My Mission
May. 9th, 2010 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithMy mission...
...should I choose to accept it (although obviously I am) is to see if I can find some photos of Port Arthur that *say* something. About what?
About this town where ive and worked? About Victorian building methods? About a site that's fun to explore? Or just something different from the usual, tired views.
In particular, I want to avoid most of this. I don't know if that will bring up the same results, but if there's a bunch of photos of a large orange-yellow building by the water or a ruined church, that's it.
I'll need some feedback though, so I can see if it's working!
I'm hopefully repeating myself here, but just in case...
So there was Sarah Island, built as a place of secondary punishment in Macquarie Harbour on the remote west coast, but it was too remote and hard to get to. And Maria Island off the east coast, for secondary punishment for those not quite troublesome enough for Sarah Island, but that was hard to get supplies to and easy to escape from. So they tried a settlement on the Tasman Peninsula. By ship, it's easily accessible from Hobart. By land, it's connected to the Tasmanian mainland by two peninsulas, joined by a narrow strip of land known as Eaglehawk Neck that was guarded by soldier and chained dogs ( and sharks).
So a town was established, that was home not just to recalcitrant prisoners. There was a military barracks and civilian workers (surgeon, chaplain etc), and their families living here. There was ship building, timber cutting, brickmaking, farming, milling and all the supporting infrastructure that a remote town requires (church, school, hospital, cemetery)
It closed in the late 1870s. The last transport ship arrived in 1853, so you can see why it closed. The land was subdivided and sold, and the town renamed Carnavon. There was dispute about what to do with the prison buildings: demolish them? keep them as an attraction for tourists? Then in the 1890s, two bushfires solved the problem.
Tourists have been visiting the place pretty much since it was closed. It's a heavily interpreted, very commercialised place, but if you can get past all that... well, I'll see what I can do.
I'm being naughty and doing the photos at 800 px. If that's going to cause problems, tell me, but they will be behind a cut or click so I hope it'll work. Also, I'm being very selective, so there'll only be a handful of photos each time, if that.
...should I choose to accept it (although obviously I am) is to see if I can find some photos of Port Arthur that *say* something. About what?
About this town where ive and worked? About Victorian building methods? About a site that's fun to explore? Or just something different from the usual, tired views.
In particular, I want to avoid most of this. I don't know if that will bring up the same results, but if there's a bunch of photos of a large orange-yellow building by the water or a ruined church, that's it.
I'll need some feedback though, so I can see if it's working!
I'm hopefully repeating myself here, but just in case...
So there was Sarah Island, built as a place of secondary punishment in Macquarie Harbour on the remote west coast, but it was too remote and hard to get to. And Maria Island off the east coast, for secondary punishment for those not quite troublesome enough for Sarah Island, but that was hard to get supplies to and easy to escape from. So they tried a settlement on the Tasman Peninsula. By ship, it's easily accessible from Hobart. By land, it's connected to the Tasmanian mainland by two peninsulas, joined by a narrow strip of land known as Eaglehawk Neck that was guarded by soldier and chained dogs ( and sharks).
So a town was established, that was home not just to recalcitrant prisoners. There was a military barracks and civilian workers (surgeon, chaplain etc), and their families living here. There was ship building, timber cutting, brickmaking, farming, milling and all the supporting infrastructure that a remote town requires (church, school, hospital, cemetery)
It closed in the late 1870s. The last transport ship arrived in 1853, so you can see why it closed. The land was subdivided and sold, and the town renamed Carnavon. There was dispute about what to do with the prison buildings: demolish them? keep them as an attraction for tourists? Then in the 1890s, two bushfires solved the problem.
Tourists have been visiting the place pretty much since it was closed. It's a heavily interpreted, very commercialised place, but if you can get past all that... well, I'll see what I can do.
I'm being naughty and doing the photos at 800 px. If that's going to cause problems, tell me, but they will be behind a cut or click so I hope it'll work. Also, I'm being very selective, so there'll only be a handful of photos each time, if that.
