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xenithI want to go on a trip, but can't really, so it'll have to be a virtual trip. The good thing about them, is everyone else can come too!
When we were kids, before the new Bass Highway was built, the trip out to Deloraine would take fifty minutes, or longer if the traffic was held up be a slow car or farm vehicle. Then the traffic would build up into a long snake winding back further than we could see when we twisted around to look out the back window.
Along the fifty kilometre stretch between Launceston and Deloraine there are five towns, Hadspen, Carrick, Hagley, Westbury and Exton. Each town originated a coach stop on the road west, or so we were told. I don't know if that's true, but this is the old coaching inn at Hadspen.
The Red Feather inn, built in the 1840s. At the time I took this photo, November 2006, it looks like it has fallen out of use, but according to the website it was refurbished and reopened late in 2008.
I've seen a couple of mentions that Hadspen was "established" in 1820, but I haven't found anything that says where that date comes from. Possibly something associated with Entally, which was built the previous year. Most of the buildings in the town date from the 20th century, except for this stretch of street*
This is an pretty little sandstone building. Guess what it was originally used for? It shouldn't be that hard.
It wasn't a barn or church.
There are only two churches in the town that I know of. This, the Uniting Church, formerly Methodist, is a typical small, country church.
The bluestone Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd which I've dealt with before. It was started in 1858 but then sat there mostly unfinished for nearly a century.
The cemetery behind the church is overlooked by the modern part of the town.
This reminds me of the quatrefoils at the cemetery in Richmond. Don't know if there's any connection or it's just a pretty design.
Quite a few interesting headstones for the size of the cemetery, but I won't bore you with them.
Except for this one, Thomas Reibey and his "little Kate".
I singled out the Reibys because Thomas originally put up the money to build the church and because his father, also Thomas, built the best known landmark in this region, that being Entally. But that's for next time.
*If there are any others, I'd like to know
When we were kids, before the new Bass Highway was built, the trip out to Deloraine would take fifty minutes, or longer if the traffic was held up be a slow car or farm vehicle. Then the traffic would build up into a long snake winding back further than we could see when we twisted around to look out the back window.
Along the fifty kilometre stretch between Launceston and Deloraine there are five towns, Hadspen, Carrick, Hagley, Westbury and Exton. Each town originated a coach stop on the road west, or so we were told. I don't know if that's true, but this is the old coaching inn at Hadspen.
The Red Feather inn, built in the 1840s. At the time I took this photo, November 2006, it looks like it has fallen out of use, but according to the website it was refurbished and reopened late in 2008.
I've seen a couple of mentions that Hadspen was "established" in 1820, but I haven't found anything that says where that date comes from. Possibly something associated with Entally, which was built the previous year. Most of the buildings in the town date from the 20th century, except for this stretch of street*
This is an pretty little sandstone building. Guess what it was originally used for? It shouldn't be that hard.
It wasn't a barn or church.
There are only two churches in the town that I know of. This, the Uniting Church, formerly Methodist, is a typical small, country church.
The bluestone Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd which I've dealt with before. It was started in 1858 but then sat there mostly unfinished for nearly a century.
The cemetery behind the church is overlooked by the modern part of the town.
This reminds me of the quatrefoils at the cemetery in Richmond. Don't know if there's any connection or it's just a pretty design.
Quite a few interesting headstones for the size of the cemetery, but I won't bore you with them.
Except for this one, Thomas Reibey and his "little Kate".
I singled out the Reibys because Thomas originally put up the money to build the church and because his father, also Thomas, built the best known landmark in this region, that being Entally. But that's for next time.
*If there are any others, I'd like to know
