Hobart History (2024)

28/05/2024

In the beginning in 1903 johnston and James Miller Set up in business on own ac-count at Murray street They have furniture less than four years the originals premiered were found to be small to cope with rapidly growing Business 1907 in since the progress That’s women’s gear and the last addition was menswear .
In 1957, there was Myers in that store😎 then in 1962, there was a cat and fiddle .

06/05/2024

Amazing the Dutch came first and that’s called Abel Tasman
Marion du fresnse He called this land van diemen land .

14/05/2023

Take a moment to reflect with gratitude on those who mother.

Mary Rooney was one of the mothers who spent time at the Cascade Female Factory and Port Arthur in the 1850s. Her story is one of strength and resilience - she did everything she could to remain close to her six-year-old daughter, Isabella. Despite her circumstances, Mary refused to give up her daughter and twice returned to the Cascade Female Factory to be punished for refusing to remain in her master's house. Mother figures like Mary are embodiments of love, patience, kindness, and perseverance. They inspire us to be our

08/11/2022

After the butter was churned , buttermilk was worked out using either pats or this type of mechanical butterworker.
A problem with this system was that contamination by flies , dust , rats or dirty milk practices was a fact of life and consumers suffered accordingly . Some farmers did their best to prevent such contamination .
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The dairy at Wesleydale , Chudleigh , was described in 1883 : " The dairy is large and cool , with cement floor , centre and side benches , and has perfect ventilation though perforated blinds . I counted forty creamers of milk set , and some very nice butter , not made up , and in tubs " . This was obviously a big dairy , but smaller dairies could attempt such standards . The same correspondent remarked in a discussion of the Kentishbury district that : " An elderly lady , Mrs Crack , at [ a ] one hundred acre farm , showed me her dairy , a marvel of cleanliness . Several tubs of sweet butter were ready for sending away , but she was in no hurry : her butter will keep " .
Butter from such establishments would attract highest prices , which is why butter was branded . But a great deal of inferior butter still made its way into the market place , where the stock description of the worst was that it was not fit for axle grease .

08/11/2022

This @ Narryna Heritage Museum
The Meat Screen.
A meat screen was used to reflect the heat of an open fir when roasting a piece of meat . A bottle - jack was fixed fr hook at the top of the screen . In some cases , the bottle - j was secured by a hook to the underside of the mantle sh The roasting screen stood on two legs and the front of th screen rested up against the open range fire . A dish was placed on the hearth beneath the screen , or attached at base , to catch the fat and juices . From time to time the cook would open the small door in the front of the screen and test or baste the meat .
Bottle - Jack.
A bottle jack or roasting jack was a common.
item throughout the.
century as many people thought that meat.
roasted in an oven.
tasted inferior to that.
cooked before an open.
fire . The jack displayed.
here ( hanging above the stove ) is called a bottle - jack . It is made of brass and has a key operated wind - up mechanism that turns the meat automatically , clockwise , and then anticlockwise to cook it evenly .

16/10/2022

Joan Fitz - Nead.
was born in country New South Wales in 1932 , arriving in Tasmania in her early thirties . She worked as both a nurse and a teacher , advocating for women's rights ; in fair and just conditions for all workers ; and in high standards of education and health . Joan advised at state and national levels in the fields of health , childcare , education and law reform . She is also passionate about the welfare of all animals - great and small .
Through her extensive travels , both in Australia and in developing countries abroad , Joan saw the urgent need for peace and understanding between nations . In 1986 Joan , and neighbour Rachael C***s , instigated the development of a small Peace Garden , which became this Peace Park . Over the years , local residents have embraced the concept , and included their own messages of peace .
Joan is well known to generations of children from Goulburn Street Primary School , being a community member of the School Association.
for many years . She thanks the students who created the artwork for her peace totems .
In 2018 , Hobart City Council wished to acknowledge Joan's work , both in her local community and wider afield . These peace totems carry Joan's life learnings , summarised in just 14 words . We would all do well to live by such principles - and if we did , our world would indeed be a more peaceful place .

30/05/2022

Yet despite the tragedy of the preceding decades the 1920s
Cadbury factory @ Claremont there was 1,100 people employees a turning point towards a hopeful future. This new ‘Jazz age’ brought about positive such women’s freedoms, Women can vote. The first commercially available, Australian-made domestic refrigerator to operate without ice was produced by Edward Hallstrom in 1923. It used kerosene as a power source and was promoted as ideal for outback stations where ice was not available.
Penicillin was hailed as a "miracle drug" that could save lives and effectively treat a variety of infectious diseases.

