Women's History Month: Ross Female Factory

It's late and I should be in bed, so I'm cheating.



Photos of outside
Photos of inside (plus a squirrel)
Information on site from Parks & Wildlife
More information from the Female Factory website

It was that or nothing. But in return, later in the month I shall write up something about the Cascades site, which I have somehow managed to avoid doing a post on at all. Huh.

Doors Open Day:Fire Station

The Launceston Fire Station on a lovely, bleak rainy day. I have better photos. I should find one.

I was just going to put up the photos, because repeating what we were told seems rude, but then the photos look bare by themselves so I'll a few bits as I remember them.


As it says at the top, this building was constructed in 1938. About twenty years later it was "modernised" and the façade covered over. It was reinstated fairly recently because people still talking about*.

Prior to the that, the station was in Brisbane St, apparently on a site that adjoins the current site**.

( Inside )

Women's History Month: Sherwood Hall

Here's one I haven't used before :)



Sherwood Hall at Latrobe, home to "Thomas Johnson, a pioneer and settler who began life in Van Dieman's Land as a convict and his wife Dolly Dalrymple Briggs, the first part aboriginal".

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Bridging the cultural divide with Dolly Dalrymple