Turnout Seat Buggy

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At Entally Estate.

Information panel says “The main feature of this style [turnout seat] of vehicle is that the body to the rear of driver’s seat acts as a boot for luggage and the lid of the boot opens rearwards, which then converts into an extra seat” and can then carry four people. “This vehicle was built by Launceston Carriage and Buggy Works in the 1900s to an American design. It is fitted with shafts for a single horse but could be used with a pole for a pair.” Repainted in the 1950/60s.

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MV Cartela

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This is an old post with small photos. I have better photos now but more pressing things to work on, so if you’re interested, comment below and I’ll push it to the top of the “To Do” list.

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Cartela was built in 1912, as a steam powered passenger and cargo ferry, operating on the Derwent River and surrounding waterways. There’s not many passengers vessels from that era still in existence, and far fewer that have seen continuous service.

Entrance

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Entally

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This is Entally, built about 1819 by Thomas Reibey, son of horse thief & businesswoman Mary who is on our $20 note. It’s an Indian name, Bengali it seems from the Wikipedia article, after a “neighbourhood” in Calcutta. Or more likely, after Thomas’s father’s business that was named after said suburb of Calcutta. His father had been in the East India Company and made use of his connections there to establish an import business in NSW. It is the next generation that had most influence on the property though, the son, also Thomas, and his wife Catherine.

Stable

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There are many outbuildings, laid out in yards. I am doing individual posts for some buildings.

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Central Deborah Mine, Bendigo – underground

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Central Deborah Gold Mine operated from 1939-1954 and extracted 929kg of gold, which would be worth about $50 million today.
 From website

Above ground.

First

Tour starts here.


So we travel down in the cage to level 2, and then down ladders to level 3, which is 85.3 m below ground (just belong the horizontal line there). That doesn’t sound very far. You can see it goes down a long way beyond that, although I’m told these days levels 15-17 are under water.

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There’s two gates there, a cage goes down on one side while another goes up on the other.

“Stand up against the side and face in.”

There were four people in there when we went down. Very squishy. They told me these things are suppose to hold 6, or was it 8?, people. All I can say is they must have really liked each other.

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St John the Evangelist Church, Richmond

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St John
The Evangelist
Catholic Church
1836
Australia’s Oldest Existing
Catholic Church
MASS TIMES
1st & 3rd Sunday
of the month 8.30am
2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday
of the month 11am

From back

Before going inside, I was thinking the 1836 year seems quite late for an “oldest” building, so I pulled a bit from the Archdiocese of Hobart website to give some background:

Until 1821, the Catholic residents of the colony – convicts and free settlers – had no priest. In that year Father Philip Connolly arrived. His flock, scattered over a wide area, must then have numbered about 1,000 people. Until 1835, the Father Connolly laboured alone. In that year, the Most Rev John Bede Polding arrived at Hobart on his way to Sydney to take up his appointment as Bishop. The Holy See had appointed him Vicar-Apostolic of all Australia. Tasmania remained part of his Vicariate until the coming of the first Bishop of Hobart, the Most Rev Robert William Willson, who landed in May 1844.

And if you’re wondering where they went in those early years, from a second page Previous Bishops and Archbishops of Hobart:

The story of the Catholic Church in Hobart began in 1822 when the pioneer priest, Father Philip Conolly, built Tasmania’s first Catholic place of worship just a stone’s throw from the present [St Marys] Cathedral. Dedicated to St. Virgilius, it was a poor building of the simplest style and construction.

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Door

Inside

Inside

Front Window

Window

Back

Outside

And there’s the cemetery, which from this direction looks like a typical country town cemetery.

Penitentiary Chapel, Hobart: Part 2

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This is a continuation of Penitentiary Chapel, Hobart: Part 1
In the second part, we look at the other side of the building. Note the building on the left that looks like a two-storey house, the very enclosed yard and the cut-off wall on the right.

Plan

First though, a wonky plan 🙂 It helped me make sense of what was where. It also shows how the two underground passages and the security tunnel (in blue) all go to the central little room. At least they would if I’d put the doors in.

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