Horton College
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*satisified noises*
And I don't care that most people reading this neither know nor care where or what it is :)
Oh, all right. Horton College was a boys' school, just south of Ross, opened in 1855.
The start of an article from the Saturday Evening Mercury, March 22, 1975. p20:
Young men just finished at Horton College, near Ross, had reason to regard themselves as among the cream of the earth and, moreover, bound for big things. For Horton College, one of Australia's leading schools, had the reputation of turning out boys whose destiny in making their mark in life was rarely ever questioned.
The forebears of several well known Tasmanian families were scholars there some 70 or 80 years ago or longer. It was the correct thing to have their sons educated at Horton College, and several interstate families evidently thought the same. The roll book of the college contained the names of boys sent there from both Victoria and New South Wales.
Photo of the college from the 1880s..
It closed in the 1890s, and was demolished in 1920.
It's one of those places you know existed from "folk history", but little beyond that. Although I was curious about where the ruins were, it wasn't until someone else asked my if I knew, that I went to the trouble of working it out. Somercotes, one of the properties near Ross, was owned and built by Captain Horton, and it was he who gave the land to build a Wesleyan boys' school. The ruins were supposed to be "almost opposite Somercotes, on the other side of the (Midlands) highway". But although I looked every time I went past on the way to Hobart and home, if it wasn't too dark, no sign of any entrance way did I see.
Back in August this year, when we went to Ross, I had a look through the Wool Centre and they have a little display on Horton College & Ellenthorpe Hall (the nearby school for young ladies, although I can't remember where it is, and no I'm not going to look it up).
I grumbled at bit at knowing the place was nearby but not being able to see it.
Then a couple of days later, I was staring out the bus window, wondering whether to read from my book or the magazine, and I saw something in a paddock that I hadn't seen before.
Of course, by the time I realised what it was, it was too late to take a photo, and coming home it was too dark. But the Sunday just gone, we went down to Oatlands and as we passed Ross, I was ready :)
*satisified noises*
And I don't care that most people reading this neither know nor care where or what it is :)
Oh, all right. Horton College was a boys' school, just south of Ross, opened in 1855.
The start of an article from the Saturday Evening Mercury, March 22, 1975. p20:
Young men just finished at Horton College, near Ross, had reason to regard themselves as among the cream of the earth and, moreover, bound for big things. For Horton College, one of Australia's leading schools, had the reputation of turning out boys whose destiny in making their mark in life was rarely ever questioned.
The forebears of several well known Tasmanian families were scholars there some 70 or 80 years ago or longer. It was the correct thing to have their sons educated at Horton College, and several interstate families evidently thought the same. The roll book of the college contained the names of boys sent there from both Victoria and New South Wales.
Photo of the college from the 1880s..
It closed in the 1890s, and was demolished in 1920.
It's one of those places you know existed from "folk history", but little beyond that. Although I was curious about where the ruins were, it wasn't until someone else asked my if I knew, that I went to the trouble of working it out. Somercotes, one of the properties near Ross, was owned and built by Captain Horton, and it was he who gave the land to build a Wesleyan boys' school. The ruins were supposed to be "almost opposite Somercotes, on the other side of the (Midlands) highway". But although I looked every time I went past on the way to Hobart and home, if it wasn't too dark, no sign of any entrance way did I see.
Back in August this year, when we went to Ross, I had a look through the Wool Centre and they have a little display on Horton College & Ellenthorpe Hall (the nearby school for young ladies, although I can't remember where it is, and no I'm not going to look it up).
I grumbled at bit at knowing the place was nearby but not being able to see it.
Then a couple of days later, I was staring out the bus window, wondering whether to read from my book or the magazine, and I saw something in a paddock that I hadn't seen before.
Of course, by the time I realised what it was, it was too late to take a photo, and coming home it was too dark. But the Sunday just gone, we went down to Oatlands and as we passed Ross, I was ready :)
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Date: 2008-10-26 11:23 am (UTC)I thought that too.
I assumed it must have burnt down/fallen down or something, which would explain a bit left, but nope, demolished by workmen.
thank you
Date: 2013-03-04 12:24 pm (UTC)