Something clever
Sep. 14th, 2006 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithThis is more for completenesss :)
These are the buildings we'll look at today.
From right to left - stables, barn, shepherd's cottage, woolshed. Stables, of course, have been covered.
IIRC somewhere back before the house was built, Cox brought in a (Spanish or Saxon) merino ram and used that to develop his flock. (The difference? The earliest merinos imported into Australia were Spanish; with Saxons later. Saxon merinos produce the superfine wool & IIRC are the predominent strain in Tasmania.)
He also had a good herd of Herefords (beef cattle), imported fallow deer and (from one source) an Arabian stallion. Lot of animal husbandry going on.
Realised I don't have any photos of the other sides of the barn. It's not that interesting by itself.
That's also the barn.
Shepherd's cottage, which is now a B&B.
Woolshed. First time I saw this, it was in use for a sheep shearig demonstration at an open day.
Near the back is a green door,
which leads into
this back room. I assume this is where the sheep came in/left through. The door further along on the left open into the main shearing room & the doors at the far end look like something you'd have around livestock. I turned the flash off to take this photo and forgot to put it back on.
This room is off the back room, on the side (on the right is you're looking from the outside). Not sure what these are. I didn't look that closely. Could be a wool press & scales.
Windows.
I like the roof. Similar sort of roof in the other buildings, where I've noticed
The main shearing room. The doors on the right open onto that back passage. On the left is the front door & windows.
From the front of the woolshed, this is the road leading into the property. That must be Mt Barrow, on the other side of Launceston.
These are the buildings we'll look at today.
From right to left - stables, barn, shepherd's cottage, woolshed. Stables, of course, have been covered.
IIRC somewhere back before the house was built, Cox brought in a (Spanish or Saxon) merino ram and used that to develop his flock. (The difference? The earliest merinos imported into Australia were Spanish; with Saxons later. Saxon merinos produce the superfine wool & IIRC are the predominent strain in Tasmania.)
He also had a good herd of Herefords (beef cattle), imported fallow deer and (from one source) an Arabian stallion. Lot of animal husbandry going on.
Realised I don't have any photos of the other sides of the barn. It's not that interesting by itself.
That's also the barn.
Shepherd's cottage, which is now a B&B.
Woolshed. First time I saw this, it was in use for a sheep shearig demonstration at an open day.
Near the back is a green door,
which leads into
this back room. I assume this is where the sheep came in/left through. The door further along on the left open into the main shearing room & the doors at the far end look like something you'd have around livestock. I turned the flash off to take this photo and forgot to put it back on.
This room is off the back room, on the side (on the right is you're looking from the outside). Not sure what these are. I didn't look that closely. Could be a wool press & scales.
Windows.
I like the roof. Similar sort of roof in the other buildings, where I've noticed
The main shearing room. The doors on the right open onto that back passage. On the left is the front door & windows.
From the front of the woolshed, this is the road leading into the property. That must be Mt Barrow, on the other side of Launceston.