03/05/2022

1892, at the invitation of Bishop Montgomery, seven Sisters came from the mother house in Kilburn, England, to Tasmania. Of these, three Sisters remained in Tasmania and at the request of Dean Dundas, opened a school for girls and boys in October 1892. Sister Hannah was the principal of the school which had an initial enrolment of 12 children, six boys and six girls.
Classes were held in the Synod Hall. The son of Bishop Montgomery was Bernard Montgomery, who attended the school while living in Tasmania.

In 1898, the education of boys was discontinued and the school became a girls-only school, which it has remaineda ever since. [1] During the following decades the school continued to expand, and in 1912 the school purchased the house "Tremayne', located next door to 'Stephenville'. This provided extra class rooms and accommodation for the senior boarders.
In these early days the school was known as the Collegiate School. The students did not have a uniform as such, but were required to wear a long dark coloured skirt and a white blouse.
From around 1915 girls who became prefects were presented with a silver brooch in the form of the school emblem. These were worn for the term of office and then handed back to the school to be passed to the next year's prefects. Sister Phyllis then presented each outgoing pref during the 1920s some girls began to wear a brooch wi Collegiate Church of England School.

29/04/2022

Is Davey Street in Hobart
Because people threw their effluence out the windows, that is why gentleman es**rt their ladies with himself closest to the gutter, so his femalecompanion doesn't get splashed.

28/04/2022

315 AD, Rome had 144 public toilets (above right). The Romans treated going to the toilet as a social event. They met friends, exchanged views, caught up on the news and wiped themselves with a piece o sponge fixed to a short wooden handle. This was then rinsed in a water channel which ran in front of the toilet and reused. It has been suggested that this practice spawned the phrase "getting hold of the wrong end of the stick".1Medieval Ti mesIn Medieval England, people used "potties" and would simply throw their contents through a door or window into the street. The more affluent would use a "garderobe", a protruding room with an opening for waste, suspended over a moat (above right). The name probably comes from the practice of storing robes in the toilet area so that the smell would discourage fleas and other parasites. Peasants and serfs, however, relieved themselves in communal privies at the end of streets. A huge public garderobe was constructed in London and emptied directly into the River Thames, causing stench and disease for the entire population.
Thomas crapper his job was a plumber. but he did create the ballcock, also known as the toilet fill valve. And help the waters tanks fill up with just enough water to the distribute to the bowls. War world 1 The man said I’m going to have a crap.
He was the one who came up with the S-shaped pipe beneath the toilet bowl that kept odors and gases from the sewers out. The pipe also kept water in, creating a neater bathroom experience

02/02/2022

The name New Holland was first applied to the western and northern coast of Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman, best known for his discovery of Tasmania (called by him Van Diemen's Land). The English Captain William Dampier used the name in his account of his two voyages there: the first arriving on 5 January 1688 and staying until March 12;[1] his second voyage of exploration to the region was made in 1699.[2] Except for giving its name to the land, neither the Netherlands nor the Dutch East India Company claimed any territory in Australia as its own. Although many Dutch expeditions visited the coast during the 200 years after the first Dutch visit in 1606, there was no lasting attempt at establishment of a permanent settlement. Most of the explorers of this period concluded that the apparent lack of water and fertile soil made the region unsuitable for colonisation.

21/01/2022

The stone barracks were built on land previously owned by John Ibbotson, a publican, in 1843. By 1844 the site also included 3 wooden buildings, one an Inn which had various names, including the Freemason’s Arms, but most popularly known as the Retreat Inn. It was then owned by George Rudd.

After the departure from Spring Bay of the military in 1850, the stone barracks were used to stable the coach horses. After numerous licensees, Alex Thompson bought the Retreat Inn in 1902 but later allowed the lease to lapse after he bought the Pembroke Hotel, now the Spring Bay Hotel which was next door.

The stone barracks were built on land previously owned by John Ibbotson, a publican, in 1843. By 1844 the site also included 3 wooden buildings, one an Inn which had various names, including the Freemason’s Arms, but most popularly known as the Retreat Inn. It was then owned by George Rudd.

After the departure from Spring Bay of the military in 1850, the stone barracks were used to stable the coach horses. After numerous licensees, Alex Thompson bought the Retreat Inn in 1902 but later allowed the lease to lapse after he bought the Pembroke Hotel, now the Spring Bay Hotel which was next door 🚪

Postmistress at the Retreat Inn between 1911 and 1926. Bob Barry also opened a bakery. He installed a larger oven in one of the stone stables behind the inn. This oven could accommodate 100 double loaves each weighing 4lbs. The bread was especially popular and the fishermen would often call in to purchase loaves. On the death of his father in 1940, Keir Barry ran the business until 1955.

11/01/2022

Broom Millet was grown by around 120 families in the Tumut area from the 1920’s onwards. These families produced 75% of Australia’s millet, with approximately 1200 tonnes of millet harvested when millet growing was at its peak.

Now in 2013 millet is grown on only 3 farms in the area, producing around 8 tonnes each season.
Originally there were 14 broom factories located all around Australia. Today the Tumut Broom Factory is the last millet broom factory left in the country.

12/12/2021

just over 7 km from kunanyi/Mount Wellington, through Hobart's city centre and into the River Derwent.
For centuries it was a permanent source of drinking water; first for the mouheneener South-East people and then, after 1804, the first European settlers - for whom its clean water was an important reason or settling at this site (the original 3ritish settlement was moved from Risdon Cove due to the poor quality of the water in the creek there).
dowever, as the town of Hobart grew and all manner of foul items including sewage and industrial vaste) were deposited in the rivulet ne water in the rivulet became olluted very rapidly; and typhoid. 🤮🤢🤒

03/11/2021

She was the first woman was a doctor Hobartian
Tasmania, despite its small size and population in comparison to the mainland, has produced more than its proportionally predicted percentage of significant figures and heroes of Australian history.

The first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria and therefore practice medicine as the first fully licensed and fees paid up female doctor in Australia was born right here in Hobart Town.

Emma Constance Stone, known to most as Constance, was born on the 4th of December 1856 to her parents William and Betsy Stone. She was the eldest of six children and had four brothers and a single younger sister, Grace Clara Stone, who went by Clara – it seems possible the family had a fundamental misunderstanding of how middle names worked or perhaps kept filling out birth certificates backwards.

It’s difficult to express what an audacious ambition this was for a woman of her time. It was only within her lifetime – the year 1879 to be exact – that the University of Melbourne had begun to admit female students at all and the school of medicine was still strictly out of bounds for women. In order to achieve her dream Constance had to leave Australia and her family behind and travel to America, to the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and Toronto. In 1888 she graduated MD CM with first class honours.
For reasons best known to himself, David Egryn Jones also went to America and Canada to receive his medical training despite the fact that he could have very easily been accepted at UniMelb. The two eventually married in 1893, having known each other for over 10 years and across three continents – a very interesting love story and another example of Constance’s idiosyncratic attitudes for a woman of her time. After a brief stint working at the New Hospital for Women in London, Constance returned to Australia in 1890 and became the first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria. However she wasn’t alone for long. In her absence, her sister Clara, inspired by Constance’s example, had successfully petitioned her way into the University of Melbourne’s medical school and in 1891 became one of the first women to graduate from the university in medicine.

12/10/2021

People have been making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed “Stingy Jack.” According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn’t want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form.

Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree’s bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.

Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as “Jack of the Lantern,” and then, simply “Jack O’Lantern.”

06/10/2021

navigator named the island in honour of Van Diemen's wife, Maria Van Aelst.
The recorded history of Maria Island began in 1642, when Van Diemen sent Tasman into the unknown seas south of Java with two small vessels, Heemskerck and Zeehaen.
And it stayed the name or the years.
Maria Island Settlement 1831 by carpenters' shop and a dye house.
right, hospital, rear left, and officers' quarters (Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery) profitably as tradesmen: tailors, turners, carpenters, blacksmiths, weavers, spinners, and basket-makers. Men also worked in the tan yards, lumber yard, shop, a spinning shop, a fulling mill, carding and pressing rooms, a turners' and brickfields, pottery, farm and hop fields. The cloth factory consisted of a weaving yarn, should be moved from Hobart Town to Ile du Nord, just north of Maria.
In a rash moment, Lord suggested that the Female Factory, which supplied th eAt one stage in 1826, yarn for the cloth factory was scarce at Darlington, Fortunately for all concerned, this small island remained uninhabited. The hundreds of articles made on Maria by convict labour are indicated by a consignment received in Hobart Town between 29 April and 26 November 1830: 40823 yards of colonial cloth and 1000 pairs of men's shoes, as well as 296 blankets and 50 mops. During that year, the turners' shop produced chair legs, mallets, mop handles, spokes, stools, tubs and wheelbarrows. The chimney tops, flower pots and pans made at the pottery were probably used at Darlington. The Hobart Town Courier on 16 May 1829 reported on the quality of the coats...' The editor remarked that 'we should esteem our colonial respectability garment of the same material instead of our threadbare grey old coat.' not a little increased could we be seated in our editorial chair with an outer

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