Copeville in the Murray Mallee. Railway siding 1914. Silos erected 1965. Silo art of farming images and local parrot funded by farmers Trevor and Beverley Heidrich. Artist Jarrod Loxton. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Copeville in the Murray Mallee. Railway siding 1914. Silos erected 1965. Silo art of farming images and local parrot funded by farmers Trevor and Beverley Heidrich. Artist Jarrod Loxton. / 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 | Copeville.Copeville is in the Hundred of Bandon which was declared in 1898 but the government was very slow to survey the land for settlement. Areas closest to the Murray River were naturally selected first. The inland parts of the Hundred were surveyed after the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line was put through the Hundred in December 1914. More parts of the Hundred were resumed from pastoral lease and surveyed in 1919 and more again in 1926. After the railway line opened a Post Office named Glencope was established at the railway siding which was also known as Glencope as the siding was built on the land of Mr H Cope. The government resumed 83 acres of Cope’s leasehold land to establish the town and railway siding in 1917. A standpipe linked to a deep artesian bore provided water for trains and for the public. Copeville as it was named had 68 town allotments surveyed. When allotments were put up for sale in 1919 only one sold at the initial auction. The first building was a tin and iron shed used as the new Post Office from 1919. The second building was a garage erected in 1931 and the third was the general store erected in 1932. Copeville was a busy railway station as it received grain from the Bowhill area through to the east of Copeville. Copeville had the only grain silos along the Waikerie to Karoonda railway line except for Waikerie. Before the silos were built all wheat was bagged in stacks 18 bags high by 48 bags long and 12 bags wide. The silos were erected in 1965/66. But the town developed so slowly. A second stone general store was built in Copeville in 1933 but it has only been used as a dwelling since 1941. A third and more lasting stone general store was built in the town in 1936 and still stands near the former railway line. The second to last public building to be erected in Copeville was the besser block hall built in 1961 and opened in 1962. An ugly foyer was added to that hall in 1973. Whilst times were good the Methodists purchased the vacated old stone hall of 1920 when it went up for sale in 1961 and they used it as their church until they built a new besser block Methodist Church in Copeville in 1970 with fortnightly services. In 1977 it became a Uniting Church but it is now closed (1986.) The railway line in Copeville closed in 1994 although the upper part of the line to Waikerie closed earlier in 1990. The school which opened in 1915 was held in a variety of sites from a farm barn but eventually it was held in the Copeville hall when it was built in 1920. A local farmer Mr Cope donated land for the Copeville hall. Only three or four teachers ever taught at the school in its early years as the school closed in 1936. Surprisingly the Copeville School reopened in 1948 in the hall and in 1956 a new wooden class room was erected on a block in the town with years one to three in the old hall and the rest of the classes in the new wooden building. The school had a peak enrolment of 39 students in 1963. At the end of 1966 the school closed as the new East Murray Area School was about to open in February 1967 near Mindarie. The silo art in Copeville was completed in late 2022. The artists was Jarrod Loxton who decided to depict aspects of the local farming community and environment from draft horses, pink galahs, wheat stalks, parrots, windmills etc. The Copeville silos are owned by Beverley and Trevor Heidrich. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-04-21 16:01:24 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |