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Aug. 27th, 2005 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithJust to show you where yesterday's photo is from
Looking back from the other side... it's just the entrance to this bridge
which leads across the South Esk to this building
which is the old hydro-eletric power station at Duck Reach. Well, it's the replacement power station built in 1930, after the original building was swept away in a flood. The Flood actually, of 1929. The Gorge in flood at any time isn't something to be taken lightly. Although the dam that was built upriver has tamed it quite a bit.
The original station was built in 1895. Launceston was the first city in Australia to have electric street lights, powered by this station, & it was the first publicly-owned hydro power station in the southern hemisphere. Quite the progressive city back then. The station was closed in the 1950s.
It was reopened a few years ago, as a museum. Of sorts. Exciting, isn't it? Doesn't it make you want to climb down all those steps and across the bridge to see it?
The flying fox was used to get equipment acorss the river, the mechanism for it is in that little building.
Looking back from the other side... it's just the entrance to this bridge
which leads across the South Esk to this building
which is the old hydro-eletric power station at Duck Reach. Well, it's the replacement power station built in 1930, after the original building was swept away in a flood. The Flood actually, of 1929. The Gorge in flood at any time isn't something to be taken lightly. Although the dam that was built upriver has tamed it quite a bit.
The original station was built in 1895. Launceston was the first city in Australia to have electric street lights, powered by this station, & it was the first publicly-owned hydro power station in the southern hemisphere. Quite the progressive city back then. The station was closed in the 1950s.
It was reopened a few years ago, as a museum. Of sorts. Exciting, isn't it? Doesn't it make you want to climb down all those steps and across the bridge to see it?
The flying fox was used to get equipment acorss the river, the mechanism for it is in that little building.
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Date: 2005-08-28 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-29 10:31 am (UTC)Was rather hard on the legs though -- the road I walked in on stops somwhere above the first photo and you can see the steps going down to the river there too, spent about an hour here, walked along the hiking path to the Cliff Grounds and from there back to the city.
I got off the bus in West L at 12.50 and got on the bus home to N at 4.50. That's about one hour longer than the point where my legs usually go "that's enough of hills and things, let's get home or at least onto sensible footpaths".
I noticed it the next day, and the next. :(