Whyalla. Art Deco style and frescoes of the steelworks in the cement rendering. It was completed in 1939 as the city grew with a steel works and with shipbuilding. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Whyalla. Art Deco style and frescoes of the steelworks in the cement rendering. It was completed in 1939 as the city grew with a steel works and with shipbuilding. / 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 | Whyalla. Hummock Hill was sighted and named by Matthew Flinders in 1802 and soon after given French names by Captain Baudin. The first pastoral run was taken out in 1862. The town of Hummock Hill emerged in 1900 after BHP got leases on ore deposits in the ranges at what became Iron Knob back in 1886. The ore was used for flux in the Pire smelter. A BHP tramway was built from the coast to Iron Knob in 1901 and a port established with ore shipped out from 1903. By 1905 the settlement had a school, general store and a tin Institute. In 1916 the town name was changed to Whyalla. The new Institute opened in 1920 and the iron stone Whyalla Hotel opened in 1933 and was enlarged in 1940. From 1920 iron ore was shipped to the new steel works at Port Kembla in NSW. In 1937 BHP built a blast furnace at Whyalla and in 1939 BHP got a contract to build naval ships. The town grew rapidly because of this and the construction of a water pipeline from the River Murray ensued. The first ship was launched in 1941 named the HMAS Whyalla (650 tonnes) which is now part of the Information Centre. Defence installations were erected during the Second World War (1942) as Whyalla was a potential Japanese bombing target. After the war BHP built an integrated steel works in Whyalla (completed 1965) and built commercial ships. In 1960 Whyalla became a city. By 1976 Whyalla had 33,000 residents, the largest city outside of Adelaide but with the loss of shipbuilding the city’s population was down to 20,000 people but has now risen to 22,600. The 1940s buildings in the main street were built in local red ironstone are and quite distinctive and attractive. Mount Laura homestead dates from the pastoral era. Nicholsons took out a 288 square mile leasehold in 1919. An earlier owner M Good started building the homestead in 1910. Nicholsons built stone rooms in 1922 and enlarged it later. The National Trust acquired it in 1969. It is now their museum which includes the first BHP tin office from around 1914 which was located in Gray Street. BHP sold their Whyalla works to OneSteel in 2000 which changed its name to Arrium. Sanjeev Gupta bought the insolvent Arrium steelworks in 2017 and has revitalised it and the town as well thus brightening the future of Whyalla. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-11-06 11:01:48 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |