Balmoral. The glory vine covered Australia Post Office. Built in 1890 but the first Post Office in Balmoral opened in 1855. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Balmoral. The glory vine covered Australia Post Office. Built in 1890 but the first Post Office in Balmoral opened in 1855. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Balmoral on the Glenelg River. The Queen’s private Scottish residence. Queen Elizabeth came close to here (just 65 kms away) in February 1954 when she visited Hamilton and Portland. Major Thomas Mitchell explored the areas along the Glenelg River in 1836 calling it Australia Felix country well grassed with good rainfall and soils and suitable for crops and grazing. In the 1840s some pastoral runs were taken up in this region of NSW and some intrepid traveller used this district as an overland route from Adelaide to Melbourne by the mid-1840s and especially from 1851 as a route to the Victorian goldfields. Consequently a small bush inn opened at a suitable spot where it was easy to ford the Glenelg River. Same years later this spot was surveyed as the town of Balmoral on the Glenelg River. At that time in July 1852 Prince Albert purchased, although they had stayed there previously, Balmoral Castle in Scotland. As the district had a number of Scottish pastoralists and settlers the name Balmoral was chosen for the new town. Several streets have Scottish names- Stirling, Glendinning, Perth, Urquhart, Fairbairn and Bell.Old Woodlands pastoral run was established in 1854 on the edge of the newly surveyed town of Balmoral (1852). It fronted onto the Glenelg River and was chosen as it provided a site for a wool wash. The original homestead was built by Charles Wood in 1854. He was in partnership with the Clapham brothers who also had a wool washing or fellmongery business. This site was ideal for that. Charles Wood built a second homestead for himself and his wife in 1872 and it still stands overlooking the Glenelg River. It is partly brick and partly weatherboard. The original homestead built around 1854 burnt down in 1936. The most historic structure on the property is the barn made from flattened zinc coated tin roof tiles made under patent held by Morewood and Rogers of London. These tin roof tiles were used on many early 1840s and 1850s buildings in Western Victoria including a shed at Murndal Station not far away. Morewood and Rogers developed the zinc coated metal pressed roof tiles in the early 1840s and they were extensively used in Australia before galvanised iron was developed around 1850. When Charles Wood died a son continued the fellmongery business. When the railway from Horsham to Hamilton reached the town in 1920 a spur line was built to the fellmongery site to expedite transport of the washed wool. The railway line closed in 1979. After World War Two soldier settlement blocks boosted the town as the big pastoral estates were broken up and the expansive Rocklands reservoir was completed in 1953 providing water for towns and stock in the region. A high school opened in 1975 and it is now a reception to year 12 college. It has about 150 students. Balmoral developed slowly in the 1850s with a Post Office opening in 1855 and a school beginning in 1859. More development occurred in the 1860s and later. The current wooden Balmoral Post Office was built by the government in 1890. Although the town has few grand buildings there are many historic grand heritage listed homesteads in the district. The first church in the town was the stone Presbyterian as many early pastoralists and settlers were of Scottish background. It opened in 1865 and was designed by J S Jenkins an architect located in Hamilton. The Presbyterian was the only church in Balmoral until St Mary’s Anglican Church was built in 1895. Fund raising for a Catholic Church was progressing in 1891 and the Catholic Church opened just after the Anglican Church in 1895. It was not totally completed until 1933 when the Bishop of Ballarat laid a completion stone instead of a foundation stone. The old Presbyterian Church became a Uniting church in 1977 and it was still open for services in 2014 but it is now closed. Old buildings in the town include: the Mechanics Institute 1888 and the wooden Courthouse built in 1877 with the old stone police cells of 1866 behind it. A more modern Western Hotel is in the main street. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-04-03 11:00:34 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |