Gundagai. Old railway bridge and red roofed building was the former flourmill. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Gundagai. Old railway bridge and red roofed building was the former flourmill. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Gundagai. The Dog on the Tucker Box.This icon of Australia’s past is based around the song “Five Miles to Gundagai.” The dog was cast in Sydney from a Rusconi sculpture and he designed the base. It was unveiled by the Australian Prime Minister Joseph Lyons in 1932 as a memorial to Gundagai pioneers. The statue was inspired by a Bullocky Bill poem which was popular in the 1880s. The bullock team drover got bogged five miles from Gundagai and to make matters worse his dog shat on his tucker box! Nowadays his dog sat on his tucker box. This roadside stop on the Hume Highway sells fruit, drinks, souvenirs etc. The original poem was reworded and reprinted in the 1920s and the song was recorded in 1937. The Township. Intrepid explorers Hamilton Hume and Captain Hovell and party camped here on the banks of the mighty Murrumbidgee River in 1824. Just a couple of years later the first pastoralists took up land here and the spot became known as The Crossing. As The Crossing was on the road from Sydney to Port Phillip Bay District a tiny village emerged in the mid-1830s with the government laying out a town on the flood plains in 1838 despite warnings from the local Aboriginal people. Charles Sturt and Edward John Eyre passed through here on their overland trips to Adelaide in 1839. By 1843 the town had four hotels, a Post Office, several stores and a tiny school. The first Courthouse was erected in 1847. During the winter of 1852, after days of rain, the town was flooded. It was one of the worse natural disasters to ever hit Australia. 83 people were drown, 71 buildings were destroyed and more people would have been lost but for help from the local Aborigines, especially a man called Yarri. He rescued a total of 49 people in his traditional bark canoe when others failed to navigate the raging torrents to safety. Yarri was buried in the Gundagai cemetery in 1880. A sculpture to honour Yarri and the Wiradjuri people was erected in 2017. A new town above the flood plains was immediately rebuilt after the great flood. In 1853 Captain Cadell of Goolwa reached the town in his paddle steamer. Any town on a major river needs a bridge and the first bridge to cross the Murrumbidgee River was the Prince Alfred Bridge completed in 1866. It closed to traffic in 1976 and is one of four bridges across the Murrumbidgee in Gundagai. This fine old wooden bridge is now in disrepair and closed even to walkers. The second bridge was the wooden rail viaduct which is over 800 metres long. The railway reached Gundagai from Cootamundra in 1886 when the quaint wooden railway station was built. In 1899 work began on extending the railway line from Gundagai to Tumut which necessitated a railway viaduct over the Murrumbidgee and the river flats. This opened in 1902. The railway line closed in 1984 and the railway viaduct at Gundagai has not been used since. To the west of the two wooden bridges are the two bridges for the Hume Highway. These are the Sheahan bridges with the latest one only built a few years ago when the Hume Highway was duplicated here.In Sheridan Street (the early streets were named after European literary figures –Pope, Byron, Ovid, Virgil etc,) you can see the Gabriel Gallery for free upstairs in the Mitre 10 opposite the Criterion Hotel. Nearby is the Niagara Café which once provided a midnight meal for Australian Prime Minister John Curtin in 1942 along with two other politicians who later became Prime Ministers of Australia – Arthur Fadden and Ben Chifley. Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam visited the café in 2001. Next is the Catholic Church (1885). The architect was E.C Manfred who also designed the Tumut Catholic Church, Goulburn Cathedral etc. It has a set of 8 German stained glass windows. Further along Sheridan Street are the floodplain bridges and the town Cenotaph designed by marble sculptor Frank Rusconi. His cottage home is on the corner of Araluen Street where he worked on his marble masterpiece. This masterpiece was created from 1910 to 1938 using around 21,000 pieces of NSW marble of different colours and from 20 different quarries. It is truly remarkable. Rusconi was born in NSW but learnt marble carving in Europe. His notable works include Ryan family headstones in Galong cemetery, a marble stairway in Westminster Cathedral, the altar of the Tumut Catholic Church, the Gundagai Cenotaph (1928), the bronze of the Dog on the Tucker Box( 1932) etc. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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