk include a nearby salmon hatchery and since 1941 a newspaper pulp mill. From 1926 wooden cloths pegs were made here too! The company used to make 1.4 million pegs a week until plastic took over. Timber felling is still an industry in the district, as is antiques and tourism. The big antique centre in Willow Court at 15 George Street has an unusual history. It was founded as the Barracks asylum for the mentally ill in 1827. It was rebuilt in 1836 to a design by Tasmanian architect John Lee Archer. It was officially closed as a mental facility in 200O. Another old building repurposed is the Drill Hall at 17 Stephen Street for the local militia. It is now the Old Drill Hall Emporium with more antiques. Some buildings to look for: at the centre of the circus and the start of High street is the Art Deco style Derwent Valley Chambers and the town’s War Memorial;at 8 Burnett Street is the former Methodist Church built in 1836 which was until recently the Uniting Church; Willow Court 15 George street; 17 Stephen St the Old Drill Hall Emporium; Bathurst Street St Matthews Anglican Church built 1823; 51 Montague Street the Old Bush Inn 1815; and 2 Hillside Crescent St Peters Catholic Church opened in 1887 but Catholic masses were held in New Norfolk from 1821. |
| 撮影日 | 2025-02-14 10:39:13 |
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