20160319 Tas Campbell Town

20160319 Well! Guess what, we just arrived in Campbell Town another old town with over a hundred homes aged a century or more and of cause they are of colonial architecture.  The problem is, I just love these historical towns, and I never seem to get sick of them.

These wood carvings in Campbell graphically highlight aspects of our unique history, well done I say.

The 1st tree depicts a British soldier guarding a convict labouring during construction of the bridge.

The 2^nd tree features Governor Macquarie and, behind him, his wife Elizabeth and the sheep and wool bales represent Campbell Town show, the longest running annual show in Australia.

The 3^rd tree displays the rich aquatic terrestrial wildlife found along the Elizabeth River

The bricks along the footpath commemorates the tens of thousands of convicts sent to the Australian colonies and tell of the crimes, sentences and fate of thousands of convicts.

Built in 1845 and was used as a day school from 1851 until the new state school was built in 1878.

Eliza and the Ram monument commemorates a remarkable woman who was founder of the super-fine wool Industry.  Eliza and her son walked across Saxony three times leading flocks of 100 sheep to the port at Hamburg.

I know, another bloody bridge but it is REALLY exceptional, did you know it took an estimated one and a half million red bricks in the construction of the Red Bridge and, it was built over dry land and on completion, the river was re-directed down a newly dug canal.