Showing posts with label Fettercairn Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fettercairn Hamilton. Show all posts
30 April, 2014
Inside Gow's Drapery - the Gow Girls
The first trainload of migrants passing through Hamilton
waved wildly to the crowds of spectators gathered along Beaumont Street. Men
and women alike, the ‘new Australians’ stretched precariously out of windows
the length of the train, as if they wanted to physically touch the people
welcoming them. They were on their way from Newcastle to a migrant camp inland,
thence to a job, and hopefully, a new and better life.
14 July, 2013
Survival of a stately home
It means 'a pile of rough stones'. One of Hamilton’s rare surviving
late Victorian homes, Fettercairn is truly a survivor. Over the past 110 years,
it has reinvented itself time and time again. Built in 1903 for Mr and Mrs Ramsay Gow, the imposing two storey, 50 square
house was an unambiguous statement by its owners of achievement and prosperity.
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