It replaced an earlier building from , also designed by Manfred. The roundhouse at Goulburn was a significant locomotive depot both in the steam and early diesel eras.
After closure it became the Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre , a railway museum with preserved steam and diesel locomotives as well as many interesting examples of rolling stock. Some minor rail operators such as RailPower have used the site to restore diesel locomotives to working order for main line use.
Goulburn is home to Australia's oldest existing theatre company Lieder Theatre Company, established in The Lieder Theatre Company presents up to five major performance projects each year, along with numerous community events, readings, workshops, and short seasons of experimental and new work. The company, along with the Lieder Youth Theatre Company, is based in the historic Lieder Theatre, built by the company in A former quarry adjacent to the Main Southern railway line in North Goulburn was used to film cliff top scenes in the film Hacksaw Ridge.
The most recent elections for Council were held on 13 September A by-election to fill the vacancies was held in June and resulted in the election of Councillors Geoffrey Kettle and Geoffrey Peterson. Goulburn is approximately two hours' drive from Sydney via the Hume Highway, or a one-hour drive from Canberra via the Federal and Hume Highways. Goulburn was bypassed in due to increasing traffic on the Hume Highway. Goulburn railway station is the southern terminus of the Southern Highlands Line which reaches from Campbelltown and is part of the NSW TrainLink intercity passenger train system.
Most services on the line terminate at Moss Vale , some 65 km 40 mi north-east, meaning Goulburn sees limited passenger service. Public transport within Goulburn consists of the local taxi service that operates twenty-seven taxis, Goulburn Radio Cabs. A bus service is operated by PBC Goulburn.
Quick facts for kids. Goulburn Correctional Centre — main buildings designed by Barnet in Former police station on Sloane Street, designed by Barnet and opened in Kenmore Hospital, main buildings designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, completed St Saviour's Cathedral, designed by Blacket; building commenced in Elmslea Chambers, built in for a wealthy pastoralist, in the art deco style.
All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles including the article images and facts can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:. This page was last modified on 16 July , at St Saviour's Cathedral, designed by Edmund Blacket; building commenced in The Coolavin Hotel in Sloane Street; the hotel was built in but the present facade dates from the s.
Masonic Temple built in by local architect E. It replaced an earlier building from , also designed by Manfred. Elmslea Chambers built in in the art deco style for a wealthy pastoralist. New South Wales. Retrieved 17 November Retrieved 30 April Goulburn was declared a municipality in and was made a city in Heritage Australia Publishing.
Retrieved 10 December The Times. NSW Government. Retrieved 7 December Retrieved Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Climate statistics for Australian locations. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 7 September The project involved the design and construction of a pipeline and pump station from the Wingecarribee Reservoir near Moss Vale in New South Wales to the Goulburn treatment plant. The pipeline is 84 kilometres long and is capable of supplying the Goulburn community with up to 7.
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Goulburn New South Wales , Australia. Gouburn seen from Rocky Hill. Postcode :. In , after Goulburn had been created a diocese with a bishop, the building of the first stage of the current cathedral commenced. It was erected around the original church which was taken out through the western doors. The second stage was completed between It is an impressive Gothic Revival structure built of greenstone with sandstone tracery, slender moulded columns, a marble sanctuary and an organ that dates from In Goulburn was raised to an Archdiocese and the Archbishop moved to Canberra making this church the "Old Cathedral".
This elegant Gothic sandstone building was designed by noted colonial architect Edmund Blacket famous for the Quadrangle at Sydney University who considered it one of his finest works.
It was begun in , dedicated in and built largely from stone from Bundanoon. Highlights of the cathedral's rich interior include "elaborate stone tracery in the aisle and transcept windows and in the altar", the stained-glass windows, wood and stone carvings, the font, hammer-beam roof, luxurious and ornate sanctuary, the chancel with its remarkable Bishop's Throne, the pulpit with its alabaster columns, the bas-relief copy of Leonardo's Last Supper above the altar, and the magnificent organ with its 2, pipes, tel: 02 All these inns are hardly surprising as Grafton Street was originally the Great South Road from Sydney and had eleven hotels in its heyday.
Its width was to permit bullock drays and horse carts to turn around. Most of the buildings in the street date from the nineteenth century. It features the original cedar panelling and stringybark floors and a veranda with fluted sandstone columns capped by a Classical stone entablature.
The building is now home to the St Clair Cottage Folk Museum and Archives which runs social history exhibitions, tel: 02 Sidney Craig undertakers who started arranging funerals in Goulburn in , making them the longest-established undertakers in New South Wales; the police station at Sloane Street which was built as a convict hospital but operated as a general hospital from ; the Classical Revival railway station and the stationmaster's residence with its steep gables and charming fretwork porch; the Coolavin Hotel at Sloane Street which started out as a bank in the late s and retains a veranda which is supported on cast-iron columns with unusual sea horse-patterned ironwork; and the Visitors' Centre at Sloane Street.
It is surrounded by attractive gardens and enclosed by an iron pike fence. The keystone over the central arch depicts Queen Victoria. The tour also includes the previously mentioned Post Office and Town Hall; the Dimmeys Building on the corner of Montague and Auburn Streets which was built in in Victorian Italianate style with towers, battlements and arched windows; the previously mentioned Anglican and Catholic Churches; Belmore Park and other notable and prominent buildings.
This walking tour from the Court House to Belmore Park is only seven blocks: a reminder of just how rich the town's architectural history is. At the time it was named Belmore Square. By the beginning of the twentieth century it had reached its present form with a band rotunda , drinking fountain, obelisk, flower beds and extensive planting of European trees.
It is located on the site of the original market place. The Classical stone archway opposite the park, in Market Street, was built in as the gateway to the Bull and Woodward Stores. The National Estate notes its importance as a reflection of the wealth of a prosperous rural township in the s. Riversdale Located at 1 Maud Street, Riversdale is a single-storey colonial Georgian cottage built of sandstock brick in It was originally built as a coaching inn complete with stables which probably date from Set in fine gardens there are plum trees which date from it is furnished in period style.
It has a stone-flagged enclosed veranda with carved-timber supports, a courtyard, timber floors and cedar joinery. Expansion continued during the late s, aided by the construction of branch railway lines.
Gradual growth took place from the s to the s, with the population increasing from about 21, in to 25, in The population increased slightly from the s, rising to nearly 28, in The Council area encompasses a total land of over 3, square kilometres.
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