Willowie Station near Melrose. Stone shearing shed built in 1876. it has deep pits beneath to make removal of sheep manure easier. It was a 23 stand shed. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Willowie Station near Melrose. Stone shearing shed built in 1876. it has deep pits beneath to make removal of sheep manure easier. It was a 23 stand shed. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | John Howard Angas of Collingrove started amassing pastoral leases in the Melrose district in 1851 and 30 years later he had garnered 22,000 square miles of land. He began with also purchasing three 80 sections from the Mt Remarkable Special Mining Survey where he built “Old Willowie” homestead and later the shearing shed in 1876 along the Willochra Creek. He purchased more freehold land in 1858 and 1859 and eventually had 80% of the freehold of the 20,000 acres Special Mining Survey of 1846. He later purchased thousands of acres from other early landowners in the district and leased even more land. A beautiful stone homestead was erected in 1873 to replace the first pug and pine homestead. This was used by Angas on his visits and by his manager A Whitby who managed the property from 1865 onwards. A Lodge or gatehouse was also constructed on the grand estate as well as coach houses with rounded double doorways, stables, stores, etc. The initials JHA for John Howard Angas were carved into one of the keystones on the woodshed and dated 1874. It is now classified by the National Trust although part of it has been demolished. 45,000 to 50,000 sheep were shorn on the property each year and the shearing shed allowed 40 shearers to work in it. John Howard Angas donated to the building of the Wesleyan Methodist church in Melrose and the Institute. Mt Remarkable Estate also had a large dairy along Willochra Creek. In 1882 this run of thousands of acres freehold and nearly 9,000 square miles of leasehold land was sold to the Willowie Land and Pastoral Company as Angas prepared to retire. Thirteen men compromised the shareholders of the Willowie Pastoral Company. The Company paid £310,000 for the property. The Company never prospered as Angas had and it eventually in 1896 gave him 3,000 shares to discharge a debt to him. Thus Angas ended up being a major shareholder in the Willowie Pastoral Company. Whitby continued as the property manager until he retired in 1898. In 1905 the Company sold some of its land to local farmers. Then in 1916 the run was resumed by the government for closer settlement in line with the 1915 Returned Soldiers Settlement Act. The Willowie Company sold nearly 45,000 acres back to the government and most of this was converted to Soldiers Settlement blocks for war veterans from the First World War. But around 4,000 acres were retained by the government for the Department of Agriculture to run a farm training scheme. The training school here began in 1916 for 27 trainees. Soldiers were taught how to grow grain and raise sheep. After training the returning soldiers selected a soldier settler block from the lands of the Mt Remarkable estate if they had been successful with their training. The training school closed in early 1921. Across the Willochra Creek the government built the Gregory School in 1925 on the Mt Remarkable lands to cater for the increased population but few of the soldier settlers remained in the district long term and their lands were purchased by other farmers. The Hundred of Gregory School closed in 1946. Mt Remarkable/Willowie was eventually divided into Gumville farm with the old homestead and outbuildings and Willowie with the grand 1874 woolshed. By the 1970 the McCallum family owned Gumville and its lands. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-10-31 16:08:58 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.025 sec (1/40) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |