Burra. Copper mining town from 1845. Tivers Row of miners cottages for rental erected by local businessman Tiver in 1856 in Truro Street Redruth. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Burra. Copper mining town from 1845. Tivers Row of miners cottages for rental erected by local businessman Tiver in 1856 in Truro Street Redruth. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Redruth.The SA Mining Company established Kooringa or Burra as it was more usually known in 1845 as the great copper mine at Burra opened. The government owned land to the north of this and surveyed an adjoining government town in 1848 with the town lots being sold in early 1849. In this government town a goal was built, a Courthouse and an early police station and lockup. Although surrounded by Hampton an English settlement, Aberdeen a Scottish settlement and Llwchwr a Welsh settlement, the government town of Redruth was not English but primarily a Cornish settlement. It eventually had two Methodist Churches. The Primitive Methodists opened a small church in 1858 which is now privately owned and the Wesleyan Methodists opened a much grander and larger church in 1874. After Methodist Union in 1900 the Wesleyan Church became the Methodist Church. In 1924 a grand Sunday school was opened next door to this church. The Zion Primitive Methodist Church closed in 1900 and the Wesleyan Church closed in more recent decades.A large gaol was erected at Redruth in 1856 and it was the first gaol outside of Adelaide as Burra was such a big centre of population in the colony at that time. The gaol closed in 1894 and became a reformatory for wayward girls but this too closed in 1922. It is now run by the National Trust. The fine old Courthouse in Redruth was opened in 1857 and only closed in 1986. The Italianate style Police station was erected in 1879 and was used for this purpose until 1971. Redruth had a hotel, and it was on the edge of the SAMA copper smelters. Redruth was named after the same place in Cornwall as most of the miners living there had migrated to SA from Cornwall. Among the early buyers of land in Redruth was William Paxton a chemist of Adelaide and a major investor in the Burra copper mining company. In Kooringa (Burra) be built a square of miners cottages which were rented to the mine workers. Paxton built his city house on North Terrace and it later became Ayers House. Henry Ayers, another mining company director and Premier of SA lived in it and eventually purchased it from Paxton after Paxton returned to live in England in 1855. A charming row of six Cornish miners’ terraces was built in Redruth from 8 to 18 Truro Road by James Tiver a local storekeeper in 1856. They are known as Tivers’ Row. Aberdeen.The township of Aberdeen was a private town west of the government town of Redruth. Next to the town of Aberdeen was the Bon accord copper mine. The town was subdivided by Robert Morehead and Matthew Young in 1849 when they advertised 144 town lots for sale. But their auction attracted only 20 buyers and Aberdeen never thrived. The railway line reached Aberdeen in 1870. The magnificent stone station was erected much later in 1883 with some later additions. The railway line closed to passengers in 1986 and the station was left derelict but grain trains serviced the grain silos until 1999. The Burra railway station has now been beautifully restored and it reopened in 2014 as a museum. Near the railway station are sale yards and the Bon Accord Hotel named after the Aberdeen copper mine. The first Bon Accord Hotel was built in the 1850s but destroyed by fire in 1879. The current Bon Accord Hotel was erected in 1880 although the sign on the building says established in 1875!The Bon Accord mine was established by a group of Scottish investors from Aberdeen hoping to make a fortune like investors in the Burra mine had done. But they had no luck. No worthwhile lode of copper was ever discovered at Bon Accord. Mining operations opened in 1846 and closed in 1849 when land was sold to create the township of Aberdeen to raise some funds. Work started again in 1858 and continued until 1862 but again no worthwhile returns were obtained. It was in this period from 1858 to 1862 that most of the above ground mine structures were built – mine offices, blacksmith’s shop, mine managers residence, pump house etc. When the Burra Mine pump house closed in 1877 and the water levels rose the Bon Accord mine shafts were flooded and no work was ever again undertaken. The pumps though were operated to pump water for the town water supply until the Murray pipeline from Mannum reached the Burra district in 1966. The above ground mine buildings still remain and are operated by the National Trust as a mining museum. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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