Brickendon Estate - Longford - Tasmania 2019
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Brickendon Estate - Longford - Tasmania 2019
Brickendon and Woolmers Estates were jointly entered on the UNESCO World Heritage list in July 2010 along with 10 other sites around Australia to make up the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property. Recognised for their outstanding significance within the Australian convict system they have qualified for being -
'representative of the use of penal transportation to expand Britain's geopolitical spheres of influence, and to rehabilitate criminals and integrate them into a distant penal colony'
'associated with global developments in the punishment of crime in the 19th century'
The Australian Convicts Sites property includes the Tasmanian sites of Port Arthur Historic Site, The Coal Mines, The Cascades Female Factory, Darlington on Maria Island and Brickendon and Woolmers Estates. The remaining sites are Fremantle Prison in Western Australia, Hyde Park Barracks, Old Government House at Paramatta and The Great North Road, and Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour, all located in New South Wales and Kingston and Arthurs Vale on Norfolk Island. Jointly these sites represent 11 elements of the convict transportation system.
The following is an extract from Australian Convict Sites compiled jointly by DEWHA, and the governments of New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia and Norfolk Island.
Each site represents key elements of the forced migration of convicts and is associated with global ideas and practices relating to the punishment and reform of the criminal elements of society during the modern era. The 11 sites included in the listing are the pre-eminent examples of Australia's rich convict history with more than 3000 convict sites remaining around Australia representing different aspects of the story of convictism. This is unique in the world today.
The term convictism relates to the forced migration of convicts to penal colonies. The transportation of criminal offenders to penal colonies dates back to the early 17th century and occurred in many parts of the world until the abolition of transportation to French Guiana and the Andaman Islands in 1938. Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Russia and Argentina transported criminals to penal colonies across the world.
The primary motivating influences for the rise and spread of the transportation system included: geo-political ambitions which were advanced by using convicts to build or expand colonies across the globe: the punishment of an increasing population of criminal offenders to deter crime in the home state: and the reform of the criminal elements of society.
With the end of transportation to America in 1775, Britain had to find a new way to deal with a large population of criminals. The British government was pressured to resume transportation to a new destination, or to establish a new national penitentiary system. As a result, Britain commenced transportation to Australia in 1787 and established a new colony of New South Wales in what had once been known only as the Great Southern Land. Other penal colonies were established in Van Diemen's Land ( now known as Tasmania) and the Swan River Colony ( now known as Perth).
British transportation to Australia was the world's first conscious attempt to build a new society on the labour of convicted prisoners. Around 166,000 men, women and children were transported to Australia over 80 years between 1787 and 1868.
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TASMANIA ACCOMMODATION BRICKENDON ESTATE
Accommodation at Brickendon
Brickendon Estate offers guests an extraordinary experience of staying on a World Heritage Site in an original convict built cottage.
The Coachmans and Gardeners cottages were built by convict labour during the 1830's and have been restored to offer an authentic colonial experience. Deep old fashioned baths, antique furnishings and private cottage gardens, these cottages are the closest cottages you will find to times gone by but with modern conveniences. Located in the magnificent Heritage Gardens of Brickendon, both cottages offer unique features that will make your visit to Brickendon complete.
Brickendon's Farm cottages are a wonderful alternative to the colonial cottages. Constructed with recycled materials and traditional building techniques, the three farm cottages ooze personality and invite guests to relax and unwind from their busy lives. With great views over the farm, a short walk to Brickendon's World Heritage listed convict built Farm Village and a stroll to the river, these cottages provide a real home away from home. Ideal for either couples, families or groups the farm cottages are often visited by a wandering turkey or rooster and it is not uncommon to see a hen with her numerous chickens passing by. The friendly farm animals are close by so come and enjoy life on the farm.
When planning your holiday - it is worthwhile thinking about travelling distances as Brickendon is within one hours drive of most places in Northern Tasmania and only two hours from Hobart and the East Coast. Use us as a base and enjoy coming home at night to your private cosy cottage.
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Woolmers Estate Longford Tasmania
Woolmers Estate is a unique and fascinating reflection of colonial life in Tasmania and is one of the most historically significant heritage properties in Australia.
Today Woolmers Estate continues to display colonial life in its most genuine shape and gives an accurate depiction of Tasmanian heritage, preserved and maintained in an original and authentic setting.
Time stands still at Woolmers Estate, wander around and soak up the essence of 19th century Tasmanian life on a once working farm estate. Explore the many convict built outbuildings that still remain on the property such as, The Wool and Apple Packing Sheds, Coach House and Farm Stables, Blacksmiths and Settlers Cottages accommodation.
Richmond Gaol Historic Site, Tasmania. Guided Tours.
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Richmond Gaol in Tasmania, Australia is an historic site and popular visitor attraction. Complete with visitor information, site guide, souvenir and craft shop, we invite you to take a step back in time and explore the original gaol buildings and rooms. Read the stories of the men and women who passed through these doors. Step inside solitary confinement cells and experience the isolation of imprisonment. Listen to the special sound effects to enhance the experience, creating an atmosphere beyond description.
Visiting Tasmania's Richmond Gaol is not to be missed.
Australia's oldest existing and best preserved colonial gaol
Phone: (03) 6260 2127 37 Bathurst Street, Richmond, Tasmania, 7025 Email: info@richmondgaol.com.au
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Colonial heritage, Windsor, NSW, Australia
A tour around some of the colonial heritage buildings in Windsor, New South Wales, Australia, near Sydney.
Lake House, Cressy, Tasmania - Unique Estates Australia
Lake House - The only thing missing is Mr. Darcy…...
• One of Australia’s significant Georgian historic homes c1830
• A rare opportunity to own sought after colonial property
• Meticulously renovated and restored
• Extensive network of outbuildings including ancillary houses
• 1211 acres of highly productive cropping and fattening land
• High water right entitlement from the Lake River
CLARENDON HOUSE, TASMANIA
‘Clarendon’ was built on the banks of the South Esk River and is one of the great Georgian Regency homes of Australia and is an outstanding colonial farm complex with a residence that was first established in 1817 by James Cox. In June 1812 he married Mary Connell in Parramatta New South Wales and moved to Tasmania in 1814, accepting a land grant of 700 acres and later adding another 6,000 acres to his estate which he called Clarendon after his father’s home and he took up residence there in 1816.
Mainly because of fear of bushrangers and Aborigines he moved to Launceston the next year, becoming a merchant and contractor for supplying meat to the government commissariat. The same year he became a magistrate, but by the late 1820s he resided again at ‘Clarendon’ where he ultimately began the construction of a large stone mansion, which was to replace his original timber dwelling and which was to cost him between £20,000 and £40,000.
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Entry to Clarendon Estate includes the gardens; Clarendon Fashion Collection with precious gowns from the 1830’s to 1960’s; and the Norfolk Plains Heritage Centre, offering photo collections together with family history records and advice.
The Australian Fly Fishing Museum is now located in their new building in the grounds of Clarendon, with a vast collection of fly fishing paraphernalia the museum is well worth a visit.
The house is accessible by guided tour, the last tour of the day at 3:15pm allowing ample time to enjoy the property prior to the gate closure at 4pm. Twilight Tours are also available
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Tasmania Nature & Mining Tours | Discover Tasmania
Tasmania’s west coast is a land of contradictions, where barren valleys and mining monuments sit alongside the beautiful world heritage rainforest. Anthony Coulson, of Queenstown Heritage Tours (now called Roam Wild Tours), will welcome you to this intriguing world of contrasts as he guides you on a tour deep into the Lost Mines and Ancient Pines. Along the way he’ll share colourful stories, from the discovery of gold in the 1840s and the Gordon River Dam protests to the thousand-year-old trees.
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Australia's Oldest Standing School and Church Building -1809 - Ebenezer Church, Sydney
This video gives a short concise history of the founding of one of Australia's earliest Christian Schools. The Church is Australia's oldest standing and can be visited at Ebenezer, near Windsor, at the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Western Sydney. It remains to this day as a testament to those early Christian pioneers that settled the area in 1803 that established a Bible Based School for the Christian Education of their children.
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TASMANIA ITS HISTORY, ITS HERITAGE /GHOSTS OF PORT ARTHUR Excerpt
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This insightful package of programs features two documentaries about Tasmania, traversing its unique and verdant landscape and taking into account significant historical events that have helped shape the state and make it one of Australia's most picturesque attractions.
Tasmania: Its History, Its Heritage is a 65 minute program exploring the detailed tapestry of Australia’s Apple Isle. Produced by Peter Richman in consultation with The National Trust, it celebrates a rich architectural legacy inherited from the colony’s early settlers and presents a charming vision of the past. Depicting not only the grand homes and public buildings of the cities, it also shows workers' cottages and cabins of the outlying settlements of early pioneers.
Narrated by John Stanton, The Ghosts of Port Arthur is a dramatised account and detailed investigation into the many sightings and experiences of the supernatural at Tasmania’s notorious former penal settlement, where almost every building is believed to have at least one spirit.
Termites Nesting the World's Oldest Farms
Scientists discovered that the oldest trace of agricultural activity dates back to 30 million years ago, however, it was not left behind by humans, but by fungi-farming termites.
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hi folks welcome to another built. Today I'm looking at what could be the most intact Georgian town the british empire established anywhere in the world. I'm at Oatlands in the Australian state of Tasmania and I'm asking the question, is economic stagnation the best way to preserve old buildings.
In 1810 Lachlan Macquarie took up the position of Governor of New South Wales and only a year later was in Tasmania surveying the country. This is what he found - grassland and open forest that could be immediately populated with sheep.
By the 1830's Oatlands had been established on on the banks of Lake Dulverton and the ample supply of sandstone ensured that the town would be built out of it. In those early years the town received a large number of public facilities including a gaol, court house, churches etc
Whilst Oatlands is surrounded by some of the best fine merino country in Australia but it does not have a diverse production base. Thirty minutes up the road is Campbell Town the third of the towns recommended by Lachlan Macquaire. Its sits on the edge of some of the best broad acre river flat cropping country in Australia so the bulk of rural infrastructure was attracted there.
During the years from 1830 to 1876 Oatlands had been a main stop of the coaching route between Hobart and Launceston and it was during these years that many of the private sandstone buildings were built including a large number of inns and lodging houses. With the coming of the main train line this all stopped. The train line passed well to the east of Oatlands leaving the town quite and isolated. A branch line was built but not being on the main line meant a sluggish micro economy.
With the advent of the motor car Oatlands again become a stop for traffic between the north and south. But again the town was eventually bypassed and today the traffic races pass leaving the main street very quite.
So a combination of land that is predominatly sheep country the by passing of the railway and the bypassing of the road has resulted a slow economic history.
In the 1960's the town began to attract attention for its intact colonial Georgian architecture. Higher wages in the cities and an increase in leisure time meant middle class people were becoming more interested in their past. The 1970's saw a fascination with family histories and for the first time finding a convict in the family was something to be celebrated. The Scenery Preservation Board and later the National Trust took up the challenge to protect the built history.
With increased leisure time the tourism industry slowly become established. It was the tourist that offered a new opportunity for towns that progress had left behind. This occurred in most developed countries around the world.
In an irony it is the very lack of economic development that presents the opportunity for a new form of development.
But the new, lets call it restoration development was very as slow to happen. The fantastic operating flour mill Callington mill is the product of up to forty years of planing, reports, studies, conservation plans, funding applications, business plans, unrealized dreams, disappointment and only very recently realization.
Is economic decline the best method of preservation? have your say - make a comment. My next two posts are in production - one will look at what I believe is the most sustainable building material and the other will look at an ugly building. If you enjoyed these posting subscribe, click the thumbs up and tell a friend.
Port Arthur Historical Site - Tasmania
Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur is one of Australia's most significant heritage areas and an open air museum.
The site forms part of the Australian Convict Sites, a World Heritage property consisting of eleven remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips.
Collectively, these sites, including Port Arthur, now represent, ...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts.
Port Arthur is officially Tasmania's top tourist attraction. It is located approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) south east of the state capital, Hobart.
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Port Arthur - Tasmania
Port Arthur is located approximately 60 km south east of the state capital, Hobart, on the Tasman Peninsula.
Best known for it's Prison Colony site which was Australia's largest penal station and was named after Van Diemen's Land lieutenant governor George Arthur. From 1833, until the 1850s, it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were secondary offenders having re-offended after their arrival in Australia. Rebellious personalities from other convict stations were also sent here, a quite undesirable punishment.
In more recent times the port became famous once again for on 28 April 1996, Martin Bryant went on a killing spree, murdering 35 people and wounding 21 more before being captured by Special Operatives Police.
A full history can be found here
Crime Scene (2019) Video artwork by Julie Gough, Tasmania
Julie Gough
Crime Scene, 2019
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Duration: 18:31 min
edited by Angus Ashton
Exhibited in CRIME SCENE, group exhibition, Longford Town Hall, Tasmania, March 2019. Supported by 10 Days on the Island Festival. A component of the (ongoing) THE LONGFORD PROJECT, with Noelene Lucas, Liz Day, Anna Gibbs.
CRIME SCENE
Julie Gough
On Saturday 16th July 1825, between 5 and 6 pm, one of my ancestors, Dalrymple Briggs, ran, crying Murder, from a hut located beside what was then termed the Lake River, on what is now Brickendon estate, near Longford.
Dalrymple was about, in her own words, 12 years of age. Little is known of her early life, so these eye witness accounts, stands as key testimony. Now held in the National Library of Australia, Manuscripts section, they are invaluable in any attempt to piece together not only what happened that day, but to contribute to some understanding of her life and frontier times before and after this brutal event.
The accounts recited to the Magistrates, Peter Archer Mulgrave and James Simpson in Launceston on 5th and 8th August by William Brumby, James Thornloe and Dalrymple Briggs are the basis for this video artwork that simply presents their statements overlaid upon footage of the scene of the crime, the crime scene, as it now stands. Thornloe and Brumby are notable for their willingness to testify as witnesses to a crime against an Aboriginal person. Place is also witness, permanent and mute, to this violent event, one of countless enacted against Aboriginal people in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
Dalrymple Briggs was the daughter of Woretemoeteyenner, a Trawlwoolway woman from Tebrikunna, Cape Portland, north east Lutruwita (Tasmania). Sometime in the 1790s, as a teenager Woretemoeteyenner came into the hands of the Bedfordshire emigrant, George Briggs, who entered Bass Strait sealing grounds at that time, for that trade. Dalrymple was one of more than 5 children born to Woretemoeteyenner and Briggs.
Said, in her obituary, to have been born on little Kangaroo Island near Flinders Island, around 1810, “Dalrymple, a native girl” was baptized by Reverend Robert Knopwood on 18 March 1814 at Port Dalrymple. Exactly three years earlier on 18 March 1811, Knopwood married Bridget Riley to Jacob Mountgarrett, and baptized two “native boys” of VDL, Charles Mountgarrett Launceston, and William Lyttleton Quamby. The whereabouts of these boys since is unknown.
Dalrymple outlived all but one of her known siblings, John Briggs, who relocated to Victoria in the 1850s. “List of children with settlers, 1827” records Mary Briggs, aged 8, living with William Bray (of indifferent character) and Eliza Briggs aged 11, living with William Jones (of good character. (TAHO CSO 1/122a). Eliza died, age: 20, in the benevolent Asylum, Launceston on 11 July 1837, and Mary, born 1817, died at age 22 years on 31 July 1839. Their lives were also overshadowed by extreme violence inflicted upon them
Dalrymple survived being shot by Jacob Mountgarrett, who with his wife Bridget, have been misconstrued in many 20th century accounts as her kindly adoptive parents. This account reveals the reality of their relationship with Dalrymple, and likely other Aboriginal children in their “care”. William Brumby swore, about Mountgarrett, in his statement of 5 August 1825: “I asked him why he shot the black Girl, he replied why cannot I correct my black servant without you interfering”.
Dalrymple also survived to raise, with Thomas Johnson, 13 children born between 1826 and 1854. In 1841 Dalrymple miraculously successfully petitioned the Colonial Government to return her mother home from exile in horrendous conditions at Wybalenna, the Aboriginal internment camp on Flinders Island. Woretemoeteyenner lived her remaining 7 years with her daughter, son in law, and grandchildren. My ancestor Charlotte was born in Perth and baptized in Longford. With her parents and siblings she moved west to the district of Latrobe, where our extended family remain.
Nearly 200 Tasmanian Aboriginal children lived with colonists over the first 40 years post British invasion of this island, irrevocably changing its future and our Aboriginal demographics. Their lives are little known, most perished young, or otherwise ‘disappear’. Perpetually missing, they are spectres, not to be overlooked or erased. To remain haunted is to remember, and I keep seeking them, these hidden figures of history.
With thanks to my family and forebears, to William and James Brumby and James Thornloe (1825), and to Richard and Louise Archer (2019).
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Yattalunga
Located in the centre of the historical village of Evandale and built Circa 1835 for the police superintendent, Yattalunga has been successfully updated and preserved over time to maintain its historical elegance. With a typically symmetrical Georgian layout the 3-4 bedroom and 2 bathroom property sits on a 1,145 m2 block just walking distance from the centre of the town. Featuring a bull nosed veranda, polished boards, two secret attic rooms, cedar joinery, English styled gardens and a north facing sunny cottage styled kitchen this property is a must see for those with a true appreciation of Tasmanian colonial history.
Contact: Tom Harrison 0405 195 431 or tom@harrisonhumphreys.com.au
Speed Restoration: Tasmanian Convict 1902
Restoration & Colorization of a photo from 1902.
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