By the River Derwent

Holiday March 2020.  These photos were taken the day before we left New Norfolk then heading to the 'Left of Field', meaning left of Mt. Field National Park.

It was about this day that we first heard of Covid-19, unfortunately can't recall the date in March.

So the River Derwent is a long one, you can see the boat there through the trees.  It's a busy river in season as rowing is done along with water skiing and other water sports.

 

The below scene is of the parking area near the caravan park and by the River Derwent as next door a new Boat Club has been built with the finishing touches being done whilst we were there.

 

Another days drive in New Norfolk, Tasmania

Back in March we went for another drive whilst staying at the caravan park.

Hops growing and taken with my phone.  The last photo was another day and we were headed to the Gorden Dam in the South Western area of Tasmania..A few years ago there was a big bush fire in the bush and many hectares of trees were burnt.

A drive.

After we visited the park on the same day in March this year we went for a bit of a drive up the road and came across the sign below, then further along the road the house which was once a church.

  The Agrarian Kitchen Eatery is a Cooking School and farm, also caters for weddings. A link here .

Last photo is of a couple of Hop Kilns as you drive into New Norfolk, Tasmania.

Tynwald Park, New Norfolk.

More of Tynwald Park in New Norfolk as you turn around from the river this is what you see plus us leaving in the vehicle.

 

 

 

The Park

Tynwald Park in New Norfolk is a large area with  a few Soccer fields, football oval, playground and picnic areas.  We ventured there on a rainy day from the Caravan Park,
The photos are of part of the view there which includes the River Derwent.

View from the Caravan Park.

A little about New Norfolk.  The town is next to the Derwent River or River Derwent.  Population is about 5,600 people. Hops are grown in the area. There is a paper mill near by.

*About 163 of the pioneers who settled around the town were from the 554 folk resettled when the first Norfolk Island settlement was closed, most arriving between 1807 and 1808.  These Norfolk Islanders were mainly farming families, who were offered land grants in Tasmania as compensation for their relocation.
Many founding folk were "First Fleeters", transferred from Sydney to Norfolk Island when it was settled just a few weeks after Sydney.  Ten First Fleeters are buried in the Methodist Chapel at Lawitta, New Norfolk.
Notable is Betty King, nee Thackery, a first fleet convict girl who married in New Norfolk in 1810. The headstone on Betty's well-tended grave reads. "The first white women to set foot in Australia" from the First Fleet at Sydney Cove.* Wikipeadia
Of course many other people came to live, free settlers also settled in New Norfolk and surrounding areas.

The photos, the view from the Caravan Park in New Norfolk, the park is right next to the Derwent River.

New Norfolk, Tasmania.

Spent a few nights in Cambridge near the Hobart Airport where we visited some of my cousins which took longer than we thought, but how wonderful to have a good catch up.  Having no brothers or sisters some of these cousins are like brothers and sisters to me 😀😀
All this took place before Covid-19.

After Cambridge we went to New Norfolk spending over a week there.  I lived in New Norfolk for 4 years when my later father was a Policeman.  The town is where I started my schooling at St. Brigid's School, taught by Nuns, some of them were Irish. When I was 3 years old the nuns used to look after me whilst my parents worked. On their days off my parents looked after me, plus my father was on shift work.  There is more about me and my life at New Norfolk here.  Also there is a photo in HDR of the house I lived in.

The Police Station below photo, well that wasn't there but from memory there was a house that was the Police Station, then the below one was built, now I understand that a new one is going to be built.

Have never stayed in New Norfolk since leaving until this March, so that is many years.

The photo above is now a restaurant once was something to do with the English Church and below is the English Church.

There is a green park or square in New Norfolk opposite the above restaurant and English Church.

Found a new map other than google maps online.  We were in Cambridge and went to New Norfolk but followed the 'red' line, it wasn't a long way and we arrived about lunch time.

When I was 3

When I was about 3 years of age I lived in a Police house with my parents in New Norfolk, Tasmania for approximately 4 years before my dad was transferred to another town.
I remember many things that happened in New Norfolk when I lived there.

My dad used to polish the long wooden polished boards in the hall by having me on a soft rug and pulling me slowly down the hall, it was a big giggle.

My first dog was given to me at New Norfolk, I was terrified of dogs as a child so the dog was to help me overcome that hate of dogs, which it did.

I remember going down the street, my shoes getting dirty, and crying about it, they had to be wiped and then polished with my dads or mums hanky.

New Norfolk was where I first went to school  at the age of 3, came home at lunch time stood on a stool and turned the stove on for a meal to be cooked, both my parents came home for lunch.  After school I would go to the home of the nuns till one of my parents came to get me, sometimes I would be picked up by a young women who looked after me whilst my parents worked.

I recall one night when my dad was on night duty hearing footsteps at the front door, my mother and I hid behind the lounge, then my mother remembered that my bedroom window was open plus the back door - so she headed off to lock both as the person knocked loudly on the front door, then I could hear him walking down the side of the house in the dark of the night to the back door, both my mother and I scared as we were told to never open doors to strangers....it turned out this 'man' came looking for my father to do him some harm - this type of thing often happened, then I was a target for many years to come, one of the joys (I think not) back then of being a Policeman's daughter!  It was a great life.

The house I lived in once.