Some photos
Jan. 31st, 2010 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI uploaded some photos from trip to Hobart earlier in the month but they were the wrong ones. But, um, you can still look at them, right?
They're just some taken from the bus on the way home. (Actually, some were taken on the way down but I've cleverly mixed them in so you won't be able to tell which are which!)
Not forgetting link to my map :)
Starting with hotel at Pontville. Crown Inn, 1835, I'm assuming it was a coaching inn originally.
Pontville on the other side of the road.
Um, Dysart or Bagdad or Mangalore?
Just to show it's not all paddocks. I don't usually get photos where the trees come down to the road becausethere aren't actually that many they blur at highway speeds.
See what happens when you go for a ride after dark? You get held up by a silhouette! (Richard Lemon, actually, who is best know for being a silhouette along the Midlands Hwy. Although I think he gets a mention in Bonwick's book on bushrangers, but do you think I can find it?)
Kempton.
Melton Mowbray (Hotel built 1858)
"That grand old Sportsman, Sam Blackwell, who for four years had kept the Royal Oak, stood one day at the corner of the Bothwell Road and decided to erect an inn there because someone else did." (Hawley Stancombe, Highway in Van Diemen's Land)
These are some of the hills that prompted by Twitter comment on the way down about them being more white than yellow.
Oatlands, but we've been here before
Not that I'm like bored at this point or anything...
Does the dance of "Finally got a photo", I mean, this the Halfway House, Antill Ponds, which used to be a hotel halfway between Launceston and Hobart. I have no idea what that guy is doing. Tracking?
Photo, 1928
"Presnell, of the White Hart [Inn], followed the trade, for when the York Plains route [from Hobart to Launceston] was superseded he put up the Half-way Inn at Antill Ponds." (E T Emmett, Tasmania by Road and Track
"DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Yesterday the Halfway House between Oatlands and Antill Ponds was destroyed by fire. About ten in the morning the Cook had been clearing the fire from tho kitchen oven, and put the scraper (in its heated state) on the shingled roof which ignited, and caused the sad catastrophe that has plunged Mr. Bacon and his family in much distress. A portion of the furniture and stock was saved; when the Launceston coach arrived at the usual hour, nothing but the stone walls of tho building were standing; the settlers were gathering from all directions, but too late to arrest the progress of tho flames, which were aided by the boisterous state of the weather. A detachment of tho Oatlands' Police was forwarded to the spot, to protect the rescued property. We understand tho building (which belongs to Mr. Hamilton of Campbell Town) was insured." (Colonial Times, 23 March 1852.) Obviously it was rebuilt.
That's Tunbridge, well the cemetery.
That's Tunbridge. There are some buildings of substance in the town. There's a two-storey sandstone place that used to be a shop at least. See!
Leaving the town. That bridge is more interesting than it appears here too. See!
That's Somercotes
Road into Ross
That's not Ross though, it's Campbell Town, which I still haven't done a post about despite having lots of photos taken years ago.
And that's Epping Forest. Not a good photo because of the sun setting but usually I'm through it before I think to get a photo. Also, I forgot there was a town there. As you can, there are houses. There's also a little church
And even a town hall
This is the area that was burnt in the fire last February but you can sort of see how the trees' foliage regrows out from the trunk, making leafy columns.
There's something wrong in this photo :)
They're just some taken from the bus on the way home. (Actually, some were taken on the way down but I've cleverly mixed them in so you won't be able to tell which are which!)
Not forgetting link to my map :)
Starting with hotel at Pontville. Crown Inn, 1835, I'm assuming it was a coaching inn originally.
Pontville on the other side of the road.
Um, Dysart or Bagdad or Mangalore?
Just to show it's not all paddocks. I don't usually get photos where the trees come down to the road because
See what happens when you go for a ride after dark? You get held up by a silhouette! (Richard Lemon, actually, who is best know for being a silhouette along the Midlands Hwy. Although I think he gets a mention in Bonwick's book on bushrangers, but do you think I can find it?)
Kempton.
Melton Mowbray (Hotel built 1858)
"That grand old Sportsman, Sam Blackwell, who for four years had kept the Royal Oak, stood one day at the corner of the Bothwell Road and decided to erect an inn there because someone else did." (Hawley Stancombe, Highway in Van Diemen's Land)
These are some of the hills that prompted by Twitter comment on the way down about them being more white than yellow.
Oatlands, but we've been here before
Not that I'm like bored at this point or anything...
Does the dance of "Finally got a photo", I mean, this the Halfway House, Antill Ponds, which used to be a hotel halfway between Launceston and Hobart. I have no idea what that guy is doing. Tracking?
Photo, 1928
"Presnell, of the White Hart [Inn], followed the trade, for when the York Plains route [from Hobart to Launceston] was superseded he put up the Half-way Inn at Antill Ponds." (E T Emmett, Tasmania by Road and Track
"DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Yesterday the Halfway House between Oatlands and Antill Ponds was destroyed by fire. About ten in the morning the Cook had been clearing the fire from tho kitchen oven, and put the scraper (in its heated state) on the shingled roof which ignited, and caused the sad catastrophe that has plunged Mr. Bacon and his family in much distress. A portion of the furniture and stock was saved; when the Launceston coach arrived at the usual hour, nothing but the stone walls of tho building were standing; the settlers were gathering from all directions, but too late to arrest the progress of tho flames, which were aided by the boisterous state of the weather. A detachment of tho Oatlands' Police was forwarded to the spot, to protect the rescued property. We understand tho building (which belongs to Mr. Hamilton of Campbell Town) was insured." (Colonial Times, 23 March 1852.) Obviously it was rebuilt.
That's Tunbridge, well the cemetery.
That's Tunbridge. There are some buildings of substance in the town. There's a two-storey sandstone place that used to be a shop at least. See!
Leaving the town. That bridge is more interesting than it appears here too. See!
That's Somercotes
Road into Ross
That's not Ross though, it's Campbell Town, which I still haven't done a post about despite having lots of photos taken years ago.
And that's Epping Forest. Not a good photo because of the sun setting but usually I'm through it before I think to get a photo. Also, I forgot there was a town there. As you can, there are houses. There's also a little church
And even a town hall
This is the area that was burnt in the fire last February but you can sort of see how the trees' foliage regrows out from the trunk, making leafy columns.
There's something wrong in this photo :)
