Hobbsy's History Tour

Friday the 17th of February was the day my group went on the History tour with Dale Hobbs, we went to three local historical places of interest. They were the Warooka museum, the Brentwood cemetery, and the final place we visited was the Sandalwood Park.

The Warooka museum was a very interesting place to visit as it was set up by volunteers and donated goods. Before we entered the museum Hobbsy gave us some background information about the place such as the building was actually house where the trooper lived and other interesting info like that. The three most interesting things I learnt were about the trooper, the whalers and about the calvary.

The trooper was a person who worked for the British army; they were usually privates who were looking for a promotion. The trooper use to carry around a baton but later on they got single barrel shotguns. They wore woollen cloths all throughout the year to distinguish themselves from the general public. The trooper was responsible for law and order for the local district they lived in, they would work there for about three years and then they would be moved or promoted.

Whalers were a breed of horse which was bred for all round purposes, such as travelling long distances, all day work and tough manual work. They were mainly used for farming but when World War 1 started they were the main horses taken, they were used in the calvary because of their characteristics. They were bred from a stallion, a mare, three fellies and one cult; they were picked up from South Africa and brought over on the first convoy. When the later convoys came they brought more horses and they were let to mix with the first ones so a new breed was formed and since the first state they landed was in New South Whales so they were named Whalers.

The calvary were trained to fight on horseback, they fight using a sword called a saber, it has a knucle buster on the holder so they can punch people who were right nexxt to them, and along the sword there was air channels so that the sword was easy to retract out of someone after they had been stabbed. They also carried a single barrel shotugun, but they didn't prefer using them as they had no way of controlling the whalers they were ridding on.

The second place we visited was the Brentwood cemetry, it was an odd place to have a cemtetry as it was surrounded by thick shurb, but there were three main reasons it was located there, the first one was the location was located near the centre of the district, the second one was that it was in a rural area so it was nice and quiet as not many people know it is there, the third reason was the soil in the area it was a soft clayey soil which was easy to dig. Two of the epitares that impressed me were ' Blessed are the pure in  heart for they shall see god'. and the second one is 'In sadness we watched her lingering breath till she lay like a lily sp lovely in death.

The final place we visited was Sandalwood Park, the ark had heaps of interesting things that people used and had in the early ages. Some of the things I learnt were that the wagons they had were pulled 6 horses so the person driving had to hold 12 leather reins. A sulki was pulled by one horse and was used to go to chruch. The King famly built walls to stop dingo's getting to livestock. The stable's housed horses and the person who was caring also lived with them. The blacksmith worked behind the stables with all the tools. The butchery is behind the stables, meat hung on the hooks here and then it is taken to the smokroom. Plaster was made from horse hair and limestone solution. They locked their servants ina little out housse. They had a massive smokeroom where meat was cut and cured. Tiled toiltes indicated it belonged to the owner.