History Tour 2

Monday 11th of May 2009

Once again we piled into the bus ready for one of Moff's great history tours.

We started our tour in the Warooka Museum:

Their was a Mortan Bay Fig Tree in the block next door, so Moff felt inclined to tell us that it was from Queensland, and showed us how it was destroying the house sharing the block with it.

Before the building was a museum it was a police station, but back in those days it was owned by the army and was a trooper station.

We were told to take 3 points out of the museum that we remembered, mine were as follows;

• The sword was the dominant weapon back in its day
• Women had no importance - they shared that same name as their husbands - weren't trusted with money
• A whole family uses the same bath it goes in order - father, mother, then the kids in order of ages

We then went to a country cemetary, here we were ment to record three things, they were:

• Oldest grave

1878

• Percentage Youth

60%

• Epitah

There is a reaper, whose name is death.

And with his sickle keen,

He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,

And the flowers that grow between.

We then went to Sandlewood Park, which is an old farm from early settlers that has been preserved by the owners. It is in Australia's top 7 historical places. But the owners don't let anyone go onto the property, luckily we are allowed to go onto the property to look at everything.

Before we reached the property Moff told us about how the last 3 time he had visited the same sight there had been ferals living there. So everyone was a bit unsure about entering the premesis. As soon as we arrived we saw some people living there so we had to keep out of their way.

The farm had stone walls separating most of the paddocks. Luckily these stone walls had been preserved, otherwise they would end up like most of the walls around the area, knocked down and decayed. We also saw the wide range of very old, valuable machinery that in laying around in the various sheds. We also learnt about the various building and what they were used for, the outhouse and meat room for examples. We also noticed that there were horses and pigs living on the farm.

Moff told us after that because they had a young horse there, there was probably a young girl, because young girls like pony's, and if they wanted to take one of us to live with their daughter they probably would have, but luckily they didn't.

We walked into one of the rooms of the preserved farm, and the people living there had hung a boxing bag, and while we were in vision of the ferals, Campbell punched the bag, and Moff went up at him. We all knew Campbell would do something stupid.

We also learnt in this tour that Yorketown and Warooka were both unplanned towns, and the reason they are there is because there was a person selling goods from a cart on high land which eventually turned into a shop, and then the pub was build opposite them. This happened on both the towns.

History Tour 2, in my mind, was much more informational, and a lot more fun than History Tour 2, and overall I had a fun day and learnt a whole heap about the area.