A SOUTH HOBART NEWSLETTER

SHPA GENERAL MEETING

The next General Meeting of the

Associat ion will be held on

Wednesday 14th April, 2021 at 7:30

pm in the newly renovated South Hobart Community Centre, 42 D’Arcy

Street, South Hobart. All residents,

especially those new to the Suburb,

are welcome to attend.

SOUTH HOBART BUSHCARE The next South Hobart Bushcare

Working Bee will be held on Sunday

18th April, 2021 starting at 10 am. We

will be meeting at the cul de sac end

of Wentworth Street. All equipment

will be supplied. However, please wear long trousers & long sleeved tops

and bring your own mug for a drink.

Enquiries to Janet on 6223 8132.

NEW STREET ART Observant residents will have noted

that the boring blue Traffic Control

Box next to South Hobart Pharmacy has been transformed overnight. This

project is in collaboration with Urban

Smart Projects and the City of Hobart.

The artist, Tania Slapar-Koman, has painted the platypus specifically on

this box in South Hobart in

collaboration with Pete Walsh, who

has started a group called ‘Hobart Rivulet Platypus’. You can find what

he does on Instagram and Facebook.

HOBART WOMEN’S

HISTORY WALK The Hobart City Council (CoH) has re

-released a map – Hobart Women’s

History Walk - which was created almost 25 years ago. The Map will let

you wander around the City to 33

sites, with stories about important

women from Hobart’s past, such as Amy Sherwin and Truganini. Copies

are available from the front desk at the

Town Hall.

PETER DEGRAVES - II In 1826, Degraves was imprisoned for

his English debts. A new English

Insolvency Act had been received which the Tasmanian Attorney-

General thought absolved Degraves

but Chief Justice Pedder ruled

otherwise. He remained in prison until 1831 when Lt. Governor Arthur

had him released. During his

detention, he submitted a plan for

improving the Gaol! From about 1822, a piped water supply to the

military barracks, the port and some

houses had been taken from the mill

President: Mr. Phillip Hoysted (Incorporating Cascades Progress Association) Hon. Secretary: Mr. David Halse Rogers

Founded 1922

PO Box 200 South Hobart Tasmania 7004 www.southhobart.org.au

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SOUTH HOBART

COMMUNITY CENTRE 42 D’Arcy Street, South Hobart

Enquiries to Bookings Manager

Emma Gunn

bookings@southhobart.org.au

Your friendly

neighbourhood

mechanical business

Operators: Steve & Nicky

Services and Tune-ups

Brake and Clutch Repairs

Engine Reconditioning

Diesel Servicing & Repairs

Registration Inspections

8 Apsley Street

South Hobart

6224 8043

BERT'S RUBBISH REMOVALS

Garden Clean Ups Builder's Clean Ups

Tree lopping Household Rubbish

Bert Smets

6223 2225 0418 109 485

Mark Henshaw

Traditional Butcher

All sausages and hamburgers

hand-crafted on premises

6223 5885 373 Macquarie Street

Open 8:30 am - 7:00 pm (weekdays)

9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Saturdays)

MARK ON

MACQUARIE

LIVE LIFE A simply healthy store

Whole foods/bulk food

Herbal medicine/Mineral therapy

Naturopathy

Acupuncture/TCM

Remedial Massage

Psychotherapy/Counselling

Open: Mon-Fri 9 am - 6 pm

Saturday 10 am - 2 pm

358 Macquarie Street

6223 7388

Hobart Podiatrists

& Footwear

201 Davey Street, South Hobart

62 23 1011

www.hobartpodiatrist.com.au

- Treatment of all Foot, Ankle & Gait

disorders in Adults and Children.

- Orthotics, Insoles & Arch Supports.

Shoe store – open to public!

Computer Services

Home & Business Support

I.T. Sales, Maintenance and

Repairs

iPhone and iPad Repairs

6165 1175 www.aceitsupport.com.au

TUTORING MATHS & LITERACY

Early years, primary and

High School

Private sessions

Small groups starting

Mondays Term 2

Margie Law

0418 388 423

Dr. Jane Mitchell

Dr Rosslyn Sharman Veterinary Surgeons

330 Macquarie Street

6224 4877

EASTER SERVICES IN SOUTH HOBART FOR 2021 All Saints’ Anglican Church, 339 Macquarie Street, South Hobart

(**Please register your attendance by ringing 0419 751 321)

Palm Sunday: 10:30 am Blessing of Palms and Solemn Mass; 7:00 pm Compline sung by the

Compline Choir

Maundy Thursday: 7:30 pm Mass of the Last Supper

Good Friday: 9:00 am Liturgy of the Passion; 11:00 am Stations of the Cross (Ecumenical);

5:00 pm Tenebrae

Easter Eve: 4:00 pm Eucharist (especially suitable for those with mobility issues);

7:30 pm Paschal Vigil

Easter Sunday: 7:45am Mass; 9.00am Mass 10:30am Procession and Solemn Mass; 7:00 pm

Evensong and Benediction sung by the Benediction Choir

C3 Church, 64 Anglesea Street, South Hobart (over the bridge at the bottom of the street)

Good Friday: 2nd April: 9:00 am service

Easter Sunday: 4th April: 9:00 am & 11:00 am Easter Sunday Celebration (Kids’ Easter Egg

Hunt at 10.15 am)

Hillsong Church, 209 Davey Street

(**Please register at: https://hillsong.com/australia/hobart/)

Good Friday: 2nd: April Both am and pm services.

Easter Sunday: 4th April Both am and pm services.

St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church, 61 Adelaide Street

(**Please register at: https://sthhobarteaster2021.eventbrite.com.au/ or ring 0400 896 191)

Palm Sunday: 9:00am Mass, with blessing of palms & reading of the Passion Gospel

Holy Thursday: 7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Good Friday: 11:00 am Ecumenical Stations of the Cross (processing through the

streets to All Saints’ Anglican Church), 3:00 pm Celebration of the Lord’s Passion-

Holy Saturday: 7:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass

Easter Sunday: 9:00 am Easter Day Mass

St. Raphael’s Anglican Church, Fern Tree(**Please register your attendance by

ringing 0477 994 045)

Palm Sunday: 8:45 am Eucharist with Hymns

Easter Day: 8:45 am Eucharist with Hymns

A SOUTH HOBART NEWSLETTER not kind to the building. From the

lofty claims made in 1823, the

building became so dilapidated that it earned the name of the Rat's

Castle. In 1879 the Rat's Castle was

demolished and the site sold to

Scottish schoolmaster, Alexander Ireland, and, by 1880, the current

Roxburgh House was built, with

Scotch College conjoined to the

rear. A Mercury article from 1886 provides an insight into the tutelage

being provided. At the annual fête &

end-of-year award ceremony,

Ireland noted that great attention was paid to English composition

and “any boy leaving the School

was able to express his thoughts on

any subject with which he was tolerably familiar in concise and

grammatical English." It was also

noted that the boys were “building

up their characters" and that “every path was now open to all". The

College continued at the site until

1900 when it moved premises. In

1913 it amalgamated with the Hutchins School. The Scotch

College building has been obscured

from the community since the

construction of a 1956 building fronting Brisbane Street, which also

linked into the school building. The

1956 building's original function was as the Total and Permanently

Incapacitated Hostel for returned

soldiers, with its later use as a

commercial retail outlet. Successive alterations to the College, over

many years, further hid the

architectural detailing, history and

use of the building. The removal of the 1956 building along with the

conservation and reconstructive

works to the former Scotch College

wing have provided significant

heritage benefits, as has the creation

of a laneway and courtyard which

will separate the new apartment

complex from the historic buildings.

A SOUTH HOBART NEWSLETTER pond of the Sorell Water Mill, located on the Rivulet bank just below All

Saints’ Church - the first piped water

supply in Australia. In 1831, the

Government extended the water scheme by constructing an intake at a

new dam located some 200 metres

above Degraves’ dam, thus avoiding

pollution of the Rivulet by tanneries upstream of the Sorell Mill and

Degraves’ sawmill. The diversion of

the Hobart Rivulet’s flow restricted

Degraves’ activities, although he could still rely on the flow in Guy

Fawkes Rivulet. However, in 1831,

he built the Cascade Brewery on his

property followed soon after by a flour mill. Degraves and/or his

partner owned the land and the water

rights up to the top of the Mountain

and, in 1834, they built a new dam on the property about 1.5 kms upstream

of the Cascades, just above Strickland

Avenue, and ran the flow through an

open channel to a high reservoir formed by a clay embankment on the

hillside above his Brewery and mills.

From there, a pipe carried the water to

an hydraulic turbine 3 metres below which drove the saw mill. The

turbine was an early type of Pelton

Wheel (as used in hydroelectric

power stations to this day) with buckets mounted on the side of a cast

iron wheel and has been described in

the diary of the engineer who built the

Melbourne to Geelong railway! (On a visit to Hobart, he called in on the

operator and sketched the turbine.)

The discharge from the sawmill was

divided, with half going to the government scheme and the rest

going to Degraves’ other mills. (tbc)

THE RAT’S CASTLE A development on the corner of

Brisbane & Elizabeth Streets - The

Rox - has uncovered an important

part of Hobart’s past. The original Roxborough House (cnr. Brisbane &

Elizabeth Streets) was built as a

residence around 1822. It was

described in an 1823 auction notice as a “large commodious three-storey

stone building" that “when

finished”… “will be one of the

delightful Residences in or near Hobart town." Multiple transfers of

ownership and changes of use were

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6224 6717

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