Frederic Charles Hall Train stopped at Blackbull Station, Queensland [NQ ID 624]. [Image] (Unpublished)
- Item Type
- Image
- Collection
- Reverend Frederic Charles Hall Photographic Collection
- Subjects
- architecture; Australian outback; Blackbull Station; buildings; bush picnics; church groups; corrugated iron; Croydon; Diocese of Carpentaria; early 1900s; family life; Gulf Country; leisure; lunches; meals; Normanton; North Queensland history; North Queensland mining towns history; photo; photographs; photos; picnics; railway history; railways; religious services; Reverend Frederic Charles Hall; shelters; social gatherings; social groups; tea; teas; train stations; trains; travel
Summary
This photograph depicts a train stopped at Blackbull Station along the Normanton-Croydon railway. Construction finished on the 151 km Normanton-Croydon railway in 1891 with services running four days a week until 1894 and then three days a week thereafter. This rail line has never been connected to any of the main rail lines in Queensland, though between 1906 and 1941, an added side rail ran to Golden Gate for mining transport. Blackbull Station is roughly 88 km from Croydon and 63 km from Normanton.
The photographs in this collection were taken by the Reverend Frederic Charles Hall (1878-1926) during the period 1902-1909 when he was the Anglican Curate appointed to Georgetown in North Queensland. Hall's foremost hobby was photography. He used both a half-plate camera with tripod made by J. Lancaster & Son, Birmingham and a quarter-plate Austral No. 3 made by the Australian company, Baker & Rouse. Glass negatives from Ilford and Austral were used; developing was done by the photographer himself and printing by exposure to sunlight.
Additional Information
Special Collection items may be used on the Library premises by visiting the appropriate Reading Rooms during opening hours. Digital copies of selected items from the special collections will be made available through the repository as copyright or other restrictions allow.
Email specialcollections@jcu.edu.au for more information.
James Cook University gratefully acknowledges Kenwyn Arthur Hall (grandson of the photographer) for his support of the NQHeritage Pilot Project.
Copyright Information
© Kenwyn Arthur Hall. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits the redistribution of the work in its current form for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
References
Bolton, G.C. (1963) A Thousand Miles Away: a history of North Queensland to 1920. Brisbane: Australian National University Press.
Hooper, Colin (1993) Angor to Zillmanton: stories of North Queensland's deserted towns. Brisbane: ÆBIS Publishing.
Lawrence, Dianne (2012) Genteel Women: empire and domestic material culture, 1840-1910. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
Waterson, Duncan and French, Maurice (1987) From the frontier: a pictorial history of Queensland to 1920. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
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