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Home Hill in Devonport is known as the home of former Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons, but his wife Enid lived there for another forty years after he died.


In 1943, Enid was the first woman elected to the House of Represaenatives making her, along with Dorothy Tangney (elected to the Senate), the first woman elected to the Australian parliament.

Now there's a lot I could write (and I have done a little before) but there's also a lot already written by people who've done it better so I'll pick out some of the more interesting links for you to read instead.

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To finish off on yesterday's subject... This little place lays claim to being the oldest military timber building in the country.


The sign says "Officers Quarters Museum 1832". As I said in an earlier post, this site is managed by Parks & Wildlife. An interesting feature of this property is it hasn't been "restored". I've mentioned before my aversion to the nice and neat, furnished in an Appropriate Manner presentation of most old house museum. This is not that. I like it.

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From Government Cottage, looking along the garden path.

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Last Tuesday we visited Somercotes, an old farming property near Ross.

Now what makes this place worth posting about: it's not a house museum, it's a working farm with an assortment of outbuildings and an old homestead they're trying to maintain. So it has some rather interesting features.


I did completely forget to get a photo of the whole house but there is one here or an older one. If you've ever been down to Hobart, you've probably seen it in the middle of a paddock just after the second turn off to Ross. Unless you are looking at the other side of the road.

The estate was established by Captain Horton back in 1823, which is of course, a Long Time Ago. The focus then was on establishing the farm buildings and the house was constructed later, sometime before 1842.

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