Mallala. St Peters Anglican Church built in 1884. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mallala. St Peters Anglican Church built in 1884. / 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 | Mallala.Philip Butler of Yattalunga at One Tree Hill got pastoral lease land along the Light River in 1846. When the Hundred of Grace was declared in 1856 there was no rush of settlers and Philip Butler bought up large areas of freehold land. Butler returned to England in 1873 but his brother Richard and his nephew who inherited Yattalunga eventually moved down to live on their Mallala Station. They became wheat farmers and politicians. Richard Butler was a government minister and Premier of SA in 1905. His son Sir Richard Layton Butler was Premier of SA from 1927-30 and again from 1933-37. A third Butler brother called Daniel also farmed and lived near Mallala. (Richard Butler sold Mallala Station in 1927). As staunch Anglicans the Butlers were instrumental in getting the Anglican Church of St. Peter opened in Mallala in 1884. The Butlers contributed greatly to Mallala and Lieutenant Colonel Butler unveiled the unique War Memorial which used to sit in the middle of the eight road intersection in 1922. Ten local men were killed during World War One and the memorial honours those men- hence there are ten pillars on top of the globe, ten steps up to the globe, ten arched stones to form the globe and ten pillars holding the Cross of Sacrifice. Mallala was established in 1872 but there were farmers in the district before then. In fact the Primitive Methodists had built a chapel called Feltwell a couple of kms outside of what is now Mallala in 1869. When the Mallala Primitive Methodist church opened in 1874 the chapel at Feltwell was closed. But the school that had been established in the church continued to operate at Feltwell until 1878 when the new government school opened in Mallala. The old Feltwell church was demolished in 1906 but the cemetery remains. It now also includes the Mallala War Cemetery with twelve defence personnel buried there. Once war broke out in 1939 the federal government established an Airforce training aerodrome at Mallala. The No 6 Service Flying Training School was based here. By 1942 there were nearly 2,000 men stationed here with almost 300 being trainee pilots. The pilots trained here included 122 Dutch pilots who had escaped from Indonesia when the Japanese occupied it in 1942. All of those buried at Feltwell cemetery were RAAF airmen killed during air training crashes. The air base finally closed in 1960 (Edinburgh opened in 1955) and the site became the Mallala car race circuit. The unique War Memorial shown to the left. Mallala was a grain growing area and the town museum is now located in the former flour mill. It opens at 2 pm. The town also had a chaff mill. It closed in 1899 before the railway from Adelaide reached the town in 1915 which would have enabled it to continue perhaps as a supplier of chaff to city horse owners. (The rail crossing at the Light River is called Gallipoli crossing as the rail bridge was completed at the time of the Battle at Gallipoli in April 1915.) Notable buildings in Mallala include the 1873 Primitive Methodist Church, now the church hall, and the new 1909 Methodist church; St. Malachy Catholic Church 1882; St. Peter’s Anglican 1884; the Institute building 1885; the Mallala Hotel 1872; the flour mill 1879 ( it only operated until 1887). |
| 撮影日 | 2024-04-09 16:44:36 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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