Narromine NSW. The heritage listed railway station. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Narromine NSW. The heritage listed railway station. / 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 | Narromine. 3,500 people.After the explorers like Oxley and others, white squatters settled these parts in the mid-1830s. One of the early white pastoralists, Charles Wentworth who had crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813, named his property here Narromine in 1835. It is a Wiradjuri word meaning 'place of many lizards' or possibly 'place of honey'. A later owner of the property William O’Neill established a bush inn at the road junction when the railway came through his lands in 1882. In 1883 the government laid out a town around the railway siding. This site was chosen as a natural spring there could provide good quality water for the steam engines. The heritage listed railway station was erected in 1883. Opposite the railway station is a unique building. Shorts Butchery built in 1899 but look closely at the exterior and the interior and you will see hand painted ceramic tiles of beef cattle like tiles you might find in Harrods Food Hall in London. In its early days in 1893 Narromine had two royal visitors – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his friend Archduke Leopold of Tuscany. They came by train to go on a hunt and they shot around 300 animals from kangaroos and birds to one platypus. Some years later in 1914 Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated on a royal visit to Sarajevo thus starting World War One. Narromine’s other claim to fame is that it was the home to many well-known sports stars including cricketer Glenn McGrath and footballer David Gillespie. There is a statue of Glenn McGrath in a park by the old railway station. The old buildings of Narromine include the Imperial Hotel built in 1883, the Royal Hotel built in 1890 and the Courthouse Hotel built in 1899 with attractive cast iron lacework. Like Warren the district was transformed in 1967 when the Burrendong Dam on the Macquarie River was completed and irrigated crops became possible. It is now a thriving town and it has a strong gliding club and an aviation museum at the local airport. Narromine Airport played a role during World War Two when Narromine Aerodrome was handed over to the RAAF in 1940 for the establishment of No.5 Elementary Flying Training School. Late in 1944 no 618 Squadron of the Royal Air Force arrived in Narromine to attack Japanese shipping using Barnes Wallis’ spherical ‘bouncing bomb’, a smaller version of the Dambusters’ bomb. As the Japanese threat subsided the squadron never used their bombs. The bard of Western NSW Banjo Paterson also mentioned Narromine in a poem which he entitled “The City of Dreadful Thirst” which was published in 1899. The stranger came from Narromine and made his little joke--"They say we folks in Narromine are narrow-minded folk.But all the smartest men down here are puzzled to define A kind of new phenomenon that came to Narromine. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-09-26 15:52:18 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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