Red leaves of Virginina Creeper over the Gostwyck station Anglican Chapel built in 1922 near Uralla New South Wales. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Red leaves of Virginina Creeper over the Gostwyck station Anglican Chapel built in 1922 near Uralla New South Wales. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Gostwyck.Gostwyck Station is so much more than just a beautiful Anglican Chapel covered in red-leafed Virginian Creeper surrounded by majestic English Elm trees. It is the story of one of the earliest and wealthiest pastoral properties of New England. In 1832 Edward Gostwyck Cory squatted on land near Uralla to where Armidale now stands. Just two year later he sold the station which he had named after his grandfather to William Dangar and his brother from the Hunter Valley. The station was one of the largest in NSW. Dangar built himself a large octagonal woolshed in 1851 which he had designed himself. It is now part of Deargee station (sometimes spelt Deeargee.)In the 1850s the Dangar brothers got 14 year leases to their run which pastured over 20,000 sheep. Gradually a grand homestead was built by adding to the original 1840 residence in 1859 and again in 1871. By 1862 Gostwyck employed 23 full time shepherds plus another 14 full time staff. When shearing began 32 shearers descended on the property with 22 assistants. In 1862, for example Gostwyck employed 120 full time and casual employees. It was big business. But just a few years later everything changed. By 1869 Gostwyck covered a huge area including 30,000 acres of freehold land, hence the grander homestead. This was the period when land was being offered to selectors, small farmers, but the Dangars managed to buy up much of the land offered on their run. But the big change in 1869 was that all the paddocks were fenced by then with barbed wire. A mere 7 boundary riders had replaced the 23 shepherds. Gostwyck remained in the hands of the Dangars the great pioneering family of the 1830s for many decades to come. Henry had come to NSW in 1821 as a surveyor. He was the man who surveyed the Hunter River Valley for the government as it prepared the valley for free settlers. Henry also designed the layout of the city of Newcastle. For his government service he was given a large land grant in the centre of Newcastle and on this land Henry Dangar trialled a meat cannery works at one stage. He also acted as surveyor for the Australian Agricultural Company ( AAC) at Port Stephens. He surveyed 600,000 acres for them. He also took out his own leasehold land and so by 1850 the Dangar brothers at Gostwyck had more than 300,000 acres of leasehold. Henry Dangar eventually became a member of the Legislative Council of NSW from 1845 and he died in Sydney in 1861 with an estate valued at the huge sum of £280,000. Despite this social and political prominence a group of his assigned convicts on one his of his New England runs massacred a large group of Aboriginal people in 1838. The convicts were responsible for killing 28 women and children at Myall creek towards Inverell. Seven of the convicts were hung for murder but Henry Dangar clearly wanted the massacre to be forgotten. After the public investigation of this massacre and trial, future reprisals against Aboriginal people in New England were not reported to authorities. Some say Dangar sacked the shepherd who reported the Myall Creek Massacre to police. When one of the later generations to Henry Dangar was killed during World War One in France, Clive Dangar, his widow had the pretty little Anglican Church erected on Gostwyck as a memorial to her late husband. The English Elms along the driveway had been planted several decades earlier. The Dangars maintained ownership of Gostwyck until 1936. It was a 30,000 acre freehold estate still at that stage. Today it has been broken up into smaller properties hence the old shearing shed is on Deargee Station now. It is one of the largest and oldest woolsheds in New England with a diameter of 15 m. It was used by 24 blade shearers working in a circle. It also became one of the first sheds to use a Wolseley shearing machine in 1890. The three-tier roof designed by Henry Dangar possessed a clerestory of glass ventilators which allowed shearers to work in a well-lit and ventilated shearing shed.Gostwyck Station is near Uralla.Uralla. Henry Dumaresq of Saumarez took out his run in 1834 and it covered the area that is now the town of Uralla. The government reserved land for a town site here in 1849 as several bush tracks crossed here and Samuel McCrossin had established a bush inn here for the thirsty stockmen, drovers and travellers. A couple of years later a small gold find nearby at Rocky Creek started a mini gold rush to the district. The village of Uralla took shape. 5,000 men were on the goldfields near Uralla and by 1859 the small town had three hotels, a post office (an essential service in the 19th century) and a school. The village was gazetted in 1855 a year before further gold finds in 1856. Chinese miners outnumbered Europeans and the streets of Uralla sang to the high pitch of spoken Chinese. When the surface gold petered out the Chinese moved on to other fields. Some gold mining continued for around 30 years. But Uralla’s early claim to fame as a wheat growing district was short lived as another colony, South Australia outdid it. Uralla was opened up for selectors in the early 1860s and they grew wheat, despite the climate not being ideal. Samuel McCrossin established a large flour mill in the town in 1870 and it now houses an excellent local museum which is well worth visiting. As the area under wheat expanded rapidly in SA in the early 1870s the Uralla-Armidale district could not compete as they had an unfavourable climate, the wheat quality was poor, and they had no railway to transport it out to the coast. But Uralla survived as its hinterland was well watered and excellent for sheep and other forms of agriculture. Once the railway arrived in 1882 the future of the town was assured. It was declared a municipality in that same year. After World War One soldier settler blocks were created near Uralla and many orchards were established thus expanding the town’s population.Whilst in Uralla look out for: the Information Centre on the corner of Bridge Street and the New England Highway; Captain Thunderbolt’s grave site in the town cemetery on the eastern side; McCrossins Mill Museum and the Thunderbolt Collection( admission $6 or $4 for a concession); the old Phoenix Foundry which makes wrought iron lacework- it is now a museum and open for a small fee; the town heritage walk which points out a number of 19th century buildings; the amazing sculpture and art work in the Glen Park; the Military Museum in East street; the historic railway station; the Court House built 1885; the antique stores and bookshop along the New England Highway; and the fine old churches- Presbyterian, Anglican, Salvation Army and Catholic; and the many fine hotels, general stores and institute buildings. The town also has two galleries- the Barking Dog in Bridge Street and the Chaucer Gallery in Bridge Street. Note the names of some of the street such as Salisbury which refers to the other main historic property of the district apart from Gostwyck. Salisbury Court station is another of the great pastoral estates of New England. Make sure you look out for Joan Relke’s and Carl Merten’s Constellations of the South sculpture project. Funding came from Armidale and the town of Uralla in 2004. The sculptures are scattered in a set order in the Glen Park on the northern entrance to Uralla. They include a 19 metres obelisk and 8 granite boulders to represent the constellations of the Southern solstice. Metal work on the boulders was cast in the Phoenix Foundry in Uralla. The metal works are called Carina and the Spirit of the Southern Cross and they are not to be missed. Only two of the 8 granite boulders are yet in place. The obelisk is sited to lined up with the axis of the summer solstice and the boulders are arranged in a parabolic arc so that they are all equidistant from the obelisk. Captain Thunderbolt.Fred Ward or Captain Thunderbolt as he was later known was born near Tocal Station in the lower Hunter Valley in 1835. He worked at Tocal as a horse breaker in and a drover as he had a love and passion for working with horses. At age 21, Fred Ward was convicted of horse stealing whilst employed at Tocal and sentenced to ten years gaol. Four years later he was released on parole but he infringed his parole conditions by failing to turn up to a parolees muster and he was returned to gaol in 1861. In 1863 he escaped from gaol and began his life as a bushranger and escapee but first he married an Aboriginal woman and lived at Bourke for some time with his wife and two children. As an excellent horseman he could “ride like a thunderbolt” and thus this was the nickname ascribed to him. Between 1863 and 1869 he harassed travellers on the New England Tablelands but his drinking meant that he was nearly captured by police several times. He lived on his wits, his stolen earnings and he survived because of his excellent horsemanship. His escapade however, ended in May 1870 when he was shot by Constable Walker near Uralla. Thunderbolt was 36 years of age when shot. He was buried in the Uralla cemetery and the town now commemorates him with a large statue and his name on some rocks near where he was shot. Thunderbolt often used the granite boulders to hide behind before holding up travellers. |
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