Stockport. The Methodist Sunday School and Hall. Opened in 1923. Plumbago flowering. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Stockport. The Methodist Sunday School and Hall. Opened in 1923. Plumbago flowering. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Stockport. The Gilbert River was named after the first Colonial Storekeeper for the SA Company, Thomas Gilbert, and the last town astride this river before it joins the Light River at Hamley Bridge is Stockport. (Gilbert also became the first Post Master of SA in 1837 but he was never officially given this designation.) Edward John Eyre named the Gilbert River when he explored this valley in late 1839. Stockport has always been subject to periodic floods with last bad flood taking place in December 2010. But its location on the river adds charm. The first white land leaseholder in this area was Alexander McCulloch in 1841. Ten years later the Hundred of Light was surveyed and opened for settlement. The County of Light was declared in 1842 with the discovery of extensive copper deposits at Burra to the north in 1845. By 1850 bullock drivers regularly traversed this country on the way between Burra and Port Adelaide and so settlers were keen to take up land along these bullock ore routes. But a few settlers had managed to obtain surveyed land before the Hundred was declared. One such man was Samuel Stocks who took up land here in 1845. Stocks was born in Stockport Cheshire. That same year the Gilbert Arms Hotel was licensed where Stockport now stands. The bullock teamsters liked to camp overnight near a good water supply for their beasts. They also like a supply of alcohol for themselves! Unfortunately for Stocks he came to an early demise and died in 1863 at the age of 50 years. He had invested in the copper mines at Burra and bought up several town blocks in Stockport. But his affluence allowed him to spend his last days “in habits of intemperance”. He died at his home in Prospect. The town which was named after him was surveyed and declared in 1856 and by 1857 all the land around Stockport had been taken up by farmers usually on 80 to 100 acre blocks. From the start Stockport was an important town boosted by the bullock team traffic along the road to Burra. Edmund Bowman of Barton Vale and the Wakefield River runs bought a freehold section here in 1845. His sister Deborah had married William Forresters and she became the licensee of the Gilbert Arms Hotel with her husband between 1850 and 1852. Edmund Bowman had large flocks of sheep here in that period. But he also had land across the Gilbert River at Tarlee where the spot became known as Forresters.Early major structures in the town were the Stockport Hotel in 1865, the Gilbert Arms 1845(burnt down in 1894), and the North Brook Hotel 1872 – designed by architect Daniel Garlick. All three hotels had closed by 1890. The fine sandstone Wesleyan Methodist Church was built in 1865, (the Sunday School Hall was added in 1923) and the Baptist Church with the unusual front porch was built in 1868 – now it is the town caravan park. It closed in 1951. The Institute began in 1873 with a tiny stone room now the rear part of the hall. It operated here until 1930. The front hall was erected in 1900 as the Stockport Council Chambers. But that life was short lived and in 1910 it became the Stockport Hall. (Notice the different sizes of windows down the side walls.) The District Council of Stockport was absorbed into the Riverton District Council in 1930. The lifeblood for the town from 1870 was the Burra railway with the stationmaster’s house being erected in 1871 and the once fine stone railway station much later in 1898.The railway station has not been staffed since 1940 and the line closed in the 1980s.The first private school opened in Stockport in 1858 with the tin state school opening in 1884 with substantial additions in 1899 and 1925. The school master’s house was erected in 1881. The school closed in 1976. Although it is hard to believe today Stockport was an important little town with some industrial activity- it had a blacksmiths, flourmill (1860-95) and the District Council from 1865-1930. It was also the headquarters of the Wooroora Agricultural Society which ran the annual shows for Stockport, Hamley Bridge, and Tarlee. These shows were all held at Stockport until 1882. The first really big floods occurred in 1867 and 1873 but smaller early floods had made the locals choose an uphill site out of town for their cemetery. Today most outsiders only know about Stockport, if they have ever heard of it, because of the Astronomical Society of South Australia’s telescopes and observatory. There are two large observatories in the town and the Society has four public viewings a year. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-04-17 09:25:46 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |