Blyth. The interior of the Institue and Town Hall building. First part built 1893 and enlarged 1904. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Blyth. The interior of the Institue and Town Hall building. First part built 1893 and enlarged 1904. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Blyth.This small town of 300, with reliable annual rainfall of over 420mm was founded in 1875. But the Hundred of Blyth was declared in 1860 and named after Sir Arthur Blyth a successful SA businessman and politician who had arrived in the colony in 1839. Sir Arthur Blyth was Premier of South Australia three times albeit for short periods of time. Before the declaration of the Hundred of Blyth the area was under pastoral leases to local pastoralists from Clare such as Edward Gleeson and George Hawker of Bungaree and the Jacob brothers. The town grew with the arrival of the railway in 1875 after it was extended from the previous terminus at Hoyleton. Once it reached Blyth there was much agitation in Clare about having a railway built from Blyth to Clare but this never happened. The fine stone gable ended railway station was erected in Blyth in 1878. The railway line was then later extended northwards again in 1894 to go on to Yacka, Georgetown and connect with the existing railway network at Gladstone. The historic buildings and structures of Blyth include the Blyth Hotel which opened in 1876 with an upper storey added in 1910 and the old Lutheran St Petrie church built in 1886 and closed in 1969 - it is now the Medika Art Gallery known for its beautiful Australian bird and plant paintings of artist Ian Roberts. He sells items with reproduced images of his paintings on place mats, mugs and jewellery etc. In its heyday the town had a butter factory (the 1890s), the school which opened in 1878, and a Wesleyan Church which opened in 1878. The hospital, one of the first government hospitals, and the Catholic Church both opened in 1911. Alas the hospital is now closed despite additions in the 1930s and 1970s and the large Catholic Church was demolished in 1982 to make way for the Burkanendi Homes for the Aged. The Institute and Town hall was built in 1904 when two front rooms were added to the Blyth Hall which had been built in 1893 by the Institute Committee. In 1904 one of the new rooms was for the Council and the other for the Institute Library. The hall was enlarged again in 1932 when movie pictures were shown for the first time in the hall. Some church services began in the hall. In 1909 an Anglican Church opened although services had begun earlier in 1901 in the institute hall. In more recent times a new Lutheran Church was built in 1970 and today it is the only church still open for worship in Blyth. The German family of Roderick Buzacott ran a coach building business in Blyth for many years with up to 40 employees. It started in 1891 and finally closed in 1929 as motor cars replaced horses and coaches. The town had several stores and a bank. As around half of the settlers of the district were of German Lutheran background it also had a Eudunda Farmers’ Cooperative Store. Store number Nine operated in Blyth from 1908 to 1984 when it was sold. Sir Lyell McEwin and Lady McEwin who had property at nearby Hart were both buried in the Blyth cemetery. The fine old railway station in Blyth has been closed since the rail services to Gladstone ceased around 1980. The tracks were torn up and the station is now used by a trucking company but it is in a terrible state of disrepair. The old English Scottish and Australian Bank in the town closed in 1942. Blyth also had a second Lutheran Church apart from St Petrie. It was built in 1909 on South terrace and demolished in 1970 to make way for a newly built third Lutheran Church. Trinity Lutheran opened in 1971. From 1881 to 1909 the congregation met in the disused Wesleyan Methodist church near Blyth cemetery. In the early years Blyth also had a flourmill as it was basically a wheat growing district. The flourmill opened in 1897 near the railway station. Benjamin Deland and his family ran the mill from its inception until its closure in 1920. Mr Deland died in 1906. The last vestiges of the flour mill were demolished in the 1940s. Blyth was the site of an experiment in land development. The Working Men’s Block scheme was instigated by the SA government in 1885 after much agitation for the scheme from George Cotton a member of the Legislative Council. He formed the Homestead League in 1885 to promote the legislation. The scheme was based on small acreages of up to 20 acres being made available at low rental cost to working men so that they could grow fruit, vegetables, keep a cow, chickens and a few pigs etc to supplement their incomes. Further legislation in 1891 permitted “blockers” to purchase their land at low cost. Blocks were especially created along the old Travelling Stock Routes across the state including along the Clare to Lochiel Road. In 1887 seventeen blocks on the road to Lochiel were created but the scheme was not successful. The blocks still remain there as large housing blocks. A second release of blocks on the Clare Road east of the town parklands was much more successful as the creeks from the Clare Hills provided more reliable water. These blocks eventually were turned into broad acre paddocks or added to existing farms and there is no sign that this “blockers” scheme ever existed here. |
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