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These photos are from two trips: November 2006 with the little Canon that got 100 photos to the battery (I got 135 from it on that trip though) and March 2008 with the "new" camera. That's why there is two of everything. Long enough ago that I have forgotten all the interesting details.

This is Entally, built about 1819 by Thomas Reibey, son of horse thief & businesswoman Mary who is on our $20 note. It's an Indian name, Bengali it seems from the Wikipedia article, after a "neighbourhood" in Calcutta. Or more likely, after Thomas's father's business that was named after said suburb of Calcutta. His father had been in the East India Company and made use of his connections there to establish an import business in NSW. It is the next generation that had most influence on the property though, the son, also Thomas, and his wife Catherine.

They died without issue and I'm not sure what happened to the property after that, but somewhere the State Government gained ownership of it and a few years back leased it to a timber company called Gunns, who established a vineyard there. I am not going to make any comment about most vineyards in the north being in the Tamar Valley & surrounding region.

The layout of the main house is simple: four rooms divided by a central hallway with a wrap-around verandah around four sides. It's a style common in early colonial Australia, often referred to as Anglo-Indian bungalow because that's what it's based on. At Entally, there's a two-storey addition on one side and the kitchen on the other.


From the back, the kitchen is on the right and the two-storey addition on the left. I can't remember what the tower is, I'm thinking water though.

At the back of the house is a courtyard, formed by the house, the garden wall and outbuildings. The glasshouse can be seen beyond the wall.

Judging by photos, the glasshouse was used as a outdoor living room. I seem to recall something about it being an early example of a Victorian-type glasshouse that possibly Kate saw on one of their trips to England, but I could easily be confusing that with something else :)


The back "wall" of the courtyard. The stone building is the chapel.

Thomas was an archdeacon in Launceston, and endowed the nearby town of Carrick with its Anglican church and part of the church at nearerby Hadspen. He was also a Member of the House of Assembly (state government) and State Premier for a year (1876/7). That was after being involved in a bit of a scandal. From the Australian Dictionary of Biography:
As adviser to the widow of James Cox and trustee of the Clarendon estate he was drawn into a family quarrel about the division of property among the daughters. In 1868 Cox's son-in-law, H. W. Blomfield, in a letter to synod, accused Reibey of attempts to seduce his wife Margaret. Reibey unsuccessfully sued for libel and the ensuing scandal rocked the colony. He resigned in 1870.


(Checks to see which camera took which photo. Hmm.)

The fourth side of the courtyard, the coachhouse and stables, as seen from the garden.

The coach house is the three arches on the left. The door and windows on the righthand wall are one of the stable blocks. On the far right is a brick gateway that leads into what I'll call the farmyard, but that's for later.
There's something interesting stuff in the coach house, including a lot of agricultural tools and some laundry equipment upstairs, but I'll skip all that and go to the stables. Except for this:

One Chain :)

Inside the stable end there a handful of stalls with a harness room at one end.
There were apparently a number of stable buildings on the estate, for riding, carriage, farm and racing horses.
From the story of a one-time resident of the estate, on JazzTass website
It seems Reibey had attended a dinner in Hobart for the opening of a new grandstand at the racecourse, and had been "needled" by a Sydney guest who carelessly remarked that all our best Tassie races were won by mainland horses. Stung, the former Premier leapt to his feet and made the announcement that "Not only will we hold our own at Hobart and Launceston, but we will produce a horse equal the task of winning a Melbourne Cup."
At the "Calstock" yearling sale he bought Stockwell and a full brother named Bagot, with the intention of making good his idle boast. ... He decided that his main hope lay with Stockwell and he entered him for the 1882 Melbourne Cup, while putting Bagot in the Yan Yean Stakes later in the program. In a blinding finish Stockwell led well down the home straight in the Cup only to be overcome in the last 100m by The Assyrian. Reibey was so devastated by this loss, when all had seemed won, that there and then he made the decision to quit the racing scene and sell all his horses, which he did.
Which might be slightly too dramatic, but the colt, Bagot, renamed Malua, went onto to win the 1884 Melbourne Cup for his new owner, as well as a number of over races and was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2003
I think this particular stable building housed riding, or considering its location, carriage horses.


Most house museums that I've been to don't have a harness room attached to the stable. By that, I mean they don't have a room open to the public that's been set up so it's obvious what it was used for. Although at Clarendon none of the stable/coach house complex is open to the public. I assume in most places, this bit is used for storage. (I'm using harness room here, because that's the term used on the infopanels.)
An interesting thing is in here is the stove.

Although I have no idea what is happening with it.

So, onto the farmyard...

At the rear of the coachhouse, there is room for more carriages. That thing on the right, I cannot remember what it was for. I think there was horse power involved in moving something.

Lefthand door (middle of photo) is the blacksmith's shop.



If I recall correctly, this building was one of the stable buildings, cut down (the right side removed) and used as a barn or for storage.

This is a monster and I forget what it is, but it looks like a threshing machine. Up close, it has all sorts of chutes and doors and gadgets sticking out of it.

That's a bit more familiar.

Pretty picturesque rural barn, with obligatory dappled shade from the oak trees.




Oh yeah, that's the house.


Leaving now, along the driveway.

This is Entally, built about 1819 by Thomas Reibey, son of horse thief & businesswoman Mary who is on our $20 note. It's an Indian name, Bengali it seems from the Wikipedia article, after a "neighbourhood" in Calcutta. Or more likely, after Thomas's father's business that was named after said suburb of Calcutta. His father had been in the East India Company and made use of his connections there to establish an import business in NSW. It is the next generation that had most influence on the property though, the son, also Thomas, and his wife Catherine.
They died without issue and I'm not sure what happened to the property after that, but somewhere the State Government gained ownership of it and a few years back leased it to a timber company called Gunns, who established a vineyard there. I am not going to make any comment about most vineyards in the north being in the Tamar Valley & surrounding region.
The layout of the main house is simple: four rooms divided by a central hallway with a wrap-around verandah around four sides. It's a style common in early colonial Australia, often referred to as Anglo-Indian bungalow because that's what it's based on. At Entally, there's a two-storey addition on one side and the kitchen on the other.
From the back, the kitchen is on the right and the two-storey addition on the left. I can't remember what the tower is, I'm thinking water though.
At the back of the house is a courtyard, formed by the house, the garden wall and outbuildings. The glasshouse can be seen beyond the wall.
Judging by photos, the glasshouse was used as a outdoor living room. I seem to recall something about it being an early example of a Victorian-type glasshouse that possibly Kate saw on one of their trips to England, but I could easily be confusing that with something else :)
The back "wall" of the courtyard. The stone building is the chapel.
Thomas was an archdeacon in Launceston, and endowed the nearby town of Carrick with its Anglican church and part of the church at nearerby Hadspen. He was also a Member of the House of Assembly (state government) and State Premier for a year (1876/7). That was after being involved in a bit of a scandal. From the Australian Dictionary of Biography:
As adviser to the widow of James Cox and trustee of the Clarendon estate he was drawn into a family quarrel about the division of property among the daughters. In 1868 Cox's son-in-law, H. W. Blomfield, in a letter to synod, accused Reibey of attempts to seduce his wife Margaret. Reibey unsuccessfully sued for libel and the ensuing scandal rocked the colony. He resigned in 1870.
(Checks to see which camera took which photo. Hmm.)
The fourth side of the courtyard, the coachhouse and stables, as seen from the garden.
The coach house is the three arches on the left. The door and windows on the righthand wall are one of the stable blocks. On the far right is a brick gateway that leads into what I'll call the farmyard, but that's for later.
There's something interesting stuff in the coach house, including a lot of agricultural tools and some laundry equipment upstairs, but I'll skip all that and go to the stables. Except for this:
One Chain :)
Inside the stable end there a handful of stalls with a harness room at one end.
There were apparently a number of stable buildings on the estate, for riding, carriage, farm and racing horses.
From the story of a one-time resident of the estate, on JazzTass website
It seems Reibey had attended a dinner in Hobart for the opening of a new grandstand at the racecourse, and had been "needled" by a Sydney guest who carelessly remarked that all our best Tassie races were won by mainland horses. Stung, the former Premier leapt to his feet and made the announcement that "Not only will we hold our own at Hobart and Launceston, but we will produce a horse equal the task of winning a Melbourne Cup."
At the "Calstock" yearling sale he bought Stockwell and a full brother named Bagot, with the intention of making good his idle boast. ... He decided that his main hope lay with Stockwell and he entered him for the 1882 Melbourne Cup, while putting Bagot in the Yan Yean Stakes later in the program. In a blinding finish Stockwell led well down the home straight in the Cup only to be overcome in the last 100m by The Assyrian. Reibey was so devastated by this loss, when all had seemed won, that there and then he made the decision to quit the racing scene and sell all his horses, which he did.
Which might be slightly too dramatic, but the colt, Bagot, renamed Malua, went onto to win the 1884 Melbourne Cup for his new owner, as well as a number of over races and was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2003
I think this particular stable building housed riding, or considering its location, carriage horses.
Most house museums that I've been to don't have a harness room attached to the stable. By that, I mean they don't have a room open to the public that's been set up so it's obvious what it was used for. Although at Clarendon none of the stable/coach house complex is open to the public. I assume in most places, this bit is used for storage. (I'm using harness room here, because that's the term used on the infopanels.)
An interesting thing is in here is the stove.
Although I have no idea what is happening with it.
So, onto the farmyard...
At the rear of the coachhouse, there is room for more carriages. That thing on the right, I cannot remember what it was for. I think there was horse power involved in moving something.
Lefthand door (middle of photo) is the blacksmith's shop.
If I recall correctly, this building was one of the stable buildings, cut down (the right side removed) and used as a barn or for storage.
This is a monster and I forget what it is, but it looks like a threshing machine. Up close, it has all sorts of chutes and doors and gadgets sticking out of it.
That's a bit more familiar.
Pretty picturesque rural barn, with obligatory dappled shade from the oak trees.
Oh yeah, that's the house.
Leaving now, along the driveway.