MonissaSite of the railway station near Clarendon Estate, northern #Tasmania
Passenger rail services ended in 1978. Many of the stations, specially the smaller ones, have since been removed. Some have been reused. Others just sit there, unloved.
I don't know what this is.
Fairly sure it's upside down though.
Also, it's from the museum in Launceston
Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender). I think this was taken just after we'd visited Bridestowe lavender farm, for contrast 🙂
It is still flowering in the mid-winter
1 I have a folder on my desktop "Temporary Pictures". It has photo I've edited or put aside to use for something later. It's a eclectic mixture. So, one a day, in the order they are in the folder #TemporaryPictures.
Two horn #spoons from the museum in Launceston. Their accompanying information says they were made at Port Arthur (prison settlement) but I have my doubts about this.
The right spoon is apparently typical of those made for institutional use in Britain. The left one is typical of a spoon made to imitate a silver spoon, probably intended for domestic use (maybe in a household that wants the latest fashion but doesn't have the income)
Horn spoons were made by flattening and heating (usually cattle) horn one end in a mould. With the right the skills and equipment, they're cheaper to make/sell than a metal spoon.
I've found no evidence so far that spoons/cutlery of any sort was made at Port Arthur.
Or that horn spoons were ever made in Tasmania (or Australia for that matter). They were imported and they were used in NSW institutions.
In a society where everything was imported, you'd think there'd be a market for goods that could be made easily from readily available materials.
