Tasmanian Times
All posts tagged "history"
-
1.2KTas That WasReverend George Eastman – A Biography
Kind to convicts in life, Reverend George Eastman is said to linger in death at Port Arthur.
-
1.2KTas That Was
Tas That Was – Pontville
Pontville began in 1821, when Lachlan Macquarie selected the area as a garrison town.
-
953Tas That Was
Tas That Was – Bruny Island
The first European to see Bruny Island was Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642.
-
845Tas That Was
Tas That Was – New Town Technical High School (1960)
The photograph above, taken in 1960, shows the New Town Technical High School. Technical education began in Tasmania with the establishment of...
-
1.6KArts
City Statues Celebrate Tasmanian Diva
Two new sculptures in Hobart mark a major effort to restore Tasmania’s first international opera star to public memory.
-
784Tas That Was
Tas That Was – Tasman Bridge (1970)
This photograph of the Tasman Bridge was snapped in 1970.
-
753Tas That Was
Tas That Was – Queens Battery
Hobart’s rise as an important shipping port in the early 1800s made the British colonial authorities fear that it could become a...
-
741Tas That Was
Tas That Was – ‘May Queen’
The ‘May Queen’ is the oldest sailing ketch in Australia that’s still afloat.
-
940Tas That Was
Tas That Was – Brooker Highway (1968)
The Brooker Highway was built in stages between 1954 and 1992.
-
1.1KArticle
Tas That Was – ‘Lady Nelson’
When you walk along Hobart’s waterfront, you’ll come across the HMS ‘Lady Nelson’, which featured in Tasmania’s early colonial history.
