Mintaro. 3 Kangaroos on the former Victorian era boating lake at Martindale Hall. The Bowmans dammed the Wakefield River to create several acres of boating lake for their 32 roomed mansion. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mintaro. 3 Kangaroos on the former Victorian era boating lake at Martindale Hall. The Bowmans dammed the Wakefield River to create several acres of boating lake for their 32 roomed mansion. / 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 | Martindale Hall. Edmund Bowman Junior (1855 to 1921) inherited a great fortune when Edmund Senior died in 1866 but this was kept in trust until 1876. He employed an English architect Ebenezer Gregg to design the mansion and Adelaide architect Edward John Woods was the supervising architect. Although built in the Italianate style which was then so popular it had features to adapt it to the climate including air ventilation from the cooler eight roomed basement for the summer and wooden shutters on the windows. Some of the stone masons were bought out from English to build the ashlar and sandstone house. Stone came from the property or a quarry a few miles away. Behind the impressive staircase in the entrance hall are the upstairs servants quarters away from sight. The “public” rooms for entertaining included a grand billiard room, sitting room and dining room. Some claim the 32 roomed mansion was built to attract a wife and that could be so. Extravagant parties were held here. The grounds had a boating lake by damming part of the Wakefield River and the stables and coach house are almost as grand as the house itself and built at the same time. Martindale Hall received notoriety when used for Peter Weir’s 1972 film of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Although Edmund Bowman was extravagant his extravagance was surpassed by the next owner’s son. Edmund Bowman named the house after Martindale in Cumbria near their father’s birthplace. The new owner from 1892 was William Tennant Mortlock who made his fortune with leaseholds and freehold lands on Eyre Peninsula covering 2,000 square miles. In 1894 a son named John Andrew Tennant Mortlock was born in Martindale Hall. He eventually inherited it but produced no heirs. Her preferred male company to female and his housekeeper only agreed to marry him when he had terminal cancer in 1949. Within a year he died. During his life time he had donated to and established various agricultural and research foundations. His estate was recorded as over £1.1 million pounds which was an astronomical figure at that time. His wife continued his charitable activities and the bulk of his estate was divided between the Waite Institute and the Libraries Board of South Australia. Part of his estate funded the establishment of the Mortlock Library on North Tce. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-04-28 16:55:41 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.3 |