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Trip to Tasmania – Day 4

Devonport to Hobart – 290km along the West Tamar\ and Heritage Highways and a couple minor roads.

As I said before, Campbell Town has an impressive collection of colonial buildings aged over a century being some of them almost 200 years old.

Today’s posting is about three of them. The main picture is the Red Bridge, built between 1836 and 1838 entirely with convict labour. It is the oldest surviving brick arch bridge in Australia, consisting of three segmental arch spans of 7.6 meters each and was built using 1,250,000 red clay bricks made on site (hence its name). It rests on a basalt stone substructure and uses sandstone for the piers, abutments and cappings. The bridge was built on dry land and after completion the river was diverted in order to pass beneath its arches. This was accomplished by digging the new river course a kilometer on both sides of the arches. Originally designed for horse drawn traffic only, the bridge currently takes 1,200,000 vehicles annually and has never undergone any major repair work.

The street lamp poles and the all the power wires are part of the actual landscape and unfortunately they do not make the picture more attractive.

In WS1 is St Luke’s Church of England built between 1835 and 1839. At the time, it quickly became apparent that it had been so badly constructed that extensive repairs from the height of the windows upwards were needed before it could be consecrated.

In WS2 is The Grange, the house of Dr William Valentine, a local wealthy doctor, who lived in there until his death in 1876. This beautiful colonial manor was designed by convict architect James Blackburn and built in 1847.



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