Peebinga. The tiny town was designed by Garden City planner Charles Reade. The Post Office made of local limestones. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Peebinga. The tiny town was designed by Garden City planner Charles Reade. The Post Office made of local limestones. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Peebinga and the Garden city movement. 5 km from border.This town, almost on the Victorian border, was named from an Aboriginal word for “place of pines” or a place where one can dig (about five feet to find water beneath the sand) - which was pichinga to the Ngarkat people. This got corrupted to Peebinga. Butcher’s Soak named after Mr Butcher the early pastoralist in this locality. Butcher’s Soak is one of only two permanent water supplies in the Murray Mallee. Beside the water soak is a fine stone cairn erected for the centenary of Peebinga in 2014. It details the history of schools, halls and other buildings in the district. Settlement occurred here as the soils were satisfactory. The Hundred of Peebinga was declared in 1912 and surveyed in 1915 and the town was gazetted in 1924. The town is above Goyder’s Line but half the hundred is within Goyder’s Line. The Peebinga Railway reached the proposed town site in 1914 with a line from Karoonda some 100 kms away. This line was always known as the “railway to nowhere” and no government towns were ever approved anywhere along the length of the line, except for the terminus- Peebinga. The grain rail services ceased in 1990 but the Viterra silos remain in the town. The government town planner Charles Reade who had designed Colonel Light Gardens (and Barmera) was given the task of designing the town. He used the principles of the “garden city” movement and produced a wonderful plan. Right angle corners were avoided; streets were curved with parks and shrubbery borders. A small semi-circular village green was the focal point of the village. The plan catered for several hundred town blocks. Only 14 were purchased in 1924 and few were built upon. One building was a town school which opened in 1925 and closed in 1965. The government school operated in the Peebinga Hall from 1925. The Mt Gambier limestone school room was constructed in 1927. The last teacher William Wilshire taught at Peebinga from 1946 to 1965. Another government school operated a short distance away at Butchers Soak. It opened in 1922 and closed in December 1926 when the new stone school in Peebinga was ready to open in February 1927. In the 1920s a Methodist minister visited the town once a fortnight to conduct church services in a house. Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist and Anglican Church services were held in the Peebinga Hall after its opening in 1925. The Catholic services were held from 1933 into the 1960s in Peebinga Hall and then they were moved to Paruna. The Peebinga Hall was demolished and replaced with a second galvanised iron Hall in 1968. It closed in 2002 as a Hall and is now a residence. The only church ever built in Peebinga was a transportable Methodist church erected in 1962. It closed in 2000 and was removed. Peebinga never prospered but two general stores existed in the 1920s. Only one survived for long and it closed in the 1980s. The locals complained because the train only ran once a week and sometimes not even that often. From 1922 the mixed goods/passenger steam train was replaced with a motorised rail car (a Brill car or Barwell Bull car). This operated for passengers until 1940 when petrol rationing was applied. Passenger train services ceased in the 1960s. Once Australian National Railways took over all SA railways in 1979 the line to Peebinga was closed for regular rail traffic by 1982 with just some annual grain trains running after the harvest until 1991. These trains carted superphosphate to Peebinga and returned with grain from the town silos. The silos at Peebinga were erected in 1964 and are still used by Viterra. Apart from grain, the SA Potato Company operates at Peebinga cropping 4,000 hectares in potatoes. They mainly grow Kestrel potatoes here. Properties in the district sell for over $1 million as they all have good water licenses. Today grain is transported by road to Port Adelaide. Reade’s original town plan is hard to distinguish now. The original Reade plan depicted above is from the Australian National Library Digital Maps Collections dated 1923. During the Great Depression of 1929 many farmers left the district and farms became bigger to remain viable. But even in the 1930s Peebinga still had football, netball and tennis teams. In the 1930s to the 1973 about seven local farmers had eucalyptus distilleries on their properties as the local eucalypts were high in oil content. The eucalyptus oil was sold to Faulding and Co. Charles Reade the first government town planner in Australia applied the Garden City movement principles to all his SA plans including the major ones of Colonel Light Gardens, Barmera and Peebinga but also a subdivision at Marleston (it was Galway Garden Suburb) and Kurralta Park and one at Broadview 1916 with lots of diagonal roads and a central square. Reade also designed the Thebarton oval and park complex 1917, and soldier memorial parks and arches at Victor Harbor and Jamestown and at least one children’s playground. His ideas were taken up by his successor Walter Griffiths who designed Bellevue( now Pasadena) in 1926. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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