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Binalong
Binalong (Bine-a-long) is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, 37 km north-west of Yass in Yass Valley Shire. At the , Binalong and the surrounding area had a population of 543. History Original inhabitants The indigenous people of the district were part of the Ngunnawal people. The first Europeans recorded as visiting the area were the exploratory party of Hamilton Hume in 1821. The name of the town is believed to derive either from an Aboriginal word meaning "under the hills, surrounded by hills, or towards a high place" or from Bennelong, the name of a noted Aboriginal Man. European settlement Binalong lay beyond the border of the Nineteen Counties which was the formal legal extent of European settlement in New South Wales. However, squatters settled in the district prior to the formal establishment of squatting districts in 1839. From 1847 there was a court of petty sessions. The same year a local entrepreneur applied successfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binalong Railway Station And Telegraph Office
The Binalong railway station and telegraph office is the older of two closed railway stations in Binalong on the Main Southern railway line, New South Wales, Main Southern railway line in New South Wales, Australia. The station opened in November 1876 as the terminus of the Bowning-Binalong section of the line. Following a fire to the original wooden building in 1883, a new stone and brick building was constructed. This was in use until 1916 when the line was deviated in conjunction with duplication. The station house and telegraph office remain today as a building of important historical significance in the town. History Main Southern railway line, The southern railway or as it was known at the time 'the Great Southern Railway' was extended from Bowning, New South Wales, Bowning to Binalong in November 1876 and then to Harden, New South Wales, Harden (at that time named Murrumburrah) in March 1877. The well known Amos Brothers had the contract for the extension works. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binalong Railway Station
Binalong is a closed railway station on the Main South railway line in New South Wales, Australia. The original station opened in Binalong in November 1876 on the original rail alignment, which was bypassed with a deviation in 1916. The new island station opened on the new alignment in 1916 and is now closed to passenger services. It survives in good condition. NSWrail.net. Accessed 8 August 2009. The original station on the old alignment is in use as a private residence. See also *Binalong railway station and telegraph office
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John Gilbert (bushranger)
Johnny Gilbert was an Australian bushranger shot dead by the police at the age of 23 near Binalong, New South Wales on 13 May 1865. Gilbert was a member of Ben Hall's gang. Hall and Gilbert were both shot by police within a week of each other. Hall was shot dead on 5 May 1865 near Forbes. After Hall was killed his gang split up and Gilbert and John Dunn travelled to Binalong where Dunn had relatives. Early life He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1842. His mother Eleanor (née Wilson) died shortly after his birth. His father William subsequently married Eliza Cord, a girl only slightly older than his eldest surviving daughter, Eleanor. In 1852 John accompanied his family to the Victorian goldfields. Nine members of the Gilbert family arrived in Port Phillip on board the ''Revenue'' in October 1852. They included William and Eliza, Eleanor (Ellen), Frank, James, Charles, Thomas Charbonnelle and Nicholas Wiseman. A contemporary of Hall and Gardiner, Johnny Gilbert, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo Paterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 18645 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include " Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem. Early life Andrew Barton Paterson was born at the property "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, a Scottish immigrant from Lanarkshire, and Australian-born Rose Isabella Barton, related to the future first Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton. Paterson's family lived on the isolated Buckinbah Station near Yeoval NSW until he was five when his father lost his wool clip in a flood and was forced to sell up. When P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harden County
Harden County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It contains the town of Harden. The origin of the name of Harden is unknown. Parishes within this county A full list of parishes found within this county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...; their current local government area (LGA) and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: References {{Counties of New South Wales Counties of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Dawson
Janet Dawson MBE (born 1935) is an Australian artist who was a pioneer of abstract painting in Australia in the 1960s, having been introduced to abstraction during studies in England while she lived in Europe 1957–1960 She was also an accomplished lithographic printer of her own works as well as those of other renowned Australian artists, a theatre-set and furniture designer. She studied in England and Italy on scholarships before returning to Australia in 1960. She won the Art Gallery of New South Wales Archibald Prize in 1973 with the portrait of her husband, ''Michael Boddy Reading''.Patrick McCaughey, 'Archibald Prize to Sydney Artist,' ''The Age'', Saturday 19 Jan 1974, p.2 She has exhibited across Australia and overseas, and her work is held in major Australian and English collections. In 1977 she was awarded an MBE for services to art. Career Dawson was born in Sydney in 1935 and spent her early years in Forbes.Gary Catalano, ‘A Natural History (Interview)’, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowning
Bowning is a small town in the Southern Tablelands, west of Yass on the Hume Highway in Yass Valley Shire. Bowning is an aboriginal word meaning 'big hill'. At the , Bowning and the surrounding area had a population of 573. Nearby Bowning Hill is and Hume and Hovell mentioned it in their 1824 journal. Bowning was one of the earliest settlements in the district. Historic buildings include the ''Troopers Cottage'' on the Binalong Road and the old Cobb and Co Cobb & Co was the name used by many successful sometimes quite independent Australian coaching businesses. The first was established in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb and his partners. The name Cobb & Co grew to great prominence in the late 19t ... Coaching Station in Bogolong Street. The coaching station was built sometime between 1850 and 1870. The original local school was amongst the earliest established schools in inland New South Wales, founded in 1849, but now replaced. Railway Bowning railway station is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young, New South Wales
Young is a town in the South West Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia and the largest town in the Hilltops Region. The "Lambing Flat" Post Office opened on 1 March 1861 and was renamed "Young" in 1863. Young is marketed as the Cherry Capital of Australia and every year hosts the National Cherry Festival. Young is situated on the Olympic Highway and is approximately 2 hours drive from the Canberra area. It is in a valley, with surrounding hills. The town is named after Sir John Young, the governor of NSW from 1861 to 1867. History Before European settlers arrived in Young, members of the Burrowmunditory tribe, a family group of the indigenous Wiradjuri Nation, lived in the region. Descendants of the Burrowmunditory clan still live in Young. James White was the first European settler in the district and established 'Burrangong' station in 1826 with a squatting claim of . His story is told in the novel ''Brothers in Exile''. In late June 1860 Michael Sheedy from Binalo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yass Valley Council
Yass Valley Council is a Local government areas of New South Wales, local government area in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Hume Highway, Hume and Barton Highways and the Main Southern railway line, New South Wales, Main Southern railway line. The Shire includes the towns, and extensive rural and residential areas of: It also includes the localities of: The Yass Shire was proclaimed on 1 January 1980 following the amalgamation of Goodradigbee Shire and the Municipality of Yass. Yass Shire in turn was dissolved and merged into the Yass Valley Council on 11 February 2004, following a further amalgamation of Yass Shire and parts of Gunning Shire, Gunning and Yarrowlumla Shires. The mayor of Yass Valley Council is Councillor, Cr. Allan McGrath. Demographics At the , Yass Valley had a population of , 7,931 males and 8,209 females. It had grown from 15,020 at the , an increase of 7.5%. In the previous five years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Nagel Ryan
John Nagel Ryan (1816 – 12 January 1887) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at Clonoulty in County Tipperary to pastoralist Edward Ryan and Ellen Nagel. He migrated to New South Wales around 1834, working for his father, who was now a squatter. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lachlan, serving until his retirement in 1864. In 1871 he inherited his father's states, comprising 30,000 acres in the Boorowa-Binalong Binalong (Bine-a-long) is a village in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, 37 km north-west of Yass in Yass Valley Shire. At the , Binalong and the surrounding area had a population of 543. History Original inhabit ... district. In 1883 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving until his death at Galong, one of his stations, in 1887. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryan, James Nagel 1816 births 1887 deaths Members of the New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Mann
Gillian Mann (11 May 1939 – 29 December 2007), English/Australian artist who won the Blake Prize for Religious Art with the woodcut print on paper titled ''The Chest'' in 1990. She was born in Derby, England and moved to Canberra, Australia in 1971 and retired to the small town of Binalong, New South Wales in the 1990s. She was a printmaking lecturer at the Canberra School of Art. She specialised in printmaking techniques and changed to digital art in the late 1990s. Other bodies of work included glass sculptures. She died in 2007 from pancreatic cancer and is survived by her only son, Julian Mann. Art The art of Gillian Mann is primarily concerned with the different visual languages used throughout Western history. Her use of iconography and mediums is informed by an awareness of the meanings they hold within art history and the 'collective memory' of the West. Her practice has been imbued with a social conscience, moulded by a childhood in post-war England, and the social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Boddy
Michael Boddy (8 March 193413 April 2014) was an English-Australian actor and writer. His best known works include co-writing the play '' The Legend of King O'Malley'' with Bob Ellis. Personal Boddy was born in the village of Baldersby, Yorkshire. His father George Boddy was the local vicar. He studied at Marlborough College and the University of Cambridge; two years of medicine were replaced by studies in natural sciences, classics and literature. He met his first wife, the poet and writer Margaret Scott, in England, and they migrated to Tasmania in 1959. There he taught at a Hobart high school, while Margaret developed her career as a poet and writer. His second wife, whom he married in 1968 after moving to Sydney in 1965, was the artist Janet Dawson. She won the 1973 Archibald Prize with a portrait of Boddy. Boddy and Dawson moved to Binalong, from where he wrote a regular food column for ''The Canberra Times''. He died in April 2014, aged 80; he was survived by Janet Daw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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